Woah! I just saw the new screenshot and it looks even better! It's sure gonna be fun to create levels.

I spent about half an hour in endless mode.
A few limits might help to keep the game challenging and interesting.

1) Paddle width--after a while it was wider than the screen, so you could just leave it and/or watch the score increase
2) # of balls limit--there were about 20 by the time I got tired of it
3) some way to keep track of the score if it goes over 65535.  It looped six or seven times

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Disp <Score>,i,"65535 times ",<Var>  With <var> incrementing by 1 each 65535 or something. 

...Whoa.  I never really expected it to be possible to make it loop... I'll probably think of something. (like using one variable for the lower 4 digits and another for the upper, max 655,359,990)  I thought the paddle-size power-downs would make up for the lack of a cap... they seem far more common than their happy counterparts to me.

Lol I just found a bug that existed since v.50(and before)
 Whenever I deleted something, I just copy the last item in the list over the one that got deleted.
 I just realized that the item that gets copied doesn't get hittested, etc. (whatever the loop is for)
 Just 3 more increments in the whole thing, probably amounts to, at most, 9 bytes
 (I've been having really big problems with size recently... can't fit both the source and the program in ram at the same time)

Yeah I think at one point you need to delete the program then compile the source from archive. That said, I can't wait to see what you will come up with in updates.

Actually it wasn't that big, I just had to archive the source before running. Also, I pulled a battery, and for some odd reason it freed up some more ram Probably should have another look at my saving routine... (should I be using delvar?)

Weird, I would do a backup somewhere like a computer in case, though.

EDIT: By the way what do you mean by bomb blocks being out? Do you mean you will not implement them?

Exactly what I meant... But now I'm having even more problems: I'm getting 'ERR: INVALID' when I try to run it... (no, I'm not trying to run the source , and yes, I am using 'Asm('. Isn't there a max program size or something? It isn't 8k, is it?)

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!If X
...
ElseIf X=1
...
ElseIf X=2
...
End
That throws a ERR: BLOCK.

Also, Rect( doesn't work well with negatives.

Spoiler For upcoming content:

Would be useful for a certain type of block...

And finally, I was pleasantly suprised that this works:

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If X=0
...
ElseIf X=1
...
Else
...
End


That's a bug that should have been fixed in Axe 0.4.5... What version are you using?

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on November 11, 2010, 05:53:51 pm

Weird, I would do a backup somewhere like a computer in case, though.

EDIT: By the way what do you mean by bomb blocks being out? Do you mean you will not implement them?

Exactly what I meant... But now I'm having even more problems: I'm getting 'ERR: INVALID' when I try to run it... (no, I'm not trying to run the source , and yes, I am using 'Asm('. Isn't there a max program size or something? It isn't 8k, is it?)

If it's more than 8192 bytes, the OS refuses to run it with Asm(.

8811, to be exact.

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also, I have exhausted the whole alphabet

Are you already using L1?

No, 8811 is the number of bytes that you can run from a shell. With Asm(, you can only run 8192 bytes. Any more and the OS gives you an ERR:INVALID.

well then who wants to optimize some code I don't have any experience in it, and my minor attempts so far have failed dramatically.

I actually have very little data in here. Most of my graphics are Rect(/RectI( commands.

Just a couple tips for anybody who wants to take this on:
  It's mostly uncommented.  All I have are section headers.
  The Output( statement immediately after the second DispGraph^r was for debugging, it's what pushed me over the limit

any volunteers?

Hmm, let's see.

All If  statements that say something like

If I=1
can be optimized to

!If I-1
and it'll save several bytes. (I think there were certain conditions where you couldn't do that, but I don't remember what. They're not important, anyway )