I think Junkbot would make an awesome calc game. Junkbot and it's sequel are really the only reason I visit the Lego site from time to time.

It require Shockwave to try it, though. Sorry to Linux users.

The comments on the source page are great:

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Looks like there are a few people who missed the point...

I also love how a lot of people commenting seemed to think that HTML was a programming language, not a scripting language, and that it actually taught you something about programming, besides the fact it involves typing certain phrases and keywords to perform a task.

Will this run on my 83 plus not silver?

I highly doubt it will. I have given consideration to a more 83+BE friendly version (no greyscale, simpler + smaller sprites in general) to be made alongside it, which would be compatible with the regular version. Making an 83+BE friendly version is not a huge priority for me right now though, as my main priority for this project would be to get the regular one up and running again.

And suggestion: for filesize and play quality, make it really short, but extremely replayable. Either that or make it have a shallow story with endless arcade style gameplay. Examples:
Pokemon, beat it in five minutes but played for the high score
Pokemon that never ends

This is going to be as close as a direct port of the original Pokemon Red and Blue as possible. That's always been the goal, and will remain the goal. Also, I'm not sure how well Pokemon would translate to an arcade game. Pokemon Stadium is kinda fun, but it really isn't the same. To me, Pokemon works best as an RPG, and I want to remain faithful to that.

The text doesn't show up because it's being written directly to the screen, then subsequently overwritten by the DispGraph.

If you want the text to show up on DispGraph, you'll need to use a
Fix 5before displaying your text.

If you use that, you should put a
Fix 4at the end of your program to restore the text drawing to normal before returning to the OS.

I know I can do that, I just haven't yet. And I'm also still getting used to Ubuntu, and need to find a simple graphics editor I'm comfortable with.

how'd you go about it? Or+Xoring rounded edge sprites over the water and Oring rounded water sprites over the ground?

That's pretty much how I went about it, since I didn't feel like rewriting the tilemapper.

and what did you end up doing to the rain?

I used a randomly generated 96-byte array, each byte a different offset for each 8x8 tile across the screen. Each byte loops through the animation individually, creating the more randomized effect.
If I decide to bother with nibbles, I could drop the size of the array to 48 bytes, but the executable code is already past the limit, so I don't feel it's worth it.

I'm going to be scrapping the party members following you, since that could make some of the other routines, like the Chainblade, more annoying to animate, plus I'm already pushing the executable code limit on this thing, and a program can only be optimized so far.

Let's see:
83+: Finale (I used to call myself Finale 83+ back when this was my only calc.)
84+ SE: Hakon (It means noble, of the highest race, exalted son. )
83+ SE: Gino
81: Elrad
82: Ethelwin
89 Titanium: Cecil
Prizm: Fremont

Aside from Finale and Cecil, all their names mean "Noble" or some variation thereof. Cecil comes from the name of a Welsh noble family.