Hey, that's pretty awesome. Rock on dude! =)

That is really cool, just wish it supported decimals..

it does, actually they can be useful for collision detection and fake walls/secret paths. However in ASM they would prbly slow down your str->mat converter since floating points are much slower

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Wow... Why doesn't it say non-integers can be used in the readme?  More than half of the tiles I'm using have constant walkable/un-walkable status, and I put in an additional 20 tiles that are copies of others except for whether the player can go there or not.


As for adding in sort-of decimal input to my String->Matrix program, instead of it being two tokens (like "FF" or "01"), I could make it three tokens, with the third being the tenths digit (i.e. a decimal number between 0-9.  Making it the 16ths digit would be kinda messy).  For example, "AA3" would be converted to 170.3.  I don't think it would be too difficult, but it would make the input string 50% larger.

Yes, the xLIB guru was going to have this detail but was not added...yet

New updates!

I overhauled the collision-detection/movement which cut about 200 bytes off the size of the programs and led to a nice little speed boost.  Unfortunately, the upgrade also destroyed any uniformity in the time one frame takes, so there would be no consistent measure of time.  This means that there can't be a full version on a calculator that doesn't have an internal clock, i.e. the 83+.  I'm still considering releasing an 83+ version, but it wouldn't have any time, which means the scores wouldn't be consistent with the original version, and I'll have to create an entirely new formula for "pitty skipping" (if you lose/spend a lot of time on a level you're given the option of skipping it).

I've also implemented the help tiles as well as started the GUI.  When I tried running the main engine from another program there was a large speed drop so I have to rethink how I'll be doing the level-hopping and passwords, but hopefully those will be done in the next couple days.

[edit] You can see the updates in action here

This is a question for Iambian, but since there isn't a CelticIII topic, the question doesn't really deserve a whole new topic, and it has to do with the engine for Chip's Challenge, I'll just stick it here.

For xLIB's tilemap function do you plan on allowing decimal/fractional entries in the matrix like in xLIB?  I'm assuming that you're not since the xLIB compatibility is pretty much done, but I just want to be sure before I start converting my engine to the string tilemapper if I don't need to.

I hope it supports it in the future if it doesn't alerady, since he said he would try to make Celtic emulate xLIB as close as possible even the glitches xLIB had