The Forest

The Verdante Forest: Arkaine's Arrival

A MaxCoderz Production: MaxCoderz! by Maarten Zwartbol

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"For centuries a story has been told. Past on from generation to the generation. A tale of a quest which seemed in vain....doomed for failure. There are not many who can recall the true meaning and story of the quest that unravelled itself when two warriors stood up and decided to face the evil that overgrew their homestead. If of all people one can give you the true experience of these courageous humans, it would be me....cause I was there..." - Stooge, 1678 AD

I. A small introduction

Title: The Verdante Forest: Arkaine's Arrival
Date: Sunday 19 December, 2004
First BETA Release: September 14, 2002
Project Start: February, 2002
Version: v 1.00
System: TI-83 ION and TI-83+ MirageOS
Description: The Verdante Forest is a roleplaying game where you take on a quest to destroy evil. To do this you have to battle monsters, gain experience, collect items, upgrade armors. It can be best compared in style to RPGs like FF with a little flavour of Diablo.
The Story for "Arkaine's Arrival": First let me introduce myself. I am Stooge, a human of an old time. I have been precious with the gift of live, and it has granted me all these years..I think it's 687 to be precise....Oh yes, let me continue. A long time ago when I came to this World in 1380, I travelled through the lands. I followed the trail of a war that had just ended. The Dark Lord Asghan who's wrath had infected the whole world had been banished to the Void. Every where I came the landscape was desolate. A few men survived and their world lay in ruination. I travelled on to the foot of Mountain Asthor that reached up in to the clouds. It was so high that it could be seen from the far outerskirts of the World. The Dark Lord had resided on the mountain peak for ages, with his Dark Eye that looked over the World and was ever watchfull. On the foot of the mountain I stumbled upon a forest...so filled with light and peace that it hadn't been touched upon by Asghan's Dark Hand though it was so near to the core of his darkness. There I decided to settle and help other people to rebuild their losses. The Verdante Forest became a mark of glory for mankind, an example for the restoring World. For decades it remained a peacefull untill in 1380 AD, a new evil came to Verdante...Asghan's offspring, Lord Arkaine.

He rebuild part of his father's fortress Dushnub on the peak of Mt. Asthor and spawned evil to spread his hate. His influence grew stronger and darkness returned to the World. The faith of the World was soon to be decided. Everywhere he came, he spread hate, war and betrayal. The deminion of evil grew even stronger. Lord Arkaine invaded the last haven in the World, the Verdante Forest. His minions scourged through the bushes and trees seeking for gold and death.
One day, David returned from the cranberry bush where he and his sister had been picking berries all day. When he returned to The Verdante Forest he met the Ranger who had got some disturbing news. He and his sister Lelani decided to take on a quest for the freedom and faith of your homeland...the Verdante Forest!

Chapters:
us Unlike the previous versions this version includes all 7 chapters. So finally the full game. Here is a list with all the chapters:

  1. Arkaine's Arrival
  2. A Quest At End
  3. An Unpleasant Return
  4. About Three Brothers
  5. Bring Us To Coldstone
  6. A Shadow Of The Past
  7. The Sanctum Of Darkness

II. About The Author

My name is Maarten Zwartbol and I'm an 18 year old guy from Meppel, Drenthe, The Netherlands. I study Biology at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and pursuing a bachelor/master degree in artificial intelligence as well. My interest lay in programming, artificial intelligence, art, girls, sailing and music.
I have been in the TI community for around 4 years. Two and a half years ago I joined MaxCoderz and it's still running smooth :). Furthermore there isn't much to say about my computer interests :). I mostly hang out at the MC forum and some other fora. I like to program ASM, PHP and C++. Practical programming interests are mobile phone programming and modding for HL2 and Max Payne 2.

III. Installation (easy as 1,2,3)

For the TI83

1) Install ION to run the game. Make sure you delete the ION.83p (Installer). We need the space!
2) Send TVF.83P to your calculator.
3) Send the correct chapter to your calculator. They all have numbers behind them to show you which chapter it is.
3) Run A then select "The Verdante Forest" and hit enter. It should detect the chapter automatically. If this you get an error please read this

For the TI83+, SE, TI84

1) Make sure you archive is clear and at best you have even cleared rom from any archived programs (a fresh reset). You have to install MirageOS to play the game. We need all the memory we can get :).
2) Send TVF.8XP to your calculator.
3) Send the correct chapter to your calculator. They all have numbers behind them to show you which chapter it is.
3) Run MirageOS, then select "TVF" and hit enter. It should detect the chapter automatically. If this you get an error please read this

IV. Controls

On map...
[2ND] - Main menu
[KEYPAD] - Walk
Battle engine...
[2ND] - Select enemy
[ALPHA] - Go to Battle menu
[KEYPAD] - Point out enemy
Text...
[2ND] - Scroll through text
Menu...
[2ND] - Select choice
[ALPHA] - Cancel menu

V. Sending the game to friends

Progress of your character is stored within the main engine file. This means that when you are playing the game and you send your friends the main engine, their character will be as far progressed as yours.
This also goes for chapter. When you start playing the chapter, the changes you make on the map (open chests, talk to people) will be stored inside the chapter file. When sending a chapter that you are currently playing to someone else that would mean that he would find opened chests and people saying the wrong things. Therefore I have inserted a certain protection against playing chapter files that have already been played (this causes the effects described in the errors document). This means you and your friend can only exchange chapters with each other that haven't been played yet. In a school situation this would mean that you and your friend wait for each other to finish the current chapter, then you download the new chapter and send it to your friend as well. And then start playing, etc.

VI. Version History

v 1.01 - This is the actual final version. It includes all chapters (7) and has bugfixes and balance fixes. (19 december 2004)
v 1.00 - The final game released. Lot's of changes since the BETA, it's now a full game! I'm so proud.
v 0.95 - Second Demo release of The Verdante Forest. I know have split up my game in 2 parts; a map and the main engine. - Size = ~24000 bytes
v 0.8 - First Demo release of The Verdante Forest. - Size = ~22000 bytes< /P >

VII. Known Bugs

I have probably fixed all of these at the moment. If you encounter any bugs please contact me.

VIII. Also Important/Disclaimer/Warning

This product so immensly large that I cannot assure it's bugfree. I've done that in the past but I was proven wrong. I really did my best to make it bug free but it's possible that there still are some left. In the worst case this might reset the game and make you play the game all over.

If you have any comments/suggestions or you have found a bug. Please contact me at: maerten@gmail.com or post it at the MaxCoderz messageboard. I am not responsible for any harm done to your calculator by my program! Visit the MaxCoderz Productions site!
Also I am not responsible for any harm this product might cause to anyone/anything.