Mhmm I wonder if tr1p1ea has done 82 stuff. He would probably be the only 82 guy around possibly, since FloppusMaximus is barely around anymore . I only did one 82 game and it was a port of a TI-81 RPG.

Yeah, it's his game i'm trying to port (Digitan's), since i've always wanted to play Robot Wars but haven't had an 82 for years. I'll try asking over at MC, i don't know where/how to find Brandon W or PD.

I wonder if he would allow someone else to take over the project of porting Robot Wars 1 to the 83+? Maybe he wouldn't mind sending the source code to someone else if he was reachable.

Alright, so i've gotten a good amount worked out (or at least it seems that way to me!). There're still a lot of things i haven't tested, i dunno if anyone wants to go through the game and find things that are broken or not. The file is too large to fit into RAM, this file here, after saving, leaves you with around 80 bytes free (more if you delete L1-6). It contains 13 of the 21 maps, which should take you pretty far into the game, and anyway as i figure out how to implement everything (probably by converting it into an app) you'll be able to use your save file. However:

PLEASE DO NOT TRY THIS ON YOUR REAL CALC (or at least don't get upset when it crashes )!

It probably wouldn't fit anyway, unless you have no other programs. There are a lot of things i haven't tested yet and while the differences in the code between the 82 and 83+ aren't that great, it's often enough to reset your RAM. For example, the battle routine was stalling because my random number routine never returned a carry and it relied on a random "carry" being thrown for the enemy's AI. CrASH's random routine must've had an srl a/rra at the end, since it says it returns a random number between 0-127. Small things that cause big headaches!

Things i've tested so far:
1. basic tilemap engine
2. basic battle engine (normal attacks and using items)
3. saving/loading is now working, as well as quitting the game (before it gave an error after trying to start the game for a 2nd time)
4. basic events engine

There's probably a lot more that works since i've really had to make very few changes.

Things to do:
1. fix sprites that are messed up when you move.
2. weird sprites drawn on side of screen during battles.

Also please note, this is just the Standard Edition (no link-play...yet). Also, many thanks again to Hot_dog for Crabcake, without which life would've been so much more difficult! Oh, and worth noting just in case: i've been using zStart to run it, but in theory (whatever that means), it should also run under any ion-compatible shell.

Attached are the current source to the 83+ version (with readmes/extra documents provided with the original/the original .82P files) and a .8XP file to test using your favorite emulator

EDIT: attached a "short" screenshot to give you an idea where it's at.

Cool, thanks I also just found that the "mapBuffer" is built into the program, if i move that into saferam it'll open up another 1k of space, which SHOULD be enough to fit the rest of the maps in (and still have a solid 2-300 bytes on the BE, maybe 500 or so on the 84+/SE)

Cool, thanks I also just found that the "mapBuffer" is built into the program, if i move that into saferam it'll open up another 1k of space, which SHOULD be enough to fit the rest of the maps in (and still have a solid 2-300 bytes on the BE, maybe 500 or so on the 84+/SE)

Hey, that's great!

I also agree with DJ. I was going to suggest the same thing myself.

*EDIT*

i don't know where/how to find Brandon W or PD.

Both tend to idle in #Omnimaga, and Brandon W has his own website as well. As you mentioned in another thread, Dwedit might know some things too. Don't know how i forgot about him.