I can make it a little bigger and ignore the set rules of Tetris, without overly affecting the size of the program, just the size of the matrix. I've thought about doubling the size of the sprites into 6x6 blocks.. The only thing that would add would be.. 4 times the amount of Pt-On( commands, and would slow down drawing and erasing of the blocks. I might look into that once I have a fully working version going. Kind of up in the air, I really want to keep this below 3kb if at all possible.

I also fixed all collision detection and hid code off in boolean blocks to speed up the loops, so it goes a bit faster now.

Thanks at least for the partial compliment. lol

Why wouldn't it be? It's still mostly free to program for unlike the Nspire that we have to fight our way into. Granted, it's a little slower and such, but that just adds to the challenge of making cool things for it, which makes it more appealing to some

Plus, the fact it is backwards compatible with the 84+ for the most part in terms of math and function makes it more attractive to students, since books still have the 84+ as the used calculator for examples.

The B stands for BASIC, since I know very little asm. :p

You might be asking "Why BASIC? We already have TetricA, and it's awesome."

And I will agree with you on that, it is awesome.

This is actually my first forays into building a tetris game. I've been trying to expand myself into other things beyond that of RPGs, and since I've never done this before, I figured this could be a fun learning experience.

As it stands right now,

I have the pieces to where they fall to the bottom

Full rotation on all 7 pieces and their varying forms

The pieces do not rotate past the right side boundary

The program is 1870 bytes in size



And the DCS8 icon:

Thoughts so far?

Thanks! I hope people programming the CSE will be able to utilize the program to make epic icons

We really don't want that.

TI has said that they don't hate the fact we can get ROM images from our calculators, since that means we own the calc to do so, but bootfree is something they hate very much. They are actually talking to the community again, we don't need to upset that fragile line of communication.

And thank you for the compliments

Checkers is now available for download as version 0.9!

http://www.cemetech.net/programs/index.php?mode=file&path=/84pcse/basic/games/checkers84pcse.zip

Please give it a run through and test and let me know what you think!

I'll post up the ticalc.org link once it gets accepted to ticalc

Hi guys, wow, this thread got busy lol

To answer the question in regards to the sprites: I had taken the time to hand convert every sprite in the list, and I had a BASIC hex2sprite interpreter that was decently fast for what it is, however, people begged and poked to get it moved to asm, and benryves, the amazing programmer he is, managed to make it so it was in asm, using my compression method, and even gave it the ability to reverse the sprite direction. Recently (like, last year) we edited the code to xor the sprites, so now I can do animations with it. I promise I have not given up on this project, btw. The CSE has taken my eyes away from it for a bit so I can at least get a few games out before someone else does lol I have looked at the code lately, just trying to figure out how best to test the pokeball catch routines that I wrote.

And before you go all 'well, you wanted mostly basic', This game is.. Around 120kb in size? It's massive. Just huge. I have maybe, MAYBE 2kb in asm, but I'm pretty sure it's less. That is like 2% of the game is asm, so I think that still qualifies as being mostly basic, right? :p

As to my internet, I'm no longer on dialup, I'm on radio internet, which gets me around 1Mbps download speed. Not the greatest, but oh so much faster than dialup. I can at least youtube fairly easily now.

It won't be too bad once I get all the data entered in for the current 44. Then I'll have a schema set up specifically and I'll know what to add that's important

Thanks for the compliment!