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Re: Axe Contest poll and judging starts
« Reply #270 on: October 04, 2010, 10:49:12 pm »
Thats just because Axe pwns like that :)
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Re: Axe Contest poll and judging starts
« Reply #271 on: October 04, 2010, 10:55:00 pm »
The thing that helps a lot is that with ASM and Axe speed, it is much easier to make feature-worthy games if you know the languages. In BASIC, you can, too, but the slow speed limits the type of games you can create and it can be harder to have awesome eye candy while keeping a decent speed. Because of this, fewer BASIC programs get featured.

Not only there's the fast speed thing, but Axe is so much easier to learn than assembly and only a bit harder than TI-BASIC that now 3x more calculator programmers can create games that runs at ASM-like speed. Not only that, but with Axe, there are things that are almost a joke to achieve, like grayscale, which only involves separating your sprite in two and adding a lil "r" at the end of DispGraph. Also unlike ASM, using text is kinda easier.

In addition to that, it's possible to use BASIC+Axe+XCOPY if you want to circumvent the 8/16 KB code limit.
In other words, it is much easier than it used to be to make such calculator games, now, and it's only the beginning, considering most Axe programmers are still new.
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Re: Axe Contest poll and judging starts
« Reply #272 on: October 04, 2010, 11:08:52 pm »
I can't wait until results come out. After playing all the other entries i realize, not only was i completely over my head, I didn't plan enough.
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Re: Axe Contest poll and judging starts
« Reply #273 on: October 04, 2010, 11:45:39 pm »
I still liked your entry though. From what I could notice, a lot of people were busy and started near the end of the contest, or were hit by RAM clears at last minute. Result: A lot of entries are unfinished games.
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Re: Axe Contest poll and judging starts
« Reply #274 on: October 04, 2010, 11:47:51 pm »
Yeah, that nearly happened to me several times (which would have been a problem considering I had no way to back anything up except in groups at that time :P). It's especially unfortunate Sir lost his AWTI earlier. It would have been pretty epic by now...
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Re: Axe Contest poll and judging starts
« Reply #275 on: October 04, 2010, 11:52:54 pm »
Yeah. I think he messed around with CalcSys to try to recover some lost stuff, but it corrupted all his data and he had to do a full mem reset.
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Re: Axe Contest poll and judging starts
« Reply #276 on: October 05, 2010, 12:31:59 am »
Yeah, Calcsys can be pretty dangerous. It's amazing, though. When I finally used Calcsys to hack stuff on my calc, I finally realized how simple the calculator really is. In other words, the magic is gone...
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Re: Axe Contest poll and judging starts
« Reply #277 on: October 05, 2010, 11:13:53 am »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on October 04, 2010, 11:45:39 pm
I still liked your entry though. From what I could notice, a lot of people were busy and started near the end of the contest, or were hit by RAM clears at last minute. Result: A lot of entries are unfinished games.

It seems that the same rules as plain ASM apply here: ONLY TEST ON EMULATORS!

Sorry, but I just had to say that :)

(maybe quigibo could release a PC Axe compiler? Then you wouldn't have to transfer your program every time you want to test something.)
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Re: Axe Contest poll and judging starts
« Reply #278 on: October 05, 2010, 02:14:22 pm »
No, a lot of people find it more convenient to test on calc. A lot of peiople prefer on-calc programming too. Also for a PC compiler to be as efficient as on-calc, it would need to be able to interact with WabbitEmu so when  clicking compile, it instantly runs the program for you in WabbitEmu, like with TIGCC and TiEmu for 68K calculators. For on-calc programming, the trick is to create backups on the computer or in archive every 30 minutes or so. Sadly, few people take this habit and they end up losing everything because they did not backup in 2 weeks.
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Re: Axe Contest poll and judging starts
« Reply #279 on: October 05, 2010, 03:38:20 pm »
I exclusively code on-calc :P I can't stare at text on a screen for long amounts of time (looking at games is ok though ;))
Axe is....amazing...although I suspect it's name is the reason Omnimaga is blocked at school because the site fits into URL category "weapons' :P
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Re: Axe Contest poll and judging starts
« Reply #280 on: October 05, 2010, 03:39:29 pm »
Quote from: squidgetx on October 05, 2010, 03:38:20 pm
I exclusively code on-calc :P I can't stare at text on a screen for long amounts of time (looking at games is ok though ;))
Axe is....amazing...although I suspect it's name is the reason Omnimaga is blocked at school because the site fits into URL category "weapons' :P

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Re: Axe Contest poll and judging starts
« Reply #281 on: October 05, 2010, 03:40:55 pm »
Lol x.x

I am pretty sure it's due to games. Since Omni has always been game-oriented, it often ended up being the first calc site to be blocked at schools.

Yay for 2000-2003, where schools were lax on filters and blocked nothing
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Re: Axe Contest poll and judging starts
« Reply #282 on: October 05, 2010, 06:36:19 pm »
Quote from: squidgetx on October 05, 2010, 03:38:20 pm
I exclusively code on-calc :P I can't stare at text on a screen for long amounts of time (looking at games is ok though ;))

Yeah, me too. I love Axe for that reason :)

Quote from: squidgetx on October 05, 2010, 03:38:20 pm
Axe is....amazing...although I suspect it's name is the reason Omnimaga is blocked at school because the site fits into URL category "weapons' :P

O.o Wow. That is some fail :D

It's under "Games" at our school, even though ticalc.org isn't blocked.
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Re: Axe Contest poll and judging starts
« Reply #283 on: October 05, 2010, 06:38:11 pm »
my school has tifreakware blocked but not facebook  :P
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Re: Axe Contest poll and judging starts
« Reply #284 on: October 05, 2010, 06:41:05 pm »
Quote from: yunhua98 on October 05, 2010, 06:38:11 pm
my school has tifreakware blocked but not facebook  :P

That is even weirder... And apparently a whole category of sites are blocked at my school under the category "Education" x.x
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