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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on January 30, 2013, 03:34:24 pm
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A mysterious message has been posted (http://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=199019#199019) on Cemetech earlier today, from "6i8kjy", in the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition update thread. The person has posted screenshots of what seems to be a TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition port of the game Pede, a Centipede clone originally released for the TI-86 in 1998 (http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/25/2591.html)
TI-86 version:
(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/pede86.png)
Here is how it looks like on a TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition, with colored sprites:
(http://6i8kjy.webstarts.com/uploads/pede.jpg)
According to Kerm, the user really appears to be the author of the original game, who has an e-mail address ending in @ti.com, according to the ticalc.org author page (http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/authors/1/197.html), implying that he works or worked for Texas Instruments. This might explain why he has managed to write an assembly game (or app) for the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition before it even comes out (the people who got to try the calculator at school most likely never had close to enough time to even write a simple TI-84+CSE BASIC game).
This could possibly be the very first calculator game to ever come out for the new color screen calculator model by TI! (http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/84pcseploticondude.png)
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Looks great! Hopefully we can acquire some more information on the hardware.
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Well, I guess this means that the calc is fast enough to play some games on it.
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That is awesome, the first game for the calc exists before the calc itself >.<
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Well, I guess this means that the calc is fast enough to play some games on it.
I would love to see it in motion, am interested as to whether or not they are using a frame buffer - if so, how big i wonder?!
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That is awesome, the first game for the calc exists before the calc itself >.<
The calc itself is already developed.
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Well, I guess this means that the calc is fast enough to play some games on it.
I would love to see it in motion, am interested as to whether or not they are using a frame buffer - if so, how big i wonder?!
Well, this certainly seems the type of game that could update directly to the screen, bypassing a buffer in RAM (of course, assuming that the LCD controller has its own RAM, which seems pretty likely).
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That is awesome, the first game for the calc exists before the calc itself >.<
The calc itself is already developed.
Yeah but I think this is the first time a calculator game comes out before the calc itself. Of course PuzzlePack for the TI-84+ doesn't count because it was made for the 83+ and happened to run fine on the 84+.
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That is awesome, the first game for the calc exists before the calc itself >.<
The calc itself is already developed.
Yeah but I think this is the first time a calculator game comes out before the calc itself. Of course PuzzlePack for the TI-84+ doesn't count because it was made for the 83+ and happened to run fine on the 84+.
Technically the game hasn't "come out", the guy is just showing screenshots of a quick-and-dirty port of his game for TI-86 (and this is just what we need during this information drought)
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Yeah true, but even then, I don't think there was any previous instance of a game being worked on before a calc is released.
Also it would be kinda funny if the NDA didn't prevent this guy from releasing programs for that calc and he actually released it on ticalc.org now. Not only the calc hasn't come out yet, but ticalc.org didn't even announce it. :P
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Looks interesting. I just find the places where text is displayed a bit ugly. It kinda reminds me on the PRIZM...
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That is awesome, the first game for the calc exists before the calc itself >.<
The calc itself is already developed.
I meant officially on the market. (no black market here)/me runs
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Cool stuff. I'd love to see more games from TI for the calculator.
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@Stefan I actually like the fonts better than the PRIZM, but they could definitively be better. The way they're done, however, will make ASCII art graphics look as good as on older calcs.
As for the game this was most likely a quick preview of how the game would look like on newer models, else the graphics would probably look a bit less like Atari 2600 :P
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nice!