Yeah Tower Assault (which was AB3) and Final Assault (AB4) were separate games And that's great to hear that you liked Thunderbirds too! Thanks for the feedback on AB5! I've made some notes so if/when I'm working on an update down the track I'll come back and look at these suggestions That would be really cool if it gets featured on ticalc.org, we'll see if it happens

I have problems running it. I run it with zStart, with MirageOS absorbed but then it says that the ZAB5E1F1 file is missing even though I have it in my archive

That sucks... I'm not very familiar with zStart, so I'll download it and try it myself and see what I can find. Does the game work if you run it directly through MirageOS or DoorsCS?

thanks a bundle for sticking with it, james!

^ ditto

It's amazing you're still around here making awesome games, and I'm sure we're all really grateful to you for that.

Now to clear some room on my calculator for this...

EDIT: Really nice readme for a game

I think we all knew it was going to get featured Congrats!

and you said you like minecraft too I have a minecraft server if you want to join it

Wewt! Its out! Great work and congrats on the feature! .

Maybe it is working directly from zstart? (or maybe you need dcs? )

I completely uninstalled zStart (even the "run on RAM Clear" option), made a RAM Clear and ran AB5M through MirageOS and it still tells me "File ZAB5E1F1 missing"
I haven't tried with DoorsCS. It's been a while since I removed it from my calc.

Quote from: Sorunome on September 30, 2012, 12:56:34 pm

Try enetering mirage and then running the game again via zstart, i was having always some problem running through a shell with zstart with certain versions

That didn't work either

I'll try on my 83+ if it works there

Sorry to hear you're still having issues Hayleia That's very weird though if you did a full RAM clear with zStart uninstalled and the game still can't find the data file. It must be having some problem locating the MirageOS library functions perhaps?

Another thing you could try is downloading the TI-83+/84+ Ion version and using that with zStart. My Ion version doesn't call any external library functions, they're all built into the game code (which I had to do as I was breaking the 8.8KB code limit with Ion). If that still doesn't work, feel free to let me know and I'll see what else I can do


And thanks DJ_O / tr1p1ea / Art_of_camelot!

That still doesn't work
I tried with zStart absorbing MirageOS, with zStart alone (it has the Ion libs built in) and with MirageOS (with zStart completely uninstalled and a RAM Clear made), the Ion version still says that the file is missing even though I have it
And I checked, I have more than 21000 bytes of free RAM so even when the program runs, it has the requiered 3200 bytes to run.
Maybe this is due to fact I have too much things on my calc and your game doesn't manage to reach the file ?

edit: it runs fine on my 83+ that only has zStart

I think you didn't quite have enough RAM free; if the program file & the data file are both located in Archive mem, you need about 22KB of free RAM. This includes the program file being copied to RAM, the data file being copied to RAM, plus 3.2KB for decompression of the levels. So you want to avoid having unneccessary files in RAM, such as the Ion install files, etc.

I'd say maybe that's why it worked on the 83+, perhaps you had a little more free RAM?

Glad you got it working somehow though