Topic: Petit Computer

i dont think it is yet

Lol but dogs are awesome!

Well, I'm sure you know what print does. CHR$ on the other hand is rather special in that it converts a number code into a character. For instance, if you look at the manual, there is a table which contains all of the characters in a nice box. If you number the characters starting with the top left corner, you'll find their character code. For instance, "A" has the code 65, so

PRINT CHR$(65)

Would print A. Note that CHR$ only works on single character codes (which go from 0-255), so giving it something like 300 wouldn't make sense. The opposite of CHR$ is ASC, which takes a single character and returns the code value. For instance:

PRINT ASC("A")

Would print 65. To see that they are indeed opposite, you can do something like this:

PRINT CHR$(ASC("A"))

Which will just print A.

That's great! I made the engine, you made the game. Now, if only Morphtroid will make the graphics, I think we have an entry to submit to the competition. Also if Discostew want to put in music, that would be nice. I know we can submit more than one, but I don't know about adhoc team. Still doesn't hurt to try, though.

More Qrs! You probably would have to zoom in to read some of them.

Disco
A simple Disco program I created. Use in the dark. Warning: Contains extreme flashing images.

Number keyboard aka Number Word
This is a shot at a custom keyboard. It turned into a number keyboard. Maybe someone could turn it into a calculator?

Maze Game
@Ramstrong here it is! You decide who does what next . We really could enter this as a team effort.

Temple Raid
This is my contest entry. I really like it. Tell me what you think!

Hope you all enjoy!

I'll make sure to scan and try these since that I'm using petit computer right now... But first...
I made some changes to Puzzle over night, now you can change the amount of pieces of the puzzle:

Feeling like playing something ridiculously easy?

How about something that will take hours to complete and nobody will ever play seriously?

I'm thinking of adding the option to change the sound pieces make too. It shouldn't take long to do that.

Edit: Temple Raid is pretty good! That green monster makes things pretty tense.
Maybe adding an option to play another level when you finish/die would be nice? Sending the player to the title screen after completing a level feels a little odd.

@Morphtroid thanks! Also I wanted to remind everyone the point of the game: Get as many treasure chests as you can within one minute and get to the door.

@bluerobin2
That's great! I added
'PRESS ANY BUTTON TO CONTINUE
@ANYKEY
IF BUTTON(0) THEN RETURN
GOTO @ANYKEY

LINE 177 CHANGED TO LOCATE 5,11;?"PRESS ANY BUTTON TO CONTINUE
GOSUB @ANYKEY

"PLAY AGAIN" should go directly to maze generator, instead of START SCREEN.
Moved COLOR 0 from @START to @INIT. Changed GOTO @START to GOTO @INIT

Replaced WAIT 10 with VSYNC 10 and moved it to just before BT=BUTTON()

Car should keep moving in the same direction without dpad being pushed, so I changed the @LOOP to something like this:

@LOOP
BEEP:COLOR13:LOCATE X,Y:?MAN$;
VSYNC 10
BT=BUTTON()
LOCATE X,Y:?" ";
IF BT==1 THEN MAND$="U"
IF BT==2 THEN MAND$="D"
IF BT==4 THEN MAND$="L"
IF BT==8 THEN MAND$="R"
MCIDX=INSTR(CIDX$,MAND$)
MAN$=MID$("UDLR",MCIDX,1):' THOSE ARE CARS/MAN$
MC=CHKCHR(X+XDIR(MCIDX),Y+YDIR(MCIDX))
IF MC==234 GOTO @YW
IF MC==151 GOTO @LOOP
X=X+XDIR(MCIDX):Y=Y+YDIR(MCIDX)
GOTO @LOOP

And I remove all code until @YW.

HTH. If you can figure out using SPRITE for smooth movement, then that'll be great, too. Good job on making a game out of my maze maker!

EDIT
On second thought, I figured BEEP should be only when the car is moving, so I moved BEEP to BEEP2 to just after position update, and GOTO @LOOP. BEEP 2 because the default BEEP sound is too harsh. You can change it to whatever you like, though.

And bottom screen is blank, so you may want to use it for status update, and just keep the maze on top screen, instead of erasing the playfield.

Those look terrific. I love it!

Since you only have one minute, I suggest that you keep a few pre-scrambled puzzle states, if you haven't done so. So, you can solve the puzzles immediately without having to wait for the computer to scramble it.

@Ramstrong cool!

Temple Raid looks great! I love the custom character graphic. I would allow the user to set levels of difficulty, though. So maybe some options for the user. Maybe letting the user specify the number of enemy or something.

@Ramstrong wow thank you! Refresh my memory, what does vsync do again? Also, in Temple raid, I probobly will enlarge the bottom screen countdown (Thats why I asked how to read certain parts of a variable) and make turn red when its low. I might also add an epic explosion effect if you run out of time. I also will add more mazes and a smarter green monster ai that will go around walls to follow you in hard mode when I add it. I might also add a survival mode where you try to survive as long as you can. I will post Qrs then and you guys could overwrite anything that needs tobe overwritten. I also will extend the maze game. Can you please make the new update into Qrs? Thank you all for your feedback. I would be happy to give some as well. Also, I saw your code cracking game on youtube. It looks fun! Are you finished? Also, do you have the qrs for the banner program?
@randomouscrap I like your textbox. I might use it for battlewood. Thanks!

@Bluerobin2 Temple Raid is great!

vsync is just like wait, but will subtract cpu processing time. WAIT does not. It makes for more constant step time. Code cracker is far from finished, I'm afraid. I will need to set up the GUI. The AI is mostly finished, but right now it's developers friendly, not user friendly. I don't remember ever putting in the banner program into QR. I think the explanation is clear enough, though, and it's not a long program. I'm sure if you look around my BlogSpot for Petit Computer Journal, you'll find it.

I will appreciate your feedback on my Code Cracker program. I should be done with starter GUI sometime tomorrow. No time for QR making for now. Will have to wait until tomorrow afternoon/night.

@hairmanban19, just curious, do you have any current projects that you are working on? Thanks for the feedback. Send suggestions via swapnote. Also @Morphtroid, your puzzle game is very fun. Cannot wait for the new version!

Thanks for letting me know you liked it!

Well i don't know enough of BASIC to make anything.I have only found websites that have like 3 chapters of BASIC which only got me to learn variables and a couple other small things.

@hairmanban19, Why not ask us?

What

Anyways, FEEDBACK TIME!
MAZE was real fun.
Temple Raid... better than anything I could ever do! You really should enter this in the contest! (Gawd, I hated that green snake thing...)
Also, I think this may be a bug: I'm not sure what's causing it, but sometimes the gray enemy doesn't kill.

@Philip, I know. One of them can't kill you. I'm working on it. I also just added 3 new mazes, each of a different level of difficulty, the option to select a maze, and a pause menu. BTW, There is a possible and easy way to trap the snake thing. Im not telling how though. Updated Qrs will come soon. Thank you for your feedback. Do you enjoy the game so far?

Heck yeah I enjoy the game! It's great fun
(Ah, I wish there was a preview button, oh well)