Hehe, thanks. I'm working on putting that together.

Hey Kerm, if you did do this, then you could actually say 'Doors CS required to run this program' without lying about it!

it would be good to see happen, but how would you implement it? And not break the usefulness of Omnicalc?

can i beta test, i would like to especially as an app, i would like it if i also saw source to help me learn how to make app's my self

Making apps is actually quite easy. I recommend DWedit's App Guide. Anyway, I will indeed have another beta coming out when I finish the GUI tools.

i know, and it is that i have not learned asm yet that would be the problem, and i have tools just not knowledge, thought i will try that out for the actual programming part.


edit: where can i get it, i can not find it on ticalc.org, a link would be helpfull

Edit: found it through google

Ah, ok. You should try just regular ASM programs; I would go with ASM In 28 Days for that if I were you.

tried it but do not like it and i think app's are the way to go, i like running from archive

you may prefer apps, but you still have to know ASM to program them

i know, my point is why try regular asm ever, just start with app's for me would be fine

Well, Omnicalc adds things to existing menus, right?

If that is the case, why not have DCS add a command to the program menu called Dcs( that DCS itself would be able to call, and it would perform the function, that way, it would not break compatibility with omnicalc and xlib. Just a thought...

Omnicalc had problems using that kind of thing, just as long as it is not real(

couldn't we use Real( then some other number that omnicalc does not use

Gscm: because apps are almost never the best way to do things. They're only suitable for very large, very complex programs. Regular asm programs are much superior, and can be read and used by shells such as Doors CS.

TI-Freak & Rivereye: Because I don't want to make DCS basic progs incompatible with the regular TI-OS. I'm considering making a third class of programs, somewhere betwixt BASIC and ASM, but that might be a 6.2 or 6.5 feature.

So, asm programmers had no problems with makin their games work only with MOS, Crunchy, Ion, etc, why should a few BASIC games, that take advantage of DCS's routines be any different? You can't play some BASIC games without xlib, which makes them in the same catagory...

Just my $0.02...

Hmm, I should make a poll about this; a lot of people seem in favor of it...

I think you should. Think of all the people that will download DCS just to play their BASIC games, and then realize how awesome of a shell it is. I, for one, only downloaded Xlib to play Xlib Xlib Revolution. If it served any other purpose, I would have only known about it because there were programs that required it.

Hmm, that's an excellent point. Well, what would you want the BASIC programs to have access to? Sprite routines, I guess, maybe some basic CALCnet2 stuff, perhaps some GUI stuff, and I suppose some program tools like arc/unarch. Anything else?

the only asm programs i would want to do would be large, very large because other things would be done in basic, such as a asm sudoku generater, that might be an early project if i can do it.

That wouldn't be that large in ASM. When I say large, I mean more than 8k.