Retrospect

stranger3.zip <--- cart image here. Same as one posted at top of thread, but I always allow my threads to get 'messy' so it's here too if anyone wants it. It has a really cool unpacking progress thing at the start.

Well, thankyou sir.

LMAO

butt plug.zip <--- uncompiled XB256 source with comments.

hahaha.... hey thats the 1st golden award i've ever had Karsten

I've added a little edit to my post to forewarn others. I never realized!

We've had crap game competitions and I never got involved, but this one might have secured a good place. BUTTPLUG.zip <--- .BIN image for cartridges BUTT99.zip <--- FIAD image (ideal for Classic99 and JS99er) Try it. You'll cringe. EDIT: If you 've got kids watching or a kid downloads it, convince them it's a shuttle-docking game!!! It ain't for kids really.....

Brilliant!

When I look at that game there on the video , I think of what Rasmus achieved with the FlappyBird game, and there you have it - it can be done ... as Rich says cut down, but I think, use the F-18A .... with that on board, am I right in that it has 4 way hardware scroll ? .... if so,the scrolling's possible. Someone who is good with graphics would be able to pull something off that is akin to the game at least. I'm not sure if a standard 99 would cut it with this, depending on how close to the original you want it.

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Aye, either that, or I cut down some of the stuff I've added. It's over 23K in all - I think I can make cuts and improve bits of code to get that down to 20K easily.

As I was going through the steps with compiling and assembling I got this message. No idea what's caused it.

Aye that would be handy, the walkthrough Cheers Tursi .... I knew there would be one or two things need doing .... Might as well get it all done in one go later on when i get back in.

Thanks for trying it out, glad you like.

Thanks omega. Don't think I've seen this site before. I notice it was updated last in 2003, dunno how i missed it lol

Unleashing the inner Greg Hassett in you. And really only a TRS-80 guy would know who the heck that was. He started adventures at 13 or 14 , but his parsers were not as clever as the one in Stranger. They were probably less able to detect words along a sentence.

The way I altered the input was to have two print statements followed by an ACCEPT AT(24,1) statement right after the prints. It scrolls the screen nicely and makes it clear for user input, also it was made to print out the last command the user inputted before deciding on what action to take. I did all that just to get rid of the beep the TI makes on a standard INPUT A$ command. Are there any CALL PEEK commands available that would switch off the sound for a standard input, I wonder? Thanks Tursi, this one got me quite excited and I didn't remember to ask first I'm sure I've left a bug in there. I had difficulty getting to the bit where you tie the rope to the tree (do you do that?) just after the spider goes away (spoiler)

Well, to be honest, I was never looking for anything more than a little fun with what I think, or hope, is source that's open to modify, s'long as it's Mike Ward's name or Tursi's name on it and never mine I was just having a play with it really, see what can be done with it. It's a great little adventure, I love text adventures but especially on the TI because its not a trash-80. It can do more. And it's fun to play around with the fonts.

Well, it's not an Orc.

also to note : if anyone is playing this , make sure use capitals when you type as it won't recognise lower case. My lazy bad.

Brilliant..... one thing, let me know if you come across any bugs - there might be some newly introduced ones, even as small as text not being placed rightly on the screen. If there's more , I'll update it. Obviously, if it's to go further than something for yourself to play with, then it's out of my hands as Mike is the author .... I just tarted it all up a little

stranger3.zip <--- cart image here. My thanks to Tursi for various things including putting up with me sending him bugged games ! Also to Harry Wilhelm for the excellent compiler.

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Geek mode <on> According to this poll, 6 people here own a TI99/4 ..... they must surely be very rare now. I actually prefer the upper-case font the /4 has , especially when you add a background colour to the characters, they fit in the 8x8 cells better...... Geek mode <off>

isn't that the video that had the .... BUTT PLUG !!!!!