Until a few minutes ago, members could give or remove 1 reputation points from members at a certain interval of time. People would give thumbs up and down based on people contributions in the community. However, the forum now uses a new reputation system where people can vote on individual posts and topics, like Youtube comments. Basically, users' karma will now be tied directly with their posts.

There are a few differences, though. First, each members can only give one thumb up or down per comment. Secondly, it is possible to cancel your vote on a comment by simply clicking the colored thumbs icon again, or to negate your vote by clicking the other thumbs icon. Third, this new feature comes with a new karma system that displays in your post personal info or your profile like the old karma system. This reputation level, called "Respect", is the total of positive and negative comment ratings you received on the entire board. If one of your comment receives negative rating, this total will automatically go down. If one of your comment receives positive rating, this total will automatically go up. Fourth, comments are not hidden when they received a certain amount of negative ratings. This might, however, become an option at a later date if we figure out how to make this feature not look horrible on the current forum skin.

There was also a forum update involving bug fixes, mostly with the arcade system and broken modification install files, which caused most modifications to no longer be possible to uninstall.

Not many of you probably know this, but this last January I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. In order to become a part of USMC, I have to go to Boot Camp for 13 weeks, and then Infantry School for 8 weeks after I complete Boot Camp. I leave for Boot Camp a mere 2 weeks from now (July 13th).

That being said, I will be stepping down as a Staff Member/Coder of Tomorrow (so DJ, or {AP} or simple, could you take care of that please thanks). I will not be able to visit the forums until roughly Christmas Time, and maybe a little bit before then.

Another thing about the Marines, I found out that my Unit that I will be assigned to after completion of Boot Camp and Infantry School will be deploying to Afghanistan in September of 2010 for 8 months. I will be training with this Unit beginning in April of 2010, and will not be able to visit the forums. So if I do decide to come back and visit (I'll at least stop and say hi), it will only be between December of this year and March of next year.

I know that I haven't contributed much to this community, but Ive had a great time here over the last couple years, through all the ups and downs. Hopefully Omnimaga will be just as strong when I get back as it is now, but for me this is Good Bye.

Semper Fidelis


~Trevmeister66

After Simplethinker last night, {AP} joins our admins ranks too. Also, due to recent events on another unrelated but close website and potential threats from certain members, judging by their behaviour in the past two days, and due to a recent spambot comeback, the entire Omnimaga staff got granted banning (and unbanning) powers, like on the old temporary board in 2008. This will make it much quicker to deal with troublesome users and automated account registrations, especially during the Summer, where most of our staff and admins will have sporadic activity.

They can ban directly from user profiles or from the new "ADMIN" link in the navigation bar below the banner between the "RULES" and "PROFILE" link.

As for administrators, they have the ability to edit forum categories, forum settings, delete user accounts (allowing them to delete all their posts/topics in 1 click too), other stuff and everything regular staff can do.

Simplethinker was promoted from contest judges and coders of tomorrow to administrator forum rank.

A few years after arriving on 68K calculators, Game Boy emulation is finally arriving on z80 calculators, specifically the 15 MHz models in the TI-83 Plus series (Silver Editions and TI-84. Not TI-Nspire, though). Calc84maniac has released an alpha version of his Game Boy emulator, TI-Boy SE, on Ticalc.org. Currently, a few games seems to work pretty well and some are getting close.



More screenshots and videos, but let's be nice to our irreducibles dial-up users and let's just link them:
http://www.omnimaga.org/images/screenshots/tiboy.gif
http://www.omnimaga.org/images/screenshots/tiboy3.gif
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh2Ogyq5uLk&fmt=18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a9ZhxMREj0&fmt=18

The emulator has various functions, such as:
-50%, 75% and 100% zoom, to accomodate the smaller TI-84+ screen
-Grayscale (can be turned off)
-Sound (requires old Xbox headphones or an adapter with regular headphones. Sound can be turned off, too)
-Saving (in appvar form, with the option of archiving them on exit, by using a certain key combination)
-Sprite tracking mode, so while playing in 75% and 100% zoom modes, your playable character stays in the screen without having to constantly shift the screen manually using calc keypad.
-And more!

Because of the calculator platform limitations, games runs considerably slower from time to time, but most remains playable and some runs much faster than others.

File has been added to our site archives, altough it links to the ticalc.org file info page, since it is still in early stages and might be updated again in the near future. Remember, however, that distributing copyrighted games ROMs and calculator ROMs is illegal and against our forum rules, so please do not ask or distribute any on our board. Use Google for that.

On another note, we are pleased to welcome Eeems in our programming team. We're adding him to the team and changing his forum status as this news is edited.