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« on: October 02, 2010, 04:23:30 pm »
Thanks. Oh, and by the way, a perfect score is approximately 2190.
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« on: October 02, 2010, 03:53:50 pm »
Here's the modified source and Assembly.
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« on: October 02, 2010, 03:21:14 pm »
Pressing 2nd while a ship is onscreen makes the crane move a bit (or quite a lot if you hold the button) without dropping a block. I don't know if that's intentional or not, but I find it a bit odd. Other than that, nice game 
edit: typo
As DJ said, it's intentional. The movement routine runs whenever the 2nd button is pressed without consideration of whether or not a block is dropping. Do you think it should run only when a block is dropped, though? That's a really easy thing to change. EDIT: Rather than create a new thread, I'm simply going to post the screenshot for SpritEdit here: 
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« on: October 02, 2010, 04:33:00 am »
The basic goal is to last as long as possible before your life bar runs out. You start out with 96 Life. Dropping a block (2nd) reduces your life by one while letting a ship past reduces your life by ten. To prevent you from simply holding the 2nd button down and automatically getting the highest possible score, the "crane" is shifted a random number of places to the left or right every time you press the drop button. Your final score is [conveniently] the number of cycles the code went through before you lost. Pressing Clear at any time exits the game. Here's a quick screenshot from wabbitemu. The actual game runs faster than what is shown. 
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« on: October 02, 2010, 12:51:56 am »
Here's the beta release of Builder! I know everyone has been extraordinarily eager to get advance copies even though I haven't really announced that it even exists before now  Run it with the Asm( tag from the home screen. Note: I'm just looking for feedback. Builder was not designed to be a full fledged game, hence the bad graphics and and gameplay. It's a test bed for routines I'm planning on using in a couple of other projects that ARE being designed for interesting gameplay. So, any optimizations anyone would recommend for the overly commented source would be much appreciated. At one point I actually had the game under 2kb, but the scoring system put it to where it is now. EDIT: How do you insert screenshots into posts?
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« on: September 30, 2010, 11:33:34 pm »
yeah, they are trying everything to beat TI, but schools all use TI, TI had a headstart. You know, If TI had more competition, their calcs would be a lot better. besides, there really isn't much of a Casio or HP calc community.
I've noticed. That said, excluding these forums and TIcalc, there isn't much of a TI community to speak of either. But I have found some HP programs useful as the language is almost identical to TI-BASIC. EDIT: Is there any way to work around the lack of BASIC user input for the Nspire in Assembly?
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« on: September 30, 2010, 11:22:37 pm »
And I almost bought an Nspire too...
*wonders if HP or Casio are any less evil*
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« on: September 30, 2010, 10:00:04 pm »
I was not around during the activity drop, but from what I understand, around 2006ish, many of the calculator programmers came to the assumption that everything that could be done for calcs had already been accomplished. Also, I believe there were some inter-community wars that halted progress on many things. In recent years, things like Axe Parser, Ndless, calc84's gb emulators, the signing keys, etc... have proven that we have not even come close to accomplishing everything that can be done on calcs.
I'm still amazed by what Axe and Assembly can do. I've seen my calculator outperform some computers  On the other hand, I was talking with one of the electronics engineers from TI a couple days ago. Quite informative to say the least.
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« on: September 30, 2010, 09:55:18 pm »
The 2008 version is my favorite.
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« on: September 30, 2010, 09:52:15 pm »
Not to continue with the off-topic stuff, but what exactly is the community recovering from? I've been relatively isolated from it until recently.
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« on: September 30, 2010, 09:30:51 pm »
I much prefer the site design here 
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« on: September 30, 2010, 09:20:48 pm »
Nope, the forums I'm talking about have Yellow borders and white text on a black background. All links are marked in Blue just to add to the eyesore 
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« on: September 30, 2010, 09:18:12 pm »
P.S. This is the first forum I've ever been to where you get 9 posts within a few hours. Kudos to the community.
Some of the larger forums on the Internet will get 9 posts within a few minutes. But this is definitely the largest Calculator forum I've seen.
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« on: September 30, 2010, 05:31:18 pm »
Hey, I'm just curious, how many people here on Omnimaga are in high school and how many of you are planning to take the SATs? Do you plan to improve your vocabulary by buying any books or anything? Any other information that you would see as helpful would be appreciated.
Okay, I'm a few years out of HS, but... What I would recommend is to practice your writing. That is the single most useful skill for the test. Of course, by writing I mean making random BS up that sounds important and worthwhile to state. The evaluators eat it up (in the experience of a person who was in the high 700s in all areas on the SAT). Also, review your trig.
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« on: September 30, 2010, 05:11:35 pm »
Believe me, there are forums with worse color schemes than Blue and Pink...
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