Re: TI-Basic = great ASM = not yet


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Re: TI-Basic = great ASM = not yet



Who let this guy in?

<< With all the fuss on ASM for the 82,83,86 and all other calcs you
 would think ASM would be a great thing for TI calcs.  But it hasn't
 panned out yet.  Until some people put the time in to make some great
 blow your mind away games in ASM it has virtually no practical use.
 There are hundreds more TI basic games and programs for the 82/83/85.
 Basic programs are fairly easy to write and can be enjoyable.  So keep
 programming in TI Basic because it has and always will be the main way
 to program.  ASM is just too complex and risky.  Unless ASM
 programmers take the time to make many more games it is just a waste
 of time.  I know ASM is new to TI programmers but if things don't pick
 up soon they never will. >>

Ilyamojo, you have an 82, don't you? You haven't seen any blow-your-mind asm
games because there aren't many yet. Keep your mind open. The truth is there
are some incredible asm games (over 200). I'll use Mcmik as an example. A
beautiful Mario Bros. clone with some great grayscale, only 20k. Let's see
basic do that. In fact, I don't recall any basic games that out-do assembly
(math progs being the exception). Borrow someone's 85 and KEEP YOUR MIND OPEN
TO NEW STUFF.

Also, asm will be significantly easier for beginning programmers in less than
2 weeks with the release of HAL (finally).


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