Plus, AI will be insanely difficult, and likely very glitchy. Imagine coding pathfinding X.x

Well, this wouldn't be the first thing on the screen in all likelihood. It would probably have at least one or two other logos first, like the omni logo.

You know what it really needs? A fire effect being applied to the torches.

As far as Language levels are concerned:

*Axe is as low as you get without BEING assembly. It barely has function support.
*C is one of the lowest level languages you will see on the computer. Most compilers even allow inlined assembly.
*C++ is stupid for this list. It's C with Java attached, and it shows.
*TI-Basic is interpreted. Badly. It also doesn't have enough features for me to give it a decent "Level", as it has no Object oriented anything, no functions, nothing a programmer would WANT in a High Level Language. However, it also abstracts ridiculously from the assembly it takes to run it.

Not that I don't agree with you on your points. The best part: These problems are perfect examples of where that horrible quote "You can't beat the compiler" is completely false. The compiler will NOT optimize anything like this, for the same reason Hayleia pointed out: It can't read your mind. It doesn't know if you want that 9 in Ans or not, so it has to assume the safer answer. An optimization that's not guaranteed to work is a bug, and people don't like bugs.

One idea I had, actually, sort of regarding to that specific type of problem: A program that goes through compiled code and determines where it CAN go. It follows through all branch instructions, tracing every line of code it runs, keeping track of which stored values are read from, and reports the results. This would also be useful for reverse-engineering binaries to identify data structures.

I think attacks should be left alone, aside from maybe damage debuffs for the back row. It's nice to have a no-hassle part to the gameplay. AOE stuff would be interesting, and it would depend on the layout you choose beforehand, so pre-battle strategy gets involved somewhat.

The OS probably doesn't store that in picvars. My guess is it's loaded in with a separate routine through the driver chip.

Make it grey.

Also, a cobble tile (like for medieval walkways)



like the grass, this one can be tiled vertically and horizontally. Not animated because it's just a pile of rocks.

And now a tile, like what you might see in a fancy building's kitchen or hallways.



This time, an animated torch, for an upcoming cave/dungeon wall.

Clang via llvm would be a good choice, but it's not exactly a ready-to-go solution.

Defragmenting isn't enough by itself. The whole files can still be in the part of the drive you want to split. The process just takes a long time.