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« on: May 05, 2006, 01:08:00 pm »
MLC (Multi-Platform Language for Calcs) is an interpreted language for the TI-86 and the Casio AFX.  It was also being worked on for the TI-83+, but I'm not sure if it ever got finished.  

burntfuse, some of you may know him, was one of the people that helped make MLC for the TI-86.  He was working on MLC 3.0, but never finished.  I thought that MLC was one of the coolest things though and offered to help out.  I didn't really do anything yet, but I started making an on-calc help file in assembly for the TI-86.  I didn't get very far, but you can download it to see how's it's going to be formatted, etc.  Click http://savefile.com/files.php?fid=8691114 to download it.  I'll try to get some screenshots up soon.

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« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2006, 03:30:00 pm »
I remember that, i thought it was pretty sweet! :D Too bad it wasn't finished or ported to 83+'s though... :(sad.gif

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« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2006, 01:28:00 am »
I wish some one would pick this project up again. I, for one, would love to see MLC for all calcs.
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« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2006, 02:16:00 am »
I remember some really nice grayscale arcade games were programmed in MLC for the TI-86. They were very fast, MLC had a lot of potential. I hope you will continue work on the project, and that more people will join in.

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« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2006, 11:11:00 am »
sounds like it was cool...

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« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2006, 11:36:00 am »
It would be great if its name was more truthful; (multi-platform).
Someone should port this to more calcs, or it could become the interpreted language for http://brazucs.unitedti.org/vera/forum/.
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« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2006, 02:53:00 am »
Here's a screenshot of what I did so far to the help file:

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« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2006, 02:58:00 am »
Nice job :)smile.gif I want to program my 86 again!

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« Reply #8 on: May 07, 2006, 09:26:00 am »
looks cool! Exactly how does MLC work again? Is it asm hybrid?

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« Reply #9 on: May 07, 2006, 09:43:00 am »
I think the interpreter itself is written in Asm along with the editor.

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« Reply #10 on: May 07, 2006, 10:55:00 am »
The interpretor is written in assembly, but the code is edited with the built-in BASIC editor.  That's how it works on the TI-86; I'm not sure about the Casio AFX though.

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« Reply #11 on: May 13, 2006, 04:58:00 pm »
Well if there is ever a version for the 83+ I will give it try :Ptongue.gif, but I think it looks great as it is. Pacha (spelling?) made something similar, but it's mostly in French (the readmes) and it's rather large (takes almost all the app pages on a 83+).

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« Reply #12 on: May 14, 2006, 03:48:00 am »
nice to see its picked up again. I posted a link to this topic on the old EPS forums in case someone comes here and seek for MLC 86 progress.

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« Reply #13 on: May 14, 2006, 11:53:00 am »
Ah, well anywho I would like to see this working on the 83+ one day (has anyone heard anything about someone working on the port still? or anyone willing to?).

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« Reply #14 on: May 14, 2006, 12:43:00 pm »
gimpynerd and the_unknown_one were planning on one in the early days of eps, but its dead now