Two Player Battleship!
by Prashant Tatineni

This is my first half-way decent game, so please read the IMPORTANT NOTES AND BUGS

This is Battleship for the TI-83 graphing calculator.  You must have two TI-83s to play.
Each player has a ship grid and a firing grid on his screen.  The ships are only one square
each.  There are 5 ships.

The game takes 1638 bytes but you need more to actually play.


INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Put the file Bshipv32 in an uncompressed folder.
2. Send the file to your calculator.
3. Send the program to another calculator to play against.
4. Start the game.  One person should be Player A and the other should be Player B.
   Player A fires first.  Other than that the game should be pretty self explanatory.


         -> IMPORTANT NOTES AND BUGS!!! <-


If you are player 1, after typing in your 5 ships it will say OPPONENT READY?  Ask your
opponent if he's done putting in his 5 ships also before you continue or it'll freeze.

After entering your fire coordinates it says PRESS ENTER.  If you press enter too fast,
the game may freeze.  It shouldn't be a big problem but if the game freezes you know why.

After entering your fire coordinates and it says PRESS ENTER, make sure you do press enter
or your turn will be skipped.

If you're playing the game and an ERR:MEMORY comes up, you need to delete some stuff to
play.


OTHER CALCULATOR VERSIONS:


This game may work on a TI-83+ but there's a possibility of some problems.  My first 
version kind of worked but I've updated the game since then.

The game doesn't work on a TI-82 for right now.


HISTORY AND FUTURE:

I actually started making battleship in December 1999 but I only recently fixed it.

This is version 3.2, 3 for TI-83 and 2 because its the third version.  The first two
versions, 3.0 and 3.1, were test versions that didn't always work.

In the future I hope to make the ships more than one square like the real battleship.

So you like the game but everybody's beating you?  I recently made an altered battleship
program that tells you where your opponent's ships are without your opponent knowing.
Email me if you want this program.

If you think the beginning credits are too long I can take them out, but I think
they're kind of cool.

It might make sense to make a one player battleship game first, but I am just now starting
one.

If you have any other cool ideas, please email me.




MY INFORMATION:

My name is Prashant Tatineni.
I'm not a hardcore programmer, I just know some basic and C++.
I got this idea from Jeff Sterniak, an avid programmer and friend of mine, who a couple of
years ago said, "I'm making a battleship game on the calculator" and I was like, "cool"
and then he never finished so I started one of my own.
I own a TI-80, TI-81, TI-82, TI-83, TI-86, and TI-89, and a bunch of colored slide covers.
Also, I am a cool guy.


EMAIL:

ptpro@usa.net


(C) Copyright 1999-2000 Prashant Tatineni