| Author | Comment |
katekate00
Probe
Posted: 12 Jan 2004
22:54 GMT
Total Posts: 4 | Hey i have so many questions. First of all what is the difference
between an ion game and a basic game? What is asm and what does it do? And also I have three Ion files in my program list; Ion, Ionz and OION do i have to keep them to run games or can i delete some of them. Thanks for your help.
Katekate :lol: |
Digital
Guardian
Posted: 13 Jan 2004
06:22 GMT
Total Posts: 1051 | Difference between asm and basic. ASM is what is refered to as "machine code" the language is made up of commands that are of the lowest software level on the calculator which makes it so it is incredibly fast. BASIC is a tokonized langiage. You use extremely high level commands that are tokenized to speed things up (I'm not sure on the details) even though it is the slowest language supported on any calc. Those files you asked about, they pertain to Ion itself. If they are deleted Ion won't work. |
dysfunction
Goliath
Posted: 13 Jan 2004
06:48 GMT
Total Posts: 122 | Basic is essentially translated into assemnbly, line by line. This process, plus the fact that the translation is not very efficient (I've looked at the source), makes Basic very slow. All your games in Ion, the ones with cool, fast graphics, are assembly. All your little games, like Nibbles or Race, are Basic. |
calculatorfreakCG
Wraith
Posted: 13 Jan 2004
07:22 GMT
Total Posts: 739 | Okay, heres a simple difference:1) Look at Lotus Turbo Challenge. Awesome right? Look at those graphics! Lotus Turbo Challenge2) Look at PRGM JOKE. It's still a good game-just it's in all text. PRGMJOKE |
allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 13 Jan 2004
15:03 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | after you run ION, you can delete the prgmION... |
Ray Kremer
Ultralisk
Posted: 14 Jan 2004
20:06 GMT
Total Posts: 310 | >Basic is essentially translated into assemnbly, line by line.
That's an oversimplified and misleading way of saying it. Basic is an interpreted language. TI-Basic is never compiled.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/i/interpreter.html
Ion is an assembly shell used to run assembly programs. Ion is somewhat synonymous with assembly on the 83/83+ because it became very popular and many assembly games were tailored to it.
http://tifaq.web1000.com/?glossary.htm |
