hey, if I agree with your post I can repeat again, right? Plus I was going in more details regarding game size/memory

With Xtravar on ticalc.org, you can actually have 255, but keep in mind these are very hard to send from PC to calc. First, to be sent to the PC, they need to be ungrouped. Then, when sent to the calc, they must not be ungrouped during transfer. Only after you finished then go in 2nd+MEM->Group->Ungroup. However, the problem is that on certain computer hardwares, the "Send to TI Device" option will not show up when right-clicking calc programs on the computer and sadly, this one sending method is the only way to send such pics to the calc, as all other methods ungroups the files then give "invalid filename" errors when sending.

Xtravar just made my day. thank you!

does everybody who will be using the programs involving pics(11-255) need to have xtravar?

I recommend Picarc personally, it lets you store your map files in a subprogram and thus makes it easy to transfer and use large amounts of pics, it can also be renamed of course so it sits nice and neat at the bottom of the program list, just be sure to credit Iambian if you use it

while using xLIB a LOT today,  i found that you can recall pics and store/create 255 pics with xLIB, which includes archived pics.

what do you mean "subprograms" with picarc?

ehh, i have another question. is there any way i can make randInt based off of probability? because i want to create the "horse shop" where you can buy things to increase the probability of a specific horse winning.

ahh. never thought of that! thank you

okay, now i'm using variables to change the probability, but i'm 90% sure that my method is terribly unefficient. i'm just using a:

:If S>1 and S<20:Then
: blah blah blah

type of thing, (with more If statements added of course), with the variables just at randInt(1,100) right now. is there a better way? i want it so when somebody buys something, it will increase the probability for one horse and decreasing the probability for the other horses.

I'd do it that way too.

I was inspired by this, so I made a horse racing game:
ClrHome
{25,25,25,25,25->L1
{1,1,1,1,1->L2
While 17>int(max(L2
For(A,1,5
max(10,min(100,L1(A)+randInt(-5,5->L1(A
End
L2+.01L1->L2
For(A,1,5)
int(L2(A
Output(A,1,"                //16 spaces
If Ans<17
Output(A,Ans,"*
End
End
Output(6,14,max((max(L2)=L2)cumSum(binomcdf(4,0
DelVar L1DelVar L2Output(6,1,"WINNER:HORSEIf you want to, you can take any code from it.  That goes for anyone!

Oh, and if anyone wants it explained, I'll gladly explain it!