YES!!!!! finally, i've been waiting for something like this. of course, i want to learn asm (i know a little, though not enough to make a game), but this will make my life a whole lot easier. one question though, since it compiles basic to asm, could you edit the resulting asm and include sprites?

I'm afraid not. It compiles to machine code, which is very difficult to edit.

you could use dasm, a disassembler but you still would need to know asm

This is cool because I new basic such a long time ago but was discouraged because it was too slow, I tried asm but its difficult, but ill get there, but now with these types of progs it will be more fun! and more people can make games and progs

that'd be cool: write the code on the calc and have a programm called tasm or so and it compiles it for you! ON CALC

I considered it when I first started writing this program, but decided it would be far too slow and unmanageable. It can take several minutes just to tokenise a TI-BASIC program on a calculator, let alone compile it as well! Also, I wanted to write an optimising compiler, which would slow down an on-calc compiler even more. It probably is possible, but I would rather use a much faster PC to handle the task of compiling.

i made a program that will assemble on your calculator for you. it's not designed for major games and such but it will due basic stuff like make a last minute program for a test or something. the package includes an assembler, disassembler, finding offsets for text, finding values, looking up a value with given offsets, and more. if you want a copy of a memory backup with it installed, just email me and i'll be happy to send you a test version. this includes a z80 opcode reference text document that's needed. everything else is on the calculator.

jimi

Why do I get this "Range check error" every time i try to compile a program? What is the problem?

doleboy

What program are you trying to compile? I haven't encountered this problem yet.

Every program I try to compile, I get that error.
it's very annoying.
Help?

same here. i feel your pain

i think this is a great project and can help a lot of ti-basic programmers get more speed from there programs. i just want everyone to understand that this assembler will not make your tibasic programs run as fast as there asm counterpart. to get maxium efficency from your program you still need to learn asm. there is no way around that

That may be true for now, but it will not hold over the next few months. This program will be optimized and improved, if not by the author, than by some other aspiring programmer. This is a big change for the TI community.

This program? It's not the assembler that's too big (it's not like it takes up 500MB of HD space); it's the programs that are too bloated.

Scratch that. I misread that comment.

How about making it for 83?

Finally, what can I say, KICK ASS, and Yahoo!!!
I can finally make maskaeria into asm with hardly no difficulty at all. Keep it up. If you need anything at all.

Good job, just a misc comment even though I know it's a beta. I compiled a program of mine that gives the factors of a number. It displayed the results properly however instead of starting backwards like:

10 * 10 = 100

it displayed:

1 * 100 = 100

Not that I'm complaining just reporting a little bug.

That is just so awesome, turning BASIC into ASM. I think a great feature to add would be having the source code for the ASM program be created too, so it would be possible to compare the BASIC and ASM code. I think that would help myself and many others who can't figure out ASM. Maybe it could result in new ASM programmers, which could also result in more games. Well, keep working on it, and you're gonna have a truly b*tchen' program!

I think that this is really neat. I only wish that I had a TI-86. Could anybody make one for any of the other calculators, like the 89?

I was wondering, I am VERY familiar with basic, and use reals and strings to control all of my values. (phone numbers, names, game data, etc.) How does the ASM compiler get around this if you use these values, or want to use them in another program? (I've heard that the values that the ASM language uses are deleted upon exiting, and this could eaisly turn into someone's horror story!) Moreso, what about sub-programs? (BASIC G.U.I.'s for example?) I am eager to hear what you have to say, and even more, how this works.

You can use romcalls in ASM to create TI-OS varaibles(like reals, strings, etc.), and then store data to those variables, in which case they won't be deleted when the prgm quits.

Compiled programs store variables in RAM page 1 of the calculator (there's about 15K free there to safely use). The variables are never actually created on the calculator, so they can't be accessed by another program (I'll probably provide a solution to this in a future version). Sub-programs compiled with the main program can access variables used in the main program, though. If the program you are compiling runs a sub-program, the compiler will search for that sub-program and will compile it along with the main program if it finds it.