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Re: So how did you get into calc programming?
« Reply #15 on: June 14, 2014, 10:34:15 pm »
I think Pimath made a topic about that already. ;)

Yes I did. No idea where or when, though.
A quick look through your post history didn't find anything. >.>
Maybe he mispelled the entire title ? :trollface:
or it's in ROT something and looks like some other words (by coincidence)

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Re: So how did you get into calc programming?
« Reply #16 on: June 15, 2014, 05:26:58 am »
I started out making games in basic. I never figured out why the games got slower with every iteration of the main loop. Perhaps because I used goto's inside the main loop.

I became interested in getting sound of the device, but I only knew basic, so I wrapped the antenna of an FM radio around my calculator and tuned to a noise channel. You can hear the cpu activity on that channel. By using different basic commands I made simple soundeffects for in my game. Sadly I lost these games. They were pretty rudamentary, but it worked!

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Re: So how did you get into calc programming?
« Reply #17 on: June 15, 2014, 05:41:06 am »
I've always been interested in programming. I think I started using vbscript in MS office, had a lot of fun pranking my parents with false error messages ;D After that I dabbled in Scratch, javascript, c# and python, but I could never really get a grasp of how it worked (remember I was about 11 at the time). Then when I was 14, a classmate of mine got his brother's 84+, and because his brother was also a calc geek my classmate knew you could play games and program on the calc. Next year everyone in class had to get a 8[3/4](+), so obviously I started messing around with TI-Basic (which was, according to the other classmate "very much alike javascript" o.o). Because I was really interested to learn everything about my newly-acquired 84+, I went to look on the internet for tutorials. I passed over Omni a few times but ignored it. Then I found ticalc.org with quite a few getting started in Basic tutorials, and so I got into calc programming. I also discovered that there was another guy at school who also programmed his calc, so I was with him a lot. He told me about Axe and Omnimaga. Thanks for that LordConiupiter :D
So now you know how I ended up programming my calc and how I found Omni.
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Re: So how did you get into calc programming?
« Reply #18 on: June 15, 2014, 05:56:40 am »
(which was, according to the other classmate "very much alike javascript" o.o)
WTF that isn't even closley JS O.O

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Re: So how did you get into calc programming?
« Reply #19 on: June 15, 2014, 10:17:30 am »
(which was, according to the other classmate "very much alike javascript" o.o)
WTF that isn't even closley JS O.O
I know right? idk why he thought that.
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Re: So how did you get into calc programming?
« Reply #20 on: June 15, 2014, 10:53:20 am »
(remember I was about 11 at the time).
same age as when I started  ;D

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Re: So how did you get into calc programming?
« Reply #21 on: June 15, 2014, 11:03:04 am »
Note that I didn't start calc programming until I was 14-15ish. Also at first I only played games on my calc. Wolf3D84 is amazing.
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Re: So how did you get into calc programming?
« Reply #22 on: June 15, 2014, 11:03:23 am »
Note that I didn't start calc programming until I was 14-15ish. Also at first I only played games on my calc. Wolf3D84 is amazing.
Same age as getting calcs then :P

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Re: So how did you get into calc programming?
« Reply #23 on: June 15, 2014, 11:59:33 am »
I've always been interested in programming. I think I started using vbscript in MS office, had a lot of fun pranking my parents with false error messages ;D After that I dabbled in Scratch, javascript, c# and python, but I could never really get a grasp of how it worked (remember I was about 11 at the time). Then when I was 14, a classmate of mine got his brother's 84+, and because his brother was also a calc geek my classmate knew you could play games and program on the calc. Next year everyone in class had to get a 8[3/4](+), so obviously I started messing around with TI-Basic (which was, according to the other classmate "very much alike javascript" o.o). Because I was really interested to learn everything about my newly-acquired 84+, I went to look on the internet for tutorials. I passed over Omni a few times but ignored it. Then I found ticalc.org with quite a few getting started in Basic tutorials, and so I got into calc programming. I also discovered that there was another guy at school who also programmed his calc, so I was with him a lot. He told me about Axe and Omnimaga. Thanks for that LordConiupiter :D
So now you know how I ended up programming my calc and how I found Omni.
that reminds me, I should really retry LordConiupiter's RPG from early 2010. I didn't have the chance to play for very long except during contest judging, since I spent most of the time trying to install the game :P.

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Re: So how did you get into calc programming?
« Reply #24 on: June 15, 2014, 12:15:56 pm »
Oh I should probably mention that I got banned from Omni because I was considered a duplicate account for LordConiupiter because I had the same IP as him (due to school internet) and the first thing I did was voting on his RPG :P
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Re: So how did you get into calc programming?
« Reply #25 on: June 15, 2014, 02:34:32 pm »
Lol they really thought that ? XD

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Re: So how did you get into calc programming?
« Reply #26 on: June 15, 2014, 02:43:55 pm »
Yes. There's even a banned version of me on the forums: (also my first post)
Proof: >>>clicky<<<<
Plot twist: I'm actually still a duplicate account.
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Re: So how did you get into calc programming?
« Reply #27 on: June 15, 2014, 02:48:35 pm »
Yes. There's even a banned version of me on the forums: (also my first post)
Proof: >>>clicky<<<<
Plot twist: I'm actually still a duplicate account.
then why arn't you banned (j/k)

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Re: So how did you get into calc programming?
« Reply #28 on: June 15, 2014, 02:49:09 pm »
Shh don't feed the admins.
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Re: So how did you get into calc programming?
« Reply #29 on: June 15, 2014, 02:52:14 pm »
I got my first glimpse at calc programming from Jake the Snake, an 83+ BASIC game that's almost definitely on ticalc somewhere. That was the first time I really thought about how one would go about making programs. I was about 8 years old at the time.

Unfortunately it was my older sister's calculator, so I didn't get to mess with it much for a few years after.