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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: Ranman on September 19, 2010, 02:55:16 pm

Title: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: Ranman on September 19, 2010, 02:55:16 pm
A new solitaire game for the TI-89...

Pyramid Solitaire

Pairs of cards can be removed if their values total 13. In this game, Jacks are valued at 11, Queens at 12, and Kings at 13. Thus, kings can be removed immediately. Cards must not be covered. Thus when an Ace rests on a Queen, that Queen can not be removed. When going through the draw pile, the cards are drawn one at a time with a selectable number of rotations. To win, remove all the cards from the pyramid pile.

Link to the download page (http://tifreakware.ath.cx/index.php?showtopic=1513).


(http://tifreakware.net/ranman/Pyramid/PYRAMID0004.gif) (http://tifreakware.net/ranman/Pyramid/PYRAMID0006.gif)
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: apcalc on September 19, 2010, 02:59:10 pm
Wow! That looks great!  It is nice to see some new 89 stuff these days!  Great job! :D
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 19, 2010, 03:00:09 pm
Wow looks great! I hope this gets featured on ticalc.org. I'm glad to see the 68K scene is still alive and that you still do some games every now and then too :)
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: calcdude84se on September 19, 2010, 03:01:54 pm
Looks cool! I've even played that game before. :)
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: Ranman on September 19, 2010, 03:03:15 pm
Thanks gents! :)
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 19, 2010, 10:47:16 pm
That reminds me, since Omnimaga now covers calc gaming news rather than just RPGs and our own stuff, I did a little topic move. :)
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: MRide on September 19, 2010, 11:03:41 pm
This looks great! I really wish I had an 89....
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: yunhua98 on September 19, 2010, 11:38:47 pm
Thats amazing!   Glad the 68k community is coming back.  :)
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: Hot_Dog on September 19, 2010, 11:55:04 pm
You did a great job, and pyramid is one of my favorite solitare games
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: Lionel Debroux on September 20, 2010, 12:40:46 am
Congratulations :)

yunhua98: several new games and programs do not equal a comeback of the TI-68k community ;)
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 20, 2010, 01:05:17 am
Oh I think he really meant in terms of 68K releases. If you compare the 2007 and 2008 POTYs with 2009 and 2010 there have been a bit more 68K features in the past 2 years. The increase is much less signifiant than it was with z80 and Nspire stuff, though.
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: Ranman on September 20, 2010, 01:38:43 am
I need to scrounge through my Intellivision and Commodore 64 collections to see if I want to pursue a remake of another classic... Nothing on the scale of Ultima V though -- that was pure craziness.

Again... thanks for all of the compliments!


hmmm... maybe Jumpman.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpman)
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 20, 2010, 01:41:04 am
That would be cool!

Btw are you uploading this game to ticalc.org? I am sure this could probably be featured :)
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: ztrumpet on September 20, 2010, 08:02:30 am
That's really cool.  Nice job Ranman! ;D
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: shmibs on September 20, 2010, 10:00:09 am
cool!
it's nice to see someone is working on 89
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 20, 2010, 11:36:26 am
A jumpman port would be cool. It reminds me a bit of Donkey Kong from 1981
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: JonimusPrime on September 20, 2010, 12:34:12 pm
Nice work Ranman, all I need now is freecell and I'll almost have no need for my 86.
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: calc84maniac on September 20, 2010, 02:20:22 pm
A jumpman port would be cool. It reminds me a bit of Donkey Kong from 1981
Actually, the main character in Donkey Kong was named Jumpman, hehe. Then it got changed to Mario after Mario Bros came out, I guess
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 20, 2010, 02:21:56 pm
Yeah I know. Apparently this was even a coincidence
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: patriotsfan on September 20, 2010, 04:04:53 pm
Nice work! :D But unfortunately I don't own an 89.
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: ztrumpet on September 20, 2010, 04:09:06 pm
A jumpman port would be cool. It reminds me a bit of Donkey Kong from 1981
Actually, the main character in Donkey Kong was named Jumpman, hehe. Then it got changed to Mario after Mario Bros came out, I guess
They named him Mario because after the original Donkey Kong came out, someone said that the character looked like the mayor of (I think) Seattle, who's first name was Mario. ;D
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 20, 2010, 04:27:15 pm
I thought Mario was an italian plumber? :P
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: ztrumpet on September 20, 2010, 04:30:25 pm
I thought Mario was an italian plumber? :P
The plumber part came from Mario Bros. and I'm not sure on the Italian part. :)
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 20, 2010, 04:31:01 pm
I think it had to do with how he said mamma mia and stuff like that, plus his name
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: Madskillz on September 21, 2010, 12:34:48 am
Alright another great looking 68k game. I cant wait to check it out. I would also love a jumpman port or really just a port of any classic.
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: Ranman on September 22, 2010, 10:10:33 pm
Here is a sample of Jumpman... Specifically Jumpman Jr.


Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: tloz128 on September 22, 2010, 10:13:05 pm
lol that's awesome :D
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 22, 2010, 11:03:56 pm
Looks nice. It seems very hard tho XD
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: Ranman on September 22, 2010, 11:06:17 pm
I had a working version of the first 4 levels of Jumpman for the TI-89 back in 1998. TIGCC wasn't around then... so it was pure 68K ASM.

Wonder if I can find that source code.
Title: Re: Pyramid Solitaire for the TI-89
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on September 22, 2010, 11:07:30 pm
Oh wow that would be nice if you could continue from it ;D