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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #135 on: November 07, 2014, 12:26:40 pm »
hmm my story is a bit confusing one for me :P

When I got my Nspire CX i was disappointed by the limited software onboard such a powerful device. First thing I searched online was games :P I found TIcalc. Some of the ReadMes had TIPlanet and Omnimaga mentioned. I first went to TIPlanet but seeing that it was french i focused on Omnimaga. Because I was still shy of forums at that time ( even though i suggested opening my forum for calculator help later on) i lurked as a guest on omnimaga for like 2 months before joining in as hking1 XD

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #136 on: November 07, 2014, 12:28:52 pm »
Well, two years ago I was happy to get a new shiny piece of technology that could even do math and some friends told me you can play games on,
so I did a quick search "hack nspire" and found this forum here.
I way curious how it works and I programmed some small crappy games for 3.1, but I didn't join until I found the linux thread.

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #137 on: November 07, 2014, 12:32:53 pm »
So a member was wondering how the current generation of Omnimaga members have found out about the website?
Not sure if I count as 'current generation', as 3 years seems quite a bit more than a newbie but still a lot less than a veteran.

Anyways, unlike many people here, I was introduced to this website (and calculator programming, for that matter) by a friend of mine - Buttsfredkin (more recently LincolnB). He's since gone, but I'm still here [occasionally]. :)

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #138 on: November 07, 2014, 12:47:32 pm »
hmm my story is a bit confusing one for me :P

When I got my Nspire CX i was disappointed by the limited software onboard such a powerful device. First thing I searched online was games :P I found TIcalc. Some of the ReadMes had TIPlanet and Omnimaga mentioned. I first went to TIPlanet but seeing that it was french i focused on Omnimaga. Because I was still shy of forums at that time ( even though i suggested opening my forum for calculator help later on) i lurked as a guest on omnimaga for like 2 months before joining in as hking1 XD
Before I joined I always thought forums were crap <_<
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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #139 on: November 07, 2014, 12:51:31 pm »
Before I joined I always thought forums were crap <_<

That was my impression too.

As to how I found it here? I just followed my heart <3
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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #140 on: November 07, 2014, 01:07:30 pm »
I literally just stumbled across Omnimaga multiple times whenever I had questions I needed to answer about programming. That was while I was taking my first steps to programming on the Ti-84. I then thought about joining the forums, and when I did it felt awkward at first, it was my first real forum, and actually still is ( XD ). But I quickly fit in, and boom here I am now. Had a bit of inactivity beginning 2014, but I bounced back.


EDIT: Actually Ben_g's story is pretty much exactly the same as mine. Like to the last little detail too.  O.O
« Last Edit: November 07, 2014, 01:12:08 pm by XiiDraco »

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #141 on: November 07, 2014, 01:46:23 pm »
Well, two years ago I was happy to get a new shiny piece of technology that could even do math and some friends told me you can play games on,
so I did a quick search "hack nspire" and found this forum here.
And two years later instead of "crappy games" you work on Ndless, Linux, MicroPython, PyWrite, nGL, a 3D textured Minecraft clone. Man that escalated quickly. That reminds me, my first attempt at a real calc game was "Spaceship games", also known as "god so much shit" <_<

4 years ago I followed the French Axe tutorial (the biggest Axe tutorial that you can find on the internet) and I saw Omnimaga as a community forum in English. Since I was quite good at English at the time (I was still 12, let's stay realistic), I decided to come here.

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #142 on: November 07, 2014, 01:55:38 pm »
Well, two years ago I was happy to get a new shiny piece of technology that could even do math and some friends told me you can play games on,
so I did a quick search "hack nspire" and found this forum here.
And two years later instead of "crappy games" you work on Ndless, Linux, MicroPython, PyWrite, nGL, a 3D textured Minecraft clone. Man that escalated quickly.
You forgot pwmtest :P Yeah, I wouldn't have expected that I'll find a new hobby here.

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That reminds me, my first attempt at a real calc game was "Spaceship games", also known as "god so much shit" <_<
My first was a snake clone. White background and the snake was in rainbow colors.

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4 years ago I followed the French Axe tutorial (the biggest Axe tutorial that you can find on the internet) and I saw Omnimaga as a community forum in English. Since I was quite good at English at the time (I was still 12, let's stay realistic), I decided to come here.
How did you get to Axe? How did you get hold of a TI calc at 12?
My english was abysmally bad back then. It improved significantly after I started watching mainly english videos on youtube, most of them Let's plays.

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #143 on: November 07, 2014, 03:34:32 pm »
I found games on ticalc, then i found doors on ticalc, then i found cemetech, then i found axe, and then i found omni :P

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #144 on: November 07, 2014, 03:35:51 pm »
well, three years ago I got a nspire, looked up if I could get games on it, found omnimaga, didn't join until recently (3 years later)
This isn't omnimaga related but boy do I love osu!

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #145 on: November 07, 2014, 04:10:12 pm »
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4 years ago I followed the French Axe tutorial (the biggest Axe tutorial that you can find on the internet) and I saw Omnimaga as a community forum in English. Since I was quite good at English at the time (I was still 12, let's stay realistic), I decided to come here.
How did you get to Axe? How did you get hold of a TI calc at 12?
Sorry I was actually 13. I had a TI calc because I entered highschool (I skipped a year of school), and I made sure to get a TI-83+ because I noticed the Axe tutorial by sheer luck on some (huge) French programming tutorial base.

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #146 on: November 08, 2014, 12:30:34 am »
I found Omni because I joined TSA last year, did calc robots, made a google site on coding, found Cemetech through the internet (somehow), and after I was banned from Ceme came to Omni.

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #147 on: November 08, 2014, 02:27:30 am »
I was browsing the interwebs one day...and somehow ended up here. I have interest in programming and got a calc (first graphing one was the Casio Prizm), so I stayed.
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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #148 on: November 08, 2014, 09:50:52 am »
The great and powerful google ;)
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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #149 on: November 08, 2014, 09:58:47 am »
At the beginning of school last year, I was already pretty interested in learning how to program, and I got a CSE for school. It was on a discount, and somehow was even less then the monochrome models O.O
Anyway, I searched up "how to program a TI-84+CSE" and came to TI Basic Dev. I stayed there for a while, and I saw one of the links to a calculator site, so I clicked it, and ended up here :)