On 19/10/2015 04:28 PM, scott wrote:
> I still have a TI-86 somewhere gathering dust. That had a BASIC
> interpreter built-in. Somehow IIRC we also had a version of Mario
> running on it, I assume you could also run assembler on it somehow.

Yeah, I imagine on the ones that really *are* programmable, you can do 
that. Mine, sadly, isn't. (I think it's Casio, off the top of my head. 
Hmm, I wonder where the hell it is...)

> In fact I wrote a simple "shoot the target" type game in BASIC for a
> piece of GCSE Maths coursework. It showed you a target (a pixel) on the
> right edge of the screen, and you had to enter an angle and speed to
> fire an arrow (another pixel) to hit it.

Sounds more advanced than anything I ever wrote!

> I learnt two important lessons
> doing that. Firstly to test your program with sufficiently varied input
> before releasing it,

Hahahaha! ;-)

> and secondly that 45 radians roughly equals 45 degrees (mod 360).



But don't worry. exp(pi) - pi = 20.

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