Portal Prelude was in Axe Parser, not BASIC. As long as Axe isn't ported to the CSE, I doubt that anyone will bother porting Portal Prelude, unless someone is really willing to make a Z80 ASM version from scratch.

Also your posts seems like you are trying to force other people to port programs you want. It is disrespectful. We have lives besides Omnimaga and calculators and we will only port programs if we are willing to do so. Same goes for Axe Parser CSE: The author will only make it if he is willing to do so or if he has time to. If you really want Portal to be available on the 84+CSE this soon, quit using us as your slaves and do it yourself.

sorry. i got a little bit too excited. :'(
how do i port, if i might kindly ask.

It is not easy to port game to the TI-84+CSE. First, because programs on the TI-84 are not optimized for this model. Second, because the CSE is not graphically optimal.

The CSE has too few RAM and CPU speed to run smooth games like the non-CSE model did. It is a limitation because even if the programmers keep the sprites in B/W, the CSE still has to render them like color sprites, therefore making games slower than they could run on their original hardware.

That limits the applications that can be ported to the CSE for now. It is not impossible for TI to release a better CSE in the future, but for now games like Portal Prelude or F-Zero probably won't be ported.

As for how to port games, it is the process of re-writing the source code with the new hardware in mind. Luckily, the B/W and CSE models use the same processor architecture (no need to use a new ASM language), but a few things might have changed, like the location of interrupts, system calls and most obvious of all, display functions.

In this perspective, I wonder if a how-to guide for porting game from the B/W models to the CSE is possible. A reference document where the changes between these and how they affect the code are documented. Maybe a post here on Omni like the Axe Parser threads.

The CSE has too few RAM and CPU speed to run smooth games like the TI-84 did. It is a limitation because even if the programmers keep the sprites in B/W, the CSE still has to render them like color sprites, therefore making games slower than they could run on their original hardware.

That limits the applications that can be ported to the CSE for now. It is not impossible for TI to release a better CSE in the future, but for now games like Portal Prelude or F-Zero probably won't be ported.

IIRC, the CSE has more RAM than newer 84+ calcs due to extra RAM pages being back. And it doesn't have a higher CPU speed, but since Portal Prelude was made in 6MHz to keep compatibility with the regular 83+, you can still think you do have a higher CPU speed available. You also have the possibility not to refresh the whole screen, which can work on a "static" game like Portal Prelude. But yeah, F-Zero is going to be harder.

the TI-84.

I always say that, and I seem to be the only one, but there is no "the TI-84". This because there is always something behind the "84", either a "Plus" or a "Pocket", sometimes both, sometimes followed by a ".fr" or a "SE", and now with the possibility of a "CSE". So yeah, I can understand that you can't name them all each time and that most of them are compatible between each other, but now that the CSE is out (and since you mentionned the CSE in your sentence), you could talk about non-CSE 84 calcs as "the non-CSE 84 calcs", but not "the 84" since even in your sentence you are talking about another 84 calc so really, there is no "the 84".

the Arse Parser threads.

Heresy!

Smooth games are possible on the CSE as long as you don't refresh huge parts of the LCD memory every frame. See Tunnel.8xk, Jumper, JezzBall, Tetrica and Pac-Man, for example. Therefore, Portal Prelude would be possible.

agreed. i downloaded tunnel,jumper,jezz ball, tetrica and pacman.
they run awesome with absolutely no lag what so ever.
if i do port, i would have to look for the similarities for the basic codes between the two calcs, yes? 
however....
the science programs like periodic take forever to draw themselves...
(ps: who is assm bandit???)

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It is not impossible for TI to release a better CSE in the future, but for now games like Portal Prelude or F-Zero probably won't be ported.

however if TI wanted it could have released at least a CSE with similar specs to other calcs but it is locking down CSE like it did on nspires

what do you mean locking?
yes there are new codes in the basic library than the other 84s, but i would not say locking.
n spire is n spire!

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Quote from: LunarFire on January 15, 2014, 10:04:00 pm

the Arse Parser threads.

Heresy!

Oopsies, fixed. Also fixed the TI-84 reference.

Is drawing 8 pixels individually really faster than a write to the gbuf and to the lcd?

EDIT: i guess for non-aligned sprites, it probably is.

In assembly, sprite rendering would be faster for most size, but only if you have a handful of sprites. Basically, you save time by being able to draw directly to the LCD at pixel coordinates without an LCD delay.

Also, dreamdragon, it is preferred that you use the "Quick Modify" or "Modify" buttons to edit your post instead of posting close together (also known as a "double post" which is referred to in the rules).

opps

Heya and welcome to the forums by the way.

I hope to make some more +C games myself, but motivation is hard to get at the right moment