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

I'm only a BASIC programmer, and I've gotten pretty far into the programming language. first, can anybody generate a few picture vars for me in their spare time? Thanx. Also, any ASM programmers out there, please tell me where to download TASM for the DOS! Thanx again!

What format do you want. Do you have the 83 or the 89?

83 pleaz

and the game afro dance can some one tell me how to cange the pic of the guy dancing to a penguin and on wak a goomba make the goombas penguins and i will give you credit once i learn how to do stuff in asm

You just have to change some sprites in the source. To do this, open the source and find where the sprites are stored (usually just several rows of ".db %xxxxxxxx" where "x" is a 0 or 1).

In sprites, a "0" means white and a "1" means black, so just draw out a black and white sprite in your chosen image editor of the same size as the original sprite. Convert it to 1's and 0's (either manually or using a program) and put it in place of the sprites.

In Wak-a-goomba, the sprites are 16x16 pixels in size, but each half (left and right) is stored as a separate sprite. You'll have to split your image in half and convert it to two sprites.

Once you've changed the sprites, just assemble it!

Afro Dance doesn't include the source, so it's a bit trickier to change the program. You could ask the author for the source, but if that doesn't work you could use a hex editor and play around with the binary. I suggest you learn about tools like dd, hexdump, and xxd, all which are typically found in most Unix systems.

You could try to create a PBM (Portable Bitmap) or even a BMP (Windows Bitmap) file out of the binary file, simply by adding a simple header (see the man page for pbm(5)) to the beginning of it, so you can view the file in an image viewer and find the exact location of the sprites that way. You could even just edit that image (make sure the bitmap header has the correct height so the editor saves every byte from the program), save it, and remove the header (using dd).

You can also use the "convert to bitmap and edit in an image editor then convert back to a program file" technique on Wak-a-goomba, but it's not necessary because the source is available.

Sorry if you don't understand all of that.

I have a couple ideas for games (hopefully for ti-83+).

One is a racing game where you pilot a little futuristic racecraft (kind of like jetskis) on the walls of a circular tunnel with no gravity, obstacles/barriers, AI (other ships), bonuses, boosting, checkpoints, attributes (armor, speed, acceleration) and complicated courses with curves in all directions. This game is modeled after Ballistica, which I saw once in a video arcade and haven't been able to locate since. If you want to see a very basic model of the layout, go to www.2flashgames.com and play Ghost.

The other is a greyscale BattleBots with AI, competitions (single or tournaments), money, and custom bots, like the PC game. (It might be easier to do a separate program for the modifier/customizer and the actual game and linked battles would be cool too.)

The most important thing about the tunnel game - that I forgot to say - was that rather than your craft moving around the wall of the tunnel, it should appear that THE TUNNEL ROTATES and that you are stationary.

I have another game idea; however, this time I will actually attempt to carry it through rather than simply throwing out an idea.

I would like to make a sound program, which initially is only a Legend of Zelda(tm), custom-note Ocarina player which uses the sounds of THE INDIVIDUAL NOTES FROM THE GAME to play custom tunes in an on-calculator song creater (later I will add other instruments from Majora's Mask etc.).

!!!!!!!ATTENTION!!!!!!!

Unfortunately, I do not possess the sound files from the game FOR INDIVIDUAL NOTES MADE BY THE OCARINA and thus cannot preprogram them into the calculator. If anyone is in possession of these files, I would be much obliged if you would tell me where to get them. (your name will be in the opening screen as "SOUND FILES PROVIDED BY " + yourname + " and Nintendo(tm)'s Legend of Zelda" or something of the nature.)

Please give feedback to help Operation Ocarina!

You could always record the actual notes and then MIDI it...

I need to find the smallest way to store the sound data on the calc
I was thinking of finding the proportion of overtones (see a physics textbook) for each note that I need on the ocarina and storing the data in my program.

does anyone know how to or have a sound program (for computer probably) that can take a composite sound and break it into its basic components (overtones/harmonics) and tell the amplitudes of the separate wave components (so I can find the proporiton of overtones/harmonics) ?????????????????????????????????
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Im making a prgm that is a virus and will delet your ram and maybe more.
If anyone wants to help me post it or email me at
Amaarch@comcast.net

Simple Z80 program to screw your calculator:

(Program Editor, create new program)
PROGRAM:ASCII
:AsmPrgm

(Home Screen)
AsmComp(prgmASCI
I,prgmNUKE
Done
Asm(prgmNUKE)

(Press [ENTER].)
(Your calculator will now self-destruct... err, crash.)

simpler asm prgm to crash ram after shutting off the calc:

:AsmPrgm
:EF0000EF
:EF1002EF
:C9

then Asm(prgmWhatev

if that code doesn't work just mess with the numbers on the second line. But it should work

Not to be mean or anything: Giving it to your teacher is fun but TROJANING IT? And posting it?

Just plain mean...

AGREED

Even better:

Asmprgm
C7

Run that and your calc will shut off, and if you are lucky, it will say there is a Error eith the OS! (Not really, just turn it off and on again)

(or C8)

are you talking about for the 84's?
89's are a bit different (or at least the way i do it)
:Prgm
:Exec "303c02306000000"
:Endprgm

i think that's what it is.
calc shuts off, and NO response.
the end might be wrong, because my notes are a bit messed up.
i did some independant research on the Motorola 6800 Exec codes a while ago, because there was NOTHING on the internet about it.
i think i'll upload it.
in the meantime, if anyone knows more about them, PLEASE comment back.
p.s. i know you can get programs to convert ASM into Exec, but that's not what im looking for.

Hey, that wasn't nice!
You made my 84+SE delete all my RAM, including the sweet game I was making!

That's why "Archives" was invented

I know. Now I downloaded CalcUtil so I can put all my programs on Archive instead of RAM. Plus I can fit more programs now.

always keep backups

no duh

or just do that code without the C9 at the end. C9 in ASM means RET or return. without the RET instruction at the end, it will crash anyways. I suggest putting in the opcodes for DI and HALT (look for them on a ASM-hex opcodes table)-- it causes a major crash

You're a freaking douche

Questioning the question mark...

winscope at the web link abouve should work if you can imput from the mic port-just go to FFT mode- the button with a few colored bars has a frequency readout like a scope display. hope that helps.
DDub

sorry-wrong address. here is the right one.
DDub

Whenever I try to send a sound program to my calc (TI 84+) I get this incompatible type message. Help!!

hey i am requesting some help in programming. i am a "beginner" Z80 assembly programmer, but i understand many concepts of assembly and have had over 4 years experience in programming. i know how to use interrupts, bitmasking, etc. My main goal right now is to learn a good way to create grayscale sprites. If anyone can seriously assist me in any way, please contact me at austin ? d40 ? @ ? aol.com (without the spaces or question marks).

hey i am requesting some help in programming. i am a "beginner" Z80 assembly programmer, but i understand many concepts of assembly and have had over 4 years experience in programming. i know how to use interrupts, bitmasking, etc. My main goal right now is to learn a good way to create grayscale sprites. If anyone can seriously assist me in any way, please contact me at austin ? d40 ? @ ? aol.com (without the spaces or question marks).

Actually the real game is called N2O I ahve for the ps1

Does anyone have any asm code that quickly draws a portion of a circle (an arc) with radius r, from angle a to angle b. I have a way to do it in basic but it is VERY slow, inconsistant for different sized circles, and is very badly coded. An example of what I might want to do would be to:
draw an arc that resembles a 'C' with radius 2 from +60 degrees to -60 degrees (+300 degrees).

IS THERE ANY EASY WAY TO DO THIS? -> A FUNTION/OVERLOADED METHOD?

How about a pre-determined point-change system like:
:Circle(X,Y,2)
:While _theta_=0
:A+1->A
:If A=1:Then:1->B:2->C:End
:Pt-Change(B,C)
:If ?=?
:1->_theta_
:End

Hmm???

that program doesnt work, it draws a circle, then what?, a better way would be to just use points,connecting them

While/for-loops work to an extent, but I have had trouble drawing bigger circles; I have not been able to find a way to scale the While/for-loop in order to avoid skipping or overwriting pixels when I draw different sized circles:
For example, when I draw 3/4 of a small circle, it may take almost as much time as when I draw 3/4 of a large circle, and the large circle is not completely connected.
Also, for-loops are rather slow, and to make an efficient game I would either need to optimise the While/for-loop or use asm.

DOES ANYONE HAVE THE asm code THAT THE ti-83+ calculator USES TO DrAw CiRcLeS?????!!!!???!!?

This is in Basic, but it is relitively fast for large cicles and does not miss connect them.

start code

radius->R
Resolution->N
Startangle->S
Endangle->E
(E-S)/N->N
For(A, S, E-N, N)
Line(Rcos(A), Rsin(A), Rcos(A+N), Rsin(A+N))
End

end code

S must be less than E, or nothing will happen

The higher resolution (N) is, the slower, but better the circles(or arcs) will be. For small circles and arcs, use a small resolution to speed up the process.

Also, note which mode you are in, if you are in Degree mode, S and E mus be in degrees (-360 to 360, generally), but if you are in radian mode, use -2*pi to 2*pi.

Opps, I forgot to include the orgin of the arc

pos->X
pos->Y
radius->R
Resolution->N
Startangle->S
Endangle->E
(E-S)/N->N
For(A, S, E-N, N)
Line(Rcos(A)+X, Rsin(A)+Y, Rcos(A+N)+X, Rsin(A+N)+Y)
End

That should be self-explainatory.

i know a way to do this in asm, but i dont know if you're still interested....
anyway, here is it:
_circCmd equ 4AD4h
call _zerooop1 ; restet op1
call _pushrealo1 ; the centre-x.
call _pushrealo1 ; the centre-y.
ld a,5
call _setxxop1
call _pushrealo1 ; the radius.
call _circcmd
ret
I think its kindof easy to understand.... but if you have questions, just email me.
theres another one, but i dont remember that one...

I may not know how to do it drawing but this should work:
999->dim(l1
999->dim(l2
fill(99999,l1
fill(99999,l2
repeat 0
sorta(l1):sortd(l1)
sorta(l2):sortd(l2)
end

that crashes the calc:
999->dim(l1
999->dim(l2
fill(99999,l1
fill(99999,l2
repeat 0
sorta(l1):sortd(l1)
sorta(l2):sortd(l2)
end

Portable Bitmap "*.pbm"??? Is that that image converter for the calc???

Portable Bitmap is just a generic raster (bitmap) file format, similar to Windows Bitmap. It's a very simple format and can be read and written by many different image editing programs.

There are also Portable Graymap (PGM) and Portable Pixmap (PPM) file formats which support grayscale and full-colour images, respectively, but they aren't as useful as PBM for "seeing" or reverse-engineering a calculator program.

actually I think that if you press the search button on the top and type in "jsc" and then choose jsc sprite creator and save it, it will let you fill int "pixels" (it's like a pixel maxemized) and you can click binary or hex and just copy it.

It works for me when I make asm programs

can some one teach me to program in asm and make apps and the materials i need n the ti-83+? and dose anyone have advice on the overclocking procedure and results if it worked good or not on the ti-83+

4 things 1. ijust got this account so i have alot of questions
2.i am a very expiernced basic programer and would like to share my games to the whole internet not just kids at my school how do i do this
3.how do i lock basic games with out miradge so i can give it to people and they wont be able to open it up and screw the game and or steal my credit to making the game
4.can some one make a GOOD penguin game for the ti-83+
not counting slippy and the other cause i have played them all and ther are good just hard and scarse

e mail me at mongoose64@att.net

i program games accually i have one on my website for free called kong-ghig is's based on a japainese game from the 1200's and i passed out a pong game for 2 dollars and within a week i saw it on another calc with a diffrent name. so i need to lock my good games!!! also i have a TI-83+ and i was wondering if there was any ASM or ION programming shell online to download for free that was less than 1.2 MB in size?

euh.. you could try to lock them with protect (c) but if someone has Mirage OS they WILL be able to unlock them, the best thing you can do is transfer them to your pc and back, I heard that that would help
Greetz...
Whizzkiddo
Mr_whizzkiddo@hotmail.com

pefore i lock my programmes i wanted to know how i can take several of my programmes and fuse them together.

i have just made a frogger game in basic but in order to make it i made several other basic programs as functions. how can i link/lock them all together as one file (frogger)? Thank You.

by "functions" i'm assuming you mean subprograms. well, you have 2 options:

1. use BasicBuilder to package them into an app. you can download BasicBuilder on ticalc. something like archives > windows utilities > basicbuilder. they also have a beOS version.

2. this wouldn't fix locking the code out, but whenever you have something like "prgmJUMP" in your code, just paste the code from the subprogram right there. mind you, you'll have to change the subprogram a little, because it won't be a subprogram anymore, but it will eliminate the existance of the subprogram.

Hope i helped a little,
Caboose

if you're in your main program you should go down to the bottom (or anywhere you like) and press _2nd_ _Rcl_ now press _prgm_ and go to the submenu "exec", select one program that you would like to copy into your main program. Repeat this to add more programs...
Greetz

is there a way to lock them using basic?

if you have mirage os, you can make it appear in the shell by typing a colon and a quote followed by a short description, you can use the shell to lock it like anything else. it looks loke this...

::"the coolest game ever
:game stuff follows

thnx, that was usefull

Im A Noob Help Me!!!

you need to be more specific

If you have saved all your programs onto one calculator you can create a new program that activates the programs in a certail order.

and how do you do that??
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1. PGRM
2. NEW
3. Create New -> EXECUTE
4. PGRM
5. EXEC
6. choose your program
7. Repeat 4-6 as many times as you need

not sure exactly what you mean by 'fuse', but in one prog, you hit [2nd] then Sto->. Then hit PRGM then hit left once. then selct the other program and hit enter. all the code from the selcted program will be entered where the cursor was in the original program. Could cause problems, if you tried to run a the second program from the first program.

Can you email me(at Arxanas@gmail.com) the source code for that frogger game? No, i don't want to steal it, i want to analyze it to learn more about TI-Basic. Im only an amateur programmer.

From the EDIT of you master program, press [2nd] then RCL (2nd funct. of [STO>] button).
Press [PRGM], then go down to the program that you want to "fuse" into the master, then press [ENTER].

It should paste the program's code into the master program.

hey how do you lock your programs so people cant get into them and change your name and such from the calculator not using the computer i mean

ahh.. dude, we already discussed this. but i will say it again.

if you have Mirage OS, you can lock, archive or hide the file.

and its all on your calculator.

The only problem with using Mirage is if you lock a program using it, someone could just unlock, because you can't take out the colon. if you use a asm library to lock a program, it'll be much harder to unlock. (you would have to use a asm library to unlock, and most people use Mirage and not asm libraries, so your probably safer there

there is a way to create a pgrm inside another pgrm at the start the lock pgrm prelude is:
Lbl ST
Input "LOCK CODE:",CB
If CB=(desired 4 digit code here)
Then
Goto PG
End
If CB≠(same 4 digit code as stated above)
Then
Disp "INCORRECT"
Goto ST
End
Lbl PG
(pgrm starts here)

this is a very basic way to lock the pgrm. you can do more than 4 digits for your code, but 3 and 4 are the easiest to remember.

does mirage os work on ti-89 titaniums

ok, download TI Graph Link if you don't have it
open your program in graph link and at the bottom of the code window there should be a little check box that says locked or something like that - click it and save your program - viola! code locked

I might be able to help what exactly do you want?

Help me!! I'm still confused using C language... I need to make a simple game of SOS... my problem, I can't think of an algorithm in order to make my program work...

what's SOS?

an old DOS game where you go saving random people if im not mistaking

Transferring the program to your computer and back will help but if people have the same software that you used to put it on your computer your screwed

I have the same problem with my game

HillBilly Hunter (dont ask it just came to me one day)

Also does any one know how to upload the software onto my own site and be able to put asm pics in it

For the ASM pics you put it together into a group file with the program when transferring it Right Please help

Oh and i need some willing volunteers to test my game
Its text but all the bugs are out

-NICK <:)>

i'll beta test it but i need your email

first, to lock your BASIC programs... you put the file on the computer, using your link, then if you have ti-graph link, move the game to a file that you can locate using ti-graph link, and then open it. It should come up with the program's code in the box. But after that, you check a little box in the bottom of the screen that say's "protected" then put it back on your calc, then no one can screw with it...
UNFORTUNATLY...when you do that, you cant mess with it either (on your calc) but you CAN mess with it if you put it back on your computer...
hope that helped...
if you need anymore help, email me at "dizzyoyo@sbcglobal.net" or just post it again...

:)

hey i need some help here!!!!!!!
what the heck is rig view and where do ya get it?????

Do you mean split screen? If so, it is in mode.
The bottom things. Think its Horizontal.

hey I know how to do that BUT NOT HOW TO GET RID OF IT!
a little help would be indescribably appreciated

On the mode screen next to "HORIZ" there is "FULL". that is the noermal way the calc comes when you buy it.

I didn't know that you programmed in BASIC tyler???? Justins Friend! ha ha. You should send some ideas!

My bad, J/K!!! wrong TP

I need some help with a millionaire game I am programming, if you have some ideas, then send them to ertrules@comcast.net. I am just a beginning BASIC programmer, but I am pretty far into it. I have a TI-84 SE, so i need some help thanks!!

what do you mean "millionare game"?
i might be able to help. although i use TI-89 Titanium, im pretty sure the language is the same.

rigview = Rotating Interlaced Greyscale picture VIEWer

To make it simple, its a program written that allows the viewing of 4 level greyscale pictures on the TI 83. As for where to get it, try a search or in the archives. Something like this:

Archives > TI-83 plus > Graphics > ASM > MirageOS > Rigview.zip

I think it is in that general area. I know there is a Mirage OS version, so it should be there.

Greyscale is soooooooooooooooooooo much cooler/better/awesomer/all of the above than Grayscale!!!!

what't the difference?

i am wondering the same thing

The difference seems to be in the way gray/grey is spelled.

isen gotet the 83 dksajksdhf

Can I have the 83 Plus version Please. Thank You

I have the 83

do they make it for the 89?
also, anyone know any books (i know that sounds lame, but it's fast way to learn it) good for learning C, C++?

I know there are a lot of ZZT fans on this site, and my game idea is that we assemble an elite team of programmers to build this project.

It would take some work, but the out come would be awesome. So, anyone interested in building ZZT for the TI83+, please contact me or post an idea.

Please Note: I am not the greatest programmer. I am just a good pixel artist and idealist.

-NeoScriptor

I'm not a great programmer (i'm not that bad either).
But if you need some help building ZZT for the TI83+, I might help you.

I am still learning assembly programming, but I'll join in on the ZZT project. Sounds like fun. ¼

I'm learning ASM (I can't find the TASM directory), but I could probably work on the ZZT. But first, what is ZZT and how do you play?

sure, i'll help too, im not an exceptionally good programmer, but me and my friend with calcs, can do like anything, so give me the backround of how to play, i dont know wat ZZT is. But i'll gladly help, just tell me when and i'll do it...also, if we are going to form a group, how about we start a "yahoo" group or something?

-Narv

I WANNA JOIN!!! am i too late...?

Hi, i'm a new programmer that is learning how to make games. If you would like some help, i could try. My email is droid@hackermail.com.

Thx,
Droidify

Could someone please send me a "rom image" for a ti-83+ so that I can run virtual ti? I can't use mine because I only have the usb cable that comes with ti connect. I really need to be able to use virtual ti so i can make screenshots for my mario worlds and to test asm programs i am going to make, so if someone could please send me that or tell me how else i could get vti to work, it would be greatly appreciated.

You can download some ROM images from the TI web site (see URL).

I don't know if VTI can handle them, but it's worth a try.

where exactly is that and what is it called? i need specifics cuz i just started with this stuff.

If you are able to find one, send me one too! I have the USB link and an OS 1.15 (which I heard couldn't work). Also, TI will never give ROMs, they only give OS upgrades.

ok, somebody just send me one. i'm tired of this. my email is gdw6813@yahoo.com. andrew, i'll send u a copy if somebody gives me one.

I know of a website that has all the rom's you need. I'm at school right now and I don't know it off the top of my head. I'll post it later.

-TrumpetMan

Sorry it took my so long to post the site. When I made the above post, I forgot that I was going to church camp over the weekend. Anyway, click the web page link for the site I was talking about.

-TrumpetMan

Okay...I put the web address in the above post. I don't know why I didn't show up. I'll try it again.

-TrumpetMan

Okay. I know what happened. I posted the same message twice, once with the link, once without. I only noticed the post without the link. Sorry.

-TrumpetMan