dangit, i cant believe i missed that post where you answer my question on the same page, before i ask it...
i guess i've lost all my forum prowess since old omni closed down...

anyway dont feel that you need to put up constant progress to impress us, burning yourself out helps no one

Yeah long breaks often make the person lose interest, especially when it's a really long break. But users have to focus on school and real life first. Real life is the second most important thing after Runescape and WoW

I agree breaks are good and much needed but too long and you could be in trouble. Don't rush this project though, this looks like it is coming along really nice!

I just recently got a new phone and guess what was one of the first games I put on it, you guessed it chips challenge, the one thing its missing is the ability to start at levels other than 1, I hope you port doesn't have that same flaw.

Chip's Challenge on a cellular phone?! What's next, a phone that you're supposed to talk into?

Right now level selection is done by storing the level number in Ans before running the program, so even this early in the project that problem isn't there

Quote from: TheStorm on January 14, 2009, 10:43:23 pm

I just recently got a new phone and guess what was one of the first games I put on it, you guessed it chips challenge, the one thing its missing is the ability to start at levels other than 1, I hope you port doesn't have that same flaw.

Wait you use a phone for something other than calling and occasionally maybe just maybe sending a text message. That's like saying you use a calculator to play games, that's just crazy talk!

No you see I use my Phone to run a calculator emulator to play games on

At least he isn't using his calculator to hack a computer. I think most calc videos on youtube are fake "hack a computer using a TI-84+"

BrandonW almost had a working one, though he never figured out why the comp refused to boot from an 84 pretending to be a floppy drive, if he solved that he could do it.

This project isn't dead, and as soon as I finish that Asm program (I'm almost done) I'll resume working on the main project  (if for some reason I'm not back to work by next week, please feel free to hit me, kick me, send PMs to remind me, etc...)

I'll send the Shamwow guy after you... lol. =P

Sort-of update time!

I've temporarily given up on the string->matrix thing since I can't get the speed right (I'll try again later), but I'm done with the other Asm program.  I'm attaching it in case it might come in handy for someone else.  Also in that file are a couple other programs for working with pictures that resulted from a bug found in CUSTOMPICS at the time I was writing the one for this game, and another one that just might come in handy.

COPYPIC copies one pic from another without affecting the graphscreen.  CPIC is basically CUSTOMPICS.  The other two are a cheat to allow you to transfer the hacked pics (10-255) to another calculator.  I've included a small readme with more info on them.

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Now for Chip's Challenge.  There isn't anything new, but I do have an updated to-do list:
- Timer
- HUD
- Do a better job with the player's sprite display
- Figure out how to get movable blocks to be affected by ice/force tiles without slowing the game way down
- Score-keeping
- Save info
- Pack the game into a larger program (Not sure what to call it, but it's so the user doesn't have to
   directly input which level before running and can select new game/load game etc...)
- Title screen
- Passwords
- More levels
- Level hopping/switching
- Figure out the formula for when you can skip a level after dying a bunch of times
- Intermittently optimize the hell out of it

[edit 1/21/09] -Level editor (I finally remembered to stick this in!)