Venus v2.4 (Ti83 shell)

Kalimero · Post by **Kalimero** » Sun 27 Feb, 2005 12:25 pm

Since there are a couple beta-testers on this forum I figured I might as well announce it here.

I've released Venus v2.4. It's fully backwards compatible except if you use the vRandom routine and then only if you read/change its seed directly. That seed is now in a different location. However, I don't think there's any program currently doing this, so there shouldn't be a problem. There are some programs that initialize the seed with some random value at startup, but this is now done by venus itself so this shouldn't cause any problems either.

The only other changes are optimizations. The size is now down to 206 bytes and I use a much better algorithm to load programs. Games as big as Bubble Bobble or Desolate for example take less than a second to load.

I've also included several graphical shells including dwedit's Ion/SOS/AShell compatible shell. These shells also use the new loading algorithm which makes loading Ion programs a lot faster.

All in all I'm quite happy with this release which will probably be the last one. Until the ticalc.org archivers get back to work you can download the zip at http://www.kalimero.be/venus.zip. There are screenshots of each shell included too if you'd be interested in that.

pacHa · Post by **pacHa** » Sun 27 Feb, 2005 1:45 pm

nice kalimero :)

I've just tried on Tilem with some venus/ion games and it worked fine

I know gH will be happy =)

Shadow Phoenix · Post by **Shadow Phoenix** » Sun 27 Feb, 2005 5:40 pm

i wanted to Beta test, but it doesnt work on myne(TI-84+se). I sent the group "Venus" and ungrouped it, but no asm programs work...

CoBB · Post by **CoBB** » Sun 27 Feb, 2005 6:04 pm

Of course it doesn't work, it's for the 83.

Shadow Phoenix · Post by **Shadow Phoenix** » Sun 27 Feb, 2005 6:23 pm

I thought the Ti-84 and Ti-83 were cros compatible...=D
ow well, I guess I wont be able to Beta test

blueskies · Post by **blueskies** » Sun 27 Feb, 2005 6:35 pm

the 84+ and 83+ are (supposedly) compatible. the 83 is quite different.

Good to hear the update Kalimero. Venus is by far my favorite shell.

Mike K · Post by **Mike K** » Sun 27 Feb, 2005 6:35 pm

The ti-84 PLUS and 84 PLUS are cross-compatible, not the regular 83.

-Mike

koolmansam375 · Post by **koolmansam375** » Sun 27 Feb, 2005 6:37 pm

Mike K wrote:The ti-84 PLUS and 84 PLUS are cross-compatible, not the regular 83.

-Mike

i think you mean "The ti-83 PLUS and 84 PLUS are cross-compatible, not the regular 83.

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Mon 28 Feb, 2005 1:00 am

Venus is the greatest shell, so efficient

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As usuasl great work Kalimero.

GuillaumeH · Post by **GuillaumeH** » Mon 28 Feb, 2005 11:54 am

Venus has become even smaller and better!
Now the programs can be up to about 26900 bytes big :

The difference between this size and the size of a 83+ 2-page app is about 5870 bytes... Maybe this will allow spencer's Zelda to be ported on ti-83

Post by **kv83** » Mon 28 Feb, 2005 12:02 pm

GuillaumeH wrote:The difference between this size and the size of a 83+ 2-page app is about 5870 bytes... Maybe this will allow spencer's Zelda to be ported on ti-83

*prays*

leofox · Post by **leofox** » Mon 28 Feb, 2005 1:28 pm

GuillaumeH wrote: The difference between this size and the size of a 83+ 2-page app is about 5870 bytes... Maybe this will allow spencer's Zelda to be ported on ti-83

I don't think so, Spencer said he needed another 10K of RAM for buffers..

GuillaumeH · Post by **GuillaumeH** » Thu 03 Mar, 2005 10:21 pm

Venus 2.4 has finally been uploaded on ticalc.org ! Long life to Venus \o/

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Fri 04 Mar, 2005 5:55 am

Yeah i had a small chat with Tijl yesterday and he noted that it had finally been uploaded

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the_unknown_one · Post by **the_unknown_one** » Fri 04 Mar, 2005 9:47 am

Did you talk to him on AIM or on #tcpa? If its AIM, whats his AIM?

MaxCoderz

Venus v2.4 (Ti83 shell)

Venus v2.4 (Ti83 shell)

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