I like it. I think it's the first side scrolling breakout game I've seen for 68k. It's definately worth the download.

First off......Why does a few people hate patrick? To me he is one and i mean one of the best programmers out there. It's not his fought for all the problems with the games people play on the calc. Its the people who play the games on the calcs. I have a silver edition(83 of course) and I had Phoenix on there for the longest time and I havent had any troubles yet. Those few people out there that blame there problems of Patrick.....You need to grow up and if you think that he is a bad programmer then I like to see you make some games with his kind of style.

Patrick if your reading this.......I love your games. Keep up the good work. Your number one on my list.

Agian thanks Patrick for all these fantastic games. your the best. Your the kind of programmer I look up too.

Who said they hated Patrick? That would be a pretty stupid thing to say, especially on this forum. And as for Phoenix crashing somebody's calculator... well, I've probably downloaded and played games MUCH longer than they have (since way before I had an account here), and PAD's games have _never_ caused a memory reset on me (I assume this is what they mean by "crash"). Face it. The TI-83+SE's are VERY buggy. By playing ANY game on there, you run the risk of screwing up your calculator. You're right, that isn't Patrick's fault. It's the 83+SE's fault. And I also agree with you that Patrick is a very good programmer. Hopefully nobody here thinks he is a bad programmer... or they're just wrong. :)

Yes there are somethings wrong with the 83+/Se but there are ways around them(bugs), that i figured out.

But yes there are a few people out there that insult Patrick, but atleast we know there are a few out there that like him.

He's a good programmer, but sometimes he seems to get so much more credit than he deserves. I mean, Monster is good, but it doesn't compare with Gran Tourismo, CalcRogue, and all the other good games out there. I mean, he's an excellent programmer, but so are a lot of other people. And he's the first guy people think of when they hear "Calculator Programmer", and Phoenix is the first thing people think of when they hear "Calculator game".

Not that he's a bad programmer. If I've mentioned it once, I'll mention it again, he's one of my favorite programmers. Of course, so is David Coz, Rusty Wagner, Flavien Racine, everyone in TICT, ... I could go on and on... (Don't feel offended if your name's not in here, btw, you're somewhere on the list :) Yes, that includes KermMartian. *dodges tomatoes thrown at him*)

It seems no one has ever seen "Arkanoid Revenge of DOH" for the ti89. I think it is far better than Monster v0.99
Btw my favorite author is by far David Coz.

well, arkanoid is still in beta, and it mostly is only present around the french/european community. I dont believe it has officially made it to america yet, so a large number of those here have not yet seen it. Also, simply because arkanoid is so good does not mean that we shouldnt praise this fine program.
Also, my favorite author seems to be you JF, you make a ton of really good quick games that i play all the time. Keep up the good work.

Um... Unless I am going crazy, for a few moments there was an article about SlimeBall for the 89. When I followed a link in the article to the Java version a nasty little virus thing poped up and wouldn't close until I close Microsoft Internet Explorer. Now the article is gone!

WTF

weird. Are you sure it isn't spyware or something?

It's back!

I bet that's it. Spyware is evil.

Why must warez sites put spyware in their cracks!?!? Oops... *runs away*

hey, i just had a thought:
ticalc.org should have a forum where you can post topics about stuff(great idea, isn't it)
i mean a real one, these news articles are good, but an additional forum would be great

since we don't have one:
(bear in mind i'm not too good at math)

how do you find the sin, cos, etc. of a number using z80 assembly? (i hope no one deletes this, and that i don't sound stupid)

you post to the mailing list

ok, i subscribed, but what is 'digest mode'?

If i understand this correctly, and i think i do, it means that rather than recieving each piece of mail that is sent around, which could clutter your mailbox if you like saving things, you would instead recieve one big email every so often that has all posts since the last digest was sent. I suppose if you wanted to contribute and help other people, this would slow your response time, but if you just want to be a lurker and post a question now and then, then it might be a good way to go.

Use trig tables.

There are other forum sections, but seem to forget about them. Oh, and there's a mailing list.

and theres the _SIN rom call too. And how do you get the Sin of a floating point number with a table?

Darn, it didn't run on my HW1 AMS 2.08. :(

Really? What exactly happens when you try it?

In a little more detail:

If there is a problem, I would like to fix it as soon as possible, but of course more information that this would be needed. The program works in every situation I (or any of the beta testers) have tried it in. I don't have an HW1 TI-89 but I did try it on VTI using AMS 2.08, and there were no problems there.

At the least, it would help to know:
- What (if anything) appeared when you tried to run the program?
- Was it archived or not?
- What shell/launcher (if any) did you try to start it from? (exact version number, please)
- How much memory was free when you ran the program?

After further search, I located an IRC user with an HW1 TI-89 to test. Thanks to his gracious assistance, it has now been reported that it works on a HW1 calculator with AMS 2.08 as well. Thus I'd guess you didn't transfer/install/launch it correctly, or perhaps don't have enough free memory. But it should be noted that he was from Sweden, so I suggest the following workaround:

If you can't get Monster 0.99 to work on your TI-89, move to Sweden; it should work fine there.