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Title: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 08, 2012, 09:23:05 pm
Thanks mostly to all the attention that the game got outside the calculator community, but also the many fans that the game got during its two and half a years development stages, Portal Prelude for the TI-83 Plus has managed to reach 8000 downloads only one week after being released! On top of that, the day before this achievement, the game surpassed gbc4nspire (http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=484) (online since March 2010) as the most downloaded (http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=stats) file in Omnimaga archives (http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads) overall.
Portal Prelude: 8328
gbc4Nspire v0.9: 6832
NspireEmu (outdated): 4771
Ndless (ticalc mirror): 3360
Ndless (v2.0): 2434
TI-Boy SE: 2036
Ncubate: 970
Reuben Quest: Ev Awakening: 879
Pacman Nspire: 793   
BBC Tetris: 701
If we also include programs that are only released on the forums as attachments, it even surpasses nDoom (http://ourl.ca/9206), which got a lot of attention outside the calculator world back in 2011. nDoom isn't in Omnimaga archives, but the attachment file has 2119 downloads (2999 with the source). In that case, only Axe Parser (which was used to make Portal prelude) appears to have gotten more downloads in total (10768 for all versions (http://ourl.ca/4060)). All sites included, the most ever downloaded Omnimaga staff release is Zelda: Dark Link Quest, with 48136 downloads during its first stay (http://xlib.mtv-music-generator.com/ticalcacct.gif) on ticalc.org.

It is rare for an Omnimaga program to get that many downloads in such a short period of time. The previous record for weekly download stats was xLIB xLIB Revolution in October 2005, peaking at 2800 downloads (http://xlib.mtv-music-generator.com/xxrstats.gif) per week (ranked #1) on ticalc.org. Both Portal and XXR made Engadget and ticalc.org front page, as well as many other popular sites after their respective releases.

Congrats to Builderboy!
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: Sorunome on December 08, 2012, 09:24:39 pm
Wow, this is pretty epic, congrats builderboy! :D
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: annoyingcalc on December 08, 2012, 10:49:41 pm
Congrats Builder, but on a side note, DJ are your programs going to return to ticalc in april?
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 08, 2012, 11:14:20 pm
I don't know yet. There are some chances that they might, although maybe only the ones that were featured before will. (Plus gamepacks of others). Before putting anything there though I would like to update all my old readme files with the proper URLs and contact info. Some still redirect to [email protected] and www.omnimaga.tk O.O
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: annoyingcalc on December 08, 2012, 11:17:40 pm
O.O
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: Sorunome on December 08, 2012, 11:19:10 pm
didn't ourl.ca have a virus? D:
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: Rhombicuboctahedron on December 08, 2012, 11:33:39 pm
Hopefully it gets over 9000 downloads.
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 08, 2012, 11:44:48 pm
didn't ourl.ca have a virus? D:

That's kinda off-topic (unless you are confusing ourl with omnimaga.tk), but yeah it did. :P

Also omnimaga.tk was used from March 2004 to December 2004. It redirected to wherever the Omni website was, because back then we constantly switched from a free hosting provider to another every few month, due to free hosting sucking balls.

I have no clue why OURL had a virus. It was probably squatted after Netham45 stopped using it, or the server it pointed to was infected.
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: epic7 on December 08, 2012, 11:51:27 pm
Wow!
That got downloads fast!

And I can't believe that I've yet to play it O.O
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: aeTIos on December 09, 2012, 06:24:06 am
I can't believe I have to wait till there's a Z80 emu for nspire since I fried my usb port D:
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: Hayleia on December 09, 2012, 07:05:43 am
I can't believe I have to wait till there's a Z80 emu for nspire since I fried my usb port D:
Don't you have a SilverLink ?
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: aeTIos on December 09, 2012, 08:34:12 am
Nope and I'm not gonna buy one either since it's too expensive imo <_<
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: DerSandmann on December 09, 2012, 09:24:44 am
Hey guys!

Just seen this game and it seems very promising! The only problem is that I've got a Nspire CX CAS and not a TI-83 or 84... Is there a solution?

DerSandmann.
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: stevon8ter on December 09, 2012, 09:26:21 am
Hey guys!

Just seen this game and it seems very promising! The only problem is that I've got a Nspire CX CAS and not a TI-83 or 84... Is there a solution?

DerSandmann.

Use an emulator? like wabbitemu...

EDIT: btw if you're gonna stay active on the forums introduce yourself in your own topic in the introduce yourself forum ;p
(i hope you're gonna stay ;) )
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: DerSandmann on December 09, 2012, 09:32:34 am
First, thanks for your anwser (think I'm gonna stay on the forum, so I'll present myself when I've time :P )

I was meaning playing the game on my nspire CX.. Wabbitemu will be my last solution if it isn't possible, I have to try this game out!

Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: Rhombicuboctahedron on December 09, 2012, 09:57:38 am
Sorry, it isn’t yet possible to play portal on the nspire. You will have to use the emulator or use an 83/84
And welcome
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: mdr1 on December 09, 2012, 10:38:51 am
I was meaning playing the game on my nspire CX.. Wabbitemu will be my last solution if it isn't possible, I have to try this game out!
There's no z80 emulator on TI-Nspire CX CAS at this time.
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 09, 2012, 03:45:33 pm
/me pokes calc84maniac to revive his emulator project :P
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: annoyingcalc on December 09, 2012, 04:33:06 pm
/me pokes calc84maniac to revive his emulator project and to release the old one with an outdated version of f-zero and project M :P
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: Sorunome on December 09, 2012, 04:35:24 pm
you guys mean tiboy?
and/me pokes calc84maniac to look into how to emulate the ti84 screen on a z80 so that there will be such a program to make older programs compatible as soon as the 84pcse comes out
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: annoyingcalc on December 09, 2012, 04:37:02 pm
and no we mean the nspire z80 emulator, DJ_O made a video showcasing project M and f-zero with it
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 09, 2012, 06:41:41 pm
Yeah I mean the reverse April Fools prank from 2010 (posted a news about the emu linking to a rickroll so people think it's fake, then the next day I edited the news with a real video of the emulator). I had a copy before but it was barely useable (couldn't turn off, keypad was totally messed up to the point of uselessness unless you constantly swapped it with the 84+ keypad (eventually wearing down keypad connectors), couldn't send any file and Garbage collecting crashed) and since it had the ROM built in, it was illegal to distribute.
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: tr1p1ea on December 09, 2012, 08:50:43 pm
8000 downloads? You sure someone didnt shoot a portal on either side of the download button and jump through it?!
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: epic7 on December 09, 2012, 10:10:39 pm
you guys mean tiboy?
and/me pokes calc84maniac to look into how to emulate the ti84 screen on a z80 so that there will be such a program to make older programs compatible as soon as the 84pcse comes out
Ti-84 emulator for z80? That's already been done (http://ourl.ca/16380) :P
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 09, 2012, 11:00:07 pm
8000 downloads? You sure someone didnt shoot a portal on either side of the download button and jump through it?!
Lol, nice one.
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: Ranman on December 09, 2012, 11:00:10 pm
That's amazing! Congrats once again Builderboy!
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: TIfanx1999 on December 10, 2012, 12:10:39 am
Hey guys!

Just seen this game and it seems very promising! The only problem is that I've got a Nspire CX CAS and not a TI-83 or 84... Is there a solution?

DerSandmann.

Yea, buy a ti84+. :p Welcome to omnimaga by the way! Even though there is no portal game for the nspire, there are quite a few other cool programs around. Why not take a look? :)
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 10, 2012, 03:23:29 pm
The game still gets a bit of traffic today. It went from about 8300 downloads to 8800 in a bit more than a day I think.
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: Darl181 on December 10, 2012, 03:29:15 pm
Hm, I'm wondering if the on-computer axe emulator supports libraries. If that's possible maybe people can use that as an alternative?
I haven't kept track of it too closely tho :/
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 11, 2012, 02:41:15 pm
There's a computer Axe? ???

Also downloads are now OVER 9000!!!
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: Darl181 on December 12, 2012, 02:09:34 am
There's a computer Axe?
Yeah, tho looking at it (http://ourl.ca/13287/248909) it hasn't been updated for about six months..guess that might not work then :P
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 29, 2012, 03:34:51 am
Oh I thought you meant a new Axe like Axe 2.0. Didn't see the emulator part. :P

Also 10000 downloads! Congrats builder!
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: Sorunome on December 29, 2012, 12:23:01 pm
That is over 9000 downloads :crazy:
Title: Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 20, 2013, 04:10:04 am
Now it has 100000 views and 10000 downloads :D (although it had 10K dls for a while actually)