Hey, can any of these great Z80 games be ported to the TI-85. I'm sure all of the people who own TI-85's feel bad that not many more games are made for it anymore :(
Please respond!!!!!

Do you by any chance happen to own a TI-85?

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I hate to break it to you, but the reason there is a lack of new TI-85 games is because there are not many (if any) TI-85 programmers working on making/porting new games.

And now, a rant to people in general (not necessarily to you, Aaron) --

If you all haven't figured it out already, programmers generally make programs for the calculator(s) they own. Questions like, "Why didn't he make this for the TI-89 instead? It's a better calculator." are senseless. Honestly, no one is going to go out and buy the calculator you want a port for. Trying to do a port through emulation w/o the calculator is also very much going out of a programmer's way (not to mention illegal). Plus, without extensive knowledge of the target calculator, the port may not be of good quality.

If you want a port, *you*, the owner of the target calculator, should volunteer your time to make a port. Email the author for the source code and I'm sure he/she would comply.

I hope saying this will clear up some things, and maybe prevent a lot of unnecessary message board comments in the future. The state of ticalc's message board lately is already in shambles enough.

Have fun,
-Justin

PS. Program requests never work, especially when excessive (can you say Evil Dead 89?). These people work for free, so they make what _they_ want, not what _you_ want. If you want something, then make it yourself. After all, that's what these programmers are doing!

Thanks, sorry about the slight fit I had. Maybe when I learn to program assembly, I may try to do some porting myself. Until then....who knows???

can u port infinity to the 83+?

I'm sorry, no. Infinity is a commercial project for Gameboy Color only.

It could be a clone though...

well, as it seems that everyone else here is being unsuportive of your game, I just wanna say that this game is pretty amazing. very cool. good job!

Hey, a guy who doesn't mind the grayscale! You're one of the good ones, dude. Thanks.

Matt

Yeah,
fankly, I dont' see why everyone is whining about the grayscale...
On my 83+ it runs fast enough, (wouldn't want it any faster :-) and you actually have to watch closely to see som (non-annoying flickering).

All I have to do now is messwith my contrast settings to see the grayscale correctly.

Great game, though you need to get used to the controls :-)

Keep up the good work!

I think the grayscale is fine. It's nothing compared to the quality of the TI-86, but it is better than having your selection box disappear into the landscape. Great job Matt!

If you "xor" the selection box it won't disappear.

(for anyone who doesn't know:)

True+True=False
True+False=True
False+True=True
False+False=False

right?

Yep.

Cool! I'm right! :-) If there is some kind of Lemmingz for the 82 in BASIC (gasp) then PLEASE send it to me. Thanx. Also, I can't get into the Ash website. It's all blocked. It says something like "You are not authorized to view this page", but I want to learn Ash, so what do I do?

hey everybody, i dont care what u say, this game kicks

Is it possible to allow the level sets to stay archived?

I'm really not an 83+ asm programmer, but I think that such a feature must be possible. I mean, if you look at MirageOS, it can unarchive programs before running them, etc.

Hopefully someone can figure out how this can be done with Lemmingz (great game BTW), because the level sets are HUGE, and you really can't have them all in RAM at once.

Well, I suppose it is possible to look for the levelpack in the archive instead, it wouldn't even have to load it into memory, but you're not supposed to "have them all in RAM at once", you're just supposed to unarchive the pack you want to play when you're ready to play it. You archive any additional packs to hide them from Lemmingz, because it plays the first one it finds. I think that addresses your problem. Glad to hear you like the game, by the way.

You could have the program search for levels in the Flash, and then copy them into RAM when the user picks one to play.

This is a great game, but I agree that it would be nice if levels could be permanently stored in the archive.

Hey Matt, wherever you are, this is in ASM right?

I don't think there's any doubt about that :)