Cool! By draft, do you mean that there will be another version released later?

Yes.  Once every single last detail is worked out, I'll release full version.  Basically, the draft contains evey file, except for the special Mac program lesson 4 will talk about

I am hoping to release the whole set of ASM lessons, completed and ready, this week or next week. But I need some information from people who use  Linux:

Buckeye Dude gave me this site for spasm, and then wabbitemu, for linux:

https://wabbit.svn.codeplex.com/svn/Wabbitstudio/Source/SPASM/

https://wabbit.svn.codeplex.com/svn/Wabbitstudio/Source/Wabbitemu/

He was telling me that these need to be compiled. 

 svn co http://wxwabbitemu.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/  wabbitemu
 cd wabbitemu
 ./build_wx -w

 svn co https://wabbit.codeplex.com/svn/Wabbitstudio/Source/SPASM spasm
 cd spasm
 sudo make


So for you Linux users, what do you call the "program" or whatever used to type in these instructions?  And then after that, how do you run SPASM, and how do you run WabbitEmu?

Quote from: Hot_Dog on October 06, 2010, 10:41:35 pm

My favorite comic! 

Question 1: Do you know the comic where Calvin keeps trying to fill a water balloon and it backfires on him? (Such as bursting, or squiritng when he tries to tie a knot)

Question 2: I believe the Hobbes is like the toys from Toy Story--imo, he chooses to take solid form around other people, and moves when he's only around Calvin.  Despite what the author intended, what's your opinion?

1. Yep. Actually, I've read every single comic strip. (I own the treasuries )

Because I want to read that one.  Could you upload it somehow?

After two days of serious bug testing, you can now construct all eight ships (besides the Scouter).  Once again, for eye-candy purposes, construction times are not realistic.

EDIT: I don't know yet what's causing the progress bar to jump back and forth.  I haven't fixed it yet, but I think I've made it so it doesn't happen as frequently.

Welcome back, Eeems!

Good question.  Once you buy a unit, you have it no matter what, until the enemy destroys it.  For instance, let's say you buy 10 Raptors and you use them.  While you are using the 10 raptors, you decide to build 5 Argos and 4 Tanks.  Suddenly, your strategy calls for long-range artillery.  So you decide you want to use 2 Tanks for a simple suicide mission, knowing that the enemy will take out your tanks no matter what.  When you switch to tanks, you will still have 10 Raptors, 5 Argos, and the 2 other tanks waiting for you to use them when needed.  And if you build 4 Reclaudas during your next attack, you will still have those 10 Raptors, 5 Argos and 4 tanks.

However, the food system works slightly different than it does in Starcraft.  You can only have (as an example) 30 food worth of each type of unit you can build, up to, say, 200 food.  A Raptor requires 1 "lobster," so you could have up to 30 Raptors either on the field, on hold, or both.  A tank would require 2 "lobsters," so you can have up to 15.  And if your 200 food is used up, you cannot add any more units.  If you used all 200 food on Raptors, Tanks, Argos, Degrusers, Reclaudas and Balkstones, you cannot build any Splitrons or Camozas.

Construction units do not use the food system, you can use 1 and only 1 no matter how many or how few other units you have.  Also, the game engine makes it hard to have "half" supplies, so the food system will be slightly different for Ptaloids.

I'm pretty sure I fixed the bug where sometimes, the mineral/food count would display in the middle of a 3x3 grid menu.

Also, whenever you buy a unit now, it will be placed on hold.  In this screenshot, I build 5 Raptors, and then I tell the game that I want to use Raptors in my next attack.  The game will show me that I indeed have 5 Raptors ready to use.

Next on the list
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Incorporate all ships except for the Scouter, and the buildings for them.  (This will not take long)
Have a user actually chose how many of a ship he wants to use
Charge money for ships
When the user is ready to drive his fleet, have the game display a number telling how many ships he has in his group

thanks guys!  Sorry about the lack of completion on the previous example.  I had just threw an example in there without the rows or columns set yet to show what I was getting at.  I think oddly enough I understand asm better than basic at this point from learning hotdog's tutorials with little knowledge of basic.

thanks again!

Sure thing!

Once you understand the concepts, ASM is probably the easiest language to remember, because you don't have to know so many instructions.  True, it's the hardest to implement, but there's not a lot to remember.