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So there was an 5.9 earthquake in Sterling Virginia earlier today. I was wondering how many of our members felt it or after shocks. I was sitting on the couch downstairs watching a movie and suddenly my couch stated shaking. Having never felt an earthquake of any sort I was like wtf? I thought maybe one of our dogs had gotten behind the couch and was bumping it. I really hadn't a clue what the hell was going on. It wasn't major, but it was a bit unnerving. I can't imagine being at the center of one. I'm in N.C. fairly close to the S.C. border.

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Not that it's really important, but glitch much?

Hello everybody! I see alot of new faces here so some of you may not know me. I used to be staff here and have been keeping up with the TI community on and off since 98. Anyhow, around June or so I disappeared. I hadn't completed any recent projects and had kind of lost interest. I also started doing amateur voice acting around that time period and that has been taking up some of my free time. I really enjoy it and it's something I am currently pursuing. However, portable platforms have always held a certain allure for me, and I can't ever seem to leave them behind. I blame my parents for getting me that original gameboy back in 1989. There have been alot of great works going on since I've been gone. Calcmaniac continues to amaze with TI-BOY and chips challenge 8 lvl grayscale (which btw looks great on my TI-83+ BE, but doesn't work properly on my TI-83+SE. If no one has documented this I'll post a video of it later), not to mention F-Zero or TI-BOY for the Nspire(eventually) that is being written in ARM ASM now. =) Iambian continues to press forward with The Lost Legends (renamed Shadows of Escheron now? What ever happened to Grendel anyway?) which also looks amazing. I am glad someone that is dedicated to it finally picked it up! =) And lets not forget Illustait (spelling?) 13. It's a shame it isn't finished yet, which is the only reason I have yet to play it. Ah well maybe someday. The metroid eske BASIC game in production by Buliderboy looks really neat as well, and If memory serves there is also a really cool looking version of Shift out. Digitan is still hammering away at the massive Robot Wars... Oh! and all the keys for signing OSes and APPS have been cracked! Not much has changed really aside from that. I plan to be around a bit more, and there are some projects I'd like to work on... but who knows. I never seem able to make the time so we'll just have to see on that one.


           -Art


P.S. I also see you guys do Skype conferences now, I'd love to join and chat sometime!

I haven't done much programming wise latley, so I decided I'd do something fairly simple to get back into the groove of things. I've been working on a Blackjack card game in my spare time for the past few days.
It's in TI-BASIC (83+ Series) and is about 25% completed I'd say. My goal is to keep it between 2kb-2.5kb for the program and variables.
Planned Features:
-Actual simulated 52 card deck with suits(done)
-Keeps track of money and wins and losses
-Graphical(partially done)
-5 card charlie

It's that time of the year again. The program of the year awards voting is offically open now. Head over to www.ticalc.org and vote for your favorite 68k POTY! The Z80 voting should be opening shortly after.