Sweet, this looks very cool. I am going to download it right away. It bears a striking resemblance to Gemeni, though (At least by the screenshot). It looks like a good program! The on-calc editor is a nice touch too. Now to download it...

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I just looked at the readme for Wolfenstein 3D and it makes no refrences to GEMINI. In addition, the author describes the versions his engine went through in the history. So, apparently, it is a completely new engine, unrelated to GEMINI. (Wow! 2 good raycasting engines on the 83!)

Either way, this still looks pretty cool!

Well, congratulations to Peter for making a great assembly program.
Hopefully soon the program will be ported to other calcs (esp. TI86) since I don't have a TI-83-series calc.
I can really appreciate how great that game looks because I know how much work must have gone into it...
I've tried programming in assembly myself and I keep running into problems when it comes to putting sprites onto the screen.

Anyway, congratulations to Peter and hope your future programs are this good!

-Doug

I pretty sure that both Gemini and Wolfenstein 3D were orginally Maze 3d. Gemini changed allot since the Raycaster demos.
Maze 3d was on the 86 why would should it be ported, It could just be altered to have enemys, guns,...

I wouldn't count on it, 86 is a dead machine, I think, fewer an fewer programs are out fot that calc, and TI is making pgrms for 83 and 89 to assemble 85/86 special funcions.
The game looks very cool, does it support external nivels?
That was the Gemini problem, It was too short.

Yes! External levels are what makes a game expand. People can play it and make their own levels to share!

This game looks rather good...

Uh-huh, you know, witht the FAT engine for the TI-89, you'd think more 3D games would be made for it...

I know, there should be more... Wait till I gt some money, then I can get an 89 or similar...

You're a good programmer, you could make some good contributions to the 89 folder if you got one... :) The thing that's so great about C for the 89 is... you can make some pretty good programs and still maintain speed. Look at Alien Invasion... that was C, wasn't it? It's a featured program. As long as you use _rowread(), your C programs usually won't be really slow. (I think I overused the adverbs in that last sentence)

Someone should port Wolfenstein to 89 don't you think?

No can do. Wolfenstein is a z80 ASM program. It would have to be completely rewritten to work on the 89. If you want an FPS, see Corridor 92. It's pretty fun.
w00t!

what about an emulator for TI89 emulating the TI83?

What!? That would be even more unlikely. Emulators for totally different calcalators are a no-no.

possible....impractical

Someone should port Wolfenstein to 89 don't you think?

I thought there was a Wolfenstein port for FAT...

Go ahead and do it.

Port seems like a poor choice of word there... how about TOTALLY REWRITE IT FROM SCRATCH! There's not really any coorelation from z80 to 68k or vice versa. They're just too different.

Yea theres def. no connection. i think he wrote it from scratch, its still awesome. Also check out this funny website (in the link above).

Peter said in the README that he won't port it because he doesn't know how, but someone who dies should contace him.

um, if someone dies, then they can't contact anybody because they are DEAD!!!

Yeah, I wondered about that too... maybe Peter is into these ouija board jobbies and the occult?

My error, it should have read:

Peter said in the README that he won't port it because he doesn't know how, but someone who des should contact him

'someone who des '
you can't even do a correction properly. As for the 2 comments regarding the talking to the dead, why would they contact him? Are there souls that scour this site looking to aid people in order to free themselves from this accursed realm?

Cool or not, It still takes up a crap loaad of memory. I'll wait until I get an SE before I download it to my calc.

-W-

If you don't have much else on the calc, it will fit

Ah, but there in lies the problem, I already have over 35 games on my calculator. I have to garbagecollect after every three games. I have no more room. And I spend a fortune on batteries. Man, I need an SE.

-W-

Or you need to know about groups instead of just archived progs and about rechargeable batteries :o)

Groups are fine so long as the program doesn't have writeback...

My sentiments exactly.

I've tried the grouping programs, sing someone else a test subject. I did not find it very eaisy to use, the constant clearing of ram, unpacking, clearing of ram..... Besides, I am a paitent man, I can wait until the vendors become senceable again. And I just got some rechargables. Thanks.

Does your ram clear every time you do something with groups?

NO, I havew to delet all the programs in RAM every I unpack a different group. The quickest way to do this is clearing my RAM.

However, for Mirage os users, you can make it not unarchive the programs, just copy them int RAM. You must un-x the Allow Write-Baxks in Archived Programs, in the misc. field. This will save me enough on batteries to feed a small town.

-W-

Yeah, this game looks great. Must... get... an... 83+se...

Having an 83+ SE is GREAT, but it sucks when programming for regular 83+ in basic because it's so much faster. (See basicavalanche.zip to get my point. I made it so that it runs well on a SE. 'Tis slower than mollasses on a reg. 83+)

Well I think TI83+SE shouldn't be so compatible with the TI83+ in basic, I hate basic, it's slow, I think they should give me the plus 128 KB of RAM and run asm at the same speed, SE is not iqual to the + the plus rans slowly than an SE that's why I loose so much in Phantom, also the archive memory is soo big but after a few programs in the archive the RAM gets smaller because, I believe, it has to map all the programs, so after a few dozens of programs in the archive I can't play Gemini anymore, it hasn't memory enough for unarchive, so I have to go and delete a few prgms in archive so RAM can run the Gemini.
TI OS should enable greyscale, watch and bigger memory all things that hardware supports and TI wouldn't allow because the so talked retrocompatibility with TI83 and TI83+, aghhhhhh...
Ok... I'm Ok now :P

iqual? lol

But I didn't know that the BASIC speed was different.. it really is? Why? That's kinda strange...

The processor is 2.5 faster, so BASIC must be about that much faster. (I think)

Are the z80 procs 8-bit or 16-bit?
How are they different from 68k procs?