Yeah it's a head hurter for sure.  I might try to write a binary floating number library really quick for fun.  The main thing is that you wouldn't have to work in binary the program would.

And Dj, it's just like regular binary (only 1s and 0s) but you put a decimal point somewhere.  When we write binary normaly, it's at the left, we just don't write it.

101. In binary  =   5 in decimal

Buuut if we move the decimal point in the binary number to the left

10.1

we divide the value by 2, so it now has a value of 2.5 in decimal.  It's a bit tricky, but it has rules to convert to and from

that's true. you would need to know how to convert if you writing a game, so that you can put it in the source code. There are two options: have someone write routines to convert all necessary numbers first thing during the game's initialization so that they can still be in decimal in the source code, or someone could whip up a quick command line program to do it for you when your writing the game

Actuy all numbers in Axe are stored in binary to begin with (shhh don't tell anybody). Which is why base 10 floating point is so difficult (coding wise).  Binary floatig point is easier to code but harder to wrap your head around.

And I use omnicalcs base conversion feature to make all of my sprites

The syntax is something like this

Baseconvert("Number",Base1,Base2)

i wonder if it was glitchy back then o.O I sometimes forget to put the number in quotes though

Hurm maybe thats how it used to be, but its not doing that for me anymore on version 1.26

I'm dying for real decimal support in Axe... If someone would make an axiom, I'd be willing to take a speed hit.

here it is
it probably has something to do with me being on 64-bit windows 7 and using visual studio 2010
if all else fails, you could build the source yourself