Sounds like fun! Enjoy Italy! I know I did when I went several years ago.

The snow currently is masked, and I can speed the weather up. I'll play around with it, see if I can find a good speed.

Also, why wouldn't gray work with the engine? I no longer need to use the backbuffer to hold the map or any important data long term. In fact, another weather effect I was considering was using DJ's sandstorm effect for an actual sandstorm, since Estiernia, the eastern province, has a desert climate.

Well I made more progress tonight than I thought I would, so I'll tease you all with the secret: a fully functioning environment!

The below screenie exhibits the rain and snow weather effects, and I'm working on using interrupts to create a 'daily' timer (each day in-game will probably last 1 hour, with 30 minutes of daytime, and 30 minutes of nighttime). There won't be a day counter, so it will really just be there to show the passing of time, like in Ocarina of Time. During nighttime, I plan to raise the contrast a few levels from the user's contrast to darken the world.

What do you guys think? I'm considering adding a few more weather effects, but the plan is the use the snow in Ignortia, the northern province of Alteria, and to use the rain in Soutnia, the southern province of Alteria.

I'm also considering having the weather affect battles, but I'm not quite sure how yet.

Starting this weekend, I'll be going on a week-long vacation, so my activity might drop for the next week. Fortunately, I will have access to my calculator and my laptop, so I'll do my best to get some progress on my projects. After all, long car drives can lead to wondrous coding sprees.  After I get back, my activity should be OK, though it may falter, as my Eagle Project should be happening during the end of July.

I'll probably be focusing on Nostalgia, as I'd really like to crank out a demo of that before focusing on something else entirely, because I believe some real progress on it is way past overdue.

As for the progress I hope to make with Nostalgia, I'll be looking at the ASCII mapping engine, and something I still want to be a surprise, as well as a dynamic border system. The dynamic border system would replace the scroll-like borders in most everything (the conversation text box will like remain as the scroll-like border), but it should save a boatload of memory in the long run, because all the borders won't be hard-coded in. For the old, very unoptimized, in-game menu, I was using several thousand bytes of space just for the borders and menu layouts. It was a nightmare. I may even have a completed dynamic border system somewhere in my Pokemon TCG source, so I'll see if I can't find that, as it would make this even easier. The borders will be a simpler design, but I think they'll still look pretty good. As for the surprise, if it goes well, I hope it will make Nostalgia a bit more immersive.

Quote from: p2 on June 19, 2011, 12:00:02 pm

FILE ERROR
The Program doesn't work. :'(

here I got the same issue 0/

Same here.

I was able to download it in Opera 11.11, Aurora 6.0a2 (Firefox experimental build), and IE8. When I tried it in Google Chrome 12.0.742.100, I wasn't even able to download it, the download was interrupted before it completed. After all the downloads that finished, I ran the file to be greeted by either a "File Error!" or in IE's case, "Invalid data in executable file!".

If you want to learn to use appvars, I did begin to write a tutorial on TI-OS vars.
You can find it here. I hope it's of some use.

You know, if you get Dj's permission, you might be able to do some of the omnimaga songs.
Quest for the Legendary Axe would work if it's possible to hold notes, for example.
And something like Epic Journey Through the Galaxy (and/or 08 remix) would probably be in whatever the hardest tier is (listen through it and you'll know why )

EDIT: Unknown truth from the Forbidden Land 09 )

What about Hardcore Overkill?