Retrospect

Think I'll stick to calling Dopewars "dodgy dealer" instead then. I've got a new version coming up that uses the RXB module, I'll re-change the title. Tursi's right.

I've just left him a nice message to read too lol Some people.

Sometimes99er is bang on the nail, but there's really only one exception in my mind, that would be a bit shitty, take for example, if I had taken Tursi's Stranger game, redone all the graphics, added a font, and released it as my own, with no reference or acknowledgement to Tursi? .... Quite rightly, Tursi's velvet tones would turn harsh and he would probably lose his shit. That kind of thing is where it's not a matter of copyright it's a matter of not wanting to stamp on people's toes, but I have never once witnessed anyone ever doing that here ... I think we're all too polite and respectful. But i WILL one day make a Dealer game and outrightly call it DOPEWARS because nobody else seems to be doing it for the TI, the original writer certainly won't, and so I will.....

Blackbeard's Treasure by MG was on cassette and that might have been 32K?

Hi. Sorry to break in like this, just wanted to mention , it just so happens JS99er runs really great on an Acer Chromebook. I was playing Scramble on the TI while on a train the other day. I only stopped because I threw up a bit with travel sickness. It was awesome. Nip over to vorticon's site for great games, you can get the disk to route to the download folder and you are in TI heaven in no time. My main emulator of use is Classic99 for making my programs on or if im in the house. for work/travelling it's js99er with the chromebook everytime. Life has actually improved.

Well, partly thanks to some of my code not exactly being byte-friendly, for the 1st time, I've almost filled TI Basic. That takes patience. I found myself playing the game whilst on the train using my Acer Chromebook and JS99er .... During the journey, I found myself tutting at the ponderous speed of the scrolling text. Then I chuckled at the thought that someone in 1982 would have happily paid £4.95 for this on cassette. I would. I love dopewars. If it wasn't for the drug involvement it would actually be a very good educational programme for children, what with all the working out what item will give us a higher profit and all. So I'm gonna make it again, for either xb256 or rxb, they both give 32 golumn display printing, and are guaranteed to run faster. I would compile this game, but there's not enough floating point to hit the numbers we need, it's not a problem though. EDIT: Psst. ... any turboforth guys out there interesting in doing a port of this? That would be insanely great.

Do it all again but with DSK1 instead? or any of the 3 DSK's already setup in classic99 Also - make sure you're using the right format - sometimes it gets confusing when we switch from DSK to FIAD

Well, not sure really, but the game starts and attempts to get the main screen up then tells you it's run out of memory. So the pre-scan thing must only scan literal bytes and not the added bytes that the arrays will consume? That might be why it boots and fails because it's suddenly had it's DIM'd arrays stacked up with a few bytes more than it can chew.

Hey Owen , would "Custer's Revenge" be a do-able thing for the TI ? ..... I know it's a stupid game but it is slightly funny.

Sorry about the little bug in the game I just put up, I've edited the above post and it's now corrected.

This one's about the best I can get out of stock TI basic on a 16K system. I found the need to type "CALL FILES(0)" and then "NEW" before loading it. (That was with Classic99, I think the real iron is "CALL FILES(1)" or I might be wrong?) In this version, if you run out of money mid-game, but already have things in your inventory, you can sell your existing items to make a little money back (at least for the taxi money) Also, if the debt collector comes and haven't paid him, you get to survive if there's enough value to your inventory. There's a handy little feature that shows you the amount of profit you've made with each sale. Police won't screw you completely if they catch you and it's your 1st offence - they will take half of your cash and leave your inventory alone, however, get caught again and you're screwed. Also added is a random event, every now and again a dealer leaves his house unlocked, and you get the option to burgle the house..... you can find money, drugs, the dealer can come back and shoot you, or the cops can come. (EDIT) DODGY.zip <---- Bug fixed ! ..... when caught by police on 1st offence,debts were cleared. to fix older version, type 3440 GOSUB 2570 Previous command was gosub 2750 which ended up clearing the debt

Well, to me, it's always gonna be Mike Ward's "Stranger" .... that has a ring to it, kind of like 'Scott Adam's Adventure'.

That'll more likely be Dopewars ? ... that game has inspired me to do this one for the TI. It doesn't have the insane cops, guns, or any runners (bitches) ... but there's time yet.

I've discovered a quirk / bug .... Should have really tested for this before releasing the game but, if you get arrested with 1 day left to pay your debt, you don't have to pay it - the game says "-2 days to repay" I'm not sure the game's good enough to warrant fixing it. If enough people show interest I will work on it till it's perfect. Then again it IS in a shit game thread

Update to Dealer Game now correctly shows how much your inventory is worth at the end of the game. TI BASIC DEALER.zip

Yeah mate. Works in normal TI basic .

Here's another dodgy game. Comes with instructions and source file. TI BASIC DEALER.zip Actually this might make a good Forth project for those who know how ?

There you are ! ... I got this idea from one of your videos. Colecoataridore 99/4A2E?

Bless ya Tursi .... it was a lot of fun for me to do, I enjoyed working on the graphics, and experimenting with the fonts.

Damn thats a good point! .... scrap that- I'm gonna leave it just as it is haha

When I think what I had and should have saved. But I never thought that way, back in the day. I had a few UK cassettes , a couple of them have resurfaced thank's to Ciro Biralles' efforts with the Apex and Intrigue games. I had a couple of others, Dodger, Alpine Quest, all of which I would have somehow gotten a digital image of.

I have a version in the works that has a very much rounder butt.

You're from the UK .... did you have the same struggle I had, with no other friends owning the same computer? ... I remember travelling some distance to buy a game on cassette.

Hi all. When I was a lad, I owned my TI between '85 and '87, and in all that time, only one other person in my village owned one, ( im in the UK) he had the price-war model, I had the intentional one. So really, in the school playground I wasn't frowned upon, but I was asked a lot of questions about my computer, yet with nobody to share any software with. A lot of the other kids had ZX Spectrums, C64s, and the odd kid with a BBC. I can only imagine in America it would be different somehow, did anyone have neighbours or friends nearby with another TI or were most of us lone-stars?

Well, anything's fine by me, Tursi will be around sometime later, maybe ask him too, "Stranger" is his baby really, I just tarted it up with graphics and sounds and a new font