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Re: hi I'm good at BASIC
« Reply #15 on: November 03, 2010, 03:42:03 pm »
Actually, I would recommend doing a BASIC project first, because Axe is difficult if you have not mastered BASIC to its extremeities yet.

No offense to contradict you Aichi, yu had a good idea, but I just want to make sure he doesn't get stuck in learning Axe before he can master BASIC :P

It's good to have a feel for BASIC, but I've found on this Team Challenge that my experience with Axe has made my BASIC better too.
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Re: hi I'm good at BASIC
« Reply #16 on: November 03, 2010, 03:43:18 pm »
true, as my experience with ASM made Axe a replacement for BASIC with me :D

But still, he should take it kinda slow, unless he's sure about being extremely competant in BASIC.
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Re: hi I'm good at BASIC
« Reply #17 on: November 03, 2010, 03:43:36 pm »
Or you could learn both at the same time...BASIC has some advantages (Non-crashing, super easy external variables, no pointers) but axe definitely wins in speed and graphics.

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Re: hi I'm good at BASIC
« Reply #18 on: November 03, 2010, 03:54:07 pm »
haha those are good ideas! i have a question though what is xLib?
my firend game me a pokemon game and it needed xlib to run i got it to work but in the readme it said the creator had a topic here and i was wondering if there's a later version

and sorry ashbad, spanish is my first language but I'll try to type better for you.

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« Reply #19 on: November 03, 2010, 03:58:27 pm »
oh, spanish is?  Then I guess you have an excuse, sorry about that :P

xLib is an app you install for your calculator that allows you to draw graphics like sprites and bitmaps 100x faster than manipulating individual pixels in pure BASIC.  It's for use in BASIC, so you could use it if you wanted to in your yu-gi-oh game. :D
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Re: hi I'm good at BASIC
« Reply #20 on: November 03, 2010, 04:04:42 pm »
ok cool but what happened to that pokemon game? it was really cool becuase you could actually battle and it had graphics and everything. but it was really old so i was wondering if he still working on it

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« Reply #21 on: November 03, 2010, 04:06:45 pm »
I think he's busy right now, but there's a couple of pokemon projects going on, and I'm pretty sure one of them is active in development ;)
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Re: hi I'm good at BASIC
« Reply #22 on: November 03, 2010, 04:14:45 pm »
that sucks well i hope he works on it. i even found a youtube video and it looks pretty cool


but i'll try to make a good yugioh game so thanks!

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Re: hi I'm good at BASIC
« Reply #23 on: November 03, 2010, 04:21:19 pm »
¿also what are the peanuts for again?

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Re: hi I'm good at BASIC
« Reply #24 on: November 03, 2010, 04:23:37 pm »
its a running meme here.  they are comlimentary peanuts, for new members and special occasions.  ;)  its also an excuse to make you lose the game.  :P

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Re: hi I'm good at BASIC
« Reply #25 on: November 03, 2010, 04:28:13 pm »
its a running meme here.  they are comlimentary peanuts, for new members and special occasions.  ;)  its also an excuse to make you lose the game.  :P

also, try not to double post within 6 hours.  ;)

haha that's so weird

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« Reply #26 on: November 03, 2010, 04:29:20 pm »
yeah, it is actually now that I think about it :P

but it's still pretty funny :D
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Re: hi I'm good at BASIC
« Reply #27 on: November 03, 2010, 04:36:47 pm »
that lobster thing doesn't make sense really much though...

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Re: hi I'm good at BASIC
« Reply #28 on: November 03, 2010, 04:37:56 pm »
Welcome here, KisforKeyboard. I hope you enjoy your stay here.

As for learning TI-BASIC there are a few good sources around. There is TIBD (TI-BASIC Developer) which is probably one of the best places for individual command learning and such. Another great way to learn is to just look over some code from games and such. That way you can see how things work and get a feel for it. Also, as yunhua98 said, I have some tutorials for here that can help get you started but I have also made a thread that has the links to them along with the other tutorials on this site, and other places, here.

As for learning Axe. It is a much faster language than TI-BASIC (Pure and Hybrid) but it can also be a bit harder to learn if you don't understand the concepts behind pointers and such and although it is recommended that you learn TI-BASIC a bit before it is by no means required (especially if you program in other languages and have experience from those already). But Axe is a wonderful language that people around here have really taken a liking to.

xLib is an assembly library which is essentially just a program that installs a hook (I believe) that lets you use a certain TI-BASIC command and it will run an assembly routine when the TI-BASIC program hits it. It is a very useful application that has been used a lot. I believe tr1p1ea is the one who created it, but I'm not entirely sure. Progress on it, to my knowledge, has been stopped though and the latest version, again to my knowledge, is v0.602b. You'd have to find the original thread or someone else that knows more about that. But as I kinda said it is used for Hybrid TI-BASIC to help run faster and with better graphics and all.

As for Pokemon. Ya, there are already a few versions being worked on. FinaleTI has one in Hybrid TI-BASIC, tifreak has one in Hybrid TI-BASIC too though it's all ASCII sprites and such (except for battles and such), and Madskillz has an assembly clone of Red being worked on. The game that you found, or your friend found, is one by JoeYoung (formally Metagross) and he isn't around Omnimaga due to some issues (he's been banned). But that was before my time so you'd have to ask one for the older members for details on that (probably DJ since he is the one who told me). He is active over at UTI though, I believe. But I'm not 100% sure.

Yu-Gi-Oh though I don't think I've ever seen being worked on but it'd be quite the feat to do with all the information that needs to be stored, but good luck.

I would also suggest maybe not start with a big project if you're pretty new to TI-BASIC as it can just get overwhelming and such. I'm not saying you can't do it as it's been done before, just don't want you to get discouraged or anything :)

Good luck on any projects you start though and can't wait to see what you can come up with. Hope you enjoy it here :D

Edit:
The lobster thing is another meme around here. It's a running joke that Netham45 is a blue lobster. Long story that I don't even really get either :P But ya, as yunhua98 said, the peanuts are another meme in which new users get a bag of peanuts. I think DJ said it started in 2004 (?) and ya. I'm not the greatest historian on the memes :P

Also ya, please try to use the Modify button that is located up in the top right corner of your posts or the quick modify button that is located in the post off to the right side. For a look at the Double Posting rule check out Rule #3.
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Re: hi I'm good at BASIC
« Reply #29 on: November 03, 2010, 04:38:56 pm »
memes aren't supposed to make sense.  ;)  which is why they're funny.  :P  I remember I was so confused when I joined.
EDIT: wow, I got ninja'd by one long post.  :o  but yeah, what meishe said basically summed it up.  ;)  rated up.
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