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General Discussion => Introduce Yourself! => Topic started by: midgetman66 on May 12, 2010, 12:12:01 am

Title: Hello world
Post by: midgetman66 on May 12, 2010, 12:12:01 am
Hello. I am midgetman66. I started programming the calculator 2 years ago when I saw that the school's calculator had a pretty "prgm" button on it. I pressed the button and opened up pandora's box of creativity. Math programs to crappy text rpgs... I have had my fun with ti-basic.

A couple of things that I really need to figure out:
How to have more than 10 maps, and be compatible with xlib
How to use greyscale, and be compatible with xlib

Not that I want to use you guys, but this website looks like the best of the best. Especially compared to youtube... where people just brag about their programs xD
Title: Re: Hello world
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 12, 2010, 12:23:26 am
Hiya and welcome here.

Nice to see you are interested in further calc games development.

And yeah I agree a bit about Youtube, altough you can get a few more downloads on your programs from there. In fact, several BASIC calc RPGs have videos of them (spoilers) there and we got a lot of members from YT back then. It's just not as good to showcase a project, since people there will criticise with gaming as a whole in mind, rather than just calc standards in mind. If your game lacks grayscale and 60 FPS framerate, or even 3D, they'll bash it, since they'll be too used to Modern Warfare 2 or Bioshock. I generally don't take Youtube comments very seriously.

As for calc sites, there are a few active ones, altough some of the others saw their activity drop in the past year or so.
Title: Re: Hello world
Post by: TIfanx1999 on May 12, 2010, 01:44:26 am
Welcome here! Hope you enjoy your stay here. Be sure to take care in avoiding Rick Astley and the occasional Pink Lobster. Don't understand? You will soon enough! ;D
Title: Re: Hello world
Post by: meishe91 on May 12, 2010, 04:01:24 am
Welcome to Omnimaga. I'm sure someone will be giving you your complimentary peanuts shortly. Hope you enjoy your stay here and hope you learn a lot O0

If you don't understand some of what AOC and I have said, don't worry, should only take you over 9000 posts :P
Title: Re: Hello world
Post by: Raylin on May 12, 2010, 08:12:02 am
Welcome to Omnimaga!
Enjoy your stay! :D
Title: Re: Hello world
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 12, 2010, 01:20:35 pm
(http://www.omnimaga.org/images/peanut-bag-rickroll.gif)
Title: Re: Hello world
Post by: Galandros on May 12, 2010, 01:25:52 pm
Welcome, enjoy your stay with other creative persons and works.
Title: Re: Hello world
Post by: ztrumpet on May 12, 2010, 04:33:28 pm
You sound pretty cool. :D  Enjoy your stay here! ;D
Can you post some of the programs you've made.  They sound neat. :)
Title: Re: Hello world
Post by: ztrumpet on May 12, 2010, 09:29:14 pm
(This post and the next two are referencing a spambot that posted just before this post.)

Are you a spam bot? O.o (?)

(I'm really sorry if I'm wrong.)
Title: Re: Hello world
Post by: Eeems on May 12, 2010, 11:49:28 pm
That sounds like standard spambot garbage, I'll take a closer look
Edit: i am pretty sure it is a spambot, so I am giving you until tomorow to prove otherwise else i am deleting and banning the account.
Title: Re: Hello world
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 13, 2010, 12:21:27 am
yeah I deleted the spambot that posted two posts ago