I think we all knew it was going to get featured Congrats!

In WabbitEmu/PindurTI/tilem2 they all slow the refresh rate to try to emulate grayscale, but if you aren't using grayscale it tends to give blurry screenshots. In WabbitEmu/PindurTI you can change the actual refresh rate, in tilem2 you can just turn off grayscale support. How do you take your screenshots?

In any case, it looks amazing, it seems like you're already really far along.

Yeah, that's what i was thinking, just a huge list. It just seems like a very inefficient way to keep track of everything and not very flexible.

EDIT: I just saw thepenguin's post, thanks! I'm going to try a simple implementation and see how it works. This way i can give each of my objects that can be "used" (treasure chest, NPC's text, etc.) a flag id and when i open the chest flip the flag. This is pretty cool cause it would be very easy to implement things like changing sprites based on an event, since right now my data is organized like this:
Brushes:
.dw grass
.dw path
.dw door_bookshop
.dw sign_hanging

grass:
.db %00000000
.db 0
path:
.db %00000000
.db 1
door_bookshop:
.db %01000010
.db 24
.db 1 ;action#, 1 = change map
.db 5,7,1 ;starting x/y coords, map#
sign_hanging:
.db %10000110
.db 32
.db 14
.db 12
.db 0
.dw text1...where the first byte is an action bit, the second byte is a sprite id, and the rest depends on what actions are set (passable nonpassable, if the tile has a variable height, actions when you walk into something, actions pressing 2nd, etc.) and i could easily change it to update both the sprite and whatever the action was. The only problem i can think of is that you really only have on/off so i can only assign one action to each object in the entire game. Sign_hanging, for example:
sign_hanging:
.db %10000110 ;action when hit with 2nd, variable height, nonpassable
.db 32 ;sprite id
.db 14 ;how far behind the sprite we can walk
.db 12 ;sprite mask
.db 0 ;action id, 0 = draw text, 1 = change map
.dw text1 ;action data, in this case text labelI could use maybe bit 3 (bits 3-5 are still unused) to change the event associated with it, and bit 4 to change the sprite associated with it:
sign_hanging:
.db %10011110 ;change sprite/event based on event id
.db 0 ;event id
.db 32 ;sprite id
.db 75 ;sprite id if event has run
.db 14 ;how far behind the sprite we can walk
.db 12 ;sprite mask
.db 0 ;action id, 0 = draw text, 1 = change map
.dw text1 ;action data, in this case text label
.db 1 ;action id if event has been run
.db 4,4,1 ;new action dataAnother option would be to give each event 2 bits, allowing me four changes (i could maybe divide them into 1 bit and 2 bit events), i'll play with this a little and see what i can come up with. If it turns out i need more, i could always just change iy to another location (like 127 bytes into savesscreen, or wherever i've still got some free saferam left).

Thank you so much both of you for the ideas, i've got a bit to play with now, thanks

EDIT2: does anyone know of any good tutorials/articles on event programming/RPGs in general? I've been tackling things one by one as i come across them, kinda like hopping stone to stone across a river (and i don't want to get stuck in the middle of the river!).

I'm curious, are there any screenshots? It sounds really cool.

Not an optimized "routine", or really even useful, but i was trying to figure out how to add new instructions (and not macros) to spasm, and finally got this:
.addinstr add ahl,de 00CE19 3 NOP 1 ;add hl,de \ adc a,0
.addinstr add ahl,cde 8919 2 NOP 1 ;add hl,de \ adc a,cNow whenever i want to do 24-bit addition (well, kinda) i can just use the new add ahl,de and add ahl,cde instructions

EDIT: oops, my bbcode leaves a lot to be desired...

I still remember when Tower Assault came out (back when i checked ticalc everyday) and then (was updated into?) Final Assault. Now i can't remember if it was an update to Tower Assault or a whole new program... I never played the 8x8 scrolling games, but even those look fun! Thunderbirds are go! was really cool, too, even though i remember it being a bit short (and rather large on my ti83 ). The graphics were what impressed me the most. Anyway, this new version looks and feels so much more polished than the others, there are only two things that i feel are still lagging behind:
1. The texts (like the introduction) on a blank screen are really an eyesore compared to the rest of the game, with its beautiful levels, animations, explosions, bullets, etc. It feels like pretty much every other game coming out in the late 90s/early 00s. Just like the Megaman 83 intro or Phoenix's UI!
2. The computer system also lacks a little something. It doesn't FEEL like you are on a computer, though i think the cursor does look nice.

I'd be surprised if Alien Breed weren't featured on ticalc

That's what i figured they could be used for, though i was thinking more along the lines of a fastcopy routine. Thanks for the sample.

Can anyone think of a good use for otd/oti? I just saw JimE's Keyin routine which has a pretty interesting use of ini to store all DI keypresses into saferam that you can access using "bit key,(iy+keygroup)". It's a pretty interesting idea i might implement into some of my programs, especially since you don't have to worry about registers getting overwritten