Wow! Thanks for all the positive feedback on the game. I will release a 89 version of Calcwars as soon as possible, I'm guessing it will take about a week.

thats cool. thanks

can you make a 83+ version?

You port it, then. You do know that the ASM languages are completely different?

yes I do. But it can be reprogramed

It would take a total re-write of the code... from scratch. Nobody wants to do that... LOL ASM code can take forever to write... a very simple program can easily contain over 100 lines.

That's why I use C, too bad it's only available on 68k calcs.

By the way, you can program in C\C++\ASM on the GameBoy Advance...

I guess I'll release my latest project, inspired by this (and no longer afraid of not including an AI;))

<curious>Are you going to tell us what that project is? :)</curious>

See recently added files, it's called Skirmish

you need to make it so you can use the D-Pad when you play the calc, using the numbers makes my wrists hurt

What's the D-pad? And for what do you use the numbers? The numbers are only used for resolving the ambiguous cavalry move, which will like never occur anyway.

D-pad = direction buttons.

-Still wishing that I could have an 92+/V200, I am W-

Sounds interesting... are you going to provide any screenshots soon?

Sure, I got 20 mins now.

On second thought no.

Say, maybe I should release my Tiberian Sun Beta for the 83, too. I started it like 21 months ago and then stopped when I was 85% done. Stupid memory limitations.

89 version coming soon? If he coded it right, all a port would take is to add the right precompiler directive to the main file, if he coded it right.

But the screen is a lot smaller.

I would not use "coded it right". The correct way to code it would be calc specific. Though a crertain way of coding it would allow it to be complied for the 89.

-E-

-E-? OMG...

You're right... the difference would be how many "blocks" of land would fit on the screen... yeah, it would actually be kind of hard. If I were to make a game that ran on both the TI-89 and 92+, I'd make the game for the TI-89's screen, and for the 92+ version, I'd just have a border around the bottom and right sides. Think that's a good idea?

No.
If you put a border around the bottom and right sides, It doesn't look good.
You should put it in the center, and have the border around all four sides, and maybe put game stats on the border in a larger font.

And in this game, I think you/him/they/the programmer should just make the "blocks" of land smaller.

That looks nicer, but it's sort of hard to do. That means every graphic-related command would have to be shifted... but if you made them as seperate files, it wouldn't be all that bad, I guess.

you could add extra stats and options that show up on the 92+s to fill up the space

That wouldn't be fair for the TI-89 people ;-)

then you could just make it so the 89 people have to access a menu to get those things instead of them being on screen

Or just have stats in a larger font, like on BomberMaze68K or Platinum Edition (Of Phoenix).

TIGCC supports things that would make multi-calc support very easy with no code conversion, when drawing the blocks of land, you could to something like:

for (r=0; r=LCD_HIEGHT/blocksize; r++)
for (c=0; c=LCD_WIDTH/blocksize; c++)
{
//now draw the blocks
}

Of course this is just an example, but it shows that no program has to be one-platform specific, in the real world, coding like that is not looked upon favorly. If a big company like Microsoft made Internet Explorer without doing things to make second (and third, and fourth... etc) versions easy to create with completely different people working on the project, they'ld be in more trouble than they are now.

Doing things like that is what seperates computer scientists from the people who hack (the code hacking, not "cracking") in their basement by themselves.

Yeah... but I still think that it's easier to make seperate files... it might save a little space :)

It'll save space but be less convinent. You can have separate functions for the different screen sizes or use a form of calculator detection as he suggested. Personally it is easier to make one cross compatible file.

On calculators, memory usage is important, since it's limited, on other platforms (such as PC, consoles, GB's) it's not a problem, cause you have plenty of memory, so you concentrate on the other details...