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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on April 18, 2011, 04:35:09 pm
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To celebrate their last night promotion from the Anti-Riot Squad to the Omnimaga Coders of Tomorrow programming team, Qwerty.55 (http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=profile;u=838) and z80man (http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1315), who are big contributors in the z80 and especially Casio development scene, met up at z80man's school to organize a PRIZM calculator LAN party where many local students that owned that calculator model were invited. However, the party, held in a small room during the lunch break, had to end earlier than expected, after some students started showing signs of illness due to the increased smell of the 38 overclocked calculators.
The idea was sparked after the PRIZM online developer community discovered the possibility that the CPU in the fx-cg10 could go up to 348 MHz instead of 116 MHz. As a result, both our new CoT members teamed up to create a bare-bone 2-player first-person shooter engine that sets the CPU speed to the highest possible upon launch. After their staff promotion on Omnimaga last night, they decided to invite as many Prizm owners as possible to try the game demo in a small room. However, as many people in the TI community reported, "The Casio Prizm smells like it came out of a burned factory", even if the battery cover was left open for days, and overclocking the 38 calculators only caused the smell coming out of the gaming handhelds to be many times worse due to heating, resulting in some students becoming sick after inhaling too much of it.
As of now, the students appear to be fine, but they were all sent back home earlier in case, and the game has been removed from all calculators as a precaution. This occurs after a report about a Prizm burning ceremony (http://clrhome.blogspot.com/2011/01/casio-prizm-burning-ceremony-leaves-3.html) that claimed the lives of 3 people a few months ago.
After these events, our two new team members have decided that from now on, 116 MHz shall be the max speed they will set their programs to.
"We thought the TI-Nspire exploding batteries reported (http://tibank.forumactif.com/t6155-explosion) on TI-BANK were dangerous enough. We didn't realize playing "Call Of Duty: Quadratic-Enhanced" on a 384 MHz graphing calculator would be as bad. Maybe we should switch to HP instead", said Qwerty.55, after the incident.
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Congratulations Qwerty.55 and z80man, hope it wasn't too bad (the explosion).
"Maybe we should switch to HP instead", said Qwerty.55, after the incident." Yeah definitely.
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Call Of Duty: Quadratic-Enhanced? Any screenshots?
But that aside, it's good to know everyone was alright. This is not a funny situation.
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Congratz to Qwerty and z80man!
have some peanuts!
!peanuts
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Is this real?
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CASIO tried to hide us something I think...
Is this real?
News written in this color are usually not.
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DID YOU DIE? :o
False or not, for the time being I'll keep my 84+SE.
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Oh, almost forgot. Congrats Qwerty.55 and z80man! :D
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Congrats guys first of all! And... um... yeah, the fake news article is... nice.
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Be warned, your promotions are only temporary in order for the fake news to be a success! :P
Congrats on being promoted! :D
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Good job on the news. If it wasn't for the color I might have actually believed it
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Congraturations! [sic] At first I was not sure if the promotions were real because of the colors. :P
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To clarify, the two following things in the news are real:
-Both staff promotions (notice their green nicknames)
-The PRIZM smelling bad
:P
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yeah, the prizm does smell weird :P
I though that it was because it was really new, or something, though.
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Most new electronics smells like that, but not this much. Also the smell normally goes away after a while, and with my Prizm it did not even come close to do so.
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To clarify, the following things in the news are real:
-Both staff promotions (notice their green nicknames)
-The PRIZM smelling bad
- The LAN party and the paramedics
We were actually playing Crysis II though :P
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Lol :P
However a nDoom port with the addition of multiplayer would be awesome. :D
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I don't know what will happen to the processor (other than higher heat production), but given that the feature is supported by the manufacturer, I'd hope that the appropriate cooling systems exist.
* z80man decides to add a liquid cooling system to his Prizm
As can be told from this quote from the early days of Prizm hacking, there were plans to install a liquid cooling system to prevent the catastrophic meltdown that was experienced earlier today. Unfortunately the coolant had not arrived in time for the LAN party which therefore caused the excessive heat and fumes. Luckily the shipment is expected to arrive by next week allowing all future overclocking endeavors to be done in a much safer manner. I'm happy to report that the only harm done to me was a large fluctuation in my nasal hair. My Prizm on the other hand required a new processor due to the extreme heat damage. As of now it has been replaced with the new SH5 proc to replace the aging SH4 version that previously inhabited the Prizm. Overclocking tests on the prototype Prizm emulator have shown to produce similar fumes.
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O.O Are there any plans for another LAN Party? I wanna play Call of Duty :hyper:
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O.O Are there any plans for another LAN Party? I wanna play Call of Duty :hyper:
Or maybe a gCn party? ;D
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O.O Are there any plans for another LAN Party? I wanna play Call of Duty :hyper:
Or maybe a gCn party? ;D
I'd like Kerm to finish Doors PRIZM first. Only then gCn.
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O.O Are there any plans for another LAN Party? I wanna play Call of Duty :hyper:
Or maybe a gCn party? ;D
I'd like Kerm to finish Doors PRIZM first. Only then gCn.
Why do you need Kerm to finish Doors? As a note I'm already working on an asm shell that when finished will be extremely powerful. One of its strongest features is allowing programs to register a file extension for themselves so if for example a Prizm notepad program was ever made, it would then register .txt to itself. Then whenever you click on a txt file from the main menu, notepad will then open that file.
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O.O Are there any plans for another LAN Party? I wanna play Call of Duty :hyper:
Or maybe a gCn party? ;D
I'd like Kerm to finish Doors PRIZM first. Only then gCn.
Why do you need Kerm to finish Doors? As a note I'm already working on an asm shell that when finished will be extremely powerful. One of its strongest features is allowing programs to register a file extension for themselves so if for example a Prizm notepad program was ever made, it would then register .txt to itself. Then whenever you click on a txt file from the main menu, notepad will then open that file.
I don't need him to finish Doors, I need someone to make a shell, or is there an easy way to run Asm files?
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I don't need him to finish Doors, I need someone to make a shell, or is there an easy way to run Asm files?
The OS supports g3a files (add-ins) which are kinda like apps on the 84+. All current programs are in that format.
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The problem being with apps/g3a is that
1. That they run from flash which isn't all that bad, but prevents the use of self modifying code
2. The header size is 29 kb
3. There are extensive formatting and checksums necessary in the header
4. Startup code is required to run apps
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Yeah it would be nice to have an actual shell that can run ASM/C files, to save space. Doors CS would be a nice shell, although since there are some people who dislike the mouse cursor Kerm would have to ensure that HomeRun is possible on the Prizm.
Other shells are welcome too, as long as they're compatible with each others. Just for the sake of user preference.
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D:
EDIT: Welcome to the team, Qwerty and z80!
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Yeah it would be nice to have an actual shell that can run ASM/C files, to save space. Doors CS would be a nice shell, although since there are some people who dislike the mouse cursor Kerm would have to ensure that HomeRun is possible on the Prizm.
Other shells are welcome too, as long as they're compatible with each others. Just for the sake of user preference.
About a month ago Qwerty drew up a proposed file format for Prizm asm programs that I'm now implementing in a shell with only minor modifications. What I like about his format is its clean packet layout that allows for near unlimited future additions, backwards compatibility, and cross-compatibility. I'm also making a big deal of cross-compatibility in allowing libraries to be treated as individual files that can be imported to the shell during runtime. As a note this is much easier than it sounds because the Prizm memory follows the FAT32 protocol allowing it to act like a standard usb drive when attached to a computer and also negating the need for TI-connect like software.
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Good to hear. On a side note I'll need to setup some sub-forums for your projects soon, although I'll have to make sure to sticky some threads at the top of the Prizm development board or figure out how to alias sub-forums to show up at multiple locations so things aren't too much all over the place on the site. I could always do the same thing as the Axe board, however, and put links to each board at the top. :)
But yeah compatibility is important. If KermMartian didn't allow DCS to run any single Ion/Mirage/BASIC/no-stub games and only allowed the DCS ones, it would never have gotten success, because MirageOS grew a massive fanbase for 9 years prior that.
And yeah I'm glad the Prizm allows USB drive mode. It makes it so much easier to send stuff to my calc compared to my TI-Nspire.
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Sadly, I was not able to participate in the LAN party as I just got my Prizm yesterday. I am glad however that I was not part of the unfortunate "Stanky calc. incident of 2011" that was caused by the overheating Prizms. It is fortunate that noone was seriously injured, and that the overheating issues have been (supposedly) addressed for next time. On another note; I'd like to congratulate Qwerty and Z80man on the promotions! :D
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After 2 years, my PRIZM still smells! O.O
It's finally getting a bit less bad, though, and the smell doesn't stick to my hands. :P
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Mine smells too lol. Kinda surprising.
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holy necropost.
But yeah, mine still smells as well, though not as badly as when i got it.
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holy necro, and lol at news XD