Omnimaga
Calculator Community => Other Calculators => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on April 04, 2010, 03:22:01 am
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Ok, when I was browsing Archive.org, I discovered it cached some of my ticalc files, including one I never backed up anywhere: An Omnicalc font that turns your entire calc text into leetspeak. It's pretty much useless but I thought I would post it here since it's not avaliable anywhere else. It dates back in 2005 I think.
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Sweet! Now if only I still used Omnicalc...
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does the zip show a picture of the fonts? I'll try it when I get home
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True 1337 would require a token hook as some letters require more than one character
7RU3 1337 \/\/0U1|> R3QU1R3 4 70|<3|\| |-|0o|< 45 50N\3 13773R5 |-3QU1R3 ^^04R 7H4N 0n3 <h4R4<73R
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haha i've made some pretty spiffy fonts in my day as well
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I will try to make a picture when I have time.
EDIT: there we go. Note, I was also testing WabbitEmu's new Tool-assisted speedrun stuff which is why I appear to move so incredibly fast in the menus sometimes.
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That's pretty cool. I've always found 1337 pretty difficult to read so I'll probably never use it, but it cools cool :)
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Yeah it was mostly done for fun. One of the only two ticalc crappy useless file I had (altough this one didn't count in ranking, unlike my grayscale number guessing game parody of all guessing games)
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Lol ya I saw the file for that...how exactly do you make a guessing game gray scale? :P
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7h47 100|<5 4p;(!
<That looks epic!>
Too bad I don't use Omnicalc and can't decipher l33t very well, otherwise I'd totally use this :P
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I used xLIB, It was not a serious game (just using xLIB, pics just for a guessing game and making it 25 KB in the process made it not serious at all), since it was meant to laugh at the lack of originality on ticalc.org back then. Later, someone did the same with a quadratic solver (Nyrax, AKA Radical_Pi on UTI and the old Omnimaga forums)
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Well I meant like what was gray scale about it? I'm tempted to download to see :P And do you mean Nyrax made a gray scale quadratic solver?
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Most text was grayscale, the title screen was even animated grayscale. And yeah Nyrax made a quad solver in grayscale
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I might just have to download to see that then :P I'm curious. And interesting, did he just do what you did for the guessing game basically?
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yeah altough it's much less complex, not that the guessing game was that complex anyway, though. I don't even know if the gray quad solver even works well at all :P it was added for the lulz
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Did Nyrax upload it over at UTI? I'm gonna go find it if it is :P
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No it's on ticalc.org. Use the search engine to search for grayscale quadratic solver
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Oh ok, I shall do that then. Thanks.
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Curious font. There are some fonts for Omnicalc worse than 1337 in readability. Some are all empty or blocks of black.
But the 1337 can be intriguing for more common people. ;D
It is a bit strange when sometimes I find something unexpected in my folders, they are pretty complex (but organized) and by mistake some things get moved and I never find them again (even with search). Sometimes I get good surprises. ;D
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The cool thing about Omnicalc fonts, before people discovered dual-layer ASCII in BASIC, is that we could actually replace the least used chars with 6x8 sprites/tiles for use in home screen games and use those sprites to make ASCII games with better graphics. The downside is that the font file needed to be in RAM and took quite a chunk of it.
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Yeah i remember i once looked into that to make my ASCII Trapped game look better, but for some reason the omnicalc fonts dont work when using the Text(-1) function o.O
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Yeah it's because they're for Homescreen only. Also another issue with Omnicalc is that when installed the BASIC parser runs slower. It does with xLIB/Celtic III too, but far less much, and with Omnicalc it's pathetic when you use OS 2.53 MP with mathprint ON.