Woot ^^ nothing is nicer than uploading a new Axe version onto your calculator and watching the file sizes shrink

Progress?

Yeah, I've been making a lot of progress.  I fixed all the bugs that were present last version, and added a ton more auto-optimizations.  Most programs are decreasing in size by about 1% which is actually pretty significant for not having to do anything at all to your existing programs.  The new optimizations are mostly with comparisons (both signed and unsigned) and equalities.  Also, I've been working on adding some new commands.  One of which is the not() command which will finally be usable to invert the lower 8 bits and not()^r will invert the full 16 bit number.   Right now, I am working on variable reallocation.  There should be a lot of new progress over the next few weeks since I'm on break.  Axe 0.4.7 will be the last of the betas and after that, the final stable release will be complete with full Axiom support.

Yeah, I've been making a lot of progress.  I fixed all the bugs that were present last version, and added a ton more auto-optimizations.  Most programs are decreasing in size by about 1% which is actually pretty significant for not having to do anything at all to your existing programs.  The new optimizations are mostly with comparisons (both signed and unsigned) and equalities.  Also, I've been working on adding some new commands.  One of which is the not() command which will finally be usable to invert the lower 8 bits and not()^r will invert the full 16 bit number.   Right now, I am working on variable reallocation.  There should be a lot of new progress over the next few weeks since I'm on break.  Axe 0.4.7 will be the last of the betas and after that, the final stable release will be complete with full Axiom support.

Final release

Somehow that sounds ominous. But it's awesome!

As a suggestion, though, how about ! being used for not(? Just my opinion, since I'm used to !If  and Else!If  now

Quote from: Quigibo on December 21, 2010, 10:33:27 pm

Yeah, I've been making a lot of progress.  I fixed all the bugs that were present last version, and added a ton more auto-optimizations.  Most programs are decreasing in size by about 1% which is actually pretty significant for not having to do anything at all to your existing programs.  The new optimizations are mostly with comparisons (both signed and unsigned) and equalities.  Also, I've been working on adding some new commands.  One of which is the not() command which will finally be usable to invert the lower 8 bits and not()^r will invert the full 16 bit number.   Right now, I am working on variable reallocation.  There should be a lot of new progress over the next few weeks since I'm on break.  Axe 0.4.7 will be the last of the betas and after that, the final stable release will be complete with full Axiom support.

Final release

Somehow that sounds ominous. But it's awesome!

As a suggestion, though, how about ! being used for not(? Just my opinion, since I'm used to !If  and Else!If  now

not() is bitwise complement. If you want logical not like in TI-Basic, you can just use =0.

@DJ, yes.  You will be able to move them where-ever you want (including as part of the program itself).  The only limitation is that this can't be decided at run-time, it has to be a constant address.

Another feature I forgot to mention that I'm working on now is getkey(X) with a variable argument.  The routine is a little large (about 20 bytes) but I can see some useful application with this for things like customized keys in games, a piano keyboard, or a trackpad by dragging your fingers along the entire key pad which is something I've done before in BASIC.

Look-ahead parsing is used when looking at the getkey routine.  So if the number inside the parenthesis is constant like getkey(15) it converts the key code into the correct "DKey code" as it compiles.  On the other hand, if the number is not a constant, like getkey({L1+3}) then it evaluates the inside and performs the conversion at runtime using the slower routine.

By the way, between my last post and this post, I finished the routine and tested it out; it works great!

8-level grayscale would be awesome, but I'm skeptical how good it would look on the calculator.  Is that routine available online anywhere?  Also, the programmer would have to fill the buffer with sprites themselves since the normal sprite routines don't use that buffer.

Just saw you changed your progress change to 70%.  Good job.
I wonder how many non-omnimaga users use axe.  I occasionally see something on ti-calc  from a non-omnigamian.

Anyways, great work, i can't wait.

request: what are the chances of two bytes for send( ?

somewhere near zero: look at this post

I really am looking forward to the next release! good luck!