wow this was great timeing for me to start my ams learning, i started yester day but didn't know what to do now hopefully i can get my game done for program of the year (im a slow learner)

Here is a tutorial (well, book really) on assembly. It isn't z80 specific but it has helped me tremendously.

wow 1426 pages that must have taken a while to write(and a long time to read) i don't know if it print worthy with the fact that it would take 3 times the ammount of paper i have on hand

Yeah, I printed a few really helpfull chapters but read the rest with Adobe Reader.

Not to mention the ink/toner that you would need.

Okay, okay. I know that there is absolutely no reason why I should not learn it now. you have broken me.

-W-

Want ot have another race? I'll let you pick the program this time :-)

It'll be a little bit, but "it is on!"

-W-

Cool! Just let me know :-) I bet you win this time!

Iwould like to thank case Boehm for sending me the link to the onlive version of the assembly tutorial. I would have linked to it a long time ago if I had known it was on the web.

Also a big thanks to Boris for taking the chance and writing the first ticalc.org Exclusive in (what I am guessing ot be) about 6 years.

If you want to write a tutorial for ticalc.org where you can link to your personal webiste from it if you so wish, just e-mail tutorials@ticalc.org and I will be happy to help ya out as I see fit.

P.S. I am going on vacation for about a month anf with no internet don't expect me to be doing a whole lot of filearchiving. Sorry but I need this break!

Slacker. :)

AHHHHH!!! I can't beleive I just used a smiley!!!! AAARRRGGGG!!!

I know enough about BASIC that the Tutorial wasn't necessary, but it is a fine one. I used bgo.netfirms.com to teach me everything when I was in High School. A great site.
Anyways, it seemed to me when reading Boris' sample programs that they were really too muddled and cluttered. A lot of them could be cut out, and you could do the exact same thing in half as much memory. Anyone else see this?

Yes, I also noticed that. Infact, reading those tutorials prompted me to start work on my own set, because I already know 83+basic, and could barely get anything out of those things :)

sorry, when i said "get anything out of", i meant "understand".

yeah, they did seem a bit short... myself i used bgo.netfirms and some (matt's?) site for BASIC with the black background and blue text

I also used matt's tutorials. Those things are great, it's like mjs2000 something or other, right? Hey by the way, check your email if you get a chance.

I made a pdf of a basic BASIC tutorial of my own... it was OK but it kind of laid it on heavy (as in teaching every possible thing about the Disp statement before moving on to Pause, not learning all the basics THEN coming back and learning more). Actually the only good things about it were the getkeycode chart and the cool header. :)

Who needs a chart? The keys have an easy to understand pattern.

The getKey numbers are easy to remember if you use it a lot...i can remember some, like the numbers for the arrow keys, clear, and commonly used things, but i still have to refer to the chart sometimes.

Not in 68K

There is the modifier pattern-if you add a constant to the unmodified code, you get diamond, 2nd, shift, or alpha modified codes.

TI-BASIC isn't that hard to learn. If you know Basic/C/C++ or almost any programming language, TI-BASIC is very easy to learn. I fiddled around with my 83+ for about two days after I got it and knew most of the commands. The only thing you really have to learn is the syntax and what variables to put in what order. The TI-89 menu tells you what syntax to put in, so it makes it even easier, providing you have some fundamental programming skills. Assembly, of course, is a different matter (at least to me).

Well, after this last BASIC project of mine gets done, I will start my journey through assembly. I've not yet learned how to do it, but my calculus classes at college are really making me want to learn now. So after August 1st, I will begin learning assembly.

Assembly is too low level. I'm sticking to scripting languages.