Post your ideas for new games here, or build on ideas posted by other visitors.

I've never seen so many people (or is it just one or two people?) request so many different games from programmers! Slow down man! Programmers can only do so much...and some ideas just aren't worth it. Also these things we're programming are CALCULATORS. They're very capable...but they can't perform miracles! Maybe you should learn ASM and make some of your own ideas reality!

finally... its 2 people and they just keep going with bad ideas or ideas that already have been made!! i already tried to explain but they wouldn't listen LOL

I am making 28 Days Later game for the calc and have only posted demos so far. I need someone to help me make a good fighting engine. I was thinking that you could walk around and then randomly, "the infected" attack you and you break into a fighting sequence, if you win then you go back to running around. If anyone is interested in helping me or even being a co-author then please post a reply or email me or go to my site and post in forums. Thanks!

I could help you some (if this in Basic), can't put LOTS of time into it, but I could definitely show you how to do a fighting engine

Cool. It's in BASIC and you don't need to devote a lot of time to it. Just e-mail me and I will give you all the information.

hey if you know some good AI can you e-mail it to me?

attackmongoose85@yahoo.com

It's happened as long as I can remember. Also, I see some people seem to think this is the TI Help forum and use it for help when it's supposed to be for programming ideas. :)

Afterthought: You know, somebody should tell everyone about the mailing lists to ask all their help questions. The lists have been DEAD since forever, and we really need more traffic. :)

Hello, could someone tell me how to recognize an y-coordinate in a menu. For example:

-> play
help
info
...
When you push 2 times [down], How do you jump into your program to label "info"????
Can someone help me???
Thanks

in BASIC or in assembly?? i can help u in BASIC, but not in assembly. email me for help in BASIC. By the way, i am Dutch too!!

It's in assembly.
In assembleertaal

Then the only help i can give u is to download ASMGuru (50 tutorials in 1)

Dan is de enige hulp die ik je kan geven het downloaden van ASMGuru (50 tutorials in 1)

;blah
;blah
;blah
bcall(_clrscrnfull)
ld a,4
ld (currcol),a
ld a,1
ld (currow),a
ld hl,menu_item1
bcall(_puts)
bcall(_newline)
ld hl,menu_item2
bcall(_puts)
bcall(_newline)
ld hl,menu_item3
bcall(_puts)
bcall(_newline)
ld a,(cursor_y)
ld (currow),a
ld a,0
ld (curcol),a
ld hl,menu_cursor
bcall(_puts)
cursor_loop:
bcall(_getkey)
cp kup
call z,up
cp kdown
call z,down
cp kenter
jp z,selection_made
cp kclear
ret z
jr cursor_loop
down:
ld a,(cursor_y)
cp 2
ret z
inc a
ld (cursor_y),a
ld (currow),a
ld hl,kill_cursor
bcall(_puts)
ld hl,menu cursor
bcall(_puts)
ret
up:
ld a,(cursor_y)
cp 0
ret z
dec a
ld (cursor_y),a
ld (currow),a
ld hl,kill_cursor
bcall(_puts)
ld hl,menu cursor
bcall(_puts)
ret
selection_made:
ld a,(cursor_y)
cp 0
jp z,play
cp 1
jp z,help
jp info
menu_item1:
.db "Play",0
menu_item2:
.db "Help",0
menu_item3:
.db "Info",0
menu_cursor:
.db "->",0
kill_cursor:
.db " ",0
cursor_y:
.db 0
play:
;blah
;blah
;blah
help:
;blah
;blah
;blah
info:
;blah
;blah
;blah

has anyone played grand prix or outrun (thought it's the right name) cars games for the pc I have seen this grand tourismo game and althought its great at driving it doesnt have cool graphics at all, I would like to see a car game where you can see the back of the car while you drive trying to evade other cars, i have even seen games like this in cell phones why dont you programing gods make a game like this for the 68k calcs??

have u played space dementia for 89? it does that but from the back of a ship (kind of like star fox) but its slow. i dont think a calc could do all that...

actually the 68k calcs are faster than most cell phones with the cars game, so i dont think it could be that hard, space dementia is slow but because of the 3d graphics, im not asking for a super mega 3d graphics program, just a 3 sprites for the car game plus a mobile background

I have a sort of "Challange" for anyone that wants it.

->Some try to program Killer Instinct (the SNES game) for the TI-83+

I know theres some fighting games out already, but try to keep this one close as posible to the original (charachters, moves, combos, [combos especially]).

If not thats cool, but just try it. I would help, but im barely starting to learn asm, so i wouldnt be able to get far.
If anyones interested, let me know by e-mailing me.

Later, \m/

I find that the hardest part of programming is finding good graphics (which may easily be extracted), as I am no artist. If anyone has any links to good gfx, then it would be much easier to write a specific game for them.

I was recently working on my fighting engine when I accidentally hit [PRGM] twice while editing my program. It revealed new menus for programming that I never knew about. Can anyone explain what "sprite(" is and how to use "linksend("???

if you can, thanks!!!

?? never seen, and 2 times prgm doesnt work for me... maybe something else too?

What you are describing is a Feature of the APP OmniCalc. When installed, it gives you extra commands such as the sprite function (which is really useful). The last time I used it was about a year ago, so just from memory, I can tell you that the sprite function displays part of a picture (a pic variable) onto the screen. Visit the page in the above URL (www.detachedsolutions.com) for more info.

>>2 times prgm doesnt work for me
You need OmniCalc installed, which can be downloaded somewhere on the site above.

cool

is there a omni calc for the 89?

not for so far i know, u should search for it...

the new commands are only avadable on silver edition

hmmmm they are so coool though!

No. Regular 83+ users can get the additional commands too by installing OmniCalc (described above). Also, just because you have a Silver Edition, does Not mean that you have the extra commands. You only get the extra commands once OmniCalc 'hooks' into your calculator. These commands can be very useful, but any program that uses them will only work on calculators with OmniCalc installed.