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- From: sklar@picasso.ocis.temple.edu (Dave Sklar)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
- Subject: Re: TI-85 games
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.043737.24048@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 04:37:37 GMT
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- Brian J Cerveny (brianc@iastate.edu) wrote:
- :
- : Interesting, a friend of mine here wrote an Artillery program on the TI-81.
- : Or, so he says.
- :
-
- It was probably a common thing to do. It wasn't incredibly hard,
- but a fun diversion. And it was a use for the many functions I found with
- interesting graphs--I could use them as terrain.
-
- : Well, source code could be posted for the Minehunt game, but TI-tris will be
- : tough. Right now, the pieces are stored in lists I made in stat mode, but
- : I could initialize those lists directly from the source. Plus hand-drawn
- : graphics are an integral part of my games. The games would still work
- : without the fancy graphics, of course, but the "atmosphere" wouldn't be
- : the same. :)
-
- Yeah, the terrains I have for Artillery are stored pictures, along
- with stored equations. That's kind of hard to translate to text, except by
- posting a 127x63 array of 0's and 1's, which is cumbersome and a pain to
- reinput.
-
- : Until LINK-85 comes out, posting source would also mean manually retyping
- : the source on the computer. We'll see, I guess.
-
- I called TI last week, and they said that they were shipping to to
- dealers but would start shipping it themselves until October. Plus, they
- wanted $70 for it. I wonder if they'd release specs on the cable and the
- transfer protocol.
- Unfortunately, the plugs for the link cable are sub-mini 2.5mm
- STEREO. No one carries plugs or sockets of this size that are stereo. I
- checked Radio Shack, various electronics catalogs I get in the mail, etc...
- Some have sockets, some have plugs, but they're all mono. It'd be nice to
- know if the transfer even uses the other channel.
-
- Dave
-