Well, this is very good, the author, from what I've seen, seems to have greatly improved his RPG making skill.

It makes BASIC for the 83+ like a cool language.

Good work!

>> the author, from what I've seen, seems to have greatly improved his RPG making skill.
No kidding. <see link> No offense, but using text isn't very effective (although it is faster). Sprites are much better.

Well, I have to say, if the link works as well as the screenshot on calc *I'm* impressed by the text-based one...

Me too. It's not easy to write an RPG in BASIC. Because it's so... well, basic.

hey i also took BASIC RPGs to a whole new level. Check out my Beowulf 3: Revenge of the Dragon. It's also pretty big, though not as big as his. It's possible that he got that idea from me.

No offense, but yours isn't all that great. I'm not saying anything I made is good either, but that's an entirely different matter.

Do I really need TI-OS and mirageos to run RL3 on my TI-83+? I can't find TI-OS for the TI-83+! Please Tell Me Where It Is!

LOL, the TI-OS is alerady installed on the calculator. You don't need MirageOS.

Thanks for your help. I just got my TI-83+ about a month ago.

*gasps* Featured basic programs! What is going on here?! It is like everything that I know is wrong! Black is white, up is down...

-W-

Yeah, but this may be one of the few BASIC programs to actually deserve a featuring. Seriously: you try making a good BASIC game like that with 900 hours of hard work... :-)

btw, was it just me or was ticalc.org down for the past three hours?

It was down for a couple of hours.

As for the game...

I played them both, they are both excelent games. If it wasn't for them being a lil slow, they could almost be mistaken for ASM games.

These games contain a huge amount of features... If he cut them down, thetn thy'd be much fsater... but programming like for 900 hours... whew!

now if they were to be converted to C for the 68k calcs...

That probably wouln't be too hard to do(still not easy, but easier than porting a game in z80 asm)

So, how much ASM was actually used in these RPGs?
I can't quite wrap my mind around someone doing all that in basic as "pxlchange(y,x)"
It's been a while since a basic program has been featured, let alone two. Perhaps there was a fad in between with some other language.

It uses some ASM subprograms. like codex, basic tools and such... rl3 is slow with map loading though... but rewritingit woudl prove to be mega hassle with zapi, but loading map time= basically none... but hey... what canya do?

Learn ASM. *I must do that one day*

I'm getting college credit for learning 68k ASM! See link...I'm loving it... ;)

Oops...broken link. Here's the course description:
Assembly language programming including input/output programming and exception/interrupt handling. Register-level computer organization, I/O interfaces, assemblers, and linkers...
So much fun

Lats year I wrote a paper for English on the "Best z80 Calculator." and this semester I am writing a quiz for my science calss on 86 ASM with oodles of features. I have all semester t do it...its great.

Hmm that middle line didn't make much sence. Tries again:

I am writing a quiz for my science calss on Entomology in 86 ASM (possible 83 series port) with oodles of features.

I am in the process of it now. :-D

Does anyone know where I could get a list of what all the MirageOS subroutines actually DO?

If it is too big to post here, email me (click on my name).

Have you tried the MirageOS development page?
http://www.detachedsolutions.com/ mirageos/develop/
(remove the spaces)

Download the .zip file; it tells you everything, and you might learn some new stuff (I learned that the MOS interrupts are stored in statVars :)

The RPGs look excellent! I've been planning to make one ever since last year in BASIC (using ASM subroutines), but other projects had more priority :)

I went there, but it only gave me the uses of a few.. I emailed them asking for a descriprion of them, but they haven't emailed me back.

P.S. I am making an ASM RPG now, but it will probably end up in BASIC, haha.

Did you download the zip? It describes (I think) every function that is in mirage.inc! In that .zip, there are 2 .txt files, one describes the MOS header, the other describes the routines that you've been wanting to know.

OK, I got them. That's what I downloaded in the first place, but I didn't think to look in that file :).

BTW, does anyone have a first person engine setting on their calc or know someone that does? I need it for a game, and if you let me access the code, I will give you partial credit for the game.

(: It can be in ASM or BASIC :)

I'm not exactly sure what you are asking for, but I'm gussing you mean some sort of first-person 3d game engine. The best one I've seen was called gemini written in assembly. I believe the source is included in it on this site somewhere (probably under ion asm programs for the 83+). The program is huge, but it could probably be greatly reduced in RAM requirements at a slight cost to speed in level/graphic loading by seperating the data into seperate files and storing them in the flash ROM.

hmm... a 3d RPG for the TI-83, that actually sounds like a good idea and it also seems possible considering what gemini can do and it's requirements (only about 24k).