Calc To Calc Chat Program

[TiPower]

Hi. I'm new here, so I might as well introduce myself. I live in New Jersey, and I go to a private Catholic school in Lincroft (central NJ) called Christian Brothers Academy, or CBA. Two or three years back, the school introduced a calculator program. Through this program, every student is given the opportunity to buy a Ti-83 plus calculator from the school (I think it's $85).

Well, everyone did buy one, so now all 850-900 students have a Ti-83+. Of course the teachers are wise to the games and such, but how can you stop the spread of programs when everyone has one?

Now here's my question: I've been programming since I got it 2 years ago, and I just finished my first game yesterday (and it's none other than Pong!) I had previously tried to make a multiplayer chat program, but it just wouldn't work. I made many attempts, but it just seemed impossible with only the GetCalc command. Can anyone help me? I'm thinking somewhere along the lines of two calculatros doing something like this:

lbl 1.....................
getcalc(a).............A=0
If A=1..................input ":",str1
then.....................A=1
getcal(str1)...........
disp str1...............
else.....................
goto 1..................
end.....................

One calculator stores a=o until the string if filled. Then, when it is filled, the other calculator takes it and displays it. I got that part, but the problem I'm having is having both calculators do the same thing at once.

[Neostar]

You're probably having the same problem I had when I first made a link up program. What you're gonna need to do is set up two pats of the prog where one calc is the host and the other is the "client". Somewhere along the lines of:

[Darth Android]

well, here's my pong (you are the AI, so not unbeatable):


and hangman (not up to date screenshot, need to make a current one, as it has been moved to the graphscreen, and draws the man to be hanged):


of course, blackjack:


i will admit, though, because VTICapture captures at 1/2 normal speed, playback is at 2x (in other words, these screenshots are 2x the actual speed)

edit: Welcome to United-TI, TiPower!!! *throws big party*

[TiPower]

Hmm...that seems like it might work. Just one thing: I've never worked with lists before. I'm not sure how to work them. What is LCHAT and LCHAT2 for?

As for my pong program, I set up 5 levels of difficulty. Very easy, easy, medium, hard, and impossible. It is possible to score on each level, excepct for the impossible level. I just threw that in there for fun. The only problem I'm having is setting up a fair and accurate score system so that the score keeps in mind the difficulty level played (we wouldn't want anyone cheating the hiscore list. That reminds me. I gotta find out how to make an uneditable/encrypted hiscore list).

I'll post the program for my pong game tomorrow and I'll try the chat program you posted.

Thanks for the help!

[Matt]

I dont understand why you need a chat program. Not to put you down. But the cords are not long at all

[interwined]

It's just a nice starting point on sending and receiving variables and a beginning program to learn from.

[Adm.Wiggin]

you can get SUPER long cords (~5 feet!)

[Darth Android]

ok, here we go:
err, i dont want to type this again, so just go to here:Variable Storage

[NETWizz]

[Darth Android]

yah, or if you got a wireless one (very cool), even better if it's not IR, so it can go throught walls.

[Neostar]

You're welcome! That Blackjack game looks great, so does hangman. Pong is good, but I must admit I do have a sort of malice toward pong games where the A.I. can't be beaten. But you have no A.I. I never thought about doing that... hmm... I may reapproach some of the games I'm working on now. As for the chat prog, yeah it is kinda useless to have a chat program, but it teaches you stuff, so hey, go for it. As for list, they're stored like {#,#,#}->L(listname) and can be recalled like this,
L[listname]([#position in list] and then stored:

LTest(2->A
A->LTest(2
and you can set dimensions like this:
#->dim(LBlah
and they'll all be 0 if they were never used or the list elements will remain if they're already stored there. I hope that helps you and wish you luck on making the prog.

As for the pong game score, you could just store the score to the I% variable inside of finance and archive it. Players are dumb and wn't think of looking there he he he... unless they're a programmer who looks at the code... crap!

[Darth Android]

well, you could lock it, but its easy to unlock it...

[Neostar]

Question, anyone know how to acrhive a program from inside another prog.... in BASIC? And how can I get Leisure Suit Larry? Anyone heard of that game?

[AlienCC]

Leisure Suit Larry

I've heard of it, and I've seen a guy at work get caught leaving his "Leisure Suit Larry" printouts on one of the company's laserjet printers. Needless to say his internet access was permanantly revoked the next day he came into work, and the boss didn't much like the fact he was doing anything with That kind of material at the workplace.

Nuff said.

--AlienCC

[Arcane Wizard]

Do I even want to know what it is?

EDIT: Wow, AlienCC thanks for posting that, I almost did a google image search on "Leisure Suit Larry'' right in front of my dad, good thing I read your post just before I did that. Good thing I was home and not at school, could get suspended for that stuff.

Next time you post anything like that Neostar, I suggest you add a warning to what it is since people can get in serious trouble for it. Or not post it at all since it's quite inapropriate on these forums.

Leisure Suit Larry = Not Safe For Work->erotic material image thingies.

[interwined]

Leisure Suit Larry is an old game, it's still fun even if it is offensive although my dad let me play it when I was pretty young...

[Darth Android]

and, neostar, there is no way to archive other programs from a program in basic. asm, yes, basic, no
there are however Archive and Unarchive commands,, which only work with variabls like Pic1,Str3,A,[D],etc.