Nice

Heya nice to see you around still. Yeah I'm happy to see someone doing it again. I saw a lot of Chips projects before but Idk if any were finished. This xLIB one is almost asm-like. I wish I got a 84SE to play it to full potential

Well i still remember one from Jedd on United-TI and on MaxCoderz I think but that was about 5 years ago. Besides that it was mostly new projects but I think they were never finished or they were always passed over to someone else.

Wow, it looks great!  Is this asm or BASIC?

As for enemies, I'm still working on that.  The flying star-things, rockets and balls should be fairly simple (but still not in large numbers, since that might make the calculator explode ).  The star-things and rockets move in a straight line until they hit an object, then they turn right/left.  The bouncy balls move in a straight line but turn around when they hit something.  I'm planning on having a list with the locations and another with the directions of movement.  I'll add them together, but when the new location isn't walkable I'll alter the direction list component.  Then I'll just loop over and display them.  Since the calculations are done in one chunk I don't think having many should slow it down a lot, just the displaying part.

These are just the thoughts going through my head right now, so it could turn out to be something completely different.  And if it turns out that enemies slow it down too much I might just not have any, since there are a lot of levels without them and others could be modified to still be a challenge without enemies.

this is awesome Kalan

Hehe, it looks like my tracks were followed pretty closely ..I use a main engine program/levels/actions.

This is really coming along nicely. I also have to say wow, Kalan it looks like you had a fairly nice version of this in the works at one time. Me thinks Kalan should work on a new X-lib game. ^_^

More good news:
1) I'm finally done implementing all of the different tile effects.
2) The routine for determining the player's new direction has been reduced by 90 bytes (using a look-up table)
3) Sprites are done.  (Adding one extra row of pixels into deeph's boot sprites made a huge difference)

To-do list:
1) Implement the timer
2) Modify the HUD, which will be white-on-black to help distinguish the map from HUD (thanks to DJ Omnimaga for the suggestion )
3) Mask the player's sprite instead of just ORing it over the tile.
4) Add in tanks (the only enemies I'm sure I can handle), then possibly other enemies.
5) Optimize the hell out of everything.
6) Port more levels.
7) Repeat (5) & (6) a few dozen times with bug-fixing and adding features I've forgotten about scattered throughout.
8 ) Repeat (7), etc...

I've attached a screenshot of level 3 with the new sprites.  I also posted screenies of levels 6 and 7 in the other thread.

[edit]I forgot to add a few things in:
-Level hopping/switching
-Keep score
-Do more than just display "You Win/Lose"
-Figure out the algorithm for when you can skip a level after losing a bunch more times.
-Implement passwords.