Anyone Else Crazy Excited?

I find it a rather fun exercise to be honest. My main work with low level code was on another calc, the Casio prizm. I ported over a library called SDL. It wasn't too hard, but I had to be able to think over the low level code. It was quite a learning experience.

I didn't know Casio could do that. Have you ever worked with TI-Basic?

One day last year I got bored and made a mini shooter on a TI-83 in my class. It is really slow compared to native code though so I haven't spent as much time with it.

Nice, SDL is a fun library, I assume porting it would enable a lot of other code to be easily ported too....

I love SDL, and having it does make it easier to port some programs, but there is still a strong limitation on space and memory so those extremely limit what you can port over.

Yeah, I guess memory would be a limiting factor on most SDL-based apps.

Without changing how apps are allocated memory I can't even create a full background layer in 16 bit. There just isn't enough memory to have 2 bytes per pixel. I can have an 8 bit background so I had been working on some SDL work, but most apps aren't made for that little memory.

That mini shooter would have been awesome! I don't have the patience to deal with graphics in TI-Basic and haven't branched past that yet. My programs work, but generally they have really simplistic UIs.

Mine was just \theta as the character and some other character(I can't remember anymore) as the enemy. I believe it fired .'s. It was pretty simplistic, but it was a fun little exercise. I'll try writing another one probably later this year and see if I still remember enough to do it :P

That does sound like fun! I think I might try that as well. I've not done work with any sort of graphics in quite a while.