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Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 12, 2006, 02:32:00 pm
TI-Freakware is accepting tutorials of all kinds, for all types of calcs. I am currently looking for tutorials describing the use of some of these libs (for all calcs) that gives detailed information, as well as code snipets so people can see how things go.

If you have an asm/c tutorial that you think should go up, I will be accepting them as well.

And no Kevin, I haven't forgot about yours, I am still working on it...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 12, 2006, 02:38:00 pm
good to hear :)smile.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 12, 2006, 02:44:00 pm
I also would like to see about makin a tutorial for resource, so it is easier to find... <_<dry.gif

Tryin to search the topics is a bit of a pain...

(Does anyone know where it is at? I have a printed version, but that would take longer...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 12, 2006, 02:48:00 pm
I'll try to find it asap, we posted a lot lately it might be lost in the old topics :Pblah.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 12, 2006, 02:57:00 pm
lol, well, if nothing else, I have it on paper...

Back to work on the tutorial...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 12, 2006, 03:51:00 pm
cool, I should really make a xlib grayscale tutorial someday...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: Ranman on January 12, 2006, 03:52:00 pm
I think you are on to something Tifreak.

This is a great identity for TiFreakWare.


TiFreakWare: The best darn calc tutorial house in Louisiana :lmao:ptdr.gif

Okay... maybe it is not so funny.
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 12, 2006, 05:04:00 pm
Well, I have about 1/4 of the tutorial done: http://tifreakware.calcgames.org/basicgrey.htm

You can see the original at: http://tifreakware.calcgames.org/pending/basic_grey.zip

Please give me feedback on colors, any mis-spellings, etc.

QUOTE
I think you are on to something Tifreak.

This is a great identity for TiFreakWare.


TiFreakWare: The best darn calc tutorial house in Louisiana ptdr.gif

Okay... maybe it is not so funny.


rofl

Well, I am just trying to make my site worth visiting. :)smile.gif The more I add, the more visitors come to my site. I just broke 9000 visitors two weeks ago, (I think) and I am almost up to 9500 already. The asmresc page has been seein alot of use, thanks so much to google. :Dbiggrin.gif

And for some reason, anything searched from google.no always seems to search for tifreakware... lol I think that is amazing. :)smile.gif

Maybe one day my site will be as active as omnimaga... :)smile.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 13, 2006, 02:24:00 am
w00t nice I hope to see it finished soon :)smile.gif maybe you could make the comments gray or green
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: kalan_vod on January 13, 2006, 05:26:00 am
With the new xlib there is a little bit of a code difference (it being an app now) so it could be revised (looks at kevin), and if kevin doesn't want to revise it I will. And maybe I could add my 5 level grayscale into it O.o .
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 13, 2006, 05:44:00 am
Well, If anyone should revise it, it should be Kevin. And all the stuff that is currently in the zip file, will be available for download. I don't think I will replace the files with anything new, so everything is compatible on that point.

Also, if you would like to write a tutorial, and submit it, please feel free. I will gladly host it. emo&:)<img src="http://www.omnimaga.org/Themes/omnimaga4/images/on2.gif?smile.gif" border="0" style="vertical-align:middle" alt="smile.gif">

QuoteBegin<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">QuoteEBeginw00t nice I hope to see it finished soon
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 13, 2006, 01:54:00 pm
if I revise it I'll prbly add back all my spelling mistakes O_Oshocked2.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 13, 2006, 05:35:00 pm
Umm, I changed the color on my comp, and it doesn't look nearly as good as the blue does. Do you still want it to be green?  
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 14, 2006, 03:52:00 am
hmm right indeed doesnt look as good, let it blue i think it should be good anyway
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 14, 2006, 04:21:00 am
Great. :Dbiggrin.gif Just gotta change it all back on my comp... <_<dry.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 14, 2006, 05:39:00 am
:(sad.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 14, 2006, 11:53:00 am
http://tifreakware.calcgames.org/basicgrey.htm

What do you think? :)smile.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: Spellshaper on January 14, 2006, 12:03:00 pm
good structure and nice explanations! :thumb:google.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 14, 2006, 12:10:00 pm
I only fixed a few grammar problems, the rest was all Kevin. :Dbiggrin.gif

Anyone know where the Resource topic is, I am wanting to use Spellshaper's explanation as a tutorial...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: Spellshaper on January 14, 2006, 12:20:00 pm
hm I don
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 14, 2006, 12:23:00 pm
I think it was linked in the Pokemon topic, I will see if I can find it. What I need to know is, is it the way you want it, or would you like to do some describing on how/why things work the way they do?
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: kalan_vod on January 14, 2006, 12:37:00 pm
I really like it!
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 14, 2006, 01:15:00 pm
Thanks. :)smile.gif

Found the link to Resource, http://omnimaga.dyndns.org/index.php?showtopic=759&st=15

Hopefully in a day, you will be able to redirect people to my tutorials page for the explanation. :Dbiggrin.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 14, 2006, 01:57:00 pm
really nice work tifreak8x, you should change the link to http://omnimaga.dyndns.org instead of http://omnimaga.dyndns.org/index.php?act=site, which is no longer the front page tho :)smile.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 14, 2006, 02:02:00 pm
Well, that is what is in my add bar history, and it takes me directly to the front page...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 14, 2006, 02:15:00 pm
http://omnimaga.dyndns.org go directly to the forums, which are the new front page, well unless Invisionfree 2.0 have a better mod that redirect always to the portal
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 15, 2006, 04:48:00 am
As you wish. I personally like the portal more than the other... I shall switch it sometime today. Currently working on the Resource tutorial...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: Liazon on January 15, 2006, 07:47:00 am
Darn!!!  I'm going to have to find every Ti-Calc site and resource page again and bookmark everything all over again!!!  what a pain.

what's your site again tifreak?
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tenniskid493 on January 15, 2006, 08:14:00 am
http://tifreakware.calcgames.org/
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 15, 2006, 10:58:00 am
Thanks tenniskid. :)smile.gif

Enjoy the links page, tenniskid added quite a bit to the list. :Dbiggrin.gif

If you are looking for the asm resource page, look under tutorials...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 15, 2006, 05:38:00 pm
Sorry for double posting, but I thought this might warrant it:

http://tifreakware.calcgames.org/resource.htm

What do you think?
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: Spellshaper on January 15, 2006, 11:59:00 pm
np...

 I really like the color changing... makes things easier to understand :)smile.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 16, 2006, 02:23:00 am
aaah nice :Dbiggrin.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 16, 2006, 03:20:00 am
Well, I was just trying to keep as much of it yours as possible, with input from me. :Dbiggrin.gif

Let's see, what tutorial is next... Should I do one on Codex? The readme is fairly good, but it does leave some stuff out...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: Radical Pi on January 16, 2006, 06:27:00 am
Seems as if all your tutorials are either for complete idiots or experienced coders. Perhaps make a transitional one for ppl like me.
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: Spellshaper on January 16, 2006, 06:38:00 am
QuoteBegin-Radical Pi+16 January 2006, 18:27-->
QUOTE (Radical Pi @ 16 January 2006, 18:27)
Seems as if all your tutorials are either for complete idiots or experienced coders. Perhaps make a transitional one for ppl like me.  

 loool :laugh:evillaugh.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 16, 2006, 06:38:00 am
Kerm's and mine focus on new programmers, the others for people that have a grasp on the BASIC programming language...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: Radical Pi on January 16, 2006, 06:46:00 am
...Then a guide on optimizations. GOOD optimizations.
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 16, 2006, 06:51:00 am
Maybe we need to start a topic on that and compile...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: Radical Pi on January 16, 2006, 07:03:00 am
Make it a featured topic...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 16, 2006, 09:40:00 am
I guess I can get one posted, but I will have to lay some fairly strict rules on it...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 16, 2006, 01:18:00 pm
that could be an undocumented trick tutorial like the topic in here
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 16, 2006, 01:36:00 pm
I might start compiling the info found in that topic...

Blast, what happened to my sig?
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 16, 2006, 01:54:00 pm
O_Oshocked2.gif I dunno, odd
maybe you didnt use the tags properly or disabled BBcode in it?
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 16, 2006, 03:28:00 pm
It worked yesterday... :(sad.gif I came on here today, and it quit working... :cry:pleure.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 16, 2006, 03:41:00 pm
I fixed it via the admin cp
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 16, 2006, 03:58:00 pm
Thank you! :bow:worship.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 18, 2006, 06:52:00 am
It broke again... <_<dry.gif Oh well...

Anyways, CDI was nice enough to provide a tutorial, and I will devote and entire section for him, like my tutorials have. :)smile.gif Reason being is that he has more for me to post, once he gets around to it.

Also, I would like your guy's opinions. Do you guys think it would be bad/good to "backup" all of BASIC Guru's tutorials??? More than half the site no longer works. I am just afraid that the site itself will quit working, and all that info lost...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 18, 2006, 07:20:00 am
aaw dunno what is happening with this forums

non working track this topic options, messed up sigs, etc

maybe remove the rpg junk from it?

I hope I dont have to restart a new forum :(sad.gif

EDIT test

TI-Freakware's
Asm/BASIC Tutorial Collection (http://tifreakware.calcgames.org/tutorials.htm)
TI-Freakware's Asm/C
Resource page (http://tifreakware.calcgames.org/asmresc.htm)
http://tifreakware.calcgames.org/tutorials.html


EDIT: tifreak8x: i have a bad news; i think the URL tags wont support HTM extensions. You'll have to change them to HTML I think :(sad.gif . Nobody use HTM anymore anyway
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: BCTurk on January 18, 2006, 07:40:00 am
I used HTM back when I was coding websites :Dbiggrin.gif.  Yeah, that's probably the issue, although I don't see why the linking should care what extension it has, oh well.

Yes, backup the BASIC Guru stuff, good information lost is alot of wasted time.
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 18, 2006, 08:24:00 am
QuoteBegin-BCTurk+18 January 2006, 13:4-->
QUOTE (BCTurk @ 18 January 2006, 13:40)
I used HTM back when I was coding websites :Dbiggrin.gif.
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 19, 2006, 02:14:00 am
maybe just change the tutorial ones which are linked in your sig. As for basic guru i would say link to the tutorial, because the site is dead since 4 years now and yet it's still online
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 19, 2006, 03:01:00 am
It is in the links section, but all tutorials in the tutorials section are locally hosted, for obvious reasons...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 22, 2006, 03:02:00 pm
Well, I am adding lesson 1 of CDI's tutorials, found at: http://s4.invisionfree.com/TIFreakware/index.php?showtopic=185

I also saw one by axcho on unitedti that I pmed him about, to see if he will let me host it: http://www.unitedti.org/index.php?showtopic=2147&st=160&p=47954entry47954

And @ Kevin: http://www.google.com/search?q=ti+83+%2B+basic+program+source+code&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N

Someone read through the whole thing, every one of the images loaded, and the progs dled... :)smile.gif;)wink.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 22, 2006, 03:31:00 pm
wow thats a lot of stuff, keep it up!
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 22, 2006, 03:48:00 pm
Yup, I think I will also post a page up for hex codes... :)smile.gif

Alright! Got another one to post, after I get cdi's first lesson complete: http://www.unitedti.org/index.php?showtopic=2147&view=findpost&p=47954

His reply to my pm:

QUOTE

I would be honored to have my work hosted. Are you referring to the whole tutorial thing, or just one routine? Either way, you may add it to your site, as long as you credit me as the author. (I wouldn't mind you linking to my author page on ticalc either

Here's my author page:
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/authors/61/6138.html

Alex


This is axcho's work... :)smile.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 23, 2006, 02:19:00 pm
Sorry to dp: http://tifreakware.calcgames.org/bt83plcdim.htm

What do you think? :Dbiggrin.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: Radical Pi on January 23, 2006, 02:28:00 pm
Can you comment the code?
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 23, 2006, 02:42:00 pm
Umm, I will have to ask CDI if he could do that, since I didn't write the actual tutorial...

I understand most of it, and could figure out the rest if I actually concentrated on it...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: Radical Pi on January 23, 2006, 02:46:00 pm
I could too ( :)smile.gif ) but that takes energy.
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 23, 2006, 03:06:00 pm
Maybe that is why CDI named it Advanced Thinking... :Pblah.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: dysfunction on January 27, 2006, 08:52:00 am
Perhaps some of these tutorials could be added to the wiki, crediting the authors?
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 27, 2006, 09:04:00 am
Which wiki? The reason I am doing this is because I want TI-Freakware to have something unique, which the tutorials definitely help do...

Also, Several hits today on the basic greyscale tutorials so far... And every search engine that links to it, has had it as a top result... :)smile.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: Spellshaper on January 27, 2006, 09:07:00 am
QuoteBegin-tifreak8x+27 January 2006, 21:04-->
QUOTE (tifreak8x @ 27 January 2006, 21:04)
Which wiki?  

 I guess he means Wikipedia... :)smile.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 27, 2006, 09:10:00 am
Well, there are 3 or 4 ti wikis now, that is why I was wondering...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: Radical Pi on January 27, 2006, 11:12:00 am
Giving TI-Freakware a Wikipedia article may give you more turnout...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 27, 2006, 11:26:00 am
No, because that goes against the rules on that. What I did do was link my site to the bottom of all of Wikipedia's pages that relate to the calcs. :)smile.gif And there are 5 or 6 off shoots of wiki (Answers.com is one that comes to mind) whish is basically just a copy of the page, so that gives me even more.

I am wondering what kind of requirements are needed to make a wiki like page, and be able to host it on my own site...?

Oh well, if someone wants a tutorial posted, they can always just submit it via my submit files option, or the forum...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: Radical Pi on January 27, 2006, 11:36:00 am
QuoteBegin-tifreak8x+27 January 2006, 17:26-->
QUOTE (tifreak8x @ 27 January 2006, 17:26)
No, because that goes against the rules on that. What I did do was link my site to the bottom of all of Wikipedia's pages that relate to the calcs. :)smile.gif And there are 5 or 6 off shoots of wiki (Answers.com is one that comes to mind) whish is basically just a copy of the page, so that gives me even more.

I am wondering what kind of requirements are needed to make a wiki like page, and be able to host it on my own site...?

Oh well, if someone wants a tutorial posted, they can always just submit it via my submit files option, or the forum...  

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United-TI
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on January 27, 2006, 11:43:00 am
You aren't supposed to make an entry to promote something like a site. At least this is what I was told. I am not really worried about it, because I get around 20 hits a day off of ti-wiki pages...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on February 01, 2006, 04:54:00 pm
Axchos' 2d sprite tutorial is now at 99%, the last 1% is his approving the file. :)smile.gif

http://tifreakware.calcgames.org/2dsprite.htm
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: kalan_vod on February 01, 2006, 04:57:00 pm
Looks nice! Is that the nonlib sprite routine thing?
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on February 01, 2006, 05:12:00 pm
No, that was by elfprince, and is at

http://tifreakware.calcgames.org/nolib.htm

This is slightly different, and has some info the other did not. :)smile.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: kalan_vod on February 01, 2006, 05:36:00 pm
I am uploading my 5 level gs thingy I made in November I believe. And it's not going to be anywhere near detailed as kevins basic gs one, but if you would like I can post it here for you :Pblah.gif.
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on February 02, 2006, 02:04:00 am
Sure thing. Make sure to try and comment the code and explain it though... :)smile.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on February 02, 2006, 02:34:00 am
sound nice, every week I see new tutorial coming out, TI-FW will surely be the best reference for calc programming soon :)smile.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on February 02, 2006, 06:00:00 am
Thank you. :)smile.gif I truly hope so. I cleaned the page up a bit, as per requested by axcho. I have done everything he asks, so I am sure it will be officially posted sometime today...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: kalan_vod on February 02, 2006, 06:22:00 am
Btw my tutorial is almost complete. I just need to add a smal detail here and there. Also when I send it to you do you want it to be in html?
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on February 02, 2006, 07:12:00 am
I will do the change to html, because Kerm gave me some cool code to work with, to kind of "Block" code, you know how you would use the [ code] comments? :)smile.gif

Makes it look all fancy and stuff... :Dbiggrin.gif
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on February 10, 2006, 05:53:00 pm
Well, 86 tutorials are in progress, I am working on lesson 3 of 9, with the same basic layout as the 83/+ tutorials...
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on February 11, 2006, 03:54:00 am
BASIC or asm?
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: Liazon on February 11, 2006, 06:03:00 am
I never liked the 86 ASM tutorials I found.  I mean, they did help me get a better understanding of z80/83+ ASM, but they didn't teach stuff like writeback.  That's why I was never really into programming my 86 when I had it.

Sounds good though.
Title: Accepting Tutorials
Post by: tifreak on February 11, 2006, 07:04:00 am
I am just going to do BASIC, until I finish all my projects, and have time to take up z80 asm and C...

And The Guide is the best place on the internet for the 86 asm stuff...