Nice to see this finally featured. It's a great game.
As for taking hours to complete, I must concur. In fact, I'm not sure I've even finished it myself.
Good job thepenguin77!

Congrats Brian! This is a great game, and deserving of a feature. Wonderful!

It is better to play it here: http://furg.net/the-impossible-game/

Damnit, I lost the game...

That said, awesome port ThePenguin77!

I have intentions of taking this to the TI-89 family... is source code available?

Yes, source code is included in the package.

Um... no, it's not. There's a .8xp file, a .z80 file, the .gif, and the readme.

The .z80 file is the source code. It is a text file that contains assembly code source.

Sure enough... I just had to open it with the right text editor (it was giving me gibberish when I opened it in Notepad).

Gibberish? More likely is that it's Unix (also Linux) line format, which means the file looks like one line in Notepad.

Try opening it with notepad :P

Try reading the whole conversation before posting.

Ok, sorry. Missed your comment. I used notepad. So I don't see why it wouldn't open with notepad.

I just downloaded it myself. Notepad worked fine.

Then your copy of Notepad must be broken. Reinstall Windows.

lol XD

anyways... in the rare case that you are serious... just uninstall notepad, then reinstall it from the windows xp cd...

or you can download notepad 2.0 which is awesome for programming...

Yeah my concern is that two people using Windows including ThePenguin77 himself could open the z80 file fine. I, myself, could open the file fine, too.

z80 files are pretty much txt files with a different extension anyway.

...Or you could download Notepad++, even more awesome for programming.

Go for it. It's honestly not that hard of a game to make.
Actually you are in luck, I just posted some of the inner working explanations on Cemetech. I put the url in URL, I don't know where it will appear, but it's there.

Oh, and thanks for the back to school game feature. I'm sure this will get it a lot more downloads than it would otherwise.

Speaking of great games by Brian, I'm surprised these two haven't been featured yet as well:
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/
files/fileinfo/429/42901.html
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/
files/fileinfo/429/42902.html
(delete the spaces between / and files)

well... probably because the missile game crashes on DCS
and is fairly simple, while orbit is a bit too simple...

but i must say that they sure are fun...
i still have orbit on my calc :P

not missile though... since it crashes everytime i quit :/

Which isn't my fault. It doesn't even crash when run from Ti-OS. It was a slight overlook by Kerm. Kerm fixed it though. Eventually I'll have to update Missile and fix it as well.

yeah, i know.
i am just stating the reasons of what i think...

i think your games are great and extremely creative too
i would have never thought of those ideas :)

I didn't really think of them either. It's more like:
*plays a game* "I have to make this!"

oh.. i see lol

but what game could you have played to give you the idea of orbit? :O

plus i haven't seen a game that is like missile either :P

I believe the most recent beta of DCS (6.9.1) fixes this issue. Let's see, with my high scores of 69 (Missile) and 36 (Orbit) has come a lot of time spent playing such wonderful games. Currently my friend and I both have 69s on Missile and are attempting to best each other, but we haven't yet. I'm sure they'll both provide many more hours of fun for me. =)

mine was 52 or something...
as for orbit i currently have 32

Orbit: 117
Missile: 88

My friend got a 105 in missile.

holy crap!
did you make a lagging program or something?
cause i can't imagine something like that!
O.O

nice job lol

He may have done a tool-assisted run with WabbitEmu (the latest version lets you play at 1% speed), but again, he might just be very very good at the game. :P

Nope, I wouldn't consider it a highscore if I cheated.

Though I did get a 172 in wabbitEmu on 25% :P