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Excellent job, Peter Butcher (Hmm, that's a new name around here)! This game looks great, and proves that 3d fps are not just for 68k calcs and can be on z80 calcs!

Actually, rest assured that he's been around here MUCH longer than you ;-). And you really butchered his name. Peter BUCHER :p

And it wasn't the first one either. I am pretty sure that (Now this is where i feel old, but not actually old and yet knowledgeable) DAEDELUS (TI-85) was the first. I know it was at least a maze program but i think it did have weapons and enemies

Looks cool, id download it if i had a TI-83

I'll trade you my 83+ for your 89

I like my TI-83 Plus -- I just want a TI-89 too!

Heck, I'll take both of them (another 89 can't be bad).

It looks like a good game, and I'm sure it is, but there's one small, or rather big problem. The game is too big! Unless you have an SE, which I don't, it would have just about be the only program on your calc. I don't think it's worth the space on my calc, because it's too big, not because it's not good.

i agree, somebody (not me; i've given up with z80) should develop compression for the Z80 calcs, similar to EXEPacking on the 68K calcs. I don't know if it's possible, but it would be nice.

Having re-written the asm routines of the exepact decompression function, I think that a z80 port would be possible.

So how fast does this Game run?

Hopefully pretty fast, thought it seems rather hard to make fast 3D graphics. You know how slow Defiance moves for the TI-82.

I played it, it is pretty fast and amazing!

Amazing, but very slow.

fast enough for me

he should have used grayscale, it would be easier to see stuff in the distance.

If he did, it would be UNBEARALBE slow. If you think that it is slow now, you would not even want to play it in grayscale. Remember, the grayscale readme says gray games run at 10% of normal.

-W-

No, don't use that grayscale library. Just create his own for 3 colors: white, gray, and black. He could make all of the people and ammo gray, so that they would stand out more, 'cause right now they are kind of hard to see. Oh, well. It probably won't happen.

I did not think about him making his own gray, I'm just not one of those orignal thinkers, I guess.

Either way, it would greatly improve the graphics of the game.

The greyscale libraries run pretty smoothly (I'm using them). Click on the web page button to see what they look like... pretty good, huh?

The link doesn't work, and it doesn't matter how smooth the grayscale runs, speed matters.

the link does work, but is a little slow - www.calc83plus.netfirms.com for faster d'load.
I made a booboo - I meant that the GAME still runs smoothly and quite fast, not the Greyscale.

I usually check up on your site once a month or so... I like all the games/programs you made :) If I was better with z80, I'd attempt to port them to the TI-82 (but I'm not 'better')...

Two reasons:
1) Grayscale on the TI-82= B A D. (See Donkey Kong for CrASH... the game is great, but even a still title screen flickers unbareably)
2) Grayscale on 82 = ssssslllllooooowwwww.....

Of course, on the 82, it would technically be called bluescale...

LOL :) That made me laugh... good thing, since I've been moping around all day because my TI-89 is not with me :(

I may be wrong, but I don't think that's possible on TI 83+ maybe on TI 83 SE the Z80 are slow and while the 68K calcs have graphics chip the 83 has to use the cpu, so the Z80 calcs are slow, and uncapable of performing multitasking, and their RAM is so limited, even if it was possible, the prgm would be very big.
I'm not a pro, I barely can assemble, but that's what I think I may (probably) be wrong :P
I used to think 3D engines like Gemini and now Wolfenstein were impossible

Ah! Finally a mission worthy of me trying to learn z80 assembly. I'll start on learning tomorrow. Expect a relese of one in the months to come.

The game shouldn't have integred nivels, so the external nivel could be archive and the prgm would be lightier