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The "Sprite" gunman! Ver. 0.2 I want to try to make a Gunman that draw his gun, but can I do that within the limitations... Maybe make a game that as soon as he looks at you he will draw and shoot you... and you have so so much time to react in time... But that is in the future... IF I can do what I want... Inspired by this game. I tried to "fix" the Spectrum pics to see how easy/difficult it would be to make it fit the TI... The colour is hard to get around, but with Sprites, maybe. This is my first try... Will make my own tread for this! Skinn colour... can not find it, hehe... So this is Mr. G. Host!

Good! But... Can I have another column to sort the games... like in "greatness"? That I can sort and see? Or same column, but option to sort from fav, great to not so great?

Is it possible to add a score system to add behind the title. So that over time I have a list of games in descending order of "greatness"?

#1 Download and Install this gamebase frontend v1.3 - Zip file previous post! #2 Download and Unzip - GameBase v.3.03 - Zip file previous post! #3 In the GameBase v.3.03, copy the "TI99-4A" folder and replace it in the installed GameBase frontend v1.3 (C:\GameBase, if you did not change destination) - There is already a "TI99-4A". Just replace the old with the v3.03 - TI99-4A folder. #4 That gave me a new result! More testing to see if it works now 😛

Yes... slowly getting somewhere... But still not getting it to work... Re-reading stuff here and slowly progressing...

NICE!!! Again nice colours and graphics! Impressed!

Trace (#a number) 1=Upper left corner! 2=Upper right corner! 3=Lower right corner! 4=Lower left corner! 5=Middle of the screen! Then Trace post the line numbers at that position. If important info is in that spot, use another number for a stationary post of line numbers, as program is running!

Is this an fix/update of the "standard" Ex Basic? (That would be cool!)

You are WAY to hard on yourself! Even WITH bugs, GREAT games! I am so impressed with what you make. I know I am fare away from doing what you do. I understand all the code... But to put it together, that is something else! I love to see your new versions of the games. BUT... You do not need to push them out so fast. Think about it in this way... If you use more time in between, you give me (guess everyone else too) joy over a LONGER period So, give yourself time. Lol, also to love the TI is to be patient! Things takes time, with a TI! But also (retro)respect yourself and take the break you need! You have for SURE earned that! I am looking forward to your next game! But take your time, until you get back and make more games and spread the lover, over more time. At the same time I understand the drive to finish stuff. PS! last week I learned something I knew, but in a new perspective... Always make sure that you stop doing what you love, at the top of your "drive". Not when it is going down and your fed up. In that way you look forward to get back to it, when you stop on a up going curve. It keeps feeding forward. I appreciate your games, your and the effort you put out to make games! AGAIN... GREAT games... and love to see your process, of making games!

A SMART imbecile

Will compiling it make it faster?

Thank you very much!

I am not promising a game, BUT I am playing around. Just getting around the did it hit or not was a issue... "Shit, I need to do that more often, to keep the "programming mindset" from dying!" 😛 hehehe Finally, figuring that CALL COINC had to be inside to loop to work. Ohhh, that stupid computer! Questions... I see that the "bullet" continues and comes out on the other side. I guess that is the time it takes to get the message that it is to delete the "bullet", in line 460? Am I wrong in presuming that to move that hole animation around as a sprite is not possible? To @SteveB: "Uppercase Beautifier", I wrote. "Call screen", when beautifying, it only change it to "CALL screen" (ver. v24), Same with xpos, it kept it lower case. Is this how it should work? PS! What about a short cut to that "Beautifier", Ctrl-U? Also... what about if I Export from SXB to XB. What if I could in pref. say to TiCodEd, ALSO copy the text in XP. So I can paste in right into Classic99? (save me some steps). I made a mistake and put the Characters from 32 and up... (Char page) In Extended Basic, Can I move it to XB256 or Auxiliary And can I move it from 32 and start it all from some-place higher, like Char 60? I was using Display at and I only got my Char and not numbers. So I wish to move Char above numbers so I can get values from Display at. "code completion feature" is it gone? I tested the "animation" function on the Char page, very nice function! Can you also do that with a 4*(8*8) Sprite? PS! I did this animation, first in another program, but your Char page was more useful when I knew how it was supposed to be.

Go for it! All I put out is free to use!

For sure... You have given me a lot a inspiration! I am more a graphics dude 😛 Not so much programming. That was my fasination with the TI, I could draw on it and make animations and stuff. Not knowing the limitations. I tried to make adds for shops on it. Lots of ideas, but hard to make stuff. With today's tool I can make stuff that would take me days, in a matter of minutes.

It is looking better and better. So many nice details to your game and it looks fast and smooth! It makes me make stuff and play around! All your fault! The X-fighter! Going Down: 007F62504F4665444C56647C0506070000F03050FF230589510351890523FF00 Going Up: 000706057C64564C4465464F50627F0000FF230589510351890523FF5030F000 The Stealth fighter Going Down: 0000000000385780700C020100000000000000000E12E408788040E000000000 Going Up:00000001023C51807F04020100000000000000E04E92E408F88040E000000000 The Crab Fighter Spinning 1: 0038FEFF1F0F04040704040F1FFFFE380000000F9FCFE6BEFEBEE6CF9F0F0000 Spinning 2: 0000000000000007FF070000000000000000000F1F0F06FEFEFE060F1F0F0000 Borg! Coming to assimilate you! Going Down: 7F406C6053514848272415140D0C0407E020101088086404FE02222A823202FE Going Up: 7F404C415444407F2026101108080407E02030B028A824E412128ACA063602FE The BMB (Bad Mad Bomber) 00001F224992A4A4A49249221F0000000000C0300CA2B19DB1A20C30C0000000 The Sniper! 000103050509091515112D2D2D2D110F00507C7F2A0000000000000000000000 000103050509091515112D2D2D2D110F002C7F7A500000000000000000000000 The Devil Hunter! 000101030206040F0F0700030301010080C0C06A60F570F9FA7075E0EAC0C080 000101030206040F0F0700030301010080C0C07560FA70FAF9707AE0F5C0C080 Mr. Biscuit! 0007182057403C02023C40572018070000C03088D4840A02020A84D48830C000 The Sting Ray! 00000000030FBC0C070CBC0F0300000000103070E0E1BA9EFE9EBAE1E0703010 And last - Falcon MK X BB! (BadBoss) A dream beyond the TI 😛 BadBoss fires 2 heat-seeking missiles! Half the distance as one and then splitting up! Over the "wavelength", this can be heard... "Surprise... Moth... F...er!"

I think you just showed your cards! When we tell about our view, it is just that, OUR view and thinking! And what YOU SEE, is a promoting of TIcodeEditor!?!? With that statement... Now I know, that THIS is what YOU do with FULL intent! When you write about your stuff, it is with promoting in mind. NOT to add value to a discussion, but promoting. 😃 I am looking forward to the results from this competition. I hope that people will explain the thinking behind the code you make. Also I think that this could be a recurring sometimes. As people learn from this competition, then more can take part as we learn our self to do something similar. I already have learned new stuff, just reading about how people are viewing this. (I am not a good programmer, so I try to learn and get better.) Only sad thing... have to wait until 15 of march for the results! I think this i s a good way to transfer know-how about programming to more people.

Insane.... is INSANE!!! But I love the game! It is fast paced and cool. But I will "struggle" with beginner 😛 hehehe

Looking forward to this! "SUPER TI WALL & WAR!" - Final!!!

Advice, do not make so huge jumps from level to the next. More like 10 more pr. lvl or something... You know let the customers get a "high" from getting to the next level and, the more lvl., the more hooked 😛 hehehehe

The T-Cup and Fish (Screensaver) 1 Made the cup in Magellan 2 Copy into PSP and put shadow on it to have something to work from 3 Made shadow in Magellan. Might need to redo. (dread 😛 ) 4 Made a fish to live and jump out of the water 'sometimes' Got some lines from Magellan but it did not put out a picture. Some h. in, rest and I might get back to it! #1 pic. is from PSP w/shadow! #2 pic. is with grid and almost done. The shadow is making problems as it has to be 3 colours in one square! #3 pic. is no grid and with fish that could be a sprite that jumps out of the water!

Love the perspective that the ground and the stars give the game! NICE!!!

I am a little surprised of the "ChatGPT is not cool" attitude. I see this as a new step in the computer evolution. A program that we make is a really stupid "A.I." to play a game. For me this is the natural evolution of computers, where we get it to, again do stuff that takes time to do. More can be automated. I think that this tool might be for the people that can imagine ways of making stuff in a new way. The danger I think is that this might make us even more engrossed in the virtual world. One could argue that this makes us stupid, well... that is what the computer dos all over! I can use a computer to write a document and make it look nice! I could not do that by hand, unless I use a lot of time to be good at it. So I am a little surprised that there is so little interest in ChatGPT. BUT... usually we are "scared" of the new stuff, so in that sense it is understandable. In my mind, I need to restructure my mind so see how I can use this tool to become even better! It makes me tingling with, "Wow, what more can I do with this?" This can't be stopped, the "plague" is out of the box. Now we need to grow to tame it! I am more scared of mindless use of this possibility! (T-1000 vs Humans - by Skynet)

I understand that this is not perfect, that is not what I am talking about. What I see is a possibility to as an example, take all the info about the TI, feed it into the ChatGPT and it will slowly be the one you can ask anything. Imagine this "engine" read all the info in this forum and then all the books, everything online. Then it would be a great teacher, you would feed it your program and it would debug it for you. So I am viewing this from the possibility, not how perfect it is now. Some changes and let it learn, it could be a super cool tool. I see great possibilities. Also I see how ChatGPT could answer beginner question WITH endless patients for slow or just new learners. So, the details, I can fix! But I got a great structure of a program in seconds! Also this is JUST the beginning.

Well I cant but test it and have fun... So we have Lotto here in Norway... 7 numbers... Evil plan... I will become RICH hehehehe (lol in a evil crazy way) and I will not share it with ChatGPT! YES it dos not know all the nuances, BUT I can fix that. I am just interested if I can make it do the iterations I ask of it. And I think it dos great! "Make it a program generating 7 numbers from 1 to 34" OK, Nice! And easy! But my evil mind keept going... "Make it generate 7 numbers a 1000000 times and then avg 7 numbers" OK, did what I asked for... Bad question bad program... BUT... Surprise surprise "ChatGPT: You can also store those numbers in an array and then use the array to calculate the average." PS! It also told me some miner stupid info about something taking time... My evil mind is not all there, but me and ChatGPT, together... can't be stopped! So I told ChatGPT, "store those numbers in an array and then use the array to calculate the average" I have not tested it, for sure buggy! But the idea that I had, I could reason out with ChatGPT and come out with a pretty good starting point. If this would work on the TI... probably not. But... If you can do this with TI Basic... then soon it will be open season for people with great imagination to start to make programmes never seen before, much easier! This is the start, much as the computer it self started out! We are playing with a computer that is JUST 40 years old... what will happen with ChatGPT in 40 years. (I guess it will take less time to be "perfect".) I love the beginning. Even had it make me a hypnotic script... Not the best, but total useful. Even got it to make me a DnD story, and then with a twist. And for a "I need something new NOW!", great! Loved the name it gave the Dragon... "Smoky the Dragon!" hahahahahaha I will for SURE use that! I see limitations NOW... But I also see the potential!