Those things definitely could be used, but maybe we could try to improve the functions/event stuff TI made, so we keep compatibility.
I guess this is a bit more complex, but it might be worth the try

Quote from: DJ_O on January 05, 2012, 03:03:53 pm

EDIT Weird I don't notice much of a frame difference. Is it just due to the getkey speed limitation and lack of smooth character movement?

Actually I just noticed that that TNS used the timer to refresh the screen every 0.01s (I was measuring the FPS), rather than updating after moving Link (I uploaded again and updated the link). I think why it doesn't seem to be that much faster is because of the key repeat limitation indeed. Also if I had used a map with loads of sprites you would have seen a huge improvement, but even now it should be quite a bit more responsive.

You should make a demo where the character gradually moves from a tile to another like in some RPGs. I wonder how smooth it would be on-calc.

In Lua you mean? Because the issue in Nspire Lua (for now) is that there could possibly be some delay between each moves. It would be nice to test, but if the character moves smoothly between tiles, but stops for 0.1 second between every tile, it probably won't look great unless you have a walking animation where your sprite does two step between each tile and the animation shows him stop for a bit in the middle of a tile.

Well, what I did in my bombermaze thing is move the character 4px (or a bit more) each time you press.
But this is done smoothly, using the timer. So, it feels quite responsive and looks good