That does look really nice! How much space does all the data take up?

EDIT: Or is the source posted anywhere?

Thanks

Deeph made a French translation of the in-game texts, if anyone's interested:
http://www.mirari.fr/pp2k

The French readme was written by me, so all the grammar mistakes are mine, not Deeph's

Now that i'm not limited by 4kb, i'd like to expand the game a bit (like having more than three short levels!). Maybe having other prisoners that you have to rescue, adding in some items/powerups/traps, maybe put some guards in the actual field that you'll have to kill with items you pick up, and once you kill them you can pick up that section's keys and free the prisoners, maybe some can even join your party? I dunno, i'm not quite sure where to take it from here! Also, i might ease the difficulty a bit so that it doesn't start off so dreadfully hard! Ideas are definitely welcome!

This was my take on the Whack-a-mole game that we had to do for the asm category of TI-Concours:
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/452/45275.html



Essentially, you're a prisoner trying to escape from prison and you have to kill the guards before they kill you. The guards match up to the keys 1-9, while you work your way through the level you'll have to press the matching button to kill the guard, if you take too long they'll pull out their gun and shoot at you. Currently there's only 3 levels (and the last level has no ending) because there was a 4kb limit and i was right at it. I already had to remove lots of text and other features to fit everything in It's pretty difficult and kinda frustrating, if i get around to adding more levels (and an ending) it might be worthwhile to let you save your progress/turn it into more of a Mario-style thing. Initially i'd wanted to add in items and other enemies to the actual map, but i decided against it for two main reasons:
1. lack of space (now that's not so much of an issue)
2. it's super hard as it is!

Anyway, if you've got any commentions/suggestions/ideas, i'd love to hear them.

It's a cool start, i like the ship a lot. I'm curious how you'll keep up speed keeping track of so many bullets and enemies at once, i'm looking forward to seeing your progress

If you aren't going to be using a tilemap/some sort of background picture, you could probably have the screen scroll sideways easily without taking much of a speed hit.

...I might slow down the speed up...

I think an interesting idea might be to turn it into more of a racing game, Lotus Turbo Challenge-style. Holding 2nd will accelerate the car (releasing it will slow the car down) and you have to make it to a checkpoint within a certain amount of time, that sorta thing. Adding multiple cars would be cool, too. It looks really pretty, the car sprites are exceptionally well done (did you draw them yourself? Seriously, they're gorgeous!) it just feels like a slow avalanche game right now. You could even have power-ups that would let you shoot a car that's in front of you or temporarily upgrade your bumper to absorb shocks from bumping into other cars, that sorta stuff. You could maybe even have the other cars turn slightly while they come down. Anyway, the animation and everything looks great, you've done a great job so far!

EDIT: Oh, and i second not breaking 83+ compatibility!

I just thought of another breakpoint feature request: defining an address or address range where it won't trigger a breakpoint. For example, if i'm watching a player's coordinates for changes, i know that the player movement routines should be writing to those values, so i can turn off breakpoints for that address range to only break when i shouldn't be writing there. I dunno how often you'd really want to use it, but right now i'm wishing i could do that

EDIT: The preferences menu covers up the LCD, it would be nice if we could move it. It would also be nice to still be able to control the calculator with the preferences menu open (or have a short cut to toggle between full speed and 100% speed).

It's funny to hear you all talk about your first calc being an 84/Nspire, my first calc was an 82, the 83+ hadn't even been released yet That was in 6th grade, i traded a kid on the bus a Pokémon game for his 82. This must've been in 1999. Later i bought another kid on the bus's 83 for maybe $10 or $15. The first year or so i spent playing with TI-BASIC making a little menu-based RPG based off Drug Wars. Once i found out about assembly games i bought a GraphLink and abandoned BASIC for assembly, working through all the "guru" tutorials (like AsmGuru and IonGuru). That was sometime in 7th grade. I spent the rest of middle school learning assembly, though once i entered high school and started worrying more what people think about me i sorta stopped programming altogether. I work on little projects every now and again, when nostalgia kicks in.