A large part of Omnimaga history that was gone for over 4 years now has come back to life. Yesterday, it has come to our attention that the previous Omnimaga forums that we used from 2005 to 2007, along with the temporary forums used in early 2008 before Omnimaga's 6 months dormancy, were back online. The discovery was made after Jonius7 was searching Google and stumbled upon one of the revived boards. They were only restored by Invisionfree recently, because I checked a month ago and they were still gone.

In other words it will only have taken 4 years before the Invisionfree team finally process the board restoration request. However, since the deletion of an Invisionfree board automatically backs up its entire content prior being processed, this means that every single post, member account (except prior April 9th 2006), avatar, file attachment and private message that were still available until the very end of each site remained intact. An extra sub-forum on the Invisionfree site was added to redirect to the temporary board, though, for ease of access, and both places are now in read-only mode (although it is still possible to login, for those who still remember their password).

So today, you can once again access the entire forum content of the previous website where Omnimaga was located from May 2005 to December 31st 2007 below:
http://z9.invisionfree.com/omnimaga/

And obviously, the Omnimaga temporary board used afterward until March 3rd 2008:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/omnimaga/index/

And here is a list of every forum attachments ever uploaded from May 2005 to March 2008. Note that all files that are not images were renamed by IPB software, so for example, THEGAME.8xp became p11563638.ibf. Simply change the name after downloading it from the list:
http://djomni.57o9.org/oldomnifiles/

In 2008, the original plan was to merge the content of those boards with this one if they ever returned online, to keep all of Omnimaga history in one place. Members' post counts were going to be merged as well. However I am no longer admin and writing the script to perform the post merging task would be an incredible task, so in short terms, the content of those sites will remain as they currently are or possibly converted to standalone SMF format.

For those who are nostalgic, remember that you can still access the even older Omnimaga site that used (poorly-coded) static pages too, along with its minor theme redesigns.

Full discussion in the original thread

You love the game of Tetris on every platform, from your computer to your GameBoy to your TI calculator, so why not enjoy it in brilliant color on your Casio Prizm calculator? Featuring fast-paced gameplay, four play modes, high score tracking, and much more, this game is sure to be a permanent addition to your Prizm. In Marathon mode, try to complete lines for as long as possible as your score and the speed increase. High Speed mode ups the ante with faster drops at lower levels. If you want to start out in a bad situation, try Touchdown mode. With Collapse mode, you can set up giant stacks of tetrominos to score many lines at once. And to really torture yourself, see how long you can last with no line pieces in Sadistic mode.  A few months in the making and a mere 185KB, this highly-polished game is a must for your Prizm, and incorporates thorough research into the original versions of Tetris to provide a fun and accurate gaming experience.  Although I wrote almost all of this game, a special hat-tip to my coauthor tifreak8x for his testing and motivation, and to the other Cemetech beta-testers for their detailed feedback on beta versions.

Download
Tetrizm v1.0 for the Casio Prizm
Tetrizm v1.0 gameplay video [Youtube]

Today marks the second anniversary of the very first release of Axe Parser by Quigibo. Two years ago, on Feburary 1st, 2010, Quigibo posted on our forums Axe 0.0.1, a revolutionary new programming language for the TI-83+ series. This release didn't contained a lot of features, but still enough to compete with the already existing assembly libraries and the like. The program quickly gained popularity, becoming the most used language for the 83+/84+ and one of the hugest pillars of Omnimaga, probably even making the TI community double its activity. Axe even competes with TI-Basic and assembly, the two official languages that comes with the 83+, due to the easy learning curve with TI-Basic and the ASM-like powers of the language. Nowadays, Axe 1.1.1 comes with countless features making powerful ASM games to be written as easily as in TI-Basic.

We would like to thank Quigibo for his huge contribution to the calc community, without Axe, the community probably wouldn't be as active and interesting as now.

EDIT: Axe 1.1.2 Second Anniversary Edition is out, have fun using the new Axe Fusion feature!

This was done a few days ago, but I didn't have time to write the news about it until now. A new board for those who need help programming in Grammer language was added on Omnimaga! Like the Axe Parser language, now there is a section to discuss about the project and one to get help or give advice to program in the language.

For those who haven't seen them yet, the project board is under Major Community Projects and the help one is under TI programming and support:

Grammer project discussion forums
Grammer language help forums

Eventually the admins will also add a link to the help board directly on the front page too, along with a navigation EzBlock above each section like the Axe one, for ease of access. Projects will continue to go in the projects section.

For those who haven't checked it out, Grammer is a language similar to both Axe Parser and TI-BASIC, but while it's faster than TI-BASIC, it is still interpreted, unlike Axe, which is compiled. Some mini-games examples were created shortly after its release and currently a major project using this language is being worked on: a Grammer remake of The Reign of Legends 3 (which was originally released in 2004).

Did you believe nDoom 2.0 couldn't become more epic? Today you get nDoom 2.1 with a new major functionnality: the support for PWAD files!


There are 2 kinds of Doom WAD files:
* IWAD
* PWAD

IWAD files include all the data needed to run the game. They're quite big but can be used alone.

PWAD files (Patch-WAD) only include some data. Usually small, they can't be used alone. They are designed to be loaded over an IWAD file in order to replace some maps or sprites for example.



Some commercial WAD files are PWADs, like the ones in the Master Levels for Doom II:




But allmost every 3rd party WAD file available on the Internet is a PWAD file. So there were thousands of WAD files on the Internet that you couldn't use with nDoom untill today.

You can even patch your game several times! Here is Doom2 patched with 2 PWAD files:
- the Otakon levels
- the Nintendo skins




Although all 20 commercial PWAD files from the Master Levels for Doom II are working perfectly, there are many various PWAD editors/generators and not every PWAD seems to be supported for now.
Please help me determine/understand which PWAD are or aren't working, and which PWAD would really be worth supporting.



Download nDoom 2.1 and working IWAD/PWAD files from the TI-Planet news:
http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=8723

After Doom, 2 new TI-Nspire ports this evening: the free zlib and libpng libraries by JayTe.

Together, we have integrated those ports in mViewer CX Edition, making it the first PNG image reader on the TI-Nspire!




Download from the TI-Planet news:
http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=8718

In a previous news, we were discovering that the TI-Nspire ViewScreen peripheral was a true TI-Nspire calculator and was including an OS, a Boot1, a Boot2, and a Diagnostic software.



Since, we have discovered that the TI-Nspire Lab Cradle peripheral a real TI-Nspire calculator too, including an OS, a Boot1 and a Boot2.




But one question remained... Did the TI-Nspire Lab Cradle include a Diagnostic software too, although they've only got one key?

And as reported in two news on TI-Planet, we have answers for you!

And the answer is definately yes according to the system strings. It should look like that:


We assume it should output/input on the RS232 port.



Next question is then how to launch it with only one key which doesn't seem to trigger anything at boot time...

And we allready have the next answer: there is probably no diags shortcut, but there is a maintenance menu in the Boot1 (yes, not the Boot2) and the diags can be launched from this menu:




But this means we've got another question now: how can we launch the Lab Cradle maintenance menu with only one key which doesn't seem to trigger anything at boot time?...

Cross-posted from TI-Planet: http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8707


I've just released mViewer CX Edition 1.0, the color BMP image reader for TI-Nspire CX.
Note that grayscale support is broken for now: it won't work on older Nspire - just use the stable classic mViewer in that case.


The Nspire OS let you view images... But mViewer let you do much more than that:
- view images larger than the screen
- zoom in/out in the images
- scroll in the images
- intuitive scroll with the touchpad



Any document can now be converted and viewed in color on your Nspire CX:



For documents which don't include photos, you should convert to 8-bits BMP (256 colors) with an RLE compression. This will be enough and will save you much space.

For photos, you should prefer 16-bits BMP (65536 colors) IN R5G6B5. Don't use more than that: it will be displayed but it's a waste of space as the Nspire CX screen won't follow.



Links:
mViewer 3.1 (for ClickPad/TouchPad Nspire with Ndless 1.7 to 3.1)
mViewer CX Edition 1.0 (for TI-Nspire CX with Ndless 3.1)

Those who are participating in Cemetech's programming contest should remember that the deadline for submission of your entries to KermMartian (do not release it publicly!) is tonight at 11:59 PM GMT-5! If you happen to have an entry in the works that hasn't been submitted yet, make sure you don't forget to do so as soon as possible, because e-mail delivery delays can occur! If you still have time, it might be a short occasion to do some minor tweaks to your program as well to improve it.

Also before submitting, make sure you make a topic about your entry (without the download) there.

Good luck to whoever is participating!

Here is a test release of nPlayer for the CX.  It is still an early version, but it does do what it is supposed to do:  play videos.  Its drawbacks are that there is no file compression (not too big of an issue with the CX memory  ) and it does not allow videos smaller than the Nspire screen.  Nevertheless, here is a video of it in action (sorry for the large size, link is below) and the file is attached!  This won't work on the non-CX models, it is for the CX only.  Both versions will be combined when I update this on ticalc, this is just a test version for those who have asked for it on the CX!  Also, I will upload the player to the Omnimaga archives!

http://www.mediafire.com/?n0bsa5dqt9yi81m

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxQoNWiNriw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxQoNWiNriw</a>
(Thanks adriweb for YouTube upload!)