I don't think z80 asm is that hard, either

You can make a 15 hours long RPG in ASM in 2 weeks??

Quote from: DJ_O on November 21, 2012, 04:15:17 pm

Quote from: chickendude on November 20, 2012, 10:55:55 am

I don't think z80 asm is that hard, either

You can make a 15 hours long RPG in ASM in 2 weeks??

Did he imply that

Yes. He said ASM isn't that hard (in TI-BASIC I made many long RPGs in 2 weeks )

One year actually in TI-BASIC. I made Illusiat 7 in 2 weeks, 8 in 2 weeks (although that one was slightly shorter), 9 in 2 weeks, then the rest took longer because they became ridiculously long. Reuben Quest (hybrid BASIC) took 3 weeks each to complete. The longest was ROL3 in half a year, though.

However, in BASIC, you don't have to deal with the 8811 bytes of executable code limit that plagued ASM and Axe coders until Crabcake/Fullrene arrived, nor swapping between flash pages, so your programs don't have to be as organized as ASM ones. Plus until recently, coding ASM on-calc was a major hassle.

That said, I was kinda joking around too because of how easy BASIC is to start learning compared to ASM. ASM takes a while to get the grasp of before you actually find it easy, especially if the only other language you know is BASIC. I heard a lot that making RPGs in ASM was a major PITA, though.

(EDIT: Not an attack against anyone, but i would really appreciate it if people used non-gender ways of referring to me... "They" or some other pronoun: "zie", "zir", etc. It feels so weird to see "he"...)

Sorry but nope . They say bad habits takes 21 years to get rid of, and since you are the only person in the TI community who have a problem being refered to as he/she (even Xeda doesn't mind so much being refered to as "he" despite being a "she", since it's an habit people have on calc/programming forums), you'll probably have to live with it since it will be impossible for everyone to lose that habit without ever forgetting. Plus zie/zir isn't english-as-second-language-friendly so very few ppl here might even know it. As you noticed, you asked that before and I still call you he, simply because I forget (if every single person on the forum had problems with he I would probably eventually stop, though).