Not programmable yet I emailed them a while back and their PR person told me they were planning it, but they needed to improve the operating system first, so don't discount it yet. Hopefully they weren't lying to me or something  :knight:

This lost legends thing looks freaking amazing, I must say.

Well, after several weeks of relative inactivity in this thread, I have something to post. I did a rigorous walk through of Doom89, and have made some pretty good optimizations, and the best news is that I have gained several frames per second in speed and lost several bytes of memory consumption. I estimate it runs 3-4 perhaps even 5 frames per second faster. Which is really great, because it makes playing the game much more fun.

Also I revamped the way the game used to exit when you quit, and condensed all the code for that down to one function which runs any necessary functions to clean up after itself based on need, and it displays any number of varying error messages for any particular types of errors. Which is a great improvement over what used to happen if you forgot a texture file or something. It used to just keep on going and you just saw scrambles for the images it didn't have. And if you were really unlucky it gave you an address error. But none of that happens now.

I am still waiting for beta testing to be complete before I move on to submitting it to ticalc.org and other sites. (and yes, I will upload it here, I don't want to leave good olde Omni out of the loop )

So until that is done, and I fix any potential problems that may come up, you'll just have to do what I've been doing for the past couple of weeks. Work on other projects. Occasionally make a cameo appearance in the Real World. And wait...

Thanks a bunch. It's been a great project. I've learned so much during the short time I spent on it.

UPDATE:

As per usual I jumped the gun saying I was on the Final Beta. I did a little more editing, and I implemented a *full* save feature. It saves every possible condition *exactly* how you left off.

All the dead enemies will still be dead, all the items you picked up will still be picked up, etc. Plus, when you load your game and you were at a new sector, it doesn't do the intro stuff for that sector again, allowing you to just skip directly to what you were doing when you left off.

Plus I implemented this nifty system that allows me to have a variable file size without having to worry about address errors. It calculates the file size before closing the file and if it's odd, then it adds one more byte in the form of a number 12. (just a random number between -127 and 127, and 12 is a nice even one)

If it's even it does nothing, and it does the same when loading.  It reads that useless byte if the file size is odd so that it never reads or writes to an odd address.

I thought it was pretty clever.

I guess you could say this is nearly the final beta. If nothing goes wrong with the save feature or any other bugs, then it will be.  

Its similar to a serial cable. I think it's a specialty port that TI manufactures though. It may be of a standard type (probably is) but I don't know of anything else that uses that kind of port.

UPDATE:

I just finished scene one of the three part cinematic ending and I am most of the way through the second scene. I fixed a bug in the saving/loading function of the game, and am working on another one concerning doors closing on enemies when they shouldn't be able to.

Won't take long and I'll have that bug fixed. Plus I need to remember to fix the movement of the "you are here" indicator on the map, so that it shows things accurately. I think it skips around a little right now, due to an oversight on my part.

So, not really all that much left that I know about. ... Yet.

Thanks.

@Nitacku, good job burning up your 84+ SE, that must have taken some skill to manage to give it so much juice that you actually fried the resisters and capacitors that are there to prevent that. It'd be best just to use rechargable batteries if you want to save some $.

That's actually not a bad idea. That would be pretty cool. I always thought it would be pretty cool to own a Ti-ViewScreen because You could use the projector to play games on a big screen. That would be Pwnsome.

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Will I be able to write programs on the TI-Nspire products? If so, what is the programming language? Will a software developer's kit be available? Currently, there are some programming capabilities (specifically function and program definition) on TI-Nspire and TI-Nspire CAS. Increased programming functionally will be available in an operating system release expected to be available for download in early 2008. The programming language is TI-Basic. Be sure to update your handheld's operating systems regularly to receive these and other enhancements to functionality.

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or I'll make a lot of disappointed people...