Update! Showcasing a fancy title screen (and underneath what's visible, we've got ourselves a working save/quit/load/new functions). It seems that the monster in my room kicked me out in this screenshot:O

Are there going to be variable height platforms?

update! There's not a whole lot new about this externally, but I made a lot of changes internally. I did end up (kinda) rewriting the movement engine; it's actually a subroutine now. It takes a couple pointers as arguments, and can write kickback and movement to those pointers. Basically what that means is that all enemies now go through the same 8 directional collision checks and kickbacks as you do..at the cost of about 100 bytes . This is in preparation for the AI I'm about to put in (There's a very basic one present in the screenshot...it just moves towards you. Also I have no enemy sprites yet...)

Not in the screenshot:
-I also started to refine the npc engine...it can properly handle long (<2 line) conversations
-Added installation/free RAM error/quit messages to detect that the proper appvars are in Archive and that enough RAM is free, since it was suggested after StickNinja cleared a lot of people's RAM when they didn't install it properly

More or less something like this: (unoptimized for clarity)
"Text"->Pointer
NPC(Pointer)
...
Lbl NPC
48->B
2->A
Rect(0,46,96,18)
RectI(1,47,94,16)
For(E,0,length(r1)

Text(A,B,{r1+E}>Char
A+4->A
If A>90
0->A
!If B-54
Repeat getKey
End
Rect(same numbers)
48->B
Else
54->B
End
End
DispGraph
End

Well just saying from my experience test proctors in the SAT and the AP tests don't do anything and only the more tech-savvy teachers will even realize that you can cheat on a graphing calculator. And even then their solution (at least in my school) is to take away the calc, they don't know anything about PTT. I guess I can't speak for everyone, having only this one-school viewpoint but I find it hard to believe that the majority of teachers and test proctors know about PTT

So when you use Text(Y*256+X) to set the pen cursor, you're storing a 2 byte value somewhere right? Where is that somewhere? And if not, is it still possible to access this value?

Haha I already changed it. It's actually smaller now and more compact (both in code and display) than before. I'm on the wrong computer atm, but I hope to get a screenshot soon

In other progress-related news, I've almost got the NPC engine up. I'm having a bit of trouble with my script-generator (a separate program I use to spit out the NPC data helper array) but once that's working it should be relatively functional.