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Title: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 03, 2011, 07:08:27 am: As some of you might know I am busy on a game for the 89. It's supposed to be a 'Myst demo'. I am not planning to make the full game(all the ages,etc..) because that would be soo huge...
My plan is to make only the main myst-island, which you can explore.
Anyway I made a screenshot so you can have a little peep of how it's supposed to be.
Spoiler For Myst Gif:
(http://uploadpic.org/storage/2011/thumb_XMvfTwgsFiodPPiILvIHNPnLt.gif)
EDIT:Myst 89 is finished( Not completely, but it was meant to be a demo). Above is old news so please ignore it :P
(http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/ss/820/82006.gif)
A moving screenie:
(http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/ss/829/82988.gif)
For more information and download, check page 6 in this topic or go to ticalc.org or visit my website. :)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: TIfanx1999 on March 03, 2011, 07:37:21 am: It looks pretty nice so far, especially for being in only black and white. =)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Jim Bauwens on March 03, 2011, 07:44:40 am: You don't want to know how much work he put in converting those picture in a acceptable form.
At one point he had to redo more than half because the freaky program he was using didn't save the changes.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: TIfanx1999 on March 03, 2011, 08:07:02 am: I'd believe it. That's got to be a ton of pictures to convert for the full island.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: sjasogun1 on March 03, 2011, 08:16:43 am: That must be so much work 0u0
No wait that looks stupid

EDIT: This was meant to be an inside joke, not trolling or whatever. I tend to forget I'm not on the MSPAforums here.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 03, 2011, 08:59:17 am: Quote from: sjasogun1 on March 03, 2011, 08:16:43 am
That must be so much work 0u0
No wait that looks stupid
What do you mean? Is my game stupid?

Thanks art of camelot. It is a lot of work, but I have allready a big part converted. :)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: TIfanx1999 on March 03, 2011, 09:06:29 am: The post in question is being addressed. I think it's just poor wording on his part.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Munchor on March 03, 2011, 09:35:15 am: (http://uploadpic.org/storage/2011/thumb_XMvfTwgsFiodPPiILvIHNPnLt.gif)

I'm not sure about the speed, but the navigation mechanism is great, and the pictures are also c00l!
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 03, 2011, 09:38:09 am: Oh, thanks. The speed is ok for me(now). I'll try not to make it any slower.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Munchor on March 03, 2011, 09:39:03 am: I'm not saying it is slow, I just can't get how fast it is with the image :P But yeah speed is very important :D
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 03, 2011, 09:44:07 am: The delay with keypress and movement is quite ok, if thats what you mean. :)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Munchor on March 03, 2011, 09:44:32 am: Quote from: Stefan Bauwens on March 03, 2011, 09:44:07 am
The delay with keypress and movement is quite ok, if thats what you mean. :)

Perfect. :D
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: sjasogun1 on March 03, 2011, 01:19:19 pm: I already edited my post, but to be clear I wasn't trolling, it was an inside joke, referring to this:
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005087
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 03, 2011, 02:38:39 pm: Quote from: sjasogun1 on March 03, 2011, 01:19:19 pm
I already edited my post, but to be clear I wasn't trolling, it was an inside joke, referring to this:
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=005087

Ah, ok. I just misunderstood your post. :)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: yunhua98 on March 03, 2011, 06:09:22 pm: nice! is this in 68k BASIC then?
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 03, 2011, 11:02:35 pm: Quote from: Art_of_camelot on March 03, 2011, 09:06:29 am
The post in question is being addressed. I think it's just poor wording on his part.
Yeah actually it got edited it seems by the author. Also he's not english native, according to his forum profile, so that might be why.

Also that looks very nice Stefan. :D
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: leafy on March 03, 2011, 11:02:38 pm: 'oly crap. Myst was an awesome game, not so much for the gameplay but for the artwork.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Juju on March 03, 2011, 11:47:35 pm: Yeah, a version oncalc with beautiful graphics would be badass.

Also, lol Homestuck inside jokes. (Of course, this is not MSPAForums, not everyone here reads MSPA, although we have some huge fans here, so don't be surprised some people finds some of them offensive.)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 04, 2011, 05:38:20 am: Quote from: yunhua98 on March 03, 2011, 06:09:22 pm
nice! is this in 68k BASIC then?
Thanks, yes, it is in 68k basic.

Thank you too DJ_O :)

For those who never heard of myst, I'll post this:

(It may have some spoilers)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 06, 2011, 02:59:27 pm: I personally played it at school once. Teacher wanted us to play through the game but I forgot why actually. It was for a small school work or something. It was indeed a great looking game.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Builderboy on March 06, 2011, 03:05:36 pm: I tried to play Myst once, it was so hard x.x this is looking really nice though! :D
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 06, 2011, 03:06:54 pm: I played it on our ipod and I just fell in love with it. I couldn't wait for riven to come out for ios, so when it did I immediately downloaded it. They're both MARVELOUS games.

So I decided to give an attempt to make it for the 89.
(If I was your teacher I would also let you play the game, just because its so nice. :) )

EDIT: @builderboy: When I first played myst I didn't have a clue what the goal is because there isn't one given. Sadly I used hints. But when I finished myst I realized I should have tried more stuff out and not have used hints.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 08, 2011, 03:52:31 am: First I was using a matrix to store all the coordinates and picture-names, but because this got to slow if it the row number was bigger than 100(or even less).
For example, If you type this in home:
Code: [Select]
matvar[1,1]And than you type this:
Code: [Select]
matvar[100,1]The last one takes longer to load. This could all together in my game make a delay up to 2 seconds after pressing enter(to go to another pic).
So my plan(actually Jim's plan) is to make all separate lists. This will go a lot faster.

Just saying this that you know I'm working on it. ;)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 08, 2011, 03:53:45 am: Darn I didn't realize matrices were slower to read data from further in them. On the 84+ this happens with strings of like 1000 characters too.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 08, 2011, 03:55:14 am: I didn't know it too, but I found out...
But happily it won't be to hard to convert my(not yet full) matrix to lists. :)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 08, 2011, 04:01:06 am: I hope lists won't end up doing the same thing. X.x

For odd reasons I never noticed any matrix slow down on the 83+, but again maybe it's because it was 16x8 instead of like 128x1.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 08, 2011, 04:21:02 am: My matrix would have about 300 rows and 35 collums.(finished) :D
But if all my lists are separate, I wouldn't see how I could getvthe same problem...
I will just try it out and see.
Also, maybe the 83 matrices and the 89 matrices work (totally) different.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 08, 2011, 04:30:46 am: Yeah maybe. Hopefully your new way is fast enough for your needs. :D
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: ParkerR on March 08, 2011, 12:17:38 pm: I have just really gotten into Myst. Would love to see a demo on the TI-84+ SE :)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 08, 2011, 02:17:37 pm: Quote from: ParkerR on March 08, 2011, 12:17:38 pm
I have just really gotten into Myst. Would love to see a demo on the TI-84+ SE :)
Well, I don't have that calc. I only program for 68k calcs. Making myst for the 84+ would be very difficult because the screen has a lot less pixels than the ti 89. But If somebody would draw each picture by hand, not using the real pics, it might go... But that IS a lot of work, sadly enough.
But I have heard of Dj_O that 'Illusiat 5', a game that he made, is a short point and click adventure for your kind of calcs. And because Myst is also a point and click adventure you might like that game, but I myself didn't try it (Yet).
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 08, 2011, 06:26:54 pm: I think it could be possible to resize them and use grayscale, but in some cases it might not look good. Some would need to manually be converted and some stuff would be hard to see.

I think some pics could maybe even be kept at their original size, just cropped and modified a bit, because on 68K, a part of the screen is used by the TI-OS GUI, meaning the screen is like 77 pixels high and 160 wide. It could maybe use scrolling, although data would take a lot of space.

Maybe Casio Prizm? :P
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: coolrudski on March 08, 2011, 06:37:55 pm: this looks awesome! but will it have the rendering memory to do this, or even part of this? i mean at a certain point itd seem to be too much just graphics wise.... how do you plan to combat that?
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 08, 2011, 06:41:00 pm: Keep in mind the TI-89T has 2.7 MB of flash and that stuff can be run directly from archive. Myst is a graphical-intensive game, so it's obviously gonna be much larger than a tilemap-based game, but memory issues shouldn't be a big problem.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 09, 2011, 03:37:26 am: I have a lot of files, but I think the whole island might just fit on it.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 09, 2011, 03:57:51 am: That's good to hear. How large is a pic file by the way? (one that fills the whole TI-BASIC screen area)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 09, 2011, 04:09:42 am: It's 1547 bytes. But the picture converter makes them for the whole screen(so including the os part). But I cant see that extra part in graph so I will cut off those part later. Like that a file(full screen) is 2007 bytes. Basicly all my pics are still 'uncut'. But when I cut the partsof by each pic I will have again some extra bytes free. ;)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 09, 2011, 04:14:07 am: Oh that's nice. THis means you can fit about 1700 pics or something. :D
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 09, 2011, 04:25:49 am: Euh... I don't think so.
I think maximum 300 pics. I have on my calc about 250 pics at the moment.
This uses 452701 bytes 452701/2007=225,561
This is what sais on my calc. (All the pics are archived)
Ram free=180386
Flash rom free=159746
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 09, 2011, 04:27:52 am: Oh ok, I was thinking about the TI-89 Titanium archive, which is in the high 2 MBs or something. :P
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 09, 2011, 04:30:20 am: I see, well I still think i have enough bytes free to have the whole island on a ti 89. :D
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 15, 2011, 10:10:00 am: The lists work nicely :)
Basically the whole island is finished but I'm still missing a few pics, but I'll try to put them on my calc as fast as possible.
In-game-buttons don't work yet, but that a 'problem' for later ;D.
I must see still at some pics because they're quite unclear. :(
Maybe one of these day's I'll post a demo(I know that myst 89 will be a demo;only the one island, but you probably know what I mean, a demo where no in-game-buttons work)

But overall there's still quite some work ;)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 18, 2011, 03:59:36 pm: Alright. Here's a demo-demo of myst 89.
(Its a demo-demo because when it's complete its actually a demo still.)
Switches don't work in this demo.
Keys are f1 and arrows.
Have fun!
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Munchor on March 18, 2011, 04:07:10 pm: Very nice Stefan, it looks great, I love the screenshot, I think the game really gives the user the chance to do anything they want.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 18, 2011, 04:25:49 pm: Thanks, yeah, thats myst :)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: shmibs on March 18, 2011, 05:51:55 pm: =DDD
the myst series is amaze, and i really like the way you're making it look with nothing but monochrome.

as for an 84+SE version, i think scrolling screens would be the best way to go. in fact, the later games in the myst series used scrolling in that fashion to give the illusion of 3 dimensions.

for any of you potential fangirls out there, the myst book series is a wonderful thing, and MO:UL is now online and, what's more, FREE.

nice work, SB!
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 19, 2011, 06:31:35 am: Thank you a lot!
Now I have to start making switches work... Hopefully that won't take too long.
Also other plans are to possibly make picture more clear and make that they are not missing important details that stick over the screen.

EDIT: If someone tried it on their calc, please tell me if you disliked something, and I'll see if I can do something about it. ;)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 23, 2011, 04:08:46 pm: Wow nice, I'll have to try this demo at one point. :D
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Munchor on March 23, 2011, 05:09:00 pm: Quote from: DJ_O on March 23, 2011, 04:08:46 pm
Wow nice, I'll have to try this demo at one point. :D

I don't have a 89, but I should try on Wabbit.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Happybobjr on March 23, 2011, 08:20:24 pm: Quote from: Scout on March 23, 2011, 05:09:00 pm
Quote from: DJ_O on March 23, 2011, 04:08:46 pm
Wow nice, I'll have to try this demo at one point. :D

I don't have a 89, but I should try on Wabbit.
If you do not own or have ever owned a TI-89, It is likly you obtained your rom illegally. :P
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 24, 2011, 02:09:21 am: Quote from: Happybobjr on March 23, 2011, 08:20:24 pm
Quote from: Scout on March 23, 2011, 05:09:00 pm
Quote from: DJ_O on March 23, 2011, 04:08:46 pm
Wow nice, I'll have to try this demo at one point. :D

I don't have a 89, but I should try on Wabbit.
If you do not own or have ever owned a TI-89, It is likly you obtained your rom illegally. :P
Actually you don't even need a ROM to emulate a TI-89, all you need to do is download the OS from TI website. Wabbit doesn't run 68K calcs, though, so he'll need TiEmu instead.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 24, 2011, 04:01:15 am: Thanks,
There might be still a few bugs in this demo. Also I don't remember if I left the program 'myst' in this group. Well remember to start 'mmyst()' and NOT 'myst()'.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 24, 2011, 04:04:38 am: Ok thanks. Also do I need to put it in a folder in particular to run it?
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 24, 2011, 07:01:52 am: If all the files are in the current folder it should work fine.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Munchor on March 24, 2011, 12:28:10 pm: TIEmu and the OS, perfect, when I get on Windows I'll try it.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Jim Bauwens on March 24, 2011, 02:18:28 pm: Tiemu is cross platform, you can run it on anything (ok, ok, you can't run in on a z80 calc).
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on March 24, 2011, 02:24:03 pm: It might be that you can't send the group in one peace to tiemu/vti. It might give an error in the middle because the calc gives a popup:Warning!About to delete memory archive or something.
So it might be that you have to ungroup it first with this program:http://lpg.ticalc.org/prj_gfm/
In that case send it in parts, I got the error somewhere between img70 and img80.
If you ungrouped it, send first everything till img 70 to your emulator. Then send images, img71-img80 to your calc. When you got the error send the rest of the files to emulator. This should work.
I know this sound confusing. :(
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on April 16, 2011, 03:26:02 pm: I know I haven't updated news for quite some time. But I'm a little bit busy with other stuff. When I get on my calc when I have time I'll continue with it. So don't worry that it might be dead. I'm still busy with making switches and buttons work, but there's still more stuff I have to do( for example: add more pictures, etc..)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: willrandship on April 16, 2011, 05:07:50 pm: I love the dithering! Those look really nice! Switching to C or Asm would prob. make for easier going with certain things, like any animations.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Munchor on April 17, 2011, 05:36:27 am: Quote from: Stefan Bauwens on April 16, 2011, 03:26:02 pm
I know I haven't updated news for quite some time. But I'm a little bit busy with other stuff. When I get on my calc when I have time I'll continue with it. So don't worry that it might be dead. I'm still busy with making switches and buttons work, but there's still more stuff I have to do( for example: add more pictures, etc..)

Just keep us informed :D I don't mind if updates take too long as long as they're updates :P
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on April 17, 2011, 02:16:34 pm: Quote from: willrandship on April 16, 2011, 05:07:50 pm
I love the dithering! Those look really nice! Switching to C or Asm would prob. make for easier going with certain things, like any animations.
Currently I only know ti-basic. When I finished Myst I might try looking into Newprog or so(You can consider it axe for 68k calcs). In myst there are some animations, but I'll try to not have any and still make it look good.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: willrandship on April 17, 2011, 02:43:20 pm: Well, it will be big, that's for sure but at least you'll have room on the 68ks

yeah, I've heard of newprog. Personally, from what I've read, though, it sounds more like xlib for 68k than Axe
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on April 17, 2011, 02:53:43 pm: Yeah, I actually don't know so mich about newprog yet.
I have almost put all the pics I need on the calc so I think it will fit on my 89.
I also only plan to make a demo(only the main island).
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: willrandship on April 17, 2011, 02:55:26 pm: yeah, it'll be cool. I'm just thinking of how many picvars that is....that will take up quite a bit of space :P but it'll be cool!
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on April 17, 2011, 03:14:54 pm: It'll be around 300 pics. :P
But I hope it'll be as cool as I want it to be. If that happens I will be a happy person.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on April 27, 2011, 12:42:40 pm: As you might have figured out, I'm a slow programmer :P
But when I get on my calc, I really try to get something finished. It's just that I haven't got all that time to just sit behind my calc and program.

Recently I made the marker-switches work, but those aren't the only switches...
I am doubting if I'm going to make reading books work, because there are a bout 5 books, with a lot of text. So I think I'm gonna let them out. Ofcourse those people who really want to read those books can read them here: http://www.l7square.com/journals/framer.html (Real myst)
The books aren't important for this demo, since they are about the other ages, which won't be in this demo.

I'll try to make everything work, except the books that link to other ages. :)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: aeTIos on April 27, 2011, 12:46:39 pm: You should also create a full version O.O this looks awesome
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on April 27, 2011, 12:48:17 pm: Full version? MAn, that would be huge amount of work and actually wouldn't even fit on your calc.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: aeTIos on April 27, 2011, 12:49:41 pm: Oh lol. I have not played it, though ;)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 27, 2011, 10:13:48 pm: I'M glad this is still alive. :D
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on May 23, 2011, 03:59:35 pm: Here's a list of all the things I (think) still have to do on Myst 89(I posted this list also on my website):

-Rocket, power to rocket-buttons....(This is basically finished)
-Tower Rotation/map/lift...(Basically finished)
-Code 'thing' in the fore chamber beside the dock
-'Time machine'
-Buttons on island(not marker-switches)
-Tree
-Hut, code, wheel...
-Clock, wheel...
-Brother books, colored papers...
-White paper
-Stove
-Boat/ little fountain thing...
-Paper of Power-to-rocket
-Link to the books out of the bookshelf
-Intro
-Finishing touches(clean up, readme, etc...)

Today I had some time, so I finished the Tower rotation and lift thing. :)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Spyro543 on May 23, 2011, 09:10:32 pm: Will this be compatible with TI-92 (just curious)?

Anyway, I NEED to play this! This has to be the funnest and awesomest game evar!
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: TIfanx1999 on May 24, 2011, 05:54:56 am: Since it's written in BASIC, yes. It should work fine. =)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Jim Bauwens on May 24, 2011, 06:45:49 am: The thing is, that the 92 has less memory than the 89. Since Myst uses a huge amount of space, I doubt that it will fit on the 92.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: TIfanx1999 on May 24, 2011, 07:01:01 am: Ah, for some reason I assumed he was talking about the 92+. However, I didn't know that the old 92 had that much less memory.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Jim Bauwens on May 24, 2011, 07:08:51 am: The Ti-92 Plus has 188K RAM and 384K Flash ROM, while the 92 has only 68K of ram...
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: TIfanx1999 on May 24, 2011, 07:22:47 am: Oh, wow! The old 92 is pretty lacking. D:
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Spyro543 on May 24, 2011, 03:51:49 pm: I was thinking of the 92+ I just forgot to say that... <_<
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on May 25, 2011, 04:55:03 am: Well, I guess it could work then, just the pics will be the 89 size.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 07, 2011, 02:57:37 am: I guess it should be fine. You could maybe add some sort of border later.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on June 08, 2011, 02:51:37 am: Quote from: DJ_O on June 07, 2011, 02:57:37 am
I guess it should be fine. You could maybe add some sort of border later.
Yes, maybe I'lll do that.

Here's the list with a few changes:
Rocket, power to rocket-buttons...DONE
-Tower Rotation/map/lift... DONE
-Code 'thing' in the fore chamber beside the dock DONE
-'Time machine' DONE
-Buttons on island(not marker-switches)(Starting on this)
-Tree
-Hut, code, wheel...
-Clock, wheel...
-Brother books, colored papers...
-White paper
-Stove
-Boat/ little fountain thing...
-Paper of Power-to-rocket
-Link to the books out of the bookshelf
-Intro
-finishing touches

(I know it doesn't look so different than the older list I posted, but I don't have so much time to program.)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on June 21, 2011, 02:37:34 pm: Yippeedippydee!!
Myst 89 is finished! 8)

"Myst for the TI-89! This great adventure game is a point-and-click game. NOTE: Myst 89 is a demo because the whole game would impossibly fit on your calc. But don't worry. There'll be still enough fun in this game even though it's limited to the main island(meaning there are no extra ages) and some other things.
Myst is huge and really heavy on files, meaning you'll probably won't be able to have any other files on your calc, but I think it's worth it!
I did my best to make the great graphics great on calc. Wait no longer and try it out!
Don't forget to read the readme for IMPORTANT installation info and more."
I hope you like it! :w00t:
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Munchor on June 21, 2011, 02:40:27 pm: Woah Stefan, that's looking awesome, finally very good job, +1!!

I won't try the game as I don't have a 68K calculator, but the screenshots look great, I also like the way you organized the second screenshot (lots of screenies packed together).

I checked the folder and well, as expected there are lots of images, but I guess that's a limit of Basic, but even though I think you did a very good job.

Oh and the art/graphics look good, nice images there :D
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Jim Bauwens on June 21, 2011, 02:42:23 pm: I'm proud of him, he has done a very very good job!

@Stefan, I think this deserves a new thread :)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Munchor on June 21, 2011, 02:43:22 pm: Quote from: jimbauwens on June 21, 2011, 02:42:23 pm
I'm proud of him, he has done a very very good job!

@Stefan, I think this deserves a new thread :)

New thread? The thread should be the same forever (updates and stuff). What you can recommend though is a News post made by an admin, I'll request that right away.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on June 21, 2011, 02:44:25 pm: Quote from: Scout on June 21, 2011, 02:40:27 pm
Woah Stefan, that's looking awesome, finally very good job, +1!!

I won't try the game as I don't have a 68K calculator, but the screenshots look great, I also like the way you organized the second screenshot (lots of screenies packed together).

I checked the folder and well, as expected there are lots of images, but I guess that's a limit of Basic, but even though I think you did a very good job.

Oh and the art/graphics look good, nice images there :D
Thanks a lot! You probably noticed that I was these last days not so active on Omnimaga. Well I was busy with Myst ;)
I already uploaded to Ticalc, Omnimaga and I' going to upload it on Tifreakware.

Actually that zip(including itself) is existing out of 665 files. :P
Title: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on June 21, 2011, 03:27:53 pm: Myst 89

http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=684

Myst for the TI-89! This great adventure game is a point-and-click game. NOTE: Myst 89 is a demo because the whole game would impossibly fit on your calc. But don't worry. There'll be still enough fun in this game even though it's limited to the main island(meaning there are no extra ages) and some other things.
Myst is huge and really heavy on files, meaning you'll probably won't be able to have any other files on your calc, but I think it's worth it!
I did my best to make the great graphics great on calc. Wait no longer and try it out!
Don't forget to read the readme for IMPORTANT installation info and more.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: willrandship on June 21, 2011, 08:23:33 pm: I was thinking.....Are there any compression utilities for the 89? If you had a basic asm prog that compressed the images, and decompressed them when used, you could probably fit a whole lot more of the game in.

This is awesome.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: ztrumpet on June 21, 2011, 09:23:38 pm: This is awesome! Great job, Stefan. It looks incredible. :)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on June 22, 2011, 02:18:50 am: Thank all a lot.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on June 29, 2011, 01:49:54 pm: And now it's on ticalc.org news.
Awesome. :)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Deep Toaster on June 29, 2011, 03:16:59 pm: As I said, well-deserved feature :) It's amazing what you did in pure BASIC.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: yunhua98 on June 29, 2011, 03:21:01 pm: definitely deserved. too bad the 68k community is so small now...
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on June 29, 2011, 03:36:35 pm: Thanks guys. :)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 29, 2011, 03:45:06 pm: Congrats Stefan!
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Deep Toaster on June 29, 2011, 05:50:39 pm: Quote from: yunhua98 on June 29, 2011, 03:21:01 pm
definitely deserved. too bad the 68k community is so small now...

Not if more games start coming out ;D
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: boot2490 on October 02, 2011, 05:54:55 pm: You could have each age be a separate part of the program (load one on your calc at a time)
The opening sequence, like from the beginning to where you start actually playing, is so amazing. It gave me some very warm childhood memories. My dad and I used to play Myst a lot when I was little. I just liked the visuals.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on October 03, 2011, 04:04:16 am: Holy necropost? :P
Well, I know. It's just it's a lot of work. But maybeee I'll ever do it.
Glad you liked it. :)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: willrandship on October 03, 2011, 04:06:09 am: @DT I doubt the 68k community will ever grow very much, since the audience for getting the calcs is significantly lower, and the interest in programming by then is decreased.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: boot2490 on October 03, 2011, 11:37:16 am: Does the game end?
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on October 03, 2011, 11:58:28 am: Well, my demo can be played nonstop. There's never a 'Congratulations' screen. Actually the original myst can be played after you 'won'. You can continue walking around and enjoy the views. :)
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 25, 2011, 11:49:30 pm: In case people end up forgetting they saw a part already, wouldn't it be better to let them know when they finished the game in case? :P

I guess it's fine either way, though. That game is pretty great.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on December 26, 2011, 09:15:45 am: Well, it's pretty difficult to give an ending. At the end of the original game you also end back up on the main island and may walk around. I do say when you found a clue that normally would do something more(but doesn't because of the demo) that it normally would.

Thanks by the way.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 27, 2011, 01:16:44 am: Ah ok. I never finished the original game so I don't know X.x. I was sure it ended like most other games.
Title: Re: Myst 89
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on May 04, 2013, 03:43:12 pm: A small update: Myst 89 can now work (properly) on the Voyage 200(and TI-92+ I presume) with this update downloadable here: www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/453/45337.html

The main thing this does is fixes the Text errors you get when reading a letter/book/message.(This is due to the fact that text font is smaller on the TI-89.