read: he wants to stalk you. Just kidding Grin. I will add you later. I thought about adding a Omni group there, but it will be read-only, to make sure the discussion happens on Omni, avoiding splitting discussion between two places. That said, in the future, it might be nice if I added a Facebook/twitter mod on the site so people can post topics from here on FB/twitter. This could attract more traffic.

I like stalking people ! That would be awesome though, I dont know too much about websites unfortunately.

We need to have more stuff like this. The more hardware we can connect the calc to, the more users, possible developers, and more publicity will follow. Everyone knows that you can play games on calcs nowadays, we should show them that they can also operate toasters or do whatever.

Thats perfect, Ill just store 768 bytes and then just copy the backup to the actual screen. I wont be able to see it in hex, but just looking at the pixels I should be able to see what kind of patterns it has. Unfortunately I dont have a good emulator, It would be nice to step through my programs code! Oh, and I use assembly studio so the $bb $6d isnt required, I think that defines the program type. Thanks for the info, I need to get that thing working by tonight.

Ok, was wondering why this code would run once then be "invalid" the next time I ran it. I got my calc hooked up to an RFID reader and Im trying to get the thing to work. It turns the thing on and will get some data but its always the same data. I still need to synchronize the speed but It would be nice to get a few bits before I go through all the work.

The bastards!

Im going a little crazy with the graphics, Im trying to get the fight scenes to look good, but i think i might be overdoing it for now. Ill post a video soon.

im sure i have more on there, i just cant remember what they are.   

Oh no, Ive been working on this on and off for a while. I started it about 8 years ago. I originally wrote it on the 85 written in ti basic. Unfortunately there was a memory leak or something (the 85 didnt have that much memory anyway), and it would give me a memory error when i tried to play it for testing after a while. i kinda got off of it for a couple of years then i decided to learn asm and got me an 86. The 86 was awesome for its time but back then ti didnt really give out any info on its calcs. With documents from ACZ and months of testing, i had pretty much documented a ton of things on it, including port info, rom calls, other little things in the os, and the unofficial instructions. Then about 2 years ago i decided to remake Cydia in assembly. i really had everything laid out for it except for the fighting routines. I was busy trying to draw all the enemies but eventually i just left it alone. i released my first game on ticalc.org and nobody seemed to interested in it anymore. Now i look at the code and theres a lot to go through. i really dont remember exactly what all my routines do, but ill figure it out. Im also going to do (hopefully) a major overhaul on the graphics and make the story more in depth. By the end of next month I will have an actual demo for it ready. Its kind of tough working with the smaller screen though. Its really going to be good though.  

And about the RPG Maker, I designed the code for this game to be modular. All the routines that are for basic gameplay are in the main code. Basically I designed it so that maps were to be saved as strings of data that held everything specific about them in it. Map strings contain theyre own sprites for the map, the design of the map itself (which includes the spots where the f1 key would change to what kind of spot it was, such as 'Talk' or 'Take'), and all of the text for the npcs in there. That way once i got done with the main engine all i would have to do is design the maps and what kind of stuff was in there for the storyline and chests and stuff. I planned to release a mapmaker with it so that theyre could be user created quests or even whole games themselves. And you wouldnt have to code anything, just design what you wanted in the game. Ill try to have that done when i finish it. (ill create a generic one to help speed up the process of making maps for now.)