Thank you. Well I'm doing the rest of the game for now, hoping that some optimization ideas will come to my mind (or from this forum ^^). If not, I guess I will have to forget about raycasting and textures, and try some projection with FILLPOLY. It will raise other problems but well.. I'll find out !
I'm trying to remake on the Prime an old 8 bits game called Trailblazer.
D-Pad for controls (left, right, accelerate, slow down), [Enter] to jump, [Esc] to quit.
Blue Circle : reverse Right/Left control. Yellow Arrow : accelerate. Green arrow : slow down. White ...thing : free jump. Green and brown plain tiles cancel reversed controls.
When falling into a hole, you get stopped for 2 sec then restart.
/!\ IMPORTANT /!\ For some (unknown) reasons, the jump routine game is broken on Virtual Calc. Please play on the real hardware. Because of a stupid bug, be sure to be in degree mode before playing. Will be fixed ASAP.
UPDATE :
v0.0.7 is out.
changelog :
Game Menu Track selection Track editor (no loading) Lot of minor adjustments More bugs !
Spoiler For Spoiler:
v0.0.6 is out.
changelog :
Better textures, New attempt at embossing tiles, still need more work, Welcome screen, Starting lights, Finish line, You can only jump 5 times per run.
v0.0.5 is out.
changelog :
Better graphics (run at about 25 FPS). Jump is back (broken on simulator). All types of tiles work now (including holes). Some kind of dashboard placeholder displaying current speed for now. New test track. Goodbye Hello World, hello Goodbye World ! Falling animation is sometimes weird and need some more work.
v0.0.4 is out.
changelog :
Far distance fade out nicely with background. Angle mode is now set to degrees at start and back to whatever it was when exiting. New PNG texture set One big textures for the whole track. Some tiles are functionals.
v0.0.2 is out.
changelog : Decreased graphic quality to boost framerate (thanks to DJ Omnimaga). Added a ball and some controls. Left and Right on D-Pad to move the ball, Up and Down to accelerate / slow down. Added a framerate counter, disable it by setting showFPS (the very first EXPORTed variable in source code) to 0. Cleaned up the code a bit to remove useless things, and added some comments. The W now looks more like a W ^^ I still forgot to set those #*$! angles to degrees, please be sure to be in degree mode and not radians !
The ball sprite is just an ugly placeholder for now, I will do something better hopefully some day.
Just a quick remark, it took me a while to understand why my program was crashing randomly with no apparent reason. I realized that PPL doesn't like a RETURN statement inside a loop (at least a while loop). It's not obvious at all, since it worked for a couple of iterations, then the program kept crashing on a random instruction.
Would be great to have the 50g OS native for ARM, but that would mean restarting from scratch. Nothing HP will ever do I guess, and a veeeery long task for the community. Well, that's what did the guys that actually made the 50g OS, if I'm not wrong. Let's hope they have a Prime now ^^
The 50g OS adapted for the screen (res and colors), installable as an app on the Prime, and a good C/asm dk for the ARM, you have the ultimatest pro/students/hackers calc ever :p
I think you should try and replace your ()'s by []'s, you will then have an actual matrix of coordinates. Looks like the Prime interprets (x, y) as complex numbers (x+iy).
Yup, it is definitely a micro USB. Pretty much any phone/tablet charger you might have will work just fine.
What is probably messing you up is that it is a micro-A. In other words, it can also act as a host. The normal cable you are thinking about is the micro-B. A micro B cable can go into a micro-A, as can also the host end of a micro AB cable. Here's a picture and some more info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_USB#Mini_and_Micro_connectors.
I believe unless I am remembering wrong that the nspire uses a mini-A on the calculator, so a similar thing would happen if you compared those with the common (now deprecated) mini-B.
Got one question please, I don't see how to programmatically set angle unit to degrees. Thank you !
HAngle:=1 or HAngle:=0 (home angle) Take a look in your VARS->HOME->SETTINGS for others.
I tried that but it didn't work in the first place. Trying again... EDIT : Now it works. I must have miss something the first time. Or maybe I was drunk. Thank you ^^
And yeah, the reason why a lot of 48 features are gone is because the HP Prime was aimed at a completely different userbase than the older models. Instead of engineers/professionals, it was aimed towards students for the most part, and in the past, I often heard younger students complain about how confusing and hard RPN/RPL are, so forcing RPN/SysRPL upon them with no option to use algebraic mode and a Basic/Pascal-like language would have turned them away. The same thing happened with the 83+/84+ when FastRPL language came out: It showed big promises for programmers who wanted to program fast games without having to learn ASM, but to know FastRPL, you needed some ASM knowledge (the stack, for example). Now look at how popular Axe Parser is.
I know that, in fact I was not complaining really. This machine is a new born and it can takes time before a scene appear, if it actually happens.
If you liked the HP48 and want a faster machine with a larger display and much more expandability, why not consider an HP50G? You can program in RPL, SystemRPL, Saturn Assembly, ARM, or C (via HPGCC). As for Jazz, yeah it was very cool -- and still is. I updated it to the HP50G and it is much more robust now.
Will this update the simulator too ? I still have version 2013 8 13 Rev.5106, and no update required. Will the new features be usable though ?
Using the check for update from the virtual calc will find the update. If you'd prefer, just downloading the new installer directly and running it will also do the same thing.
Nope it doesn't find any update. It worked for the connectivity kit. I'm going to download the new installer then. Thank you.
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