That said, there's some stuff that can be improved upon: You don't have to manually put in the numbers for different buttons, there's constants like #A, #B, #LEFT, #UP, and so on. Also, something like BUTTON()==#A will be true every frame that A is held down, not just the first frame it's been pressed. You can write BUTTON(2)==#A instead of BUTTON()==#A to specifically look for presses.

These are the simplest changes needed to make it work: ACLS TIME=60 SCORE=0 @MAIN IF BUTTON()==32 THEN SCORE=SCORE+1 ENDIF TIME=TIME-1 CLS PRINT SCORE WAIT 1 GOTO @MAIN

The command NEW will clear all program slots! NEW 0 through NEW 3 will clear a specific slot.

The Japanese community is called "Petit computer 3 Community", since this goes by a different name there.

That public key is old and doesn't work anymore. The current public key for Cyburst is RRWECV3V.

@Aaron It is a programming game, but people have programmed drawing programs in it.

That is a good point about VSYNC. At the moment, it looks like you have VSYNC 5 to limit the speed of the player. That's fine, but it limits your whole game to 12 frames per second, since 60 divided by 5 is 12. For a simple game this is probably okay, but if you want to limit this to just the player, you could use a variable that counts down each frame before it allows the player to move.

Yes, ENDIF isn't needed with your code. It's only needed if you have code like this: Line 1> IF B==#RIGHT THEN Line 2> PX=PX+1 Line 3> LOCATE PX-1,PY Line 4> PRINT " " Line 5> ENDIF because otherwise it wouldn't know where the IF ends. Your code is like: Line 1> IF B==#RIGHT THEN PX=PX+1:LOCATE PX-1,PY:PRINT " " so it doesn't need ENDIF because that form of IF ends at the end of the line.

@sruly You don't need Wi-Fi to write your own programs and games, but you'll need it to download others' projects or upload your own.

It's because you've moved some stuff out of your loop. The line where you update B and the line where you print the player should be inside your loop, like in your first screenshot, or else they'll only be run once. Also, note that ENDIF is only necessary if you split your IF into separate lines. This doesn't need ENDIF: IF condition THEN code This does: IF condition THEN code ENDIF

This can be used for more complex button checks, too! For instance, B AND (#LEFT OR #RIGHT) is true when either Left or Right are pressed.

So, when Right isn't pressed, B AND #RIGHT equals 0, because #RIGHT isn't set in B, but is set in #RIGHT. When Right is pressed, B AND #RIGHT equals #RIGHT, because #RIGHT is set on both sides. In other words, it'll be either 0 or #RIGHT. Any number that isn't 0 is considered true, so these come out as false or true.

The other issue is a bit more complex. Basically: B==#RIGHT is true when Right is the *only* button being pressed. B AND #RIGHT is true when Right is pressed, regardless of other buttons. It's hard to explain without getting into binary, but basically each button is a bit. AND matches the bits on one side with the bits on the other side, and creates a number with only the bits set on both.

As for checking buttons, there are some things that can be improved. First, note that there are built-in constants for the buttons like #UP, #DOWN, #A, #B, #L, and so on. So, rather than B==8, you can write B==#RIGHT, which is a lot easier to understand.

I'm not sure if you're coming from Petit Computer, which limited IF statements to one line, but in SmileBASIC, you can have multiple lines in an IF, like so: IF B==8 THEN X=X+1 LOCATE X-1,Y PRINT " " ENDIF Also, rather than @LABEL ... GOTO @LABEL, I personally find it cleaner to use WHILE or REPEAT instead.

(Google Translate) Básicamente, "Petit Computer" es la versión 2 y "SmileBASIC" es la versión 3. (La versión 1 era sólo de Japón). Esta nueva versión es muy diferente, pero es mucho más rápida y mucho más potente que Petit Computer. Si te gustó Petit Computer, te recomiendo esto.

Basically, "Petit Computer" is version 2 and "SmileBASIC" is version 3. (Version 1 was Japan-only.) This new version is very different, but it is much faster and much more powerful than Petit Computer. If you liked Petit Computer, I recommend this.

A shorter way than using RESTORE and looping is to do this: DIM MYARRAY[4] COPY MYARRAY,@MYDATA @MYDATA DATA 5,362,556,1

- It can be tedious to type PRINT over and over, but there's a faster way. ? is short for PRINT. Also, closing quotes are optional at the end of a line. So, these are the same: PRINT "Hello!" ?"Hello! - Any command of the form NAME ... OUT A, where only one value is output, can also be used as NAME(...), and vice versa.

This program starts with BGMSTOP and CLS to stop the music and clear the screen, but there's a more thorough way to do this that might be helpful. SNDSTOP stops all currently playing sounds, whereas BGMSTOP only stops music. ACLS resets the whole screen, whereas CLS only clears text, not graphics.