what i have done

[Babyboy]

Final Fantasy

ok, here is the latest code, i added the bare bones for the weapon shop, touched up some area recognition stuff for the continue function, and got rid of a nasty little bug that made the pause screen pop up in the second zone. :)


ok, i have added a hard coded map for the armor shop, changed the walking code to the smallest its ever been, and fixed several transport problems.

[Babyboy]

well, since i have officialy filled the ram on my 84 silver, i will stop any forward development to go back and get it a wee bit smaller
N E 1 want to try and help? my coding is bad so maybe someone can figure it out

[Weregoose]

Yes, please post your good stuff. I'm sure there are several of us glad to help out in this code-crunching experiment.
Can I get your permission in advance to convert any code pasted from an external editor into a more readable format?

[Babyboy]

ok here is the code, yes, do whatever you need to do super, im just glad for some space help :)

[Weregoose]

Here it is. Nothing was changed yet except for the removing of empty lines, fixing of digitally-misinterpreted characters, and appropriate resizing of the L's in list names. Your comments were untouched, although I think those would be easier to read (and store) on a computer or written on a sheet of paper.

:) ← If you see a blue smiley here, go back and edit.

[alexrudd]

OK, changed the original post to reflect Supergoose's condensed version. It was causing rendering problems, I saw some gray boxes for some reason.

And, yes I agree this one will take a beating. You won't recognize it at the end.



How about we use the code in supergoose's post as the "active" one? Babyboy, Supergoose, Sir Robin, Arcane, and I can all edit it, and anyone else can post their suggestiongs.

[Weregoose]

My post screwed up the board for a second there because of an overflow error. It should look fine now. If it doesn't, then perhaps you need to switch away from Alex's Fake Browser.

My encouragement on tackling this issue would be to list what types of optimizations you make only once as you see the initial circumstances when they are found useful. For instance, when you find that you can leave a parentheses off of one line, present that detail to serve as the precedent for all other similar changes you make throughout the rest of the program. That way, we could develop this into a productive tutorial on how to shrink programs to more manageable sizes. :biggrin:

[Babyboy]

[alexrudd]

It's a pretty good guide, but still incomplete.
there's probably not much point in marking parenthesis and quotes, and DelVars, etc. because they're so easy. But it doesn't hurt.

[Babyboy]

i have been bad, to much WOW and high school means to programming time, i will get back on track soon.

BTW, does anyone klnow how do disconnect brakes on a car or lower the said car closer to the ground?

[AlienCC]

Why would you want to disconnect the brakes?

--AlienCC

[DJ Omnimaga]

that was kinda off-topic lol...

Keep up the good work on that game, I think I played a version earlier but I didnt got too far

[Babyboy]

rear brakes, hot rod- power brake

[bananaman]

If you're struggling with program size you could use flash gordan. Located by a search on ticalc for zflash.

[DJ Omnimaga]

oh yea I remember flash gordon was uploaded (illegally) at ticalc.org a while ago, ther eis also zCopy and Resource that does similar things but a bit more complicated to use, just more stable

[Jeremiah Walgren]

What's Flash Gordon?

[0oruneo0]

I believe it is a program that runs BASIC program that are archived. The syntax (I think) is similar to:

[elfprince13]

[Babyboy]

why cant someone jssut use Archive and Unarchive commands instead of some other prgram?

[Justin W.]

The reason for this is. Archive prgmNAME or UnArchive prgmNAME are not valid commands in TI-Basic. Assembler is the only way to bypass this problem.