This is my second game and I think it's much cleaner than my first one, so let me know what you think of my version of Snake! And, if you have any suggestions for another classic game I could try to make I would love to hear them! (please be reasonable...)

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I could never make a working snake in basic and here this is! Very cool!

Thanks bikmin! It took me a while to figure out how to do the trail behind the snake.

I would try it but I only own the monochrome calculator

I'm not quite sure if this is still thing in CE but I assume they kept how TI-BASIC works in non colored version, so here we go.

If you're interested in size optimization, for multiple getKey handling, instead of doing this:

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You can do a slight space-saving optimization by using the fact that logics will return 1 if true and 0 if false.
Like this.


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(Technically "If K" can be skipped from above, but I don't remember if having that "If K" saves time so.)

Minor optimization that I can find are:
Instead of this

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Doing this

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will achieve the same thing, since If A will only return false if A is 0.

Instead of

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You can simply do

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Since If without Then can take one line, it will achieve the same effect of running C+A->C when the condition is false.

EDIT: Oh, and also, just like the end brackets, you can skip the end quotations for letters if it's at the very end of the line. So instead of having "X" you can get away with "X since the line ends with it.

That wouldn't work the same that way. What if K=34 and A!=~1? Then A will be set to 0, which should never happen!

A would be 1!

If K=34 and A!=~1, then

(K=34 and A!=~1) is true so it's 1.
minus
(K=25 and A!=1) would be false so 0.
minus
100(K=24 and A!=100) would be false so 100*0 = 0
plus
100(K=26 and A!=~100) would be false so 100*0 = 0

Thus
1-0-0+0 = 1

Sorry, I meant to say if K=34 and A did =~1. Then all would be false and would set A to 0. If the user presses a key in the opposite direction that they are going, it shouldn't change anything.

Oh, sorry. I didn't realize that you wanted to keep the A's original value if none of them matches.
Then it would be something like

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EDIT: What this does is that it keeps the values in Ans, and test the Ans if it's not 0.
Since nothing should happen to A when none of the conditions are met, we only store the new number to A when the conditions check is not 0 (since it can only be -1, 1, -100, or 100)

EDIT2: If you still want that "If K", you can just wrap all this in If K-Then-End. It will still be smaller than testing 4 Ifs.

Ooh, I didn't think of that. Thanks!

Additionally, jumping out of loops or if-then-end statements with a Lbl and Goto is strongly discouraged because it leaks memory.

Basically, the interpreter sets aside a small bit of memory to remember if you are in a loop or if-then-end block, and gobbles this memory back up when it reaches the end statement.

If you never reach the end statement (say, by jumping out of it), this memory will not be released until the program ends.

This doesn't particularly affect your program, but it's a bad habit to get into.

Wow, this is a great game!
But a few thoughts:

I decided to sit down with that one line of code everyone's been optimising
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and came up with this:
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I know it's not optimal, and a bit slower (I guess), but it's smaller and but I liked it.

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(Ugh, code boxes)
Can also be turned into this:
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This will only work If B<=1+dim(L1 (Which, by the look of your code, B can only increase by 1 every update, so this will work).
Then the code after it
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can be
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Because Ans will have L1 in it and we already took B into account.

And don't forget that you can drop closing parentheses:
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I really like the fact that positions are indicated with a single variable rather then 2.
I hope these help and that you can learn from them, keep up the great work!

What’s the code to make the food?

What about Minesweeper?