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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on May 02, 2011, 01:30:40 am
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The April 2011 edition of the Calculator Game Programming Newsletter has been released, although one day late, due to the staff having been busy harrassing our newer ones Qwerty.55 and z80man to create a Prizm port of Starcraft Brood War.
(http://www.omnimaga.org/newsletter/cgpnlogo.png) (http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=articles;sa=view;article=32)
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Enjoy!
UPDATE: It seems the e-mail version glitched out. We are resending the fixed version now, but there are no guarantees it will ever arrive, due to the small lapse of time between each e-mail. Sorry for the duplicate e-mail, if any, or the glitched newsletter e-mail, if no second e-mail makes it through.
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Now that the month of April has ended I would like to post some stats. First off was that we almost got 1 million views this month, but we're short at 980175 :P But I guarantee you all next month we have many great things coming up and we'll be sure to make that benchmark. We also need to hold onto our streak of over 10,000 posts per month too. We were down in the 11,000 range this month, but not as close as March when we got 10,044 posts. In good news is that our new member count is now down at 132 for April and is finally not over 200 anymore. If you remember this surge of new users was from nDOOM, so the good thing is that this is cooling off now. And those people on hardcore gaming websites always have short attention spans anyways. ;)
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Well, to be honest, the post decrease late in the month (around April 20th you can notice a collapse) was to be expected, because people start getting busy with school around this time of the year. 100-300 posts a day is probably what we'll get during most of May. However, in Early April, we suffered from many downtimes and slow loadings for a long while, so I'm sure in Early April our page hits and posting rate would be WAY higher than it got and we could have easily hit 12000 posts again and reached a million of hits on the forums.
And yeah in late feb/early march we got a lot of activity from nDoom, same for traffic, combined with the usual March traffic increase. Also, despite the lack of any 83+ programs in the news in April, you have to remember that a lot of the projects were still updated on the forums.
Back on post stats, you also have to remember that I usually post around 1800-2000 times per month alone. In april I posted about 1100 :P.
I think May post rate will be in the 8000-10500 range.
On a side note this is a bit why I thought it would be nice to relay some of the Prizm updates on the forums instead of just in #prizm, so everyone is more up to date and less misinformed about the state of Prizm programming/hacking.
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Yeay, another newsletter.
Man, time flies.
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Indeed. Note that this is the last newsletter until the July one, though, due to the upcoming contest announcment. The July newsletter, which will be released on July 31st, will include May and June stuff (and possibly the Axe contest results).
This is so subscribed people won't get an e-mail every 2 week.
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Ok. I wish good luck to all the contestants! :)
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Which contest is this? The Join Spring one or is that the same thing as the Axe one?
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Just skimmed through it, seems like PRIZM and NSpire were the most important subjects of the month, together with TI Boy SE.
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The Nspire did just have all of those problems and we found Lua and had like 7 or 8 games released so that explains why that was important. TI Boy SE is an amazing thing for a calculator to do and I see why that was big. What happened with the Prizm to make it big this month?
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Minesweeper and Conway's Game of Life were both ported to the Prizm in C. That is why the Prizm made such an appearance because these games mark the beginning of a new era of Prizm programming, especially now with a working GCC compiler.
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I didn't know about the new compiler. I need to get soem new calcs. I need an 84+SE and a Prizm.
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Which contest is this? The Join Spring one or is that the same thing as the Axe one?
Another Axe contest, although one month shorter and 2 weeks earlier.
And yeah the reason why a bunch of Lua games were featured as well as Prizm ones is because they were the first Nspire Lua games and Prizm games.