Program Suggestions / Ideas (Basic)

[cjstoddard]

@Ophitoxaemia

I’ve thinking of writing an interpreter for text adventure scripts.

Not to discourage you, but there is already a really good one available.

Play Zork on PicoCalc/PicoMite

Hi folks, After some prompting and testing by @cjstoddard I’ve updated my MMBasic Z-Machine implementation (Z-MIM) to run on the PicoCalc: The download includes “minizork” but Z-MIM should be capable of playing all of Infocom’s classic .z3 adventures if you have the files: ballyhoo.z3 - Ballyhoo cutthroat.z3 - Cuthroats enchanter.z3 - Enchanter hollywood.z3 - Hollywood Hijinx lgop.z3 - Leather Goddesses of Phobos lurking.z3 - The Lurking Horror planetfall.z3 - Planetfall plundered.z3 - Plu…

[Ophitoxaemia]

Aware of that. Partly for the fun of it and partly to add new capabilities. On a smaller scale, for example, I added the Borg to my reimplementation of super star trek. Watching my kids love games like drug wars amd oregon trail makes me think there’s more that can be done with text games

[M57]

I’m all for doing it for yourself just because you can. Just because someone else creates something doesn’t mean you don’t have to. Create it in your own vision

[M57]

Made some major updates to Onoso The Great War, the list is very long, I spent about 6 hours today adding / reworking some gameplay mechanics & adding new features. The changelog is here & the new version, 1.3 is here.

Note: I haven’t tested all of the quests so there may be some DIM statements missing, if there is please let me know.

[morecoffee]

@M57

Can you point me in the direction of how to create my own fonts?

I’m working on building a program in mmbasic that allows you to draw your own characters and then make a font set. So far I’ve got gotten it to draw the grid for characters of any size from 1 x 1 to 50 x 50, allow you to turn off and on pixels and export them to a binary string. I’m still trying to understand how to turn it in to the hexcode necessary. I’m sure it is a simple concept I just haven’t got my mind around. Once I get that figure out, I plan to setup arrays to store the character sets that can then export a font program. I’ve now posted about font creation in at least three other threads. I guess I need make my own thread.

[M57]

1X1? Morris code on the PicoCalc before GTA6 is crazy.

[morecoffee]

I guess a single pixel wouldn’t make a great font.

[TecDroiD]

Sadly, there isn’t a help on picocalc MMbasic..

[Toml_12953]

The Help file works on the PicoCalc. You copy it to A: and then use the help command. If you need help in a particular area, you can edit the Help text file to add the new info. Or were you talking about something else?

[M57]

Don’t remember if I posted this, the game I made for the PicoCalc is finished & has been for a few weeks now. Onoso The Great War