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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on August 31, 2007, 05:00:00 pm

Title: Finally 6 years old!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 31, 2007, 05:00:00 pm
That's right! 6 years of calc, PC games and music (altough music started in middle 2002). Omnimaga is now celebrating its 6th year anniversary! 6 years ago exactly, on September 1st 2001, Omnimaga was created, while the first programming team game, known as Labyrinthe Des Illusions, got remade in a sequel with graphical battles, then renamed to Illusiat with an intro sequence. Since then, several dozens of calculators programs were released from Omnimaga, improving and improving. Many were lost then recreated from scratch, many vanished for eternity, but most are here now. We stayed in the shadows for two and half a year, to finally make it online, offering you all the programs made by the original programming team, such as Illusiat, Mana Force and the Reign of Legends series, Omnimaga pack games, Mystique, then the programs made by me when I was part of the now defunct Epic Programming Studios: xLIB xLIB Revolution and Reuben Quest series, to finally gather many programmers together and offer you Metroid series for calculators and many other games.

To commemorate all the days of the two programming teams, here is what we got for you:

-OBVIOUSLY, Halifax's Tribute To Omnimaga video, announced and posted to public yesterday in this http://omnimaga.org/index.php?showtopic=1704

-A new website banner for the next week, showing how the old Omnimaga logo looked like, altough the stand-alone logo looked slightly different than in the tri-elemental logo I use as my forum avatar (the "N" mostly). If people like it enough we may edit it and keep it or put it back when Zetaboards is released!

-As you could see, many new things, such as the revival of the Calculator RPG and programming tools section, RPG news, a new form of contests, and a new staff member. Be sure to check them all out!

-There may be a lot of other things coming soon. Stay tuned!

Here is the chronology of the whole Omnimaga life:
-September 1st 2001: Omnimaga programming team starts up.
-September 22, 2001: First Omnimaga program released. Labyrinth of Illusions 2 released. A week after, its name changed to Illusiat.
-March 3rd 2004, Omnimaga team gets a forum (still avaliable from webarchive: http://web.archive.org/web/20040627225157/www.yaronet.com/forum.php?s=462 ). At this time, only myself is active in the team though and a RPG site is under preparation.
-April 9, 2004: Omnimaga open it's second division, a website about calculator RPGs (still avaliable here). Version 1.0 of this website (still avaliable http://omnimaga.unitedti.org/index_v1.html)
-August 2004: Omnimaga programming disbands due to lack of staff, leaving Omnimaga only as a calculator RPG website, and the forum, that is gonna be replaced with Epic Programming Studio (Now defunct) forums.
-September 20, 2004: Version 1.1 of this website (still avaliable http://omnimaga.unitedti.org/index_v2.html)
-February 1, 2005: After one and half a month of downtime due to hosting problems, Omnimaga website come back under version 1.2  (still avaliable http://omnimaga.unitedti.org/index_v3.html)
-May 12, 2005: Version 2.0 of this website (there is few remaining of this version, besides the old topic archive above the news forum and http://omnimaga.unitedti.org/omnimaga2.html)
-December 5, 2005: After slowly growing with new staff, a second programming team is formed under the Omnimaga banner, but this time, online, so the website portion of Omnimaga becomes hybrid (not only RPG only anymore)
-April 10, 2006: Version 3.0 of this website
-January 2007: Omnimaga opens his music section
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For those who are wondering which games and projects in the video it is here is the list (in order of appearance. some make their apparition twice or three times in the video):
* Combat ball
* Illusiat
* Metroid II Evolution
* Omnimaga the RPG
* Mystique
* Ultima V
* Nuke the Whales
* Tetris by Jon
* Xlib Xlib revolution
* Metroid II Evolution
* more MIIE
* Reflex Revolution
* Illusiat 6
* Galactic 68K
* Age of Culture 2
* Pokemon Purple
* MazeSnow
* MF2B
* Reuben Quest: Ev Awakening
* Reign of Legends 3
* more MIIE
* Project Omega: Race Ngine

There is MANY MANY more games avaliable for download, and a whole load of projects in the works atm, that are avaliable in the respective areas of the site.

1000 thanks to tifreak8x, tenniskid493, Rivereye, Alex, Ranman, bfr, Halifax, Jon, Liazon, lolje, Necro, Netham45, Radical_Pi, Sonata, Spellshaper, Super_Speler, tama, Nitacku, Solitaire710, kalan_vod, gimpynerd, Dragon__Lance, Jc, Krid, the_unknown_one, Zeromus, elfprince13, BCturk, JincS, Insanity, Danny Cloutier and Steve Ouellet, who contributed or are still contributing to Omnimaga as staff members.

Also many thanks to tr1p1ea and Darth_Android for supporting me a lot in the community. They are people who didn't contributed directly to Omnimaga and aren't active on the forums, but managed to keep myself and (thus,) the site alive for that long.

And finally, thanks to all others who supported us! :)smile.gif
Title: Finally 6 years old!
Post by: Xphoenix on August 31, 2007, 05:10:00 pm
Woo! Yay! Congrats! I've only been a member for less than a month, but whatever!

And no, I haven't watched the movie. I don't think I will be in the near future, either.
Title: Finally 6 years old!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on August 31, 2007, 06:12:00 pm
I tried to do everything to post this exactly at midnight :wacko:triso2.gif

this is why i first posted a very crappy 4 lines long news, then edited it afterward :Dbiggrin.gif
Title: Finally 6 years old!
Post by: bfr on August 31, 2007, 06:37:00 pm
Awesome, yea for Omnimaga.  :Dbiggrin.gif
Title: Finally 6 years old!
Post by: Netham45 on August 31, 2007, 08:07:00 pm
OMNIMAGA, f*** YEA!

w00t, I think we should all celebrate DJ_Omnimaga for keeping a great place for us k00l kats to hang out for so long, and not letting it die to so many hosting issues and various other stuff of a bad nature in the past.
Title: Finally 6 years old!
Post by: Fallen Ghost on September 01, 2007, 12:03:00 am
Omnimaga FTW!
Title: Finally 6 years old!
Post by: lordofthegeeks on September 01, 2007, 04:50:00 am
May Omnimaga Live long and prosper!
Im joined in june But now I'm Happy I joined.:)smile.gif
Title: Finally 6 years old!
Post by: Delnar_Ersike on September 01, 2007, 05:22:00 am
Happy B-Day, Omnimaga! You're finally starting first grade now! XDsmiley.gif

XPhoenix: I can download the flv from YouTube and upload it here, but you will only be able to play it if you have an flv player or an flv-to-somthing converter.
Title: Finally 6 years old!
Post by: Liazon on September 01, 2007, 05:57:00 am
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QUOTE (Delnar_Ersike @ 1 Sep, 2007, 11:22)
Happy B-Day, Omnimaga! You're finally starting first grade now! XDsmiley.gif

:king:king2.gif  hilarious!

Happy B-day again omnimaga!
Title: Finally 6 years old!
Post by: Xphoenix on September 01, 2007, 06:37:00 am
QuoteBegin-Delnar_Ersike+1 Sep, 2007, 11:22-->
QUOTE (Delnar_Ersike @ 1 Sep, 2007, 11:22)
XPhoenix: I can download the flv from YouTube and upload it here, but you will only be able to play it if you have an flv player or an flv-to-somthing converter.  

 Sure! I'll look around for something, but in the meantime, you can just post it.
Title: Finally 6 years old!
Post by: tifreak on September 01, 2007, 08:00:00 am
or halifax can post the original movie... That way, we can download it :Ptongue.gif
Title: Finally 6 years old!
Post by: tama on September 01, 2007, 08:59:00 am
wouah !
6 years !!
I've seen the video, it's a good video =)
Congrats for all these years ^^
Long life for Omnimaga !
Title: Finally 6 years old!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 01, 2007, 12:34:00 pm
Btw if I had a comp at home back when it originally started there would have been an Omnimaga website a long while ago, but it would be in french
Title: Finally 6 years old!
Post by: nitacku on September 01, 2007, 01:29:00 pm
QuoteBegin-DJ Omnimaga+1 Sep, 2007, 18:34-->
QUOTE (DJ Omnimaga @ 1 Sep, 2007, 18:34)
Btw if I had a comp at home back when it originally started there would have been an Omnimaga website a long while ago, but it would be in french

I probably would've learned French so I could post on this site.
Who knows, maybe I'd have a second language by now  :Ptongue.gif


edit: typo
Title: Finally 6 years old!
Post by: kalan_vod on September 01, 2007, 02:23:00 pm
Glad Omnimaga is still around, I would be lost without it! I am happy you are doing well with everything here :Ptongue.gif. Most of all, I am glad I could be a part of it ;)wink.gif
Title: Finally 6 years old!
Post by: Speler on September 02, 2007, 05:53:00 am
Here's to six more!
Title: Finally 6 years old!
Post by: Madskillz on September 03, 2007, 04:41:00 pm
wow guys, congrats! Six years is a great milestone! Hell two is! Here is to six more! :thumbup:google.gif
Title: Finally 6 years old!
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 03, 2007, 04:52:00 pm
^.^