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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: ztrumpet on June 21, 2011, 03:35:49 pm

Title: Myst 89 Released
Post by: ztrumpet on June 21, 2011, 03:35:49 pm
Today Stefan Bauwens released Myst 89 for the TI-89 series of graphing calculators.  He considers it a demo because the whole game would be impossible fit onto a calc but there's a lot of fun in this game.  It's limited to the main island and some other things, but it's apparently worth the huge file size.  This is a great adventure point-and-click game and should not be missed by people TI-89 series calculators.

Screenies:

(http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/myst89.gif)

Spoiler For Another Image:
(http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=6869.0;attach=8253;image)

Download (http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=684)
Official Release Post (http://ourl.ca/9466/221253)
 Original Discussion Topic (http://ourl.ca/9466)
Title: Re: Myst 89 Released
Post by: Munchor on June 21, 2011, 03:45:19 pm
Great to know this was worthy of a news post, as there are not that many 68K Games like this, thanks a lot ztrumpet and congratulations, yet again, to Stefan.

EDIT: It was made in Basic, making it more astonishing :)
Title: Re: Myst 89 Released
Post by: Juju on June 21, 2011, 05:08:05 pm
Awesome Stefan :D
Title: Re: Myst 89 Released
Post by: Geekboy1011 on June 21, 2011, 08:42:53 pm
This is the reason that i would want a 89. its games like this that show the true ability of calcs. good work and it looks very true to the original!
Title: Re: Myst 89 Released
Post by: Deep Toaster on June 21, 2011, 08:46:59 pm
I've never played the original, but I'm still blown away. It looks amazing.

You can still tell it's BASIC, but the speed is already (very) decent.
Title: Re: Myst 89 Released
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on June 22, 2011, 02:21:55 am
Wow, I hit the news! Thanks everyone.

EDIT: I just noticed that I forgot to add something in the game. On the island there are switches(the ones with an icon e.g: a leaf or a beetle). When the correct combination is pressed normally something is about to happen. But I was planning to limit this part and give a text message saying "You entered the correct combination, but Myst 89 is a demo, etc..." . I forgot to add that message in the game. So now if you switch the right buttons it won't say anything. This isn't so bad, but I just wanted to say this , so people won't think they're doing something wrong when playing thé game.
Title: Re: Myst 89 Released
Post by: Ashbad on June 22, 2011, 09:18:20 am
Great job, Stefan, looks awesome!  :)
Title: Re: Myst 89 Released
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on June 22, 2011, 09:37:21 am
Thanks Ashbad!
Title: Re: Myst 89 Released
Post by: Geekboy1011 on June 22, 2011, 10:21:21 am
Spoiler For Game Event:
Aww you can't make the ship rise for us ;.; :P j/k still awesome
Title: Re: Myst 89 Released
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on June 22, 2011, 12:43:27 pm
Quote from: Geekboy1011 on June 22, 2011, 10:21:21 am
Spoiler For Game Event:
Aww you can't make the ship rise for us ;.; :P j/k still awesome
Did you play Myst or did you look that up?
Title: Re: Myst 89 Released
Post by: fb39ca4 on June 22, 2011, 04:23:55 pm
Nice work! I would play this if I had a TI-89. It's too bad you couldn't fit the whole world on there, but I guess the original was released on CD-ROM for a reason :P. Maybe you could divide the game into chapters so people would have to put those on their calcs separately.
Title: Re: Myst 89 Released
Post by: Geekboy1011 on June 22, 2011, 04:25:40 pm
Quote from: Stefan Bauwens on June 22, 2011, 12:43:27 pm
Quote from: Geekboy1011 on June 22, 2011, 10:21:21 am
Spoiler For Game Event:
Aww you can't make the ship rise for us ;.; :P j/k still awesome
Did you play Myst or did you look that up?
ive played it. not gotten very far though but i have played a small portion of it

got threw stoneship island and thats about it
Title: Re: Myst 89 Released
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on June 22, 2011, 04:28:28 pm
This looks nice. This automatically brought me some memories from the original game, which we had to play in school for some exam once.
Title: Re: Myst 89 Released
Post by: fb39ca4 on June 22, 2011, 04:33:11 pm
Lucky. I haven't played any video games for tests yet :(
Title: Re: Myst 89 Released
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on June 24, 2011, 11:46:48 am
I uploaded it today to Ti-Bank and noticed now that I was in the news. I'm happy. :)
Title: Re: Myst 89 Released
Post by: Deep Toaster on June 24, 2011, 07:16:32 pm
Put it on ticalc and wait for it :) Awesome game deserves newsing.
Title: Re: Myst 89 Released
Post by: fb39ca4 on June 24, 2011, 08:47:42 pm
I agree. That will definitely get on the news page.
Title: Re: Myst 89 Released
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on June 25, 2011, 06:04:03 am
Quote from: fb39ca4 on June 24, 2011, 08:47:42 pm
I agree. That will definitely get on the news page.
Lol, really? It's already on Ticalc.org, but I wonder. It's basic and it's a demo. It would be great though :)