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General Discussion => Introduce Yourself! => Topic started by: Empyreal on August 14, 2010, 11:22:58 pm
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Hi everybody.
As you can see, this introduction has been a long time coming. I was surprised I could still log in! ;D
I used to be very interested in TI programming (z80 assembly and BASIC) a couple years back. Sadly I dropped first calculator, a TI-84+, and cracked its screen. As you can imagine, that ruined my motivation rather quickly. Some months later I got a TI-83+. I was starting to get back into z80 asm when it was stolen or lost... Not sure which, but my motivation was gone once again.
After a long period of being calculatorless, I finally got a shiny new TI-89 Titanium today. :) I've just started exploring what the community has done on this wonderful little machine, and hopefully I'll find a way to contribute a few programs as time goes on.
I am somewhat involved in the Commodore scene. In particular I spend a lot of time writing programs for the Commodore Vic-20. Commitments to said Vic-20 are my main focus right now, but hopefully I'll find time to play with the TI-89.
Other things about myself: I enjoy running, drawing, and in a few days I'll be a freshman in college.
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Hey welcome here. :)
At first, I saw a new forum user but I would not see your nickname in the latest members list (which shows the last 10). Then I checked your profile and went like: "WOAH! 2008?" This is like when this version of Omnimaga opened ;D.
I'm sorry to hear about your calculator losses. I hope you eventually get motivation again to work on calc stuff. There are a bunch of 89 owners here so hopefully they might be interested in stuff you will make. Also the TI-89/68K community could use a few more releases, because while the TI-83/84+ community activity has been increasing a lot in the past 1.5 year, things on the 89/v200 side did not pick up as much. Some people may be able to help you too in programming. I think most 89 users here know BASIC and C, plus there are TI-Nspire programmers who use C as well, so they may be able to help you too.
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Welcome to the forum! Hopefully we have some limited edition peanuts left, but in the meantime, here's a complementary bag of our finest ones
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Welcome to Omni! Hope you enjoy your stay and peanuts! :)
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Special complimentary penuts could not be located at this time, but in the meantime feel free
to lose the game enjoy our wonderful board :)
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Welcome! We need to make a special "The Game" peanut bag to better assist new members in losing.
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I believe there is a machine somewhere that creates those, but its off right now :P
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Welcome back to Omni, good sir.
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Welcome to Omnimaga!
It is nice to see some more 68k programmers coming here. The 68k community seemed completely dead a month or two ago, but now I have been seeing a few new projects come out. Hopefully the 68k community will rise again!
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Here are the peanuts which you seek.
Welcome to Omnimaga! Enjoy your account at last! :P
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Thanks for the welcome!
DJOmnimaga, haha yeah it took me long enough to get this introduction out! I've noticed that activity on the 89/200 front is quite low compared to the 83/84 as well. C/BASIC? Bah! After a couple years of 6502 assembly, 68k asm looks like a high level language. ;D Plus the display is memory mapped. It's like I'm in heaven. That said, I am comfortable with C as well... I'll be sure to ask if/when I have questions. Thank you for the welcome. :)
Hot_Dog, thanks for the welcome. I do enjoy peanuts!
meishe91, thank you!
Builderboy, Nice. ;) Thanks for the welcome.
Raylin, and thank you good sir for welcoming me back.
apcalc, I hope so too! It really is a great calculator.
calcdude84se, haha thanks. :)
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I still remember when the POTY award started, the second year they had to split the 68K poll in two and keep 4 programs of each for a 2nd round poll, because there were too many entries to fit in their poll system. This never happened on z80 calcs, but it went pretty close in 2004. In 2005 the same thing happeend to 68K but they had half less programs, if I recall. Afterward, the 68K scene seemed to have died. Some 68K coders lost interest due to fights starters in the 68K community back then, but I won't get into details. Now it seems there's a regain in interest toward 68k calcs, noticing the amount of 68K users joining lately.
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Welcome back, beware of trolls!
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they are sometimes found in the mines of Moria!
Lol Jk
welcome.
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Lol, those are pretty rare around here :P
Also, when we have one, they look more like
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Welcome! There has definitely been a large drought in 68k programs/programmers so it's nice to see someone new here with some interest, not to mention some previous ASM experience. :)
*edit* By the way, what kind of programs have you written for the Commodore Vic-20?
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I still remember when the POTY award started, the second year they had to split the 68K poll in two and keep 4 programs of each for a 2nd round poll, because there were too many entries to fit in their poll system. This never happened on z80 calcs, but it went pretty close in 2004. In 2005 the same thing happeend to 68K but they had half less programs, if I recall. Afterward, the 68K scene seemed to have died. Some 68K coders lost interest due to fights starters in the 68K community back then, but I won't get into details. Now it seems there's a regain in interest toward 68k calcs, noticing the amount of 68K users joining lately.
I've noticed that there are a ton of programs from years past, but very few from the last two or three years. I didn't know there were that many though. wow. It's a shame really because there are some really impressive projects here on the z80 calculators.
happybobjr, thanks for the heads up! :P
Welcome! There has definitely been a large drought in 68k programs/programmers so it's nice to see someone new here with some interest, not to mention some previous ASM experience. :)
*edit* By the way, what kind of programs have you written for the Commodore Vic-20?
Thank you. To answer your question: nothing spectacular. Most of my time was spent experimenting and making lame demo effects. I've made a couple games. I have neither released nor would admit authorship of any of them I'm afraid. :) For the past year and a half I've been working on the same project: an engine and editor for point-and-click adventure style games. When I finish I'll more than likely become more involved here with TI-89 programming. Hopefully that won't be too long. :)
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Cool, good luck with your project :)
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Welcome! Glad to see someone else who's interested in 68k programming. I don't know how many 68k assembly programmers there even are, these days- I think most use C, don't they?
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Cool, good luck with your project :)
Why thank you. :)
Welcome! Glad to see someone else who's interested in 68k programming. I don't know how many 68k assembly programmers there even are, these days- I think most use C, don't they?
Thanks! Yeah, the impression that I'm getting is that C is far more popular. I find that somewhat odd considering the power of the 68k instruction set and the frequent need for direct hardware access. Oh well, whatever works.
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Other things about myself: I enjoy running, drawing, and in a few days I'll be a freshman in college.
Running, drawing, and college? Oh ho ho, we are going to be good friends. ;D
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Cool, good luck with your project :)
Why thank you. :)
Welcome! Glad to see someone else who's interested in 68k programming. I don't know how many 68k assembly programmers there even are, these days- I think most use C, don't they?
Thanks! Yeah, the impression that I'm getting is that C is far more popular. I find that somewhat odd considering the power of the 68k instruction set and the frequent need for direct hardware access. Oh well, whatever works.
Yeah the thing is that a lot of people find ASM very hard to use so having C as an option makes things better for them. On the TI-Nspire, most people use C too. On z80 calcs, this did not happen with Axe Parser, most ASM coders stuck with ASM, but a lot of BASIC coders moved to Axe, including myself (although I still occasionally do some BASIC stuff).
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Welcome here! I wish you luck on both your Commodore and 89 programming. :)
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Running, drawing, and college? Oh ho ho, we are going to be good friends. ;D
Wow! No kidding?
Welcome here! I wish you luck on both your Commodore and 89 programming. :)
Thanks!
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Hello!
Welcome to Omnimaga, Empyreal! I see you have already been given your complementary peanuts (which strangely, I missed out on :P), so there is nothing for me to say but welcome and good luck with your projects!
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I second SirCmpwn's statement.
Welcome to Omnimaga, good sir.
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Thank you, SirCmpwn! Yes, I just finished the last of my peanuts a little bit ago. Delicious! And thank you (again), Raylin. :)