Hmmm.

It doesn't seem like They will give high marks to an app...

if u make a pong app, then u will truly be living up to your name, lol

"if u make a pong app, then u will truly be living up to your name, lol"

um, why do you say that? making an app is just as easy as making a regular asm program. I mean its basicly using the same code, just not self modifying code.

Great-grandparents name: "memwaster"
Minimum size of an APP: 16k

Size needed for a simple pong game: 300-2000kb

2 megabytes for a pong game? (I know what you mean)

I only see one problem - The most memory on a calculator is 1.5MB so how will you fit it on a calculator??

I think you ment 300-2000 bytes (2Kb)

Yes, yes he did.

-W-

# The voting will have 2 categories:

* Graphics (Winner gets 30pts, 2nd gets 25pts, 3rd gets 20 pts)
* Gameplay (Winner gets 50pts, 2nd gets 40pts, 3rd gets 30 pts)

# The 3rd category won’t be voteable. This will be the ‘Size’ category (Winner gets 30pts, 2nd 25pts, 3rd gets 20pts). The smallest programm will win this one. The overall winner will be the one with the most points.

Well, this means that I would have to score high votes on graphics and gameplay....

Hey, I've got a good idea to win the third catagory...

BASIC entry.

PONG.8xp

Disp "Pong!!!
Stop

12 bytes.

I this will win the BASIC "size" catagory...

This is an interesting contest. Making a pong game. I wonder if some creative ideas will come out of this.

you could incorporate the kind of powerups found in standard brick breaking games, such as guns and size enhancements and stickyness and that sort of stuff. What if you had every once in a while a block would appear randomly in the middle, and it is destroyed by the ball, and sends a power up bouncing away in the other direction that will bounce around until it goes off the screen or someone gets it. Or it could be like that mini game from yoshi's island on the snes where you threw the ballon back and forth and tried to have it not pop on you. The ball could be a bomb and be ticking away and you lose points if it blows up your paddle. there could be a powerup that gives pinball flippers on your paddle, so you can launch the ball towards your opponent really fast and make it hard for them. Man, i really wish i knew z80 asm so i could enter the contest...

You're thinking Breakout, not pong. Pong is a game where opponents hit a balla cross the screen with paddels (or is it paddles?).

-W-

It's spelled 'paddles'.

And he knows it's Breakout, he's just saying it might be a good idea to put Breakout features into a Pong game.

yes, youre right. I think that those kind of features would turn an otherwise "normal" pong game into an awesome contest-winning super beast! once again, if only i knew z80...

Even better, make a Pong RPG.

Call it something like "Pongamon"

"Lord of the Pongs"!

Cheesy, I know.

i have a pong game like that for old school playstation, its called 'pong; the next level', its 3D, and u have all kinds of different levels u travel to, and theres power ups, and even beach volleyball pong!
the main character is a pong paddle that jumps around when u win, lol
it sooo retarded, but its still fun ;)

-jordan

they have a pong RPG for the Nintendo system, called "PongQuest"

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As you wrote it,

PROGRAM:PONG
:Disp "Pong!!!
:Stop

would take 27 bytes (couting the VAT entry; I typed it in quick and looked at how big it is).
(Lowercase letters are two-byte tokens.)

Maybe you could make it even smaller :)
PROGRAM: P
:Disp "PONG
If you did it like this, its only 16 bytes!

Eh, forget Stop. Minimize the program like this:

PROGRAM:P
:Disp "PONG

or u could just name the program pong, and not even have any code...

you could call it "ultra fast pong" so that the game goes so fast you dont even see it...

lol, that'd be funny.

Or, just say, "The game's on your calculator, but it takes up 0 bytes and it's hidden." 0 bytes. That'd win the size contest.

I've finished my BASIC entry already. Since I'm not allowed to post it here, just email me if you want it :)

Oh cmon, we can do better than that :). Why not go into the negatives? Every time you run the program, you could have it erase a random amount of ram. Everytime you run it you will have more ram than before!

lol, a contest to see who can erase the most RAM. That'd be funny.

lol make an ASM prog to erase the VAT and name it "pong"...

I have done that in BASIC.

Forget Disp!
:"PONG

Is all you need.

Ahh, right. I was thinking of the TI-82 when I made mine. I kinda forgot this was for TI-83/83+ and not the TI-82 as well. And, as you know, the TI-82 doesn't support stringss, so that wouldn't work on it.