Good luck on this. Sounds cool

Third Progress Report

I'm having a problem I cannot identify. The program is set to display ship options, then wait until you press a key using the following code:

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0->G
While G=0
getKey->G
End
For some unknown reason, this is looping infinately. No matter what key I press. It shouldn't. Currently trying to resolve.

Try replacing it with

Repeat getkey
End

Quigbo, I did do "FnOn" and forgot to use "LnReg", but I crashed several times since. Plus, a simple GETKEY program that checks for the number of the key pressed and throws it onto the screen works. It only seems to reloop inside MY GAME, just to slow me down (lol).

Edit: Just reset interrupts. Problem persists. I'll try the "Repeat" route tomorrow and post back.

Edit 2: Problem is still there with repeat. So I simply removed the faulty section (program will work fine without it) and resumed coding. I'll see if I can fix it once everything else is done.

Currently working on coding in position update for the ship and the enemy ship, as well as the warp and impulse drive speeds.

Question 3: Does Axe Parser use order of operations yet?

Progress Report

Making progress rapidly. I now have the phaser and photon firing systems mostly functional, as well as position update for both your and enemy ship. Also got the #CreateSaveFile and #OpenSaveFile routines working.

Now, on to the systems to calculate battle damage...

Question: If you are using a 2-byte number, lets say you have 50000 and you add 50000 to it. Does the value reach 2^16, and then cycle back to 0 or does the program crash? Similarly, what happens if a 2-byte variable equals 5 and I subtract 1000 from it? Does it loop up to (2^16)-995 or does it crash?

Awesome!  Can you post any screenshots?

Progress Report

Enemy damage system complete. Now on to the rest of your ship.

2 questions.

1. Let's say I have this, for instance:

1->A
If A
"HELLO"->Str1A
Text(23,20,Str1A)
Else
"GOODBYE"->Str1B
Text(23,20,Str1B)
End
Would Str1A and Str1B become available for use anywhere in the program, or do I need to redefine it outside the conditional?

2. I noticed a strange phenomenon:

"vStTkSav"->Str1
GetCalc(Str1)->P
that was version 0.3.3

when I upgraded to 0.4.3, then opened the source again, it read

"appvStTkSav"->Str1
GetCalc(Str1)->P
I didn't change the 'v' to an 'appv'. It did it by itself. Is it supposed to?

Also, another change since 0.3.3 is that if you don't need the pointer for the rest of the program you can define the variable at the same time as using it without needing a static pointer.  For instance, your example could be:

1->A
If A
Text(23,20,"HELLO")
Else
Text(23,20,"GOODBYE")
End
You can do this anywhere in the code with any data type, even sprites:

Pt-On(8,10,[004299E7E7FFA542])
But since you aren't giving the data a name, that means you can't use it anywhere else in the code unless you create a duplicate or something like that.