And now imagine this thing with assembly......

DJ Omni, many front layers like this is quite funky, you could try with real layers, with front decor layers, and rad layered background. THat would be more beautiful.

Anyway, nice finding, and good work DJ!

Oh I actually use two different tilesets for the layers. Notice how the front is different than the sides. However, I can't add much more, else the program gets way too large and it would take too much RAM for tilemap storage.

I already suspect that I might be using too much RAM, because if I try editing the code after running the program, the calc freezes, and if I run the program after opening the editor, the tiles don't appear.

By the way, the reason why the blocks are so thick is because I planned to use 64x32x3 tilemaps. Each block would actually be 3 layers, so the current screenshots demonstrates three identical maps on top of each others. Also, this is where memory becomes an issue: Because generating the tilemap on the fly would be too slow.

Of course, however, it could be due to how large in width some lines of code are. Some lines of code are 19000 characters long and there's no word wrap. I need to check if we can split sprite data into multiple lines to see if it would be better.

Of course, in the worst-case scenario, I can always generate sprites with a bunch of rectangles or just use plain squares.

Also, since the HP Prime supports sub-programs, I decided to split the sprite data into 6 sub-programs. This sucks for people who hate games that uses multiple files, but I seem to get fewer crashes from code editing now.

Good
I think people will have no choice but to split large programs.

And now imagine this thing with assembly......

Yeah, at first, they (HP) do look very open minded, don't they? But then we can't access the machine very power. That's a shame really, oh well.

... the connectivity kit still can't detect programs this large in it.

Hmm, why is that? How large a program are you talking about?

That's quite strange, never had a problem with their printers. But just install the drivers, never install their softwares... You gain around 300 MB like this.

Quote from: Eiyeron on November 17, 2013, 03:28:50 am

That's quite strange, never had a problem with their printers. But just install the drivers, never install their softwares... You gain around 300 MB like this.

*300 GB.

LOL! Not that much, but not very far either.

that's looking pretty sweet!
(sigh, color calculators are so awesome)