I just came up with the idea to make the game Pi runner for the calculator, using the getKey command. Here it goes:

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What do you guys think? Any code optimizations that you can think of?

It looks pretty good so far. Maybe you could add some graphics as well?

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I didn't test it, but I guess and hope this would work as well.

EDIT: this would work as well, I don't know if it's faster:

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Feel free to work on this.

I feel like this program is going to need to compute the digits of pi rather than just storing a bunch of them... There are tons of different methods for calculating pi, which I'm sure would be a lot smaller size-wise than just storing a whole bunch of them, and would allow the player to actually go as far as he wants or at least, considerably farther. The digits computed would have to be turned back into key codes by reverse engineering the common numpad reader routine. However, I don't know if this would be fast enough to implement in a game...

The only problem with calculating them is that it would increase the size of the program. With calculating every digit.... it would take a while. So if you wanted to, say, go to 500 digits, that would take about a minute and a half... But I'll take a look at it. It would be a good alternative to storing hundreds of getKey codes, though.

You might consider a spigot algorithm and discard digits as you go: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/jeremy.gibbons/publications/spigot.pdf

The equation gives me very quick answers.... But it only allows me to go to 34 digits. After that, I get a "Overflow" error.... And when I try to start at 20, and go to 40, the same thing happens. And I can't make my calc discard digits..... Unless there's something that I'm missing. Which I probably am... How can I make my calc discard digits as I go along, so it isn't giving me overflow errors?


Edit: I went and I found a BUNCH of different equations that can solve for pi. But it really doesn't matter, because I need a way to store multiple digits of pi. Maybe if Kerm finished his Doors for the CE, I would be able to store it into a appvar. But until then.. Any ideas, anyone?

What equation are you talking about? The paper describes two algorithms for computing sequential digits of pi.

What if you stored all the digits in a string, you could store a lot, and then you could just a sub command to see if it is right. In the loop you could up a value each time and then do: If sub([string with pi],[value for which digit you are on],1) = UserInput

Yes, but that would require having a whole lot of digits stored in the program, which would make the program quite large and inevitably create an end to the game... This being said, I think this is what might happen if calculating the digits turns out to be too slow

elfprince: The one listed at the top of the page.

DWMelon: That was my first idea, but I still haven't figured out how to store results from and eq. to a string.

Are you absolutely sure you have to have the equation? You could just copy and paste the first 2000-ish digits of pi, and see if the input matches that digit of pie with a If sub("digits-of-pi",(a number that goes up each time the loop is run (which digit of pi you are on)),1 = Input
EDIT: Oh, I somehow missed Mr. Womp-Womp post. I suppose this maybe searching through a string of that size would be a bit slow... However If you put in enough digits, you really don't have to worry about the game ending. Someone can only memorize so far!

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This is about 1781 bytes. Not bad.


What I plan to do with this is to add a mode that sets a storyline like so:

You are running from robbers. If you don't type pi in fast enough, they will capture you. But if you type in the wrong digit, you trip, and they get closer. type the wrong number 3 times, and it's game over.

What do you guys think? Good idea? Bad idea? Or should I wait for Doors CE so I can add Hybrid basic to it and make the gameplay faster?


And while I'm at it, I have a feeling that there is a way to optimize this:

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Any ideas?

That sounds like a good idea! I've no idea how long it takes before DoorsCE will come out, so I guess you're better off with normal textsprites or whatever.

EDIT: mr womp womp made a fast key->string method:

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It's giving me a Domain Error at that line of code that you gave me. What should I do? I have no idea why it's giving me that error.

I have:

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That is probably easy to fix. What is variable B?

EDIT: probably this helps?

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