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General Discussion => Introduce Yourself! => Topic started by: TravisE on June 16, 2009, 03:38:22 pm

Title: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: TravisE on June 16, 2009, 03:38:22 pm
Hi, everyone.  A lot of people probably don't know me since I'm not too people-oriented and don't socialize much (heck, I think it took me several years just to figure out that most of the discussion activity actually took place outside of ticalc.org ;)), but I'm the other recently-hired file archiver over there. Anyway, I just thought I'd hang out here from time to time to get a feel for what's going on, especially in the area of the TI-83+/84+ where my knowledge is quite limited, and answer any questions or concerns that I come across that I'm able to. Well, see you later!
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: Halifax on June 16, 2009, 05:55:25 pm
Well that's great to hear and know. I hope you have a fun time here while you hangout.
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: Eeems on June 16, 2009, 05:56:51 pm
great to have you with us Travis! hope you have a good stay
EDIT: nice ninja there halifax
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: Halifax on June 16, 2009, 07:37:54 pm
great to have you with us Travis! hope you have a good stay
EDIT: nice ninja there halifax
Haha, what's that mean? I guess I typed in my post while you were typing your's in?
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: Eeems on June 16, 2009, 07:42:26 pm
yep, and you beat me to the punch
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: simplethinker on June 16, 2009, 08:28:45 pm
Welcome to Omnimaga TravisE!  Now we really have some pull over at ticalc.org...

Oh, and here are some complementary Omnimaga peanuts
(http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc143/drumbboi/peanut-bag.gif)
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: allynfolksjr on June 16, 2009, 08:40:23 pm
Welcome to Omnimaga TravisE!  Now we really have some pull over at ticalc.org...
Too bad we have a policy which says "anyone who thinks they have 'pull' is automatically ignored for the next 200 years."
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 16, 2009, 10:56:50 pm
Yeah :'(

But travisE welcome. Maybe you will eventually get the temptation to make the grayscale first person shooter soon :D

j/k

@Halifax, for some reason, I only heard "Ninja'd" since the past year but only knew what it meant about a few weeks ago. Having been on forums since ages ago I've always been used to the term "Cross-Posting" :P
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: Ti-newb on June 17, 2009, 03:19:26 pm
I havn't been used to any of them.. untill u guys explained it to me. Thanks xD!
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: TravisE on June 17, 2009, 04:22:16 pm
Welcome to Omnimaga TravisE!  Now we really have some pull over at ticalc.org...

Oh, and here are some complementary Omnimaga peanuts

Thanks! Wow, that's a big bag. ;)

But travisE welcome. Maybe you will eventually get the temptation to make the grayscale first person shooter soon :D

j/k

I've always had lots of calculator project ideas, but never get around to them since I have 7,203,992,230,499 other hobbies to juggle around. I'm trying to shoot for getting them finished by the year 6000, though. ;)
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: calc84maniac on June 17, 2009, 04:28:47 pm
That's over 9000 hobbies you have there! :o
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: Ti-newb on June 17, 2009, 04:30:20 pm
thats over 9000x9000 hobbies u got there.
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: cooliojazz on June 17, 2009, 09:23:37 pm
That's over 9000x9000x9000 you have!!!!!
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: Galandros on June 18, 2009, 04:31:33 pm
Hi, everyone.  A lot of people probably don't know me since I'm not too people-oriented and don't socialize much (heck, I think it took me several years just to figure out that most of the discussion activity actually took place outside of ticalc.org ;)), but I'm the other recently-hired file archiver over there. Anyway, I just thought I'd hang out here from time to time to get a feel for what's going on, especially in the area of the TI-83+/84+ where my knowledge is quite limited, and answer any questions or concerns that I come across that I'm able to. Well, see you later!
I remember see news with your name. Nice job! ticalc was without entries for several months...So I may be appreciate above the normal...

Welcome here and stay a bit.

 Even if you can't do your games why not publish the design? You can keep to you all you choose, of course, but it may inspire others or just make them do it. Like me with Lost Legends 1. I took the design (and some code because the project "died" with the last programmer) and I am doing it. With the experience I gain from it, I will do my own. (me hopes gets all finished)
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: Spellshaper on June 18, 2009, 09:14:37 pm
Hello there, and welcome to Omnimaga.

I agree with Galandros. Great ideas are to be shared. There may be someone who'd be happy to make your idea into reality.
Though I have to admit that I was a bit too ambitious with my last big project, and lost interest. :s

.. and darn, how many peanut bags did I leave when I went inactive? *grabs some*
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 18, 2009, 09:56:02 pm
Well, I have no clue. You left for so long but people always found more and more. Maybe they found your secret hideout?

Also for a while, we had rickroll peanuts :P
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: TravisE on June 18, 2009, 10:05:03 pm
I'm still hoping to finish the things I have in mind one of these days—I haven't given up on them yet. For most of these I really don't really anything code-wise to show at the moment.

One exception, though, is a TI-89 Skip-Bo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip-bo) game written in C (with TIGCC) which was intended to be a clone of an electronic handheld version that I had many years ago where you play against one to three computer opponents at one of three selectable difficulty levels. If I recall correctly, I had the whole UI (including legal move detection) finished—the main thing missing was the computer player AI, which I hadn't started on. That's where I had left off and haven't worked on it in quite a while. Since I've been releasing all my projects as open-source under the GPL, I've been thinking about possibly releasing this as incomplete source code for now, and perhaps someone might happen to take it and finish it before I ever get around to it. Would anyone be interested in seeing this?
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 18, 2009, 10:33:37 pm
One day I should really finish The Reign Of Legends 4. Not that it's barely started at all, but I still got the notes in both pc and paper format, wrote the intro and ending and the entire menu engine was done. I doubt I would understand the code a lot, though, since it's 2 years old. And for now, I'm trying to finish Illusiat 13: The Lost Chapter, which is about 85% complete

EDIT: Actually, I think I should make a screenshot

EDIT 2: Finally, I made 3:
(http://xlib.mtv-music-generator.com/rl4c.gif) (http://xlib.mtv-music-generator.com/rl4b.gif) (http://xlib.mtv-music-generator.com/rl4a.gif)
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: Eeems on June 19, 2009, 12:24:38 am
wow those are pretty epic looking! I especially like the last one, how did you do that?
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 19, 2009, 12:28:02 am
I used the sprite function (real(1 ) at multiple places on the screen but displayed the content at slightly different X location, so it does some sort of wave effect.
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: Eeems on June 19, 2009, 12:29:05 am
ah, so I'm guessing you saved the screen as a pic first then you called it then you cleared it again?
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 19, 2009, 12:30:28 am
yeah, except I just recalled it chunks by chunks, allowing me to not display everything at the same X location. I think this magic was gonna be used for the Inferno summon
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: Eeems on June 19, 2009, 12:41:42 am
sweet, I love your animations, they are always so epic. I hope my magic for the blue platform will be comparable
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 19, 2009, 01:24:41 am
Me too ^^

Btw the first screenshot has an error, because the characters got 9999 HP and fewer max hp x.x, it's because I must have edited something in the list manually before going to the menu. The menu was bug-free, from what I remember
Title: Re: Another hello from ticalc.org
Post by: Eeems on June 19, 2009, 01:27:06 pm
lol, nice. I'm trying to figure out what magic I am going to use for my game now that I am using Celtic III...maybe I'll borrow that one, if I can get it to work.