Wow!  Really awesome!  I'll have to give this a try!

Thank you for your hard work!   

Hi Guys,

I worked on making the game Mastermind.  It is a fun game where you figure out the colors and the pattern.  If you've never played it before you should really get a copy of the game.

The game is coming along quite well.  In fact other than some small tweaks I don't have planned much more to add to it.  Right now I have achievements, and the ability to adjust some options.  So you can switch between 4 and 5 holes; you can change the number of colors from 4 to 8; and you switch between 10 and 12 tries.

Give it a try if you got the time and let me know what you think!  All source is included.

And have a great day as well!

Hey Guys,

I worked on this program just a tad today.  Basically I was just having fun; but maybe some of this might be useful to some of you!

I compiled it again but with the latest Ndless SDK so it is a Zehn binary.

You already can set the level file's extension, .dac, to open with this program.  I don't know if anybody did.  So I made it so on first run it'll add it for you.  This way if you have lots of levels you can just run the level set information file instead of finding it in the menu.

But as you know having lots of files will slow down your calculator.  So I finally made it so you can have multiple level-sets in a single file.  So take a look at the screenshot below with lots of "files".  There are a whopping 295 level-sets in that list and the level data adds up to 8.9MB.  Had all those been separate files you'd have 2x295 files on your calculator because there are two files per level set (level data and set information file).

To combine many level sets into one can be done manually.  With the level data files you can just cat the files.  And in the set information file I added "filestart=###" where the number is the byte offset into the file.  Doing it manually can be tedious if you have more than 2 level-sets so I attached a small C file that would grab all the level data sets you have from a subdirectory and pack the level sets.  I have it so that packing program also turns off passwords so you could press Ctrl + N and Ctrl + P to go to the next and previous levels.  I've been finding that a lot of these levels are quite hard!

Attached is the calculator executable and the source.

Hope you find this interesting!   And have a great day!

Great! I assume you used a flash file createy by nspire_emu v0.70?

Correct.  I don't know (and still don't) if it can create flash file.  But I figured I'd try with a nspire_emu v0.70 created flash file.

It did take me a couple of minutes to figure out how to use the program.  For instance to install Ndless 3.6 you need to press the 'menu' key; and I had to look at the source to see Alt + M (and to turn on the calculator after it went into sleep: Alt + Shift + Esc).  Also transferring a file is simple (drag-n-drop) though it did take me a minute to try that.  But got that all figured out!

If you're running on 64bit, could you try the latest source with x86-64 JIT?

Sure thing!  I got the latest and used QtCreator.  Below is a screenshot of it running as well as a screenshot of the QtCreator settings I had.  Thanks again!

Hey Guys,

Just a small update.  I added in a 3-player mode.  Under Options you can turn that on.  In 3-player mode each player gets 17 cards instead of 13.  And with a 52 card deck that means there is an extra card.  It is face down in the middle and whomever takes the first trick gets that card.  That card could be a Heart (even Queen of Spades) but I have it so it won't break Hearts.

There are many variations to Hearts as you can see on the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts#Variations but I've played 3-player Hearts before and liked it enough to add that.

Hope you all like it!  And have fun!

Thanks guys!

Eiyeron: Are you talking about on the menu screen where you choose "play", "achievements", "options" and "help"?  Or is it also with other areas in the program as well?

Have a great day!

Hi Guys,

Hayleia: I probably should work on that makefile!  I go under ArchiveLib and do a make; then go under CardLib and do a make; then go under HeartsLib and do a make.  Finally at src do a make.  Thanks Adriweb!  Yeah it isn't intuitive (yet).

I haven't tried this version: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/423/42341.html that exists on the Nspire.  I had intended on making my own.

Good suggestion Adriweb!  I was debating having the other players have "names" as well as show their current score during gameplay too.

Also I am thinking of whether to allow the user to close the game in the middle of a hand/game; and then could resume the game upon reopening the game.  It is something nice; the only downside is extra development time. 

Keep having fun!

Thanks DJ Omnimaga,

I was never really "gone" but quite busy.  With me when I have just a half hour/hour it isn't enough time to work on something for the calculator.  I like having multiple hours such that I can concentrate.

Have a fantastic day!