I‘ve been dabbling in coding for the Ti-81, and I‘m curious if it‘s possible to make a snake game for it. Is that possible? If so, how would it be done?
Yes you can code in BASIC for the 81 so snake will be no problem.
There are a lot of games you can type in here: https://www.ticalc.org/pub/81/basic/games/
But sadly no snake by the looks. The 81 has commands for pixel drawing but also homescreen versions of snake should be quite portable too. The official guidebook has drawing and programming information in it also: https://education.ti.com/en/guidebook/details/en/CF52CDFF5CD24DB5A2D5CFF6B920D4CF/81
There are a lot of games you can type in here: https://www.ticalc.org/pub/81/basic/games/
But sadly no snake by the looks. The 81 has commands for pixel drawing but also homescreen versions of snake should be quite portable too. The official guidebook has drawing and programming information in it also: https://education.ti.com/en/guidebook/details/en/CF52CDFF5CD24DB5A2D5CFF6B920D4CF/81
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tr1p1ea wrote:
Yes you can code in BASIC for the 81 so snake will be no problem.
There are a lot of games you can type in here: https://www.ticalc.org/pub/81/basic/games/
But sadly no snake by the looks. The 81 has commands for pixel drawing but also homescreen versions of snake should be quite portable too. The official guidebook has drawing and programming information in it also: https://education.ti.com/en/guidebook/details/en/CF52CDFF5CD24DB5A2D5CFF6B920D4CF/81
There are a lot of games you can type in here: https://www.ticalc.org/pub/81/basic/games/
But sadly no snake by the looks. The 81 has commands for pixel drawing but also homescreen versions of snake should be quite portable too. The official guidebook has drawing and programming information in it also: https://education.ti.com/en/guidebook/details/en/CF52CDFF5CD24DB5A2D5CFF6B920D4CF/81
Yeah, I looked at ticalc.org and also tried to find some tutorials, but there were none for the 81. The guidebook wasn‘t very helpful.
There's no getkey command on the TI-81, so you'd need some ASM code for it. Turn-based games using the Input command are feasible, though.
DJ Omnimaga wrote:
There's no getkey command on the TI-81, so you'd need some ASM code for it. Turn-based games using the Input command are feasible, though.
Ahh yes excellent point, it is missing some very important functions!
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