Personally, I think it'd be awesome if you defaulted the first move to e4/d4. As the program is right now, I still can't show it to my chess buddies without them mocking it for it's opening. As a temporary solution, I don't imagine programming this in would be particularly difficult (what do I know, though), and it would make the AI "presentable" for the duration where center-priority AI is still not there. I know how hard it can be to motivate yourself to program (I've got a whole bucketload of assets for a "Every Day the Same Dream" port, but I have no motivation to make it), but if you could set a date to have center-prioritizing AI done, I think all of us would really like it...

Although taking the center is what you usually want to do, there are several openings that are useful that don't take the center, such as the Grob. Although your chess buddies might decide that not moving the king's pawn is a terrible idea, the AI's opening might surprise them.

I'm working on a simple CALCnet axiom (I'm not really an ASM programmer, but all CALCnet needs is four subroutines and a few memory pointers). Because CALCnet relies so much on pointers, how do you define a constant in Axe, like how L1-L6 function?
Can I just define the constant as a replacement routine,
$8800
or do I need to define all of the things you can do with the constant (load, add, subtract, multiply, divide...)?
ld hl, $8800
...
add hl, $8800
...
sub hl, $8800
...


Spring Break. I really only post at school unless its really important (like a project update).

I think I may have just found a bug on WabbitEmu.

I made a program (Basic with BatLib) that changes the contrast of the screen as in an animation (it gets darker and then lighter again).

Such program can be found here.

Here's the GIF:


When I ran it on Wabbit, I was happy I could see the contrast changing

However, the GIF I recorded doesn't save that contrast change.

I think the reason contrast doesn't affect screenshots is because of the limitations of GIF palettes. You'd have to include a much larger palette to accommodate all the different possible contrasts.

*bump*

Nothing new to download yet, but I do have some much needed features coded in:
- A few more new specials
- You can now see the opponent's grid height in multiplayer!
- In single player, that grid height gauge changes to a "screwed-o-meter" gauge that slowly increments as time progresses. The Wall special is available to rocket that up. When the gauge hits the top, you win!

I'm not releasing yet because their are some strange bugs where the game crashes when linkplay is attempted. I'm wondering why this doesn't work.

They also added pointless loops to the display command, and now it's slower than a snail.  (and I thought that MP was slow)

My personal opinion is that we should just do away with the spam section altogether. I don't think it really adds much to the site.

But it lets us talk about other things, other than calcs. I doubt that anyone here has a one track mind: we have schooling, work, parties, and maybe even significant others. The Misc and Randomness sections let us do that. Also, no new posts are allowed on Randomness if it takes up more than 10% of the total post count.

That Randomness actually sounds like a good idea. It would help to define Misc. talk as a serious subject. I think that some people post in Randomness, however, because its invisible to guests, like JustCause's RPG. It would be nice if there were an "invisible to guests" subforum. Also, hiding or ignoring certain new posts sounds like a good idea as well, like "Don't remind me of new posts on this subforum" kind of thing.