Omnimaga
Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: Hot_Dog on September 02, 2010, 12:10:14 am
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Although we are one day late on this, I am pleased to announce that Omnimaga is now 9 years old! Omnimaga started on September 1st 2001, and so yesterday marked its ninth anniversary. I will leave the history of Omnimaga to DJ: http://ourl.ca/3634/66325
We at Omnimaga wish to thank everyone for their hard work in helping this site to be one of the best calculator communities in the universe. A lot of new projects have come in, and we can tell that the designers are putting their best effort into their work because they enjoy what they do.
On top of that, the post count for this year is at an all-time high. These posts include great questions, informative answers, and encouragements that allow our programmers to continue their work, knowing that their games and applications are greatly anticipated.
Finally, it is very Nspiring for us that even though Ndless has barely been out, we have had some very nice Nspire projects.
I speak for the Staff at Omnimaga, as well as the Coders of Tomorrow, when I say that I look forward to the future and what Omnimaga has to offer to the world, let alone to calculator users everywhere.
DJ Omnimaga has put together a tribute video for the 9th anniversary of Omnimaga. I wish to give a big thank you to DJ, who has been the entire backbone of Omnimaga. Without him, we could never dream of Omnimaga being a glorious light in the future of calculator communities. He made all of this, and much more, possible.
UPDATE: Video can now be downloaded on our site (although it is 75 MB large): http://www.omnimaga.org/otherfiles/tribute_to_omnimaga_2010.wmv
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Happy Birthday Omnimaga! That is a great video.
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Happy Birthday Omnimaga!
wow well done DJ!
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Happy anniversary, Omnimaga and the Rickrollers of Tomorrow --er... Coders of Tomorrow!
That's an awesome tribute video! So many things to look forward to! :O
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Happy Birthday Omnimaga! That truly is a great video :) Props to Dj who made it, and props to everybody who is in it! :D
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Thanks a lot guys. My goal for this one was to at least have the calc videos look cleaner and smoother compared to the other videos. It was hard to fit that many projects/releases, though, hence why the video ended up like if it was in two parts (the second being non-staff projects)
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Yay! Long live Omnimaga!
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Happy birthday and long live Omnimaga, cheers to DJ :)
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Indeed. Happy birthday and long live Omnimaga.
Here's to you, DJ.
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Long live Omnimaga!
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Happy birthday and long live Omnimaga!
Nice video, DJ.
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Thanks a lot! Let's hope that the end of 2010 and the year 2011 will be as great as the rest of 2010 with new releases, members and projects :)
*DJ Omnimaga wonders if people will notice something early in the video...
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Very nice video DJ!
Happy Birthday Omnimaga!!! :)
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Happy birthday, and yep, great video!
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great video, I especially liked how it made me lose the game! :P
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Awesome! I've always liked the tribute videos!
Happy 9th birthday Omnimaga! ;D
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Nice video! Happy 9th birthday Omnimaga! :D
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great video, I especially liked how it made me lose the game! :P
Eh? Where? ???
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at the beginning, it appears and then fades away really fast.
btw, referring to your sig, but wasn't AbsIns a major game?
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at the beginning, it appears and then fades away really fast.
I must be missing something :(
Oh well, at least I still lost the game.
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Happy birthday Omnimaga!!!
DJ, that video was amazing! In case anyone cares btw raven is still being worked on, just in different ways :).
Long live omnimaga! :D
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*happybobjr hugs omnimaga
even though I, and many others, have been here for only a while, i feel welcome and loved back by you. I will never give you up, Omnimaga
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nice video DJ!
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Very nice video, but attempt 2275? :P
Also, Imagination Quest made it on! I feel happy :D
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:o nice one DJ! Happy 9th aniversary! :)
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I was curious, actually, player. good to know!
Very nice vid! I liked the music too, is it in the music downloads?
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Wow finally someone noticed the easter egg at the beginning of the vid (the one yunhua98) mentionned ;D
Player I hope the current version stays alive or revive, though. Will you post new updates here soon? :)
As for the music, it wasn't made by me but by S.S.H, as I didn't have enough time to make a new song. The Dragon Slayer song can be found on torrent sites if you are lucky and the other might be findable on Youtube and torrent sites.
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Player I hope the current version stays alive or revive, though. Will you post new updates here soon? :)
Most certainly :) Right now it looks better than it did (in terms of bullets, the enemies are being a PITA)
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Aaah ok ^^. Good luck with enemies x.x
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O noez! I lost the game (again)!
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Happy 9th anniversary Omnimaga!
I would have never completed Ultima V without the encouragement from everyone at Omnimaga!
Nice video DJ! Are there any good lessons out there for making videos from animated screenshots?
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That reminds me,
While the calc RPG download section was recently updated for the last time recently, this update was with z80/HP files and I discovered that Ultima was missing from the 68K archives afterward, which was a big surprise to me, because I was convinced I already added it when Omni re-opened in 2008. The addition of Ultima V there will be one more update I do to the section when I start working on the replacement download area.
As for video lessons, I will probably post a small tutorial on how to make your calc vids look as smooth as possible, but this solution takes a lot of disk space and it also rely on basic softwares like Windows Movie Maker for putting all vids together. It would be nice to post, though, especially how to get the green-ish LCD color for white/black screenshots (such as from the Nspire emu) and adding the motion blur effect.
To make the vid, I used VirtualDub and Windows Movie Maker btw
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You have my permission to add Ultima V to the Omnimaga archives. You can even snag a few screenshots from TIFW or Ticalc if you'd like. :)
At some point I plan on an update to Ultima V to correct a few bugs.
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I thought about using some of the screenshots that you originally posted on the old Omnimaga board, as I still have all of them at http://www.omnimaga.org/images/screenshots/ . Some were large if I remember, though. I'll have to see if they aren't too bandwidth-intensive before using them.
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happy birthday!
even though i am a bit late lol...
but anyways... all these games look great!
but um... how come i have never seen sooo many of the TI-84 games that are shown here???
are some of them not released or still in beta or something?
please reply!
i am especially interested in the space ship shooter like game at 5:12 and the minesweeper at 4:50. and of course starfox at 6:36...
please answer!
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Wow it has been A LONG while since you last posted on Omni :O (I think the last post was in March). Nice to see you're still around.
As for the games, a lot of them are still under development. Unfortunately shortly after the video was released, _player1537 announced he would make the ship shooter for the TI-Nspire instead of the 84+, though. :(. However, some versions of it are available in this topic, attached to some posts: http://ourl.ca/4791 . The last version is http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2194.0;attach=1337
The Minesweeper clone is still being worked on at http://ourl.ca/6861/116877;topicseen#new
Star Fox is also in the work at http://ourl.ca/6640 , but I have worries that the author may have moved on to other stuff :(
Besides that, there have been a lot of new projects since last time you posted on the forums. In fact, about 65% of the entire activity we had in 2 years came out in the last 6 months :P. A lot are by regular members.
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Wonderful video. It's very well done. Great job! ;D
I always enjoy these. They're fun to watch. :)
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Thanks ^^
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Wow it has been A LONG while since you last posted on Omni :O (I think the last post was in March). Nice to see you're still around.
As for the games, a lot of them are still under development. Unfortunately shortly after the video was released, _player1537 announced he would make the ship shooter for the TI-Nspire instead of the 84+, though. :(. However, some versions of it are available in this topic, attached to some posts: http://ourl.ca/4791 . The last version is http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2194.0;attach=1337
The Minesweeper clone is still being worked on at http://ourl.ca/6861/116877;topicseen#new
Star Fox is also in the work at http://ourl.ca/6640 , but I have worries that the author may have moved on to other stuff :(
Besides that, there have been a lot of new projects since last time you posted on the forums. In fact, about 65% of the entire activity we had in 2 years came out in the last 6 months :P. A lot are by regular members.
wow... thanks for responding so soon! :)
sorry for not visiting during this time lol i have only been on cemetech.net during the summer and stuff.
i decided to come visit and perhaps stay here because DCS7 is finally finished!
there seems to be a lot of projects that i never even knew about until you guys posted this video!
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Aah I see, and Doors CS7 freaking rules too. The only downside would be the fact it takes 49 KB so on my old 83+ I only have half of my archive left (with Axe installed) but I love it and everything it can do so the only time Doors CS7 will ever be removed from my calc will be when I want to play an extremly massive game (or work on one).
I hope you stick around here and Cemetech for a while. As for the projects, I've been thinking about splitting the general projects section in multiple sub-forums in the future, because it's a huge mess right now (the first page has topics with posts from less than 3 weeks ago). I thought about having a section for dev tools, one for games, one for math programs and miscellanous stuff. Otherwise, maybe I'll simply move more projects in the Major TI community projects section
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Aah I see, and Doors CS7 freaking rules too. The only downside would be the fact it takes 49 KB so on my old 83+ I only have half of my archive left (with Axe installed) but I love it and everything it can do so the only time Doors CS7 will ever be removed from my calc will be when I want to play an extremly massive game (or work on one).
I hope you stick around here and Cemetech for a while. As for the projects, I've been thinking about splitting the general projects section in multiple sub-forums in the future, because it's a huge mess right now (the first page has topics with posts from less than 3 weeks ago). I thought about having a section for dev tools, one for games, one for math programs and miscellanous stuff. Otherwise, maybe I'll simply move more projects in the Major TI community projects section
yeah, some form of categorization would be great, since its actually quite hard to find things quickly sometimes... though i would say that everything works fine the way they are at the moment... But neatness would definitely attract more people to come and join this site.
The first time i ever came to this website, i was intimidated by the way the front page looks and thought it was too complicated lol. In-fact, it made me think if i would be able understand anything on this site at all and had me thinking if i should bother making an account or not. To put it simply, i guess i have to say that it looks a bit too professional. XD
That's actually one of the reasons why i use cemetech.net more.
But thats just my personal opinion though...
p.s. sorry if i am going off topic... :/
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Aaah ok sorry to hear. As for the front page I think it is kinda fine, but I thought about maybe reducing the size of some stuff, such as the top posters and the new posts list (since it's kinda obsoleted by the new posts list in the navbar). I also considered limiting news character to 1000 chars, but that screws up BBCode :(
But the project section was made standard based on most other TI forums. However, that was when those forums had about 1500-4000 posts a month and 70% of them were off-topic. Now not only Omnimaga has 7000 a month, but the site is also mostly calc game-developpement-oriented, which means a very high amount of projects receives regular updates compared to before. In other words, maybe categories are in order ;D . I'm not planning to increase the amount of sub-forums that are listed on the board index, though. In fact, I've even removed some and put them as child boards of others recently. :P
EDIT: Back on topic... well... almost...
Now that I think about it, since the video ends with some Star Fox 84+ clip, I should really have made something like that at the end of the clip when the 2nd song ends :P
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Aaah ok sorry to hear. As for the front page I think it is kinda fine, but I thought about maybe reducing the size of some stuff, such as the top posters and the new posts list (since it's kinda obsoleted by the new posts list in the navbar). I also considered limiting news character to 1000 chars, but that screws up BBCode :(
But the project section was made standard based on most other TI forums. However, that was when those forums had about 1500-4000 posts a month and 70% of them were off-topic. Now not only Omnimaga has 7000 a month, but the site is also mostly calc game-developpement-oriented, which means a very high amount of projects receives regular updates compared to before. In other words, maybe categories are in order ;D . I'm not planning to increase the amount of sub-forums that are listed on the board index, though. In fact, I've even removed some and put them as child boards of others recently. :P
EDIT: Back on topic... well... almost...
Now that I think about it, since the video ends with some Star Fox 84+ clip, I should really have made something like that at the end of the clip when the 2nd song ends :P
yeah! that's actually quite epic lol
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slightly late, but I never got to upload this ;D
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I think it would be better if it included "Omnimaga" :P
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oops... took the wrong bag...
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They look nice. :)
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Better now :)
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2234 attempts at Impossible Game? XD
I also like the inclusion of Chopper :)
Happy birthday Omnimaga!
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Yeah I suck at that game lol. To overshow it I simply ran wabbitemu at 1600% for several minutes then made my screenshot when the attempts counter reached 2200. I wanted to see if past 256 it would reset back to 0 at first :P .
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I just downloaded it this morning, 41% through the iPod level ^_^
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Nice :P
I wonder how long are each level?
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What about at over 65536? :P
That'd take a while, though.
And yeah, that was amusing to see (The >2000 tries... which should have been >9000!!! :P)
I myself have never finished it ;D
Edit: $0400th post!
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each level takes approximately 90 seconds to complete, according to the itouch apps' promotional literature. it sounds about right.
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Yeah I suck at that game lol. To overshow it I simply ran wabbitemu at 1600% for several minutes then made my screenshot when the attempts counter reached 2200. I wanted to see if past 256 it would reset back to 0 at first :P .
Wow, so he knew some people would definitely take more than 256 shots...
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A little late guys but congrats, well deserved
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Thanks :D
Now I wonder what people will come up with for the end of 2010 and 2011 (both here and other forums). Has Spencer's Zelda seen any progress since the Revsoft crash?
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Well losing the game just harshes my mellow...
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Lol. Well at least some people spotted the easter egg after all :P
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Lol. Well at least some people spotted the easter egg after all :P
what easter egg?
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Around 5 seconds into the video, you see text saying "THE GAME" during the Zedd Physics library screenshots. It's very hard to spot.
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*squints and sees "THE GAME"*
oh yeah... I guess that is there...
FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...
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I lost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hi and welcome here. :D
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Around 5 seconds into the video, you see text saying "THE GAME" during the Zedd Physics library screenshots. It's very hard to spot.
Bump ... but I finally saw it :P
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It took that long and you necroposted??? :O
j/k. :P On a side note, next September Omnimaga will have existed for a decade. ;D
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next september, yayz. I totally want to help make next year's celebration video...
next year's should be like 45 minutes long, and explain the history of omnimaga, shows games since the beginning, and other stuff like that. then we rickroll the viewer :P
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next september, yayz. I totally want to help make next year's celebration video...
next year's should be like 45 minutes long, and explain the history of omnimaga, shows games since the beginning, and other stuff like that. then we rickroll the viewer :P
I agree with that last bit, cuz we're never gonna give Omni up. ;)
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Well Youtube limits videos to 15 minutes so...
I think next year will include videos from many games released on Omni since 2001 including the first Illusiat and gradually continue until the 2010 stuff. There will probably be references to 2010 forum activity as well, since 2010 will have more posts than the 5 previous years combined. (Note that Omni made it online only in April 2004 but existed since 2001, kinda like how Cemetech exists since 2000 but made it online in 2002).
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It took that long and you necroposted??? :O
j/k. :P On a side note, next September Omnimaga will have existed for a decade. ;D
Yeah. Monitor was too bright, and the text was almost white :P
Can't wait for next year! :D
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9 years? Only read this now.
I'm afraid Omnimaga, you can't enter the disco yet.
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It took that long and you necroposted??? :O
j/k. :P On a side note, next September Omnimaga will have existed for a decade. ;D
Yeah. Monitor was too bright, and the text was almost white :P
Can't wait for next year! :D
Wow your monitor is extremly bright!!!!!!!! O.O
It's not even close to white on my side. It's the same as the calc screen (well... lighter, but you get the idea)