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Hey guys, this is Sean from NeXus Programs with some bad and good news. First the bad, NeXus Programs has decided to dissolve the Ti-8x section of it's programming. That means I have no job. Next the good news...STREETRACER GT is ready, but since I have little time to upload it, I will only upload if I get at least five emails that want it. E-mail o3lp@yahoo.com with GT in the subject line to vote.

PS. STREETRACER86 is completed and will be uploaded if GT is...

Hey guys-
Does anyone know of a good solitaire game for the 83+?

P.S.-Does anyone know if there is a way that I could delete my current account on this site in order to create a new one?

Would it be possible just to make another account and use that one, and just not use the one that you are using now? So you would technically have two accounts.

And are you talking about in BASIC or Assembly?

I can't make a second account. If the guys that run this site find that you have more than one account, you lose your account privileges.

And I'm talking about an assembly game.

Hmmmmm.........seems to work for me! *hint* *hint* *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge*
lol

51dubad ton. fakeaccount

The link is to the only (as far as I know) assembly solitaire game for the 83+. It's OLD (1998) but it's still a good game.

Will be releasing a new game in May sometime or maybe till July at the latest. It is called covert ops. There was a pre-beta release but it sucked so much, it will get edited bigtime. The game should be better. Still have to program the AI and any objects. It is something like Mario 83+ but with a little bit of IGI 2 and Splinter Cell.

That's a bit wierd. Silent Fury hasn't even made a message on this page.

51dubad

Hey, Dabud "51" and me made a post at the exact same time! C00l!

What are you talking about?

(i'm using my real account now)....not that I ever had a fake one....*hint* *hint*

oh, and it's not "dabud 51" it's "15 dubad" you just switch the "a" and the "u" and put a "15" in the front. Not sure if you caught that or not. I don't really know what I'm talking about so I'll stop ta

What am I talking about? Look at the time on my Solytare post and the time on your "That's a bit weird" post. They're the same. And I realized shortly after I made that post that it was just "dabud15" backward or something.

Hi everybody! I have this really great game in mind, but I really need some help on how to do sprites (mainly rotating and scaling) in asm. I'm pretty much a beginner in asm, so if anyone would help me out i would be very glad.

Oh and also masking, if anyone knows how to do this.

What is the purpose of masking, and how do sprites move without turning off the pixels (or is it just really fast).

Masking is what lets sprites overlap each other (and the background) without drawing a rectangle. It allows transparency. Sprites do have to turn off pixels, but in asm, they copy the data directly instead of turning off individual pixels. It's just really fast.
Masking (how I've used it) takes two images, or sprites. One has the sprite with the transparent part black. The other is a shadow of the sprite, with black where it is opaque and white where it is transparent. Then you just combine the mask to where the sprite will go with a bitwise OR, which only pastes black over what's behind it, and doesn't do anything where it is transparent (white) on the mask. This creates a black spot in the shape of the sprite (you could call it a shadow). Then you use a bitwise AND to paste the sprite (that has a black background) onto the shadow. This only pastes white, as opposed to the mask, which pastes black. So the background doesn't change where black is ANDed. The white (which should only be on the sprite) gets pasted over the shadow, creating the final image. To sum up: mask - balck where opaque, white where transparent. sprite - black where transparent/black, white where white. OR the mask, then AND the sprite.

hey silent fury, what ever happened to that Age of Empire game that I remember you talking about? I saw you took it out of your bio.

I haven't tried re-installing the link cable program to my computer reccently, so I guess I'll try it again.

-dabud15

Let's just say I realized it wasn't quite the right project to be working on with my amount of asm experience ;) I wish I could delete all those posts... I just really wanted to see an RTS for the 83+.

However, if the programming group we're talking about forming on the last page ever gets formed, we might make StarCraft, which is basically the same thing, only a more futuristic setting. Then I might use that engine and (finally) make AoE. But, that's a pretty small chance.

My Shining Force: The Legend Returns will be strategy. But opposed to being Real Time it will be turn based, with the highest agility rating going first. I do have screenshots, and I am working on the storyline right now. A guy also is (Hopefully!) going to help me with the map system. I know once you see it, or even the screenshots, you will think it is EXTREMELY cool. Or, maybe it's just me ;)

Gerhalt

And when can we see these screenshots of yours? If you can't post 'em on the web feel free to email them to me.

Sure, I'll e-mail them to you. If you want I'll also e-mail you the .txt file with all the information I've got so far. And by the way, I can't post them for a few reasons. First, If I submit it as a file people expect something that is a fairly long ways away. Second, I don't have a webpage. But I will e-mail them to you, and I suspect you will think they look pretty good. And by the way, they are how the real game is going to look, not a preliminary sketch. I'll try and get them to you when I get a chance. ;)

Gerhalt

Sure, send me everything you got. Also, how's Chips coming? Started on it yet?

E-mail me some screen shots as well.

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