Page 3 - TI 83+/84+ programming?

yeah, the manual's great, i learned how to do basic programming on the calc from the manual. and how to make a serpinski triangle. lol.

That's where I learned it. But the thing about programming is you have to know what you're trying to make, or else you'll never get anywhere.

yeah, i just set my mind to doing something, and figure it out. Eventually i get it. But on the otherhand sometimes i just browse through the catalogue, see something cool, and try to figure out a use for it.

I'm making a simple RPG and I want to program a "save" function where I save P, R, H, G, S, and D, where P is power (damage), R is armor, H is health, G is gold, S is class number (for quests), and D is dexterity. I have a menu option for "save" where you save the stats. How do I save them to lists? I used to remember but I forgot.

it's in the manual.

Hey guys. Like most of the posters Im just now getting into calculator programming and have struck a rut. Does anyone kno how to make some sort of a timer on the ti-83+? I just need the program to end if no input is given for a certain amount of time. Any help would be greatly appreciated
thanks

ooh...first post necro!!

bad bad bad!!

You'd probably have to use getkey and a function that performs a loop (in this case an empty loop for a pause timer) until a key is pressed, then goes on with what it was doing.

Like if you asked a question yes or no, you would have a loop that uses getkey and waits for getkey to be "yes" (whichever key you set for yes), and if it doesn't hear a yes until it reaches the end of the loop, it assumes "no" and continues or returns.

Hoepfully that helped.

this is what I used to get about a 1 second delay.

:For(X,1,268
:End

Its very short, I just made a seperate program for it and insert it to any program I need a delay for.
I dont remember where I got this from, but I didnt think of it, I was stuck when I tried to make a timer for my scrolling text program.

That's cool man, how accurate to a second is 268 in the for loop?

I dont know, I have never timed it.
I have a question about this program, dont laugh if it is dumb, because I just started programming a couple of days ago when I was bored after I finished my finals.

:clrhome
:clrdraw
:axesoff
:lbl 1
:randint(0,55)->A
:randint(0,75)->B
:text(A, B, "STUFF")
:goto 1

I want it to be able to display different words in different sections, so I changed it to (15,0)->A
(0,15)->B
so that it would only display "STUFF" in a small box in the top left corner
then I tried to continue by adding
:Lbl 2
:randInt(30,15)->C
:randInt(15,30)->D
:Text(A,B,"BYE"
:Goto 2
obviously that didnt work, so is there a way to get different words to appear in the same fashion as the original program in different sections of the screen?
Also, how do I get lowercase letters on my TI-83 Plus? I was able to yesterday by hitting alpha twice, know I cant.