Wow, that is really nice.  This might make my battle system so much easier...I off to learn a new language...Don't worry, I still have every intention to finish my tutorial...but wow.

Ok well here is the first chapter WITHOUT FORMATTING


Chapter 1: Good Bye, Cruel World

From, the home screen while the desktop is turned off:  APPS, 6 if running ASM 1.0 or 7 if running ASM 2 or higher, 3 for new program, for program name enter ?hellowd?.  Type the following code as followed:

Hellowd()
Prgm
Disp ?Good Bye, Cruel Would?
EndPrgm

Input and output.  This is how you as the programmer communicates with the user, the person running your program.  The be honest, Input and Output is how we communicate and is a way of life.  When you go to work, you input your time and services.  The output is your paycheck.  When you ask someone for his or her name, you are outputting the question (or inquiry).  Their response is the input.  Repeating their name back to them would be output.  When you put your MAC card into an ATM that is input.  The ATM then uses output when it asks you?re for your pin.  When you enter the pin, this is input.

In general when dealing with a calculator program, input is something that the user does to interact with the program.  Some sort of output usually and generally follows this input?if the user presses (inputs) enter then display (output) ?Thank You ? on the screen.

On 68k calculators, there is a separate reserved screen for input and output.  This is completely and utterly independent of the home screen.  To view the I/O screen press F5 from the home screen.  Press ESC to return to the home screen.  Clearing the home screen will not affect the I/O screen and clearing the I/O screen will not affect the home screen.

The program listed above is an example of simple output.  This program doesn?t have code to except input from the user.

Hellowd()
Prgm
Disp ?Good Bye, Cruel World?
EndPrgm

The program launcher, that is the force that runs your program, will begin executing your code after Prgm statement is detected. Concordantly the program has no life beyond the EndPrgm statement.  Thus, all code should be written between Prgm and EndPrgm.  You will notice that ?Hellowd()? rests above the Prgm statement.  Hellowd is the name of your program and () is the space where you can input arguments for that program.  Arguments will discussed in a later chapter so don?t focus on that too much just yet.

As I stated, all code between Prgm and EndPrgm is open for execution.  In the program above the only code that is executable is ?Disp ?Good Bye, Cruel World??.

Disp is the simplest output function in BASIC.  To display a literal, that is to display a string you use quotation marks.  To display a number, you can simply type that number without quotations.  To go to the next line, use a comma.  Input the following code to see the result.

Hellowd()
Prgm
Disp ?The world?s greatest.?
Disp 45
Disp ?Infinity?, 42,?Complex?, 6*7

Opps... Could you move this to Announce your project section for me Kevin. My bad...

I will post info related to the tutorial here in this topic

Hmmm...don't know. Will Check

C is king...68K or ASM is faster than C, but much harder to do.  68K is uber low level.

One of the reasons why you don't see many 68k App games is because the Flash App made with TI SDK are very unflexable.  They are confined to menus and such.   Of course, it would be possible to create a graphical RPG in FLASH 89, but it might very well kill you.  That is for super advanced developers from a time hereforth unknown to man.  The code is very close to 68K which is very difficult and not very well known.  C is the highest that many are willing to go.

Goodnight...I will hopefully have something of great intrest for you mananna