Originally started on Cemetech (since there's a load of C coders there who are pretty willing to help), but I'm bringing the idea here too.

As stated in the title, "Athena" is a project to help simplify the installation of large BASIC games. It started when I was reading some thread on Cemetech and DJ Omnimaga mentioned something about me building a RoL3 installer in TI-Basic/CIII. So I figured I would try my hand at building something better. Something that could possibly be used by just about anyone. The project is targeted for the TI-83+SE/TI-84+(SE) users, since they've got crazy-insane archive space for which this is possible.

For users who will be installing these games, you will only need prgmATHENA and some number of data files that are distributed. These data files act as compressed group files. Once you get all that stuff to your graphing calculator (at least read the ReadME.txt that the developer will most likely have put in), run Asm(prgmATHENA) and it will guide you through the installation process. Once it starts, no further user interaction will be needed unless you have to do stuff like garbage collect. No longer do you have to sit in front of a computer and have to send each and every individual file and possibly have to manually archive them. No longer will you have to send group files just to extract then archive the variables. Athena will perform much of this management for you!

If you accidentally delete a few of the files used by the game and if you still have both prgmATHENA and its data files, you may repair the installation by running prgmATHENA again.

Planned is the ability to install files to work with DCS. Which is to say, it will be folder-aware and let you install files in any folder of your choosing (or create your own right then and there if you don't have the folder).

Since the data files are compressed, you'll be able to have multiple large BASIC games on your calculator at the same time. Just uninstall one and install the other if you really want to.

More information will be made available for developers interested in using Athena for their projects. So... tell me what you think.

Wow this is ancient. . There's a much up to date version called zDoom on ticalc.org. It still has some glitches, though. Cool game nonetheless. I wish it was finished. I remember reading the site regularly back in 2001 and 2002. http://doom83.free.fr/

I don't think I will comment that one...

Actually it is very easy to compile. My compiler mentioned in the second post does just that. It almost directly translates to assembly in fact. > is inc hl, < is dec hl, + is inc (hl), and - is dec (hl). The other four commands are a little more complex, but not much bigger than 10 bytes a piece.

I think it still looks nice in overall. Also yeah you can say that word on the forums. You can also say the F word, although just make sure your sentences are not 50% made of the F word.