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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on March 08, 2011, 03:14:47 am

Title: Obliterate Scorched Earth clone released
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 08, 2011, 03:14:47 am: After a week of beta-testing, KermMartian has just released Obliterate version 1.0 (http://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5868)!

(http://www.cemetech.net/img/ss/000443.gif)

Although it still misses Crysis-like 3D graphics and lacks 256 levels of grayscale, it is still very impressive and it is also the second calculator game to ever support online multiplayer gameplay (after NetPong), thanks to Global CALCnet. For those who don't want to or can't build a gCn bridge, the game also supports linked multiplayer, either via a regular link cable or a CALCnet 2.2 bridge. It also supports single-player with AI.
Title: Re: Obliterate Scorched Earth clone released
Post by: ralphdspam on March 08, 2011, 03:48:32 am: O.O Hours of fun!
Now somebody has to buy me an arduino board :P
Title: Re: Obliterate Scorched Earth clone released
Post by: KermMartian on March 08, 2011, 11:17:01 am: Thanks DJ! A tiny point of order: NetPong was actually the first gCn/Cn2.2 game, but it was nowhere near the magnitude of this. :)
Title: Re: Obliterate Scorched Earth clone released
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 08, 2011, 12:08:41 pm: Ooh I forgot about that one. My bad. X.x Probably because it was released before gCn 1.0 so I kinda forgot about its online multiplayer potential. Fixed.
Title: Re: Obliterate Scorched Earth clone released
Post by: Deep Toaster on March 08, 2011, 06:50:09 pm: Quote from: DJ_O on March 08, 2011, 03:14:47 am
Although it still misses Crysis-like 3D graphics and lacks 256 levels of grayscale,

What? D:

Seriously, though, it looks awesome. Too bad teachers would easily notice four calculators connected to a makeshift bridge :-\
Title: Re: Obliterate Scorched Earth clone released
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 08, 2011, 06:52:41 pm: Lol, and yeah, I think that would work best outside classes or at home online.
Title: Re: Obliterate Scorched Earth clone released
Post by: turiqwalrus on March 08, 2011, 07:04:17 pm: unless we get wireless calcs working :D
Title: Re: Obliterate Scorched Earth clone released
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 08, 2011, 10:52:03 pm: Well I sure hope it won't have to be through the Nspire CX, because I bet TI will charge a few hundreds of dollars for the wi-fi module.
Title: Re: Obliterate Scorched Earth clone released
Post by: jnesselr on March 08, 2011, 10:56:40 pm: Quote from: DJ_O on March 08, 2011, 10:52:03 pm
Well I sure hope it won't have to be through the Nspire CX, because I bet TI will charge a few hundreds of dollars for the wi-fi module.
That's absurd DJ_O. This is TI we're talking about here. They'll sell it as a classroom set, charge >$9000 dollars for 3, and only let them connect to the "The Certified TI nSpire Interactive Wireless Communications Administrative Locked Down Teachers Did We Mention It's Certified Thingy". or TCTINSIWCALDTDWMICT for short.
Title: Re: Obliterate Scorched Earth clone released
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 08, 2011, 11:02:37 pm: :P
/me eats graphmastur.

We never know sometimes, tho, with TI. O.O
Title: Re: Obliterate Scorched Earth clone released
Post by: jnesselr on March 08, 2011, 11:07:54 pm: Quote from: DJ_O on March 08, 2011, 11:02:37 pm
:P
/me eats graphmastur.

We never know sometimes, tho, with TI. O.O
Updated my sig to reflect the new device.
Title: Re: Obliterate Scorched Earth clone released
Post by: ralphdspam on March 10, 2011, 11:07:48 pm: I wouldn't be surprised if TI actually did that. :P
Title: Re: Obliterate Scorched Earth clone released
Post by: willrandship on March 11, 2011, 12:22:19 am: Umm, you have to buy it for the CX too, but it's back compatible, since it runs through the usb. The CX is actually hooked up very similarly to the nspire with such things.
Title: Re: Obliterate Scorched Earth clone released
Post by: Darl181 on March 15, 2011, 09:07:36 pm: I thought the normal nspire has some strange slide case so it could do the wifi stuff as well...

EDIT: looks like it
Spoiler For big:
(http://i33.servimg.com/u/f33/13/23/13/53/h4210.jpg)
(image from ti-bank)
Title: Re: Obliterate Scorched Earth clone released
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 15, 2011, 11:43:44 pm: Yeah but that's for TI-Nspire mode, not 84+. Also that costs in the hundreds of dollars.
Title: Re: Obliterate Scorched Earth clone released
Post by: Darl181 on March 16, 2011, 01:06:19 am: Oh, right :P
Also not surprised at the price..