something to do in class at school woohoo

Will we ever see an 83 version?

maybe someone will port it to the 83+ but the 83 version is out of question

Why is the 83 "out of the question"

For this simple reason, there is not enogh memory on the calc to even put it on in its full version.

Probably not. Rumor has it that 68K => Z80 ports are obscenely hard.

--BlueCalx

Qucik question, Nick, When do you think you could post my article?

Quick answers are probably not forthcoming...

I wonder, Forthcomming, Did you ever have a teacher named Englebret, who commanly was quoted saying "The Doughnuts are Forthcomming...". Also, Look at bottom of page to see my first comment.

It's not really "hard," it's just not possible. You wouldn't say that flying by oneself (think Superman) is insanely hard, you'd say that it's flat out impossible. It's not a question of the author's skill, it's a question of feasibility.

It's not impossible, you just need to know the conversions and COMPLETELY rewrite the code.

oh, yeah, that wouldn't be a port then, somebody flame me!

arrgh! fire bad!

Well, you'd need to be aerodynamically sound.

If I had wings it might be possible :)

--BlueCalx

Still not possible. You would have to have a 1 to 1 thrust ratio. Also, a bird's bones are hollow, which enable them to fly better. Unless you're gonna hollow out your bones and you're gonna add an engine to your anatomy that has a thrust equal or beyond your weight, it doesn't seem likely that you'll go and fly any time soon, unless you get a glider and jump off the Grand Canyon.

<~>Ethereale

So everybody use C, then. :)

Galaxian was based on phoenix, they are very similar. But phoenix has shops and weapons!

You've got it backwards.... Phoenix was the predecessor to Galaxian... Galaxian was made for the 85 then ported to every other z80 calculator... Then came along the 92 and well... you know the rest... I think the first version I had on my 92 was like 0.61 or somethin like that... It sure has come a long way

um... What?

You said Phoenix was the predecessor to Galaxian, but the guy who says Galaxian is based on Phoenix is wrong???

A predecessor is something that came before... i.e. Phoenix came before Galaxian... so why is that backwards?

God bless the English language... it's so messy.

Way cool with the white on black routine. IT does have some bugz though. Sometimes during the gamepaly (at random) when u touch the end of the right side of the screen, it takes away a lot of shields and can kill you. Other than that it is pretty cool. I am also starting a greyscale version of starwars 89 TC. Watch out for it. Neways kudos to PAD for a good update.

Well, I'm going to guess that the reason for this is because if you play the 92+ version, the game has a "tunnle-like" feel... There are "walls" on either side that will really take your shields away if you hit them too much. It could just be that somehow the "walls" are kinda there but not.. in the 89 version that is... I havn't d/led 6.0 yet, but I'm about to.

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