Krypton v0.99

Krypton v0.99b

The Adventure Begins !

Distributed the 23rd of august 2003.
Developped by Pascal MARTIN aka Squale92.
For TI-89, TI-92+, and V200.

Note 1 : The screenshots which are here presented all come from a TI-92+, to be larger than on TI-89.

This version can be considered as a pre-final one. Because of a hard-drive problem, I may not have worked on some little problems.
I will work on it as soon as I can.
I can not be considered as responsible for whatever problem this program can cause on your calculator, you, your dog, and everything you can imagine.
Use it at your own risks.

I:\ Presentation of Krypton :

This game is a shoot'em up, in the style of XenonII (which was running on my very old Amstrad PC1512) from which I have tryied to take ideas.
This game is fully on-calc compatible between TI-89 and TI-92+ (The executable files ans data's ones are exactly the same !!! Only the on-PC extension is modified), and runs in full-screen mode on the two models.
It has been developped in C with TIGCC.
This game is compressed with the Exepack (PPG) technology, which is included in TIGCC and in the TICT-Tool-suite (directory "compressed"), and is also distributed non-compressed, in the directory "uncompressed".

There are, in this game (as in XenonII), two possibilities to upgrade your equipment :

To catch the power-up which sometimes fall-down.
Or, to buy weapons or things like this at the shop, which sometimes gets open (Actually, two or three times per level). In order to buy, you naturally have to collect credits which sometimes fall when you have destroyed your ennemies.
Particularity : the shop allows you to buy, but also to sell !
Note : Some items can only be buy in a limited quantity... and some others aren't enabled during the first levels of the game !

Here's a little screenshot of the "Buy" part of the shop :

These two methods are made to be simultanely used, in order to get a great fire power, which is necessary to live, and to progress in the game.

The game is composed of five levels, and each one finishes with a final Boss. The three first levels are quite long, and the two others are short... but very hard !
A three levels differential scrolling is used as background, and the game's engine is able to make lots of ennemies run, and handles many weapon's kind of various power, depending of what you sell or which power-up you caught.

II:\ Launching the Game :

This program has been developped in Nostub mode, what means it doesn't require a kernel (like UniversalOS or PreOS) to run. However, it is made to run without any problem even if a recent kernel is installed on the TI (If you install a kernel, I personnaly recommand you PreOS, which is the only on to be up to date).

To use it, you must have on your TI :

Krypton.ASM = The launcher.

Krpt_ppg.ppg = The compressed file.

Krpt_lvl.Klvl = The first external file, which contains levels and ennemies' graphisms.

Krpt_std.Kstd = The second external file, which contains more "genarals" graphisms.

Or, if you use the uncompressed version :

Krypton.ASM = The game.

Krpt_lvl.Klvl = The first external file, which contains levels and ennemies' graphisms.

Krpt_std.Kstd = The second external file, which contains more "genarals" graphisms.

To launch Krypton, you have to send the files on your calculator, and to launch the one with the .ASM extension (warning : the file with the .ppg extension must be in the current folder, if you use the compressed version).

Warning : you must have a lot of free RAM in order to launch the game without any problem (more than 120 kB !).

III:\ How to Play :
To Play Krypton, use the following keys :

In the menus :
- [Up]/[Down] : Moving.
- [2nd]/[HAND] on 92+/V200 / [2nd] on 89 : validate.
- [ESC] : Quit.
In the game :
- [Up]/[Down]/[Left]/[Right] : Moving.
- [2nd]/[HAND] on 92+/V200 / [2nd] on 89 : Fire.
- [APPS] : Pause (with APD !)
- [ESC] : Quit the game, and come back to menu.
During the pause :
- [STO] : Enter a cheat-code. (then press [ESC] to cancel, or [ENTER] to validate).
  Warning : Using a cheat-code means that you won't be able to enter a highscore !!!

Notes :

The auto-fire is always activated, in order to keep the [2nd] or [HAND] in a functionnal state :-D.

IV:\ The future :

    This game is no longer in developpement... It means that I don't have the intention to work on it anymore : I've got other projects, which interrest me much more.
    One of them is the following of this game, and will be called "KryptonII : FireStorm". It is already well begun when I write these lines...I don't really know when I'll have enough time to finish it (my studies are more important than programming on TI, in my opinio), but, don't be affraid, it will be released one day or another.
    I also have some others ideas of projetcs, some of them for TI... but I won't speak about them here :-)

V:\ Thanks :

All the TIGCC team, and, more particulary, ZelJko Juric, for the documentation of the libraries, for their wonderful software : without it, this game wouldn't exist.
Everybody who have helped me to make this game, and to enhance it, particularly :
- yoda_soft, for his graphics (menus, end of game screen, ...)
- sBibi, for the explosions.
- PpHd for the modifications he has brought to some Extgraph's routines, allowing me to speed up all the game.
- Every people who goes on the TI-part of yAro's forum (and yAro himself for his forum !), which have given ideas to me.
- Kevin Kofler for the translation French to English of the introduction of the game.
- People from #ti and #ti-fr (on irc.kewl.org) who have helped me (MULO is one of them)...
- The ones I have not cited here, but I think to them...
T. NussBaumer of the TICT, for his Extgraph library, for the others graphic's functions he has written, and for the ExePack technology.
G. Dietsche for his on-calc routines of compression-decompression.
Thibaut Barthélemy for the authorization he has given to me to use optimized functions from the libraries he has written for his on-calc AZUR's compiler, for the explanations he has given, and for the patience he has shown in front of all my questions.
Legus, for his suggestions, and bugs reports.

VI:\ How to contact me :
    For any question, suggestion, or anything else :
        Pascal MARTIN akasquale92
        E-mail : squale92@gmx.fr
        Web site : http://squale92.free.fr. (Right now, the site is empty... but it will contain something when I'll have the time... the link will stay valid :-))
        On #ti-fr or #arf or #krypton (irc.kewl.org) : squale92

If you have found a bug, thanks for reporting it, with saying which model of calculator you get (TI-89 ou 92+, HW, ROM), if a kernel is installed or not (if yes, which one, and which version), and, if possible, the circumstances of this one, the more precisely possible.

If you want to obtain informations about the C programming on TI-89 and/or TI-92+, you can visit the following addresses :

TI-rex (In french) : visit the "Programmation" part.
The TICT's message board (in english).
The board of the french's part of the community. (and, in particulary, the "C" part). (in french). If the link is broken, go to the root of the site, and look for the corresponding board.
You can find a C tutorial for TI on the TCI's website, from which I make part (in french). (The site is empty, awaiting for its re-creation... but the lin will remain valid. The tutorial can also be found on ti-rex.net)