132 replies to this topic

[Deimos]

Okay, 96x64 I have to remember this at last

[Bija]

ou? ce serait cool
mais je pense que c'est un forum anglais ici, non ?

it is an english forum here, i think

[Orwell]

Sure... but try to speak english here please
For the persons who didn't understand what SRM said: he had made a great Basic game, and he's now porting it with MLC so i bet the result will be great

[CrimsonCasio]

i see some games in the file sharing that use the FXI format, as far as i can tell its impossible to convert a FXI MLC game to .CAT, the transfer really messes up the code. if at all possible anyone using the FXI sofware needs to use the FA-123 to transmit MLC games and/or manually convert them to text (which can then quickly be converted to CAT). here's a link to a patch to make the FA-123 work with the FXI cable: http://perso.wanadoo...s/fxiandcat.zip

you need to provide at least the .txt version of your game so that everyone can play it.

EDIT: fixed link.

[Roeoender]

On ticalc.org I saw an article that criticizes TI-BASIC, with some comments from ti community. Well, maybe it is good place to mention about MLC? So Ti-people would know it's existence. Look at ticalc.org latest article.

Roeoender.

[CrimsonCasio]

oh they know, and it will probably make its way to ticalc.org eventually (they take a really long time to feature things). once MLC86 is done we'll send that in to them and hopefully it will get featured... in the mean time im going all over the place promoting it by hand

[CrimsonCasio]

my general response to that kind of thing is "only if your name is martin poupe"

[huhn_m]

so I want to explain crimson if you don't know martin (though you should )

YOu can only if you can run assembler programs (e.g. machine coder) and
this is only possible if you remove the ROM, change the OS (record it new) and solder it again.

PS: Your warranty will be void if you do so

[Daruosh]

Is MLC available for Classpad???
I think If I would have AFX source code, I could translate interpreter into CP C++.

[CrimsonCasio]

your welcome to try, but unless you have found a way to do grayscale your out of luck

[Daruosh]

we can forget grayscale in Classpad. Instead of 4 level we can consider only on level.(for compatibility isuses)

[DJ Omnimaga]

I think somebody started working on a RPG for MLC:


and I written a news article about it on my website:
http://omnimaga.earthforge.com

Basically its a sequel to a never finished BASIC RPG for the TI-86, which looked like a zelda game but with turn based battles and it looks promising so far. I hope the programmer will not exceed the program size limit which is 9.1 KB because I want to try this game once the TI-83+ Silver Edition version of MLC will come out.

MLC look really promising so far and I hope to try it soon on my real calc (not an emulator ), however since I'm the kind of guy that like to push programming language to their maximum and I write really really really huge RPGs I might have problem dealing with the code limit. Just to give you an idea this is what I can do in BASIC on my TI-83+SE using a few ASM libraries and it's like 68kb huge :

[Deimos]

Kevin, PLEASE start writing MLC games

[Andy.Davies]

looks very nice, which reminds me, must install MLC on AFX, but i have to unpack my PC to do that but it needs unpacking anyway!

[DJ Omnimaga]

For the TI-83+SE version we are planning on using the extra RAM pages that the 83+ dont have (96kb) to extend the code limit from 9.1 kb to 24 kb, so that might help me a lot to make my games. The only downside is that they will not be compatible with the regular 83+ and the 86, but I'm sure they will work on the Graph 100/AFX since the RAM is a lot higher

[CrimsonCasio]

plus, the Ti MLC's feature code compression for finished games

[octobclrnts]

is there going to be a mlc version for ti-89 (titaniaiums ideally). I just bought a new one and was wondering if it could work there too...

[CrimsonCasio]

yes, eventually, it should be really easy to port from MLCafx to MLC89.

[octobclrnts]

i thought that it should be easy but I just didn't see it yet...

*Edit*
Is there a time estimate for this version of mlc?

[Gaumerie]

hello...I just waould want to know how to install the MLCAFX programme on my graph100+...I won it a few days ago and I don't know how to install EXE programme on it...(and for MLCAFX there's 3 EXE)
Thanks!!!
Alexandre

[CrimsonCasio]

well, MLC AFX is being compleatly reworked now, we're droping the ti-86 and below to a 1.0 version of MLC and making everything at the level of the AFX "2.0" and seriously upgrading the features (additional colors, massive new commands, multiple picture files, etc), the AFX will probably be the lowest level calc supported (out of ti89, hp49g+, afx, and possibly voyage and classpad)... therefor much of the new MLC will be limited to what the afx can do, not what the ti83 can do >_> (i know this will make you all very happy). we allso intend to let MLC2.0 run MLC1.0 programs, though not vice versa.

as for installing the current MLC, i wouldnt worry about it just yet, wait for the next release.

[omegavirus]

wow CrimsonCasio the MLC for the clas pad would be very nice. I hope it becomes true very soon...............

[huhn_m]

so does this change anything for our development of the new MLCAfx? If this is the case it would be itnerresting!

Also: I'm absent from Sunday evening till Friday Evening so no coding then. I'll have my "Abschlussfahrt" (Last tour with my school mates) then

[CrimsonCasio]

oh yeah, it changes just about everything, MLCafx will be 2.0, so it will be MUCH more powerfull (meaning a bit more work for you and Marco... but it should be fun )

sprites will be 256x256 max size so we need to update the sprite editor a bit

[Orwell]

Erm, just a word about sprites:
gxLib is not designed to draw such huge sprites, so if you still use my lib for grayscales like in the current version you will have to split the sprites into different parts during the "tokenization" (max ~ 64*64)

[CrimsonCasio]

you know, im not really sure if we are using your lib anymore, Marco is doing the coding now and he is the Pascal guru, i believe we are using more or less 100% his code for this (for the AFX only portions at least, the idea is to have a core file to handle things not platform dependant)

[Orwell]

I see... It's all up to you

[huhn_m]

Yeah, it's 100% marco's code (though he studied the Graph100 guide and the other libs of course)

Anyway, the most changes will affect the VM and I do the compiler.
So mainly the syntax changes are interresting for me.

Cu Huhn

[SRM]

If someone has ideas, say it. This would be very interesting to develop MLC.

[4nic8]

Hey dudes! I don?t code for an AFX now. I?m too busy with studies, work, parties and girlfriends?

A have 2 questions:
1. Does anyone develop MLC AFX ?
2. What about C/ASM Programs competition?! I?ve sent in my program and it was pointless. It wasn?t even marked and given to afx users. It?s a pity

[CrimsonCasio]

1) Marco and Huhn now are developing MLCafx.

2) no clue whats up with that, im not a judge :|

[2072]

Well, I've never received your program Did you sent it to the right email address? ( contest AT casiocalc.org )

[4nic8]

huhn wrote to me:

Hy 4nic8!

. . .

Thanks that you sent in your program smile.gif No problem that it is too late since
Crimson said that your beta looked pretty good.

. . .

Also Roe got my program

[CrimsonCasio]

yeah, i can confirm that.

[2072]

well I never got it... The special email address forward the mail to all judges.

[huhn_m]

i wrote it after some reply of you that you sent it again.
Do you have the thread and the date I wrote this?

Then I can check my mails again, but I'm pretty sure I didn't recive
any programs since I wasn't a judge for them.

@SRM:

I assume that you are from the dysfunction group so can you give us a full feature list of MLC 2.0 (for mine and marcos reference only. If yes please mail it to MLC (a d) mh-development.de

[CrimsonCasio]

SRM is just a independant tester

post what you need on the EPS forum and i'll get it to you.