I wish all the asm programmers would stop screwing with basic programmers. Although asm is a hell of a lot better for most types of games, a lot of these games are poorly written and crash the calculator. At least with basic you don't have to worry about this. Don't get me wrong, I love assembly games, but I wish that they didn't make the calculator so unstable. I think it's a big pain in the ass to have to pop the batteries out of my calculator every time a put a badly written asm program on it. I never have to worry about this with basic programs I've written or others have written.

Also, you can only play so many asm, or basic games for that matter, in class. I've found that writing my own basic games and programs is much funner than playing other people's games. When your in a boring class, you just whip out your calculator and start programming stuff and time passes much faster, than playing Tetris or Mario (although both those games were fun for a while).

You also don't need to study up on basic to learn it. Just about anyone could learn this simple language, which is why I like basic better than asm.

So, although asm boasts greater speed, I still like basic better, simply because it's for anyone rather than just those who devote most of their time to programming. Once again, I think most of the asm programs that come out are great and the authors of these programs are quite talented. I just don't think that asm programmers should rag on basic so much. Instead of doing that, all you assembly programmers should go out and use your talent to create some materpieces, like Yarin and Andreass Ess have done. Actions speak louder than words.

well I can agree with you on some aspects one basic is much easyer, two programming is a lot of fun three basic is safer but I think that if you can make a basic game run like ASM without crashing the calc then count me in I could really benefit from it and I'm sure if you gave it a chance you would agree.

I downloaded the program, and it sounds like a really good idea, but its not very easy to use and doesnt work very much. But i think, that you should have the option to edit the program right in the program and have sort of its own language, sort of like HAL, that people can incorporate into their programs so the programs can be better and more optimised. Just and idea, i dont know if this is really possible, but it sounds good. Keep up the good work.

This is the kind of thing that the TI-community needs, but don't get me wrong, ASM is still the way to go for important stuff (like very good games). I mean, it is kinda hard to write an asm prog in the middle off a borring class with no computer an all, but now people can make demos and other things that they can later write in full asm.

I heard the news of how you can convert TI-Basic to 86 assembly. I got an 82. My friends have an 83, and 85 calculators. Could you maybe debug this program, then translate it between calculators. Or give the code to someone who can?

I hope you can do that because I am so POed at several basic programs that are too darn slow!!

i get a "range check" error every time i try to convert a ti-86 basic program. i tokenized it and allthat and it still wont work. give me some help please

I get the same thing except that i get some fatal error sayin all this crap i tokenized it and everything but it wont convert it to 86 asm whats goin on here