Well. This is Aeromax (formerly known as Flameviper). I've been wandering the Internet for a while now. Anyway, I'm a TI-BASIC programmer and I've made several games for the TI-8X. I don't have access to all of them (laptop broken) currently, so this is what I have right now. (Files hosted on United-TI )

GRAFPRIX - Graph Prix '08, a driving game for the graph. Approx. 10,500 bytes; the biggest game I've ever made. It has 4 levels, 50 high scores for individual legs, 200 scores for the whole track, archived (by the program) in LL400 - LL408. You might have to reset them in DEBUG before the program works right.

ROTATOR - Rotorswat, which I programmed yesterday. Uses LL411 to store its high scores. Essentially, pixels fly across the screen and you have to hit them by spinning a stick. About 2,500 bytes. Again, if it doesn't work right the first time, might have to do 20->Dim(LL411) and then Fill(0,LL411) to get it working right.

DODGER - Spikerunner '06, the first game I ever made. It took me about a month to do it; now I can make a game twice the quality in a day. But it's a pretty solid game in its own right. It uses ASCII elements, and you're an X at the bottom of the screen who has to dodge the V's that come flying down (the closer you get to them the more points you get, but if they hit you, you die). About 6,600 bytes. Uses L300 for storage.[url][/url]

As the people on UTI said, interesting concepts, but the coding optimization needs some major overhauling.

Yo shit! It's FlameViper!
Give me those links, fool!

He already did - just click the UnitedTI link in the first post, where he linked to downloads for all three of these programs.

I've made, ZIPPED, and uploaded to the archive a new program, Frontrunner (download here). Here's the code.


Code:

The first thing that I noticed was your use of labels and goto statements. Never use goto statements inside a loop or if / then statement because it will cause memory leakage (the program never detects the end statement).

Also, ending " s and ) s are never required; leave those off because it saves a lot of memory. They are also unnecessary before storing something (i.e. "blah-> str1, etc)

You have the following codes several times (presumably in place of Pause)::

Code:


Repeat doesn't check the condition until the end of the loop, so setting theta to 0 is unnecessary at the beginning.

not(F is equivalent to F=0, and is smaller (and possibly faster? I'm not sure on this one)

Use 3 = L1(theta not L1(theta) = 3 (you get to leave off the second parenthesis in the former).

Also, a better pause command, if you don't need the actual key that was pressed is:

Repeat getKey :End

Hopefully, that helped you some.

Finally, in place of using powers of 10, use E blah, where E is the small capital E thing and blah is the desired power (i.e. 10000 = E4)

On a similar note,
Code:

Should become:
Code:

"Repeat getKey :End"?

Holy crap, that's gonna save a lot of time.

@Aeromax: Make note of this:


To teh others: Thanks a lot for posting these tips up because they've helped more then just Aeromax, lol.

I am personally a terrible Basic programmer, just cause I haven't really put any effort in to learning good techniques or even learning some of the different easy commands.

I'm terrible at constantly using labels and things like that to do a lot of the work (I know, terrible, or at least so I've heard).

Keep up the good work Aeromax

Swivel: Then post up some code so we can take a shot at optimizing it!

Aeromax: Take a look at http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/369/36993.html.