I have been going through some of this code.. and realized that for just the starter program alone I had left chunks of unneeded code from previous versions. oh wow, it annoys me.

Also, in the game now, instead of having

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prgmZRS

I am simplifying those to

prgmZC1

Mainly because I call on that function of RESOURCE so often. =/ I figured it up, it would take 7 times to call prgmZC1 to make it worth the effort. prgmPOKEMON calls it 4 times by itself. So yeah, more savings of RAM.

for the border display program, using Ans as a list to store the values, and immediately call the program, where it will store from Ans to the correct variables. Same thing with prgmZSP, for the values on where the sprites are to go.

It is interesting to see, just in two programs I have worked on, how much blue pen ink I have used correcting things.

I also took the liberty to create the version as it is now as 0.1.7a, as a placeholder to know how much RAM/ROM is being used up. At this time, between pics and prgms, the game takes 89,659 bytes. I am eager to see what the changes I make to the game affect the amount of space it uses.

Just thought I would update you guys and let you know that I only have 2 or 3 more programs left to write out before I go through and clean up the variable usage. =]

I am thinking about also creating a small program specifically for:

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prgmZRS

to delete the previous temp program, so it saves more space that way. hmm.. I also need to see about working on cleaning up the box stuff, thinking about using a temp list to store those, and storing from the list to variables for the program temporarily.

I need to designate a variable for certain functions, like K is my getKey var, W is my While loop manipulation, A is for cursors.. stuff like that. Certain variables have no choice but to be certain things, due to their requirements from Celtic 2.

And I have started in on adding the text for the pokedex entries as well. That actually shouldn't take too long to do, pending I find the time to do it. Will make things a little more complete anyways. =]

ok. yeah..

I have considered adding it to the actual pokedex program, just to see what I could do with it and see how it would look. Would need to throw a copy of codex on that calc to move the pic up, and modify it a bit, to see how things would look.

Well, it has been pointed out where I could find the text entry for each and every one of the pokemon in the pokedex. It would be simple to add that functionality to the game. This is something that would be done after the variables are fixed, and would allow the user a bit closer port of the game. The data would remain hidden in the Archive, since it would only need to be recalled when that particular function of the pokedex be accessed, and celtic2 would just be able to read that data straight from archive anyways.

It would also require me to come up with a different way to display the pokemon and text. If I do do this, I would not include the height/weight stuff, if that was even in the originals, I don't know. I will have to fire up a copy and see.

Thoughts?

I had problems with MOS mostly, I kept it off my calculator and suddenly the random RAM clears stopped. *shrugs*

People still argue with me over that that it is impossible and I don't know what I am talking about, but I know what I did, so I dunno.

Anyways, don't need any strange apps at this point to make anything work. =]

Hopefully there will be more of a progress update this weekend, maybe.

Updated the pokedex, about time I got around to doing something productive.

http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/389/38997.html

Almost done with writing out the programs, only have like 10 to go.

oh, trust me. Once I can get this all organized, I plan on digitizing my variable notes and such.. And once I get the next beta out, which will, for the most part, have everything tied together, then I will try and get some assistance with optimizing. ^_^

Also, I am -definitely- going to be redoing the items system. I think it would be cluttered any other way if I tried. However, I am thinking about increasing it to being able to have 75 items on hand at a time.

Anyone like or dislike this idea?