9: Places and reasons to explore. It's generally no fun to play an RPG where you're forced to proceed linearly.
10: Knowledge of how to proceed. While it's great to have 50 dungeons available for you to travel to, sometimes it's nice to know that you need the crystal of Cthulhu in dungeon #37 to beat the others. By a similar token, sometimes you just want to stab Navi. Too much notification can be a bad thing.
11: Just like with books, make the names pronounceable. It's fine if I've never heard of Hyrule, but I probably won't be playing long if my only weapon is a "Krytosis."
Request: Full math support. I know it's kind of obvious, but sometimes it annoys me to waste time writing simple functions (that take a long time to execute on-calc) in PC math languages that could be done very quickly in TI-BASIC.
@Darl: I used Chaosope to generate the second and third pictures. There are a lot of other attractor/fractal generating packages, but I find that one produces nice images without too much fuss. The first and fourth pictures were generated using Mathematica, which I don't recommend purchasing unless you have some means of obtaining it for free/small cost (generally schools or piracy).
@DrDnar: I presume that the Dec+1-1 somehow detects/fixes integer overflow? Anyway, while the mathematics behind Gaussians are very elegant and pretty, I made a conscious choice not to include them because they don't generally look terribly impressive.
By the way, how many at Omni actually own a PRIZM to code for and test on? AFAIK there isn't a working emulator yet.
I have written a simple simulator, so I can debug the application on windows platform. This helps me a lot, because there were almost no bug on the real hardware - I was able to catch them all on the simulator. I wrote about it here: http://ourl.ca/12030 , but nobody replied, so I though that nobody needs this.
I also have an emulator I've been re-writing to support the Prizm's hardware. Nice job on the syscall emulator
As most of us are know, mathematics can be very brutal and ugly, especially when dealing with algebraic equations. Here are a few of its prettier sides.
Warning: the images in spoilers are large.
This image was generated during a search for a more efficient way to compute A Mod B. It's a plot of the error between the true answer and my approximation over all possible 16 bit operands. I'm not sure why the resulting graph is so complex given the simplicity of the underlying function, but the remarkable self-similarities and other fractal qualities make it interesting.
Spoiler For Spoiler:
Spoiler For Atrocious Mathematica code to generate the image:
The next picture is a strange attractor that belongs to a family of functions known as Lorenz equations. This particular family is characterized by their extreme sensitivity to initial conditions. A change of one in a hundred parts can result in a completely different system.
Another group of functions with interesting graphs are the one dimensional elementary cellular automata. In addition to their interesting computational properties (several of them are Turing-equivalent), some of them are chaotic to the point that they can safely be used for cryptographic grade random number generators. One particularly well known automaton is Rule 110 (following Wolfram's notation). The picture, which started from random initial conditions, clearly shows the propagating structures that form the basis of this rule's universal computation.
Cellular automata can occupy more than one dimension, though. Here's a model of a two dimensional cellular automaton known as Conway's life rendered over time.
Ben_G has other projects, I think. Keep in mind that if you really want a project to remain active after the original author retires it, the best way is generally to learn how to maintain it yourself rather than asking others to do it
Of course if Ben wants to take Star Fox on, that'd be great. I'd love to see this project completed.
Personally, I never use it unless I'm monitoring line states in the serial port. The hex editor isn't fast enough compared to PC ones and it doesn't really offer any features that I use regularly.
PS: I wrote my own hex editor that's a heck of a lot faster than calcsys' in Axe. I generally use that if I need something on-calc.
The old wiki's used the Creative Commons license because I prefer it. It's also the general Wikipedia license, so no one should have a problem. To change the license, though, I would need ftp access from Juju.
As for references, I think I could fix those if I had the aforementioned ftp access I just need to install the Citations extension, if I remember correctly.
PS: That's what sucks about mediawiki. To do anything useful generally involves either ftp or DB editing...
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