I know me and Hiryu has been idle for a few years now, but we feel the time has come to finally finish off a few projects. First, let’s start with Legend of Landel.

If you don't know what Legend of Landel is, pretty much it's the Duke Nukem Forever of Ti calculator RPG's, spanning almost 10 years of on and off development and rewrites with a game engine dev time to match. If you been to my site or at bluecrimson.com at one point this decade and seen me post something about a "Slayers engine" that I was working on, it's basically being designed for this game.

Game wise, it was the sequel of Mystic Legend 92.

Recently we decided to get back into the game and start programming again to finally get this project finished. Originally, there was a project to make ML89, and once we released that, then we would work on Landel from there since it referenced the ML92 story so much that anyone who never played Mystic Legend would be lost in Landel. Instead, we decided to incorporate the entire ML89 storyline into Legend of Landel. This will be a huge game. Easily the largest we have ever created and will have a storyline larger than all of me and Hiryu's RPG's combined. It will also be one of the most graphical games we have ever made, with tons of hand drawn sprites, maps, and game effects that you would expect from us.

To top it all off, Hiryu has also decided to remake one of his older RPG's, Bubblegum Crisis: Nene's adventures. If you've never played this RPG, you might want to wait awhile, since the new one will be a complete rewrite of the old game.

Anyway, if you want more information, go to http://www.bluecrimson.com and check out the posts on the front page. There’s a lot of information on what we've been up to over the past couple of days.

This sounds really cool!  Is this all in TiBasic? or is it ASM?

Wow, all of that looks impressive and it's done in BASIC? I tip my nonexistent top hat to y'all. Looking forward to seeing its release and getting to play it

I knew my TI-89 would come in handy some day! \o/

I so want the 89 now!!!!
Always wanted, but in these days, I can't even afford to buy gum!

Wow... that's incredible. O_O
I should learn me some 89T BASIC and port RtM to it whenever I get RtM finished

Wow... that's incredible. O_O
I should learn me some 89T BASIC and port RtM to it whenever I get RtM finished

about the only thing I can say when it comes to transitioning from an different calc to a 92 series is that whatever you know about the language your coming from, throw it out the window and start over. This was the mistake I made and many others do. They program an 89 like it's an 82 or an 85, And there's much better ways on the 89 to do things.

First off, if you use xlib a lot, many things xlib does, the calc does naively. if it still doesn't do what you want it to do, there's are libs for it as well as ways to execute asm line by line using exec calls, But personally, I stay away from them.

Output is basically useless. you might as well use pxltext since they have the same coordinates and you also can show pics on the graph screen with text unlike the home screen.

# and expr are your friends. The first time you use them to recall a picture or run a program using a variable name stored in a string or number, or make a dynamic program that can modify itself, you'll see what I mean.

89's, especially the Titanium, have huge amounts of storage. You'll most likely hit the 2400 variable limit before you'll fill a titanium. And yes, you can access and run files and programs from flash without unarchiving.

Not only can you show sized pictures, you can create them as well from a program. A lot of creative things can happen with this. Xorpic and andpic are also handy when you want to make an overlay mask for a sprite or invert an area.

There's a ton of other things that can be done, but that's where the manual comes in. Particularly appendix A.

Examples of what can be programmed in 89 basic can be found on my old projects page. Just replace Slayers with Landel since thats the engine we're going to use for Legend of Landel.
http://fryedsoft.bluecrimson.com/projects/index.htm

I was always fond of these tutorals. Although the site is down, they are great to get you started in how to code the 89.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010809001655/www.iserv.net/~mikev/92optimize.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20010730150431/www.iserv.net/~mikev/9292ptimes.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20011030221651/www.iserv.net/~mikev/92+optimizemore.html

also the TI Basic Developer site got a decent 89 site. although it could use more commands referenced.
http://tibasicdev.wikidot.com/

89 Basic really isn't hard to learn - just some basic understanding of commands and logics. Though it does help to go over tutorials or even look at other 89 programs source codes to get a feel for how to structure your code. Best thing to do is just start programming  and do the good ole fashion of trial and error. I think that's how most of us old timers started out with basic coding >_<

Yeah I feel you there.. I went from an 85 to a 92 then to an 89 - imagine how i felt going from a real keyboard to a keyboard designed by a drunk guy who was dyslexic. They could of designed the 89 key layout alittle better. Since I do everything on the comp now - its not that big of a deal anymore.