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Calculator Community => Other Calc-Related Projects and Ideas => TI Z80 => Topic started by: Ding_Programs on September 20, 2008, 05:51:52 pm
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Hi, i am new to this site, but I am a ti 84/89 basic and assembly programmer for around 5 years. I have never uploaded any of my flash apps or programs to any site. I have a folder of around 40+ flash apps as a result of previous programming ventures. I will upload them as soon as possible.
As for the project I'm working on now, it is called Mythlogy (I know it's spelled wrong, keeping it to 8 characters)
It has complete information of:
-Olympians (Main Gods)
-Titans
-Lesser Gods
-Folklore
-Couple really well drawn pics (in my opinion)
-Pages upon pages of interesting/useful/useless information
-Plus couple more stuff if you got ideas.
All right. I will keep you updated on the progress of this application. As for my other apps, if anyone can tell me how to upload them. They are (again in my opinion) useful and original. They cover and range of math, science, history, geography, english (literary terms/devices/misspelled words/synonyms etc..), astronomy (plus my really really crappy version of Astro from detached solutions contest page*) and a lot more.
*Whoever wrote Astro, if you read this, can you explain some of the programming in your file? I don't understand some of it, and it's not complete. But it works=)
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Hiya welcome here :), wow 40+ flash apps, I am curious what you did. Are they mostly games? Also I am curious about your Mythology project, is it more a game like a RPG or something? We usually don't cover school programs at Omnimaga since we are more oriented toward calculator games developpement but we used to have some math stuff in the works and lot of people may find them very useful. As for uploading you can upload them in your post (click additional options when posting and fill the attachment form. File is 250 KB maximum, though), unitedti.org or ticalc.org (altough the later require approval and it takes a long while before files are approved).
Anyway I can't wait to hear more info about this :)
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Hi DJ Omnimaga. Unfortunately, most of my programs are not games. I haven't really done a lot of those. But after i finish my mythology project I could get working on some. And the ones i did make (to be honest) aren't that great. If you have any ideas, or how to actually make good games...
Also, how do you work usb8x? (a little off topic).
*and my mythology app is actually an educational program (sorry, though if i figure out how to, I could try to make that into a game).
Alright, gotta go, Thanks.
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aah I see :), but unfortunately I can't use Usb8x because I don't have a TI-84+ :(. I wonder if it works with the TI-89t
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not w/ an 89t
besides, it's not necessary since all the 68k emus can use the AMS/OS
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well it would be cool to have more memory, right? I mean the 89t still have far much less RAM than a USB jumpdrive. Not that I need something like that right now though
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I ｈａｖｅ officially started my new game. I found a pretty good tutorial on map making, and have started the map. I will post screenshots when i have time. gotta go sleep now, big AP Euro exam tomorrow. Peace
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Great, I can't wait to see it. Sorry I couldn't post the link in time, I assume you mean the one at http://tifreakware.net/tutorials/83p/b/tifw/les8.htm right? Of course this one is only for ASCII graphics but if you read further tutorials you could modify the programs to work with graph screen too.
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Yup that's the one. I'm having a hard time (sort of) with the event checker.
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Also this portion in the hit detection:
If P<16:Then
:If sub(Str1,T+1,1)≠"X":Then
:Output(Q,P," "
:P+1→P:T+1→T
:End:End:End
:If K=34:Then
:If Q=8:Then
:L+1→L:T-112→T
:Q-7→Q
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could you give us more details about what in particular you have problems with, like what the code is supposed to do exactly and what error do you get? Or what confuses you in particular?
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of course mister. just a second...or a day, i'm really busy.
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Hey there, Don't forget about calcg.org for uploading programs, they get approved quickly, I make sure of that. ;)
And if you can tell me your problems with what you have, and what you have changed, I will be more than glad to help you get it taken care of.
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Also this portion in the hit detection:
If P<16:Then
:If sub(Str1,T+1,1)≠"X":Then
:Output(Q,P," "
:P+1→P:T+1→T
:End:End:End
:If K=34:Then
:If Q=8:Then
:L+1→L:T-112→T
:Q-7→Q
Well, first thing I noticed is that it has 3 End statements there, idk if that's from other code you havn't shown us, but with that code, it'd cause an error.
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If you go read the lesson a bit, you will understand what is going on. It is essentially the first RPGSK. :)
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ok thanks! I understand it now (sort of). It was a minor typo on my part. Really good tutorials by tifreak by the way =)
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Hehe, Thank you much. ^_^
So, what are you building with this information? :)
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DJ Omnimaga gave me an idea to make a mythology game. I haven't really started a storyline, but i decided to learn how to actually make the game before giving it some depth (if that makes sense)
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Ah, yes it does. Are you basing everything off of the tutorial, or have you actually downloaded the RPGSK?? http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/364/36409.html
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yes sir=)
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Of course don't start too big though. Here's an example of games made by programmers in their early days of programming as they were starting up:
http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;id=202
the next one is more eye candy and complex to code but it was rather simple and pretty short
http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;id=176
There are some exceptions though *cough*tr1p1ea*cough*, who made the first TI-83+ grayscale game ever in history as his first project ever
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yea, i;m probably gonna start out really small and figure out the basics.
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there are other grayscale games other than Desolate? :o
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well, making your first game is always hard, but once you get used to it, it gets easier and easier.
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yea, i hope so!
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there are other grayscale games other than Desolate? :o
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Well this isn't what I said but there is effectively other grayscale games. Reuben Quest: Ev Awakening, Reuben Quest: The Lost Mirror, Grayscale Minesweeper (one in BASIC with xLIB and one in ASM I think), Grayscale Tetris comes to mind. However the two first ones are only for SE/84+ calculators
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yea, grayscale games are amazing!
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Greyscale games ARE amazing, but the speed is a greater necessity then greyscale, so if the greyscale means you sacrifice speed, then it's a bad idea, depending on how bad the speed is decremented.
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very true
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yep true. In BASIC I recommend limiting grayscale to non-action RPGs, puzzle games and anything not requiring much speed. In ASM you have much more possibilities though but you will not want to do a 3D polygonal game with 4 lv grayscale unless it's a RPG or something not requiring speed
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how many levels of grayscale can you do? I've heard people talking about 8 level grayscale or something.
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8 level was in assembly language. Calc84maniac and tr1p1ea both have their own routines to draw 8 lv gs pics or tilemappers. In BASIC+xLIB it's between 3, 4 and on SE 5 too
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ok im a "noob" in terms of grayscale
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At this point, I think you should stick to the basics first. Get text game, then a game where a letter moves around the screen, then move on to multiple screens, then scrolling screens, then xlib
No need to jump to the highest, you should do some learning on how other things are done first.
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yea i know that, i was just asking. I can already to the multiple screens, i am experimenting with the scrolling screens i guess (i don't know the term for it)
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I got my first experimental ASCII map done. It seems to work pretty well.
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cool!
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lol it wasn't as hard as I projected it to be...