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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on January 22, 2011, 02:56:10 pm

Title: Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 22, 2011, 02:56:10 pm
Chidi O. has recently released a Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86 calculator. At 90 KB, it is most likely one of (if not the) most complete TI-BASIC RPG ever released for that calculator model. Although the game is not complete, takes a while to load the first time it is launched (due to the TI-86 tokenizing process) and occasionally runs a bit slow, a lot of work has been put into this program, which turned out to be quite impressive.

(http://www.omnimaga.org/images/screenshots/fft1.gif) (http://www.omnimaga.org/images/screenshots/fft2.gif) (http://www.omnimaga.org/images/screenshots/fft3.gif)

You can download the game in ticalc.org archives here. (http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/434/43443.html)
Title: Re: Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86
Post by: kindermoumoute on January 22, 2011, 02:58:00 pm
Pretty screen. :)
Title: Re: Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86
Post by: program4 on January 22, 2011, 03:05:40 pm
Now I wish I had a TI-86.  ;)
Title: Re: Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86
Post by: Builderboy on January 22, 2011, 03:06:32 pm
one of (if not the) most complete TI-BASIC RPG ever
Although the game is not complete

O.O

Lol on a more serious note, this looks really awesome ^^ its always cool to see awesome games being developed for alternative platforms :D and this looks like a really good remake ^^
Title: Re: Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86
Post by: Happybobjr on January 22, 2011, 03:12:11 pm
how easily is 86 basic ported to 83+ basic?
Title: Re: Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 22, 2011, 03:14:48 pm
Lol, yeah, there are not that many TI-BASIC RPGs for the 86. Some are in the downloads section here but they're not as good as FFT. I hope the author finish this one, though.

As for 86 to 83+ you need to incorporate XCOPY or another program to launch archived programs since the 83+ has 24 KB of RAM, then deal with screen sizes issues. This game on the 83+ would be possible, though, and run 1.5 times faster.
Title: Re: Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86
Post by: willrandship on January 22, 2011, 03:18:27 pm
I saw an 83+ to 86 converter for PC on ticalc.org a while ago (before I joined, when I actually had an 86)

On this note, now I wish even more for an 86 emu for nspire (with 4x overclock support, since many games actually used this)
Title: Re: Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86
Post by: yunhua98 on January 22, 2011, 03:20:23 pm
wow!  thats really good for BASIC!
Title: Re: Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 23, 2011, 01:15:16 am
I saw an 83+ to 86 converter for PC on ticalc.org a while ago (before I joined, when I actually had an 86)

On this note, now I wish even more for an 86 emu for nspire (with 4x overclock support, since many games actually used this)
really? I should really check it out. Maybe that could make porting some of my old games to the 86 easier.

EDIT: I found it I think: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/211/21100.html

I wonder if it runs on 7...
Title: Re: Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86
Post by: Silver Shadow on January 23, 2011, 08:32:14 am
Quote from: ticalc.org description
Personally I think it is the best basic game ever created, but who knows I might have some competition out there.

;D
Title: Re: Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86
Post by: Happybobjr on January 23, 2011, 09:27:44 am
I saw an 83+ to 86 converter for PC on ticalc.org a while ago (before I joined, when I actually had an 86)

On this note, now I wish even more for an 86 emu for nspire (with 4x overclock support, since many games actually used this)
really? I should really check it out. Maybe that could make porting some of my old games to the 86 easier.

EDIT: I found it I think: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/211/21100.html

I wonder if it runs on 7...

quick and simple... no

So how could i do it???
Title: Re: Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86
Post by: ztrumpet on January 23, 2011, 10:39:51 am
Cool.  Looks like I'm going to have to dust off my 86 and try this out sometime. ;D
Title: Re: Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86
Post by: Happybobjr on January 23, 2011, 10:41:30 am
Anyone know how i can run 32 bit programs on my 64 bit windows 7?
Title: Re: Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86
Post by: Munchor on January 23, 2011, 12:52:08 pm
TI-Basic 68K Final Fantasy, looks quite good ;D
Title: Re: Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 24, 2011, 02:44:52 am
Actually the TI-86 is a z80, not a 68K calc.
Title: Re: Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86
Post by: TIfanx1999 on January 25, 2011, 09:02:01 am
Yea I played this a bit. It's pretty nice, but I'm sure it could use much optimization(it's huge!) I talked back and forth a bit with the guy through email and told him he should check Omnimaga so he could get more feedback and such. Dunno if he'll join or not.
Title: Re: Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86
Post by: Happybobjr on January 25, 2011, 03:44:45 pm
could someone post the source code? (as a txt)
Title: Re: Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 26, 2011, 03:02:57 am
Yea I played this a bit. It's pretty nice, but I'm sure it could use much optimization(it's huge!) I talked back and forth a bit with the guy through email and told him he should check Omnimaga so he could get more feedback and such. Dunno if he'll join or not.
Ah cool. I hope he joins eventually, although maybe he's more of a ticalc guy, like a few others, or is very busy. As for the game, I guess it could maybe use some more speed, but for large RPGs there isn't much that can be done about size. I didn't check the code, though. I played some more last week and last night, but I was busy so I did not get far.
could someone post the source code? (as a txt)
That would take a while, there are several dozens of programs. O.O There are pics, too.
Title: Re: Final Fantasy Tactics clone for the TI-86
Post by: Galandros on January 27, 2011, 06:37:30 pm
That is almost totally impressive and quite a surprise. :thumbsup: