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SilverCalcKnight
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Well, I was cleaning my room yesterday (a noble achievement in itself) and I stumbled across a book I've been wanting to read for a long time: C++: How To Program. Right now I've read about control statements, input and output, and right now the break and continue statements. I intend on using this knowledge to program in C for my 89-Ti. Anything specific to the 89-Ti I should know? Maybe anything useful that they don't teach you in a book? So far it seems remarkably similar to TI-Basic, but I assume that expectation will be shattered in the next days following.
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c_plus_plus
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the main diference between c and BASIC is the actual synax of the comands.
BASIC:
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If A
Then
dostuff
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C:
Code:
If A
{
dostuff;
}
the main reson for the simularity is the necesety for the same controll structures in all the programing languages. most hight level languages differ only by synax and library. Assembly is totaly diferent than the rest.
Edit: I know nothing about 89 C, but I know that the synax will be the same and the library will be diferent (most likely no stdio or iostream liibrary)
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elfprince13
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| I believe they do have a hacked stdio library for TIGCC. |
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DarkerLine
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Liazon
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| Posted: 14 Jun 2006 12:43:13 pm Post subject: |
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SilverCalcKnight wrote: Well, I was cleaning my room yesterday (a noble achievement in itself) and I stumbled across a book I've been wanting to read for a long time: C++: How To Program. Right now I've read about control statements, input and output, and right now the break and continue statements. I intend on using this knowledge to program in C for my 89-Ti. Anything specific to the 89-Ti I should know? Maybe anything useful that they don't teach you in a book? So far it seems remarkably similar to TI-Basic, but I assume that expectation will be shattered in the next days following.
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almost everything. syntax is definitely C, but its better to use a lot of ROM calls or assembly libraries, than suggested computer coding techniques because they slow things down on the calc from my experience.
oh ya, NO OBJECTS!! but you can still make structures 
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SilverCalcKnight
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Quote: almost everything. syntax is definitely C, but its better to use a lot of ROM calls or assembly libraries, than suggested computer coding techniques because they slow things down on the calc from my experience.
Ah, a. I know there is inlined assembly code, but do I need to learn assembly or can I just use certain routines for speed-intensive portions of code?
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Liazon
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Just use a precompiled library. Just follow the instructions to include it, and TIGCC will do all the preprocessing necessary to include the functions. I suggest using ExtGraph. It's the best for greyscale.
68k ASM knowledge probably won't be needed unless what you're doing is really speed critical. But even greyscale first person shooters can be programmed in just C. They use the ASM routines in the FAT engine library to calculate things really fast.
I think F-Zero used ASM in speed critical sections, and bombermaze was pure ASM, but that was because I think the author was already a master of 68k ASM. Too tell you the truth, I've heard of very few games that needed custom ASM code written, but that's because I've played very few. For the most part, games use ASM libraries because they are supposedly faster than the TIGCC functions and Ti-OS ROM calls, especially for greyscale. Of course ASM libraries are MUCH MUCH larger than the other two. |
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