[A83] Re: Ideas.


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[A83] Re: Ideas.




> Van: James Matthews <jmatthews@generation5.org>
> 
> Ok, I joined the list again about four days ago, only to be flooded with
> that H*ys crap - kinda reminded me why I unsubscribed in the first
> place...but it is good to see old faces (well, names) like Olle and
Harper
> (don't leave!).

Welcome back :-)

> So...in an effort to squash this thread, I'm gonna start a bunch more
which
> will hopefully get peoples creative juices flowing, not their
troll-feeding
> ones.

Thanks, all this chattering about "Hays"... If the thread would go on it
would eventualy evolve to "Gays" as far as I can see now.

> Ok, first thread. I got my Silver Edition the other day, and it got me
> wanting to develop an app of sort, but I'm sorta stuck for ideas. I can
> think of a few that would be cool, but nothing really functional. I'd
like
> to make something *people will use*...I've thought of an A-Life simulator
> for the 83 Plus allowing for custom 1D and 2D cellular automata, but I
think
> it'll only be me that finds that interesting :) So, what would you guys
like
> to see (no games, I'll leave games up to the masters)?

Cellular automata? Hmm, for the avarage user it could just be 'fun to look
at', might be useable by universities. In Holland for example about
everyone who will go to a university already has a Ti83. But then, there
are dozens of these programs for the PC, so only the portability-factor of
the Ti83(+) could count.

One thing I would like to have is a better BASIC interpreter, but I don't
know if that's anything within your scope. With things like peek(), poke(),
better label handling (pointers vs. searching), spriteing, graphical
backbuffers, subroutines, other BASIC progs callable as routines
(Ti89/92[+] style), file handling, types (char, int, float), etc. Making it
compileable would also be nice. I do know that BASIC isn't "the" language,
but you should also know that it is about the programming language that
exists.

	Henk Poley <><




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