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Tetris in TI basic
« on: April 13, 2010, 09:42:31 pm »
I'm going to write tetris in entirely TI basic for the 84+ and possibly the 83+ if I can work out the timing of it. Ultimately I'm rewriting a program I made a while back I had it almost complete but I lost the code when my calculator was stolen this time I'm going to finish it.
I challenge someone to finish writing it before me.  And just so we're all on a level playing field it must be able finish one block drop and move to the next in less then a second unless it has to eliminate a row and be at least 16 blocks across. I have gotten 99% of the way there in the past and I had to split It into 4 programs to work it into memory.  A launcher that unarchived and archive the other 3, a setup program and a clean up program only the setup and 1 of the 3 others fit in memory at the same time when you had all the variable information and nothing else could be in memory while it run. Needless to say it toke up a lot of space.  trust me It takes every trick in the book to make it work.  call it the ultimate TI Basic challenge.
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Re: Tetris in TI basic
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2010, 09:45:51 pm »
Sure i'll take you up on this :)
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Re: Tetris in TI basic
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2010, 10:02:54 pm »
Nice to see you want to work on that game :)

Good luck ^^
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Re: Tetris in TI basic
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2010, 10:57:35 pm »
I don't think I would be up to this. Good Luck!
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Re: Tetris in TI basic
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2010, 11:01:48 pm »
i'd be up for it in axe [not part of the challengr, but oh well :p]
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Re: Tetris in TI basic
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2010, 11:47:05 pm »
I think I'm going to modify the competition slightly for fairness.  I'm going to build a piece of code that sets up the board layout (meaning the visual background that never changes like the sides of the tetris board and the next block box) and post I all contestants will start building code then.

This will not only give a completely level playing field as far as code complexity is concerned.  It will also give people some time to think about how to implement it thus taking away some of my advantage of already having run into most of the problems.  This program really takes a lot of thinking out side the box even though it seems simple the amount of memory you have to work with coupled with the time restraint of it having to be responsive and not take a long time to index itself so it can implement a simpler inner loop makes it more difficult then it first seems.

I hope to have the board setup program up by Friday
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Re: Tetris in TI basic
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2010, 11:47:50 pm »
I'm curious to see who wins. :) Good luck you guys.

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Quote from: _player1537 on April 13, 2010, 11:01:48 pm
i'd be up for it in axe [not part of the challengr, but oh well :p]

Tetris in Axe would be pretty cool. It'd be interesting to see how it would turn out.
« Last Edit: April 13, 2010, 11:52:36 pm by meishe91 »
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Re: Tetris in TI basic
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2010, 01:44:50 am »
This would be interesting :)
I don't think I'll do it. If I pick this project up too, I'll never finish TLM -_-;;
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Re: Tetris in TI basic
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2010, 02:18:32 am »
Idk for myself either because I never really got into puzzle game creation nor complex games like Tetris, so I would probably epic fail at it, especially that all the tricks I know about TI-BASIC are mostly rudimentary stuff x.x
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Re: Tetris in TI basic
« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2010, 02:23:28 am »
You're also welcome to try your hand at coding Trominoes. :)



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Re: Tetris in TI basic
« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2010, 06:36:13 am »
I would say that's a different engine but much of the code could be reused.
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Re: Tetris in TI basic
« Reply #11 on: April 14, 2010, 12:10:24 pm »
That could maybe be another idea actually. There are a lot of Tetris clones in BASIC and ASM (I think Nitacku did one with BASIC and one with xLIB and they're quite good) so maybe something slightly different?
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Re: Tetris in TI basic
« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2010, 02:10:11 pm »
Woot so i already have the entire engine finished, what was the dimnensions that you required?  Traditional 10 wide and about 15 hight?
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Re: Tetris in TI basic
« Reply #13 on: April 14, 2010, 02:28:33 pm »
Are you making the Tetris game or what Zera posted?
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Re: Tetris in TI basic
« Reply #14 on: April 14, 2010, 02:34:33 pm »
Tetris, its a fun coding challenge, to exercise the brain and keep my basic skills up to par :)
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