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by Dwedit
Fri 09 May, 2008 6:19 am
Forum: Announce Your Projects
Topic: Really old dead project: Elite
Replies: 7
Views: 15743

Anarchy was a pretty good Elite style game, except for that stupid memory corruption bug.
by Dwedit
Fri 09 May, 2008 12:33 am
Forum: Staff Side Projects & Featured Projects
Topic: [Featured][Dev] F-Zero
Replies: 53
Views: 127614

How did you decrease the quality?
by Dwedit
Mon 28 Apr, 2008 4:48 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Why I'm Learning Assembly
Replies: 15
Views: 16285

I think you can also create hidden variables that do not appear in any menus, but can be referred to from TI Basic programs.
Not 100% sure about this though.
by Dwedit
Thu 24 Apr, 2008 5:56 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Why I'm Learning Assembly
Replies: 15
Views: 16285

There's no way to do unbreakable encryption unless it never gets decrypted.

And ARM ASM is at least as fun as Z80. What other instruction set has a "bleq" instruction?
by Dwedit
Thu 24 Apr, 2008 4:16 pm
Forum: Programming Help
Topic: [C] Fast Z80 opcode matching
Replies: 5
Views: 7185

Yay, finite state machines! It's a good way to recognize instructions.
The other good way is to just use a hashtable.
by Dwedit
Wed 23 Apr, 2008 9:11 pm
Forum: General TI Discussion
Topic: zContest
Replies: 16
Views: 31433

I was wondering why all those old faces suddenly came back then realized this was a necropost :)
by Dwedit
Wed 23 Apr, 2008 5:53 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Destruction of the mind
Replies: 2
Views: 4188

Not if you pronounce "compile" as 3 syllables.
by Dwedit
Tue 08 Apr, 2008 7:47 pm
Forum: Programming Help
Topic: What is COM 1? (compared to USB)
Replies: 10
Views: 12491

My lappy amazingly enough has a serial port. Maybe that's because it's a "Business Notebook", and business people still want to use serial connections for their PDAs.
by Dwedit
Tue 08 Apr, 2008 1:35 am
Forum: Programming Help
Topic: What is COM 1? (compared to USB)
Replies: 10
Views: 12491

Some Laptops still have serial ports, because you use serial ports to reprogram a candy machine. Serial ports are too useful to get rid of them.
by Dwedit
Fri 21 Mar, 2008 8:07 pm
Forum: Programming Help
Topic: Vera Development
Replies: 7
Views: 12209

Never try to waste time without using HALT. Your batteries will thank you.

The random number generator will not work with multiplayer linking games, as I found out the hard way one time. You need a purely deterministic one, and pre-exchange of a seed.
by Dwedit
Wed 05 Mar, 2008 5:51 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: forum bug?
Replies: 28
Views: 35790

Aww man... No funny business for me...
by Dwedit
Tue 04 Mar, 2008 7:16 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Dead forums (lively thread)
Replies: 123
Views: 361384

That would blow my mind. I played this way back on the NES, and was so fascinated that you could jump into the holes.
by Dwedit
Mon 03 Mar, 2008 11:37 pm
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Dead forums (lively thread)
Replies: 123
Views: 361384

I guess I killed the thread by renaming it :P
by Dwedit
Mon 03 Mar, 2008 10:33 pm
Forum: Programming Help
Topic: Make ion progs in C.
Replies: 13
Views: 8695

I got no way to test, I only have a TI83
by Dwedit
Mon 03 Mar, 2008 9:07 pm
Forum: Programming Help
Topic: Make ion progs in C.
Replies: 13
Views: 8695

I don't think it's possible to use any memory banking other than $4000-$7FFF without screwing up TIOS's interrupt handler or romcalls. But on a TI83+SE or TI84+ series you can have "Ram APPS", 16k of code running from a RAM bank, mapped into $4000-$7FFF. However, you need to write your pro...