We are sad to inform you that one of our old-time moderators and friends took his life this past weekend. Tribal was a Support staff member who joined at the start of this era of Omnimaga back in the fall of 2008. He was also a member of the community before Omnimaga: he joined Cemetech a year prior, in September 2007. In this time, Tribal did not start or work on many projects with the community; instead he devoted his time around to talking with people engaging in good conversation and making sure that the peace was kept when it needed to be. He moderated our IRC channel back when it was on Dragonfire, and continued to do so all the way into the arrival of Omninet and the botnets that connected it and EfNet. With this we are asking people that knew him well to sign this form so we can print a card out for the family and send it to them to show our sympathy and support.
 

The memorial service for tribal was yesterday(friday the 25th). One of our members, Rcfreak0, went to this service to show his condolences to the family and to pass along a card that had everyone who contributed it. May he rest in peace and live on in memory and heaven for along time to come

This year our contest is about what makes gaming on the calculator fun. That means simple games that make you want to go back and play over and over again. Not because they are technically challenging or visually the most interesting, but because the concept makes the game stand out as an enjoyable item to have on your calculator. For this contest, we are focusing on the TI-83+ series (TI-83+/SE,TI-84+/SE). Please see below for the list of categories.

We have 2 categories this year:

• 1. BASIC
• 2. Axe/Assembly/Hybrid BASIC

Contestants should email their entries to O M N I M A G A 2 0 1 3 @gmail.com by November 5th 2013, 12:00 AM UTC-5. Please remember to include a readme file with your entry and instructions on how to play your game. Also remember to include information on any libraries that may be needed in order to run your game.

Prizes

Place	Prize
First	Ti-84+CSE
Second	2-3 various Ti-Calculators in The 8x line
Third	Omnimaga T-Shirt

Rules:

1: The game must not contain adult material or extremely offensive content (such as racial slurs).

2: You are not allowed to enter a project that was started prior the start of the contest. You can use code, images, and ideas from it, though.

3: You are allowed (and encouraged) to announce updates and screenshots of your project anywhere, but you are NOT allowed to provide any download copies of it (or the entire source code) to anyone until the end of the contest.

4: Help is allowed, as long as you respect rule #3. Also, keep in mind that usage of other people's code may affect your originality score considerably.

5: You must have a forum account to participate.

6: Only one entry per person per category is allowed

7: Your entry must be submitted before November 6th 2013, 11:59 PM UTC-5. We will not be accepting any more entries past this deadline.

8: Omnimaga has the right to change and modify the rules at any time.

Forum members interested in judging should message a staff member. You may judge any category that you are not participating in. A grading rubric will be posted soon as it has been typed up. Good luck everyone!



So people were having issues with telling what style programs we are looking for so I figure I would add screenies and links to some games that fit the description. Now this isn't saying there would make good entries its just the style of game play we are looking for. so here you all go

http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/96/9683.html


http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/341/34139.html


http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/259/25959.html


http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=450



These are all games that you can pick up and play and are simple to understand yet will keep you coming back to play more and that is what we want to see.

If you have any questions please pm me i will answer them as fast as I can.

Good luck!

The server may have some down time tonight as I fix our IPTABLEs setup so I can properly block bots and ip's from the server with out having to log in to the AWS control panel.  Estimated down time should be at max 30 minutes (unless i really fubar something but that shouldn't happen...) The maintenance has no set time I will edit this when I have a set time I just know it will be tonight/very early morning (Think around 12:00am Gmt-5)

I blocked the offenders on the cloudflare side of things for now. I will still be fixing iptables though.

EDIT: I broke everything....going to try again tommorow...with the Cronjob set up PROPERLY <-- i feel like a tart yeah.....

Thank you- The management

So a co worker of mine has gotten me into this lately. I was really interested in it for a while but I never actually got around to learning, You know that whole Imma land on my neck factor. anyway I was wondering what other peoples experiences with parkour and such was, mine so far has been amazing.

also random pic of a friend doing a backtuck >:F

Planed features:
  -Interact with calcnet routines and such for handeling data
  -Offer data handlers that may be slow but will help prevent misfires
  -Anything else you want like things to manage connections and such
  -The mandatory splash screen for gcn (you can just add in the required image to your game if you want will explain in readme)

Issues:
 I can say now. L1 and L3 will suffer if you use calcnet nothing can be done about it it is where Kerm keeps the stuff CalcNet lives on

 The Key routines will mimic axe's but will  not be the same

anything else thats needed or wanted ask. I will also be using this thread for help on making axioms as some of it is like LOLWUT to me. but at least I get calcnet xD



Currently Accomplished:
 
 Command set:
   SetS Sets the ok to send flag
   ResS Resets the ok to send flag  note i see no applicable use other than to change data if the data in the buffer was not sent in a reasonable time
   SetR Sets the "you got data" flag, only applicable use is to block incoming messages
   ResR Resets the "You got data flah" Allows more data to come in
   
    GetS returns the send buffer flag
   GetR returns the recieve buffer flag


There is also a wrapper that sets up pointers for use.


Available for download here; http://www.cemetech.net/programs/index.php?mode=file&id=737

So back when Axe first came out i decided i would attempt to make a PiCross clone. well i failed horridly at axe and eventually managed to pick up asm so here we go



so far not to much is done i have most of my graphics routines done. and 2 of the underlying support routines done.

ToDo list (in no particular order):
 Features:
 - external levels
 - overlay mode
 - highscores
 Everything else:
 -rendering of levels
 -code to check for level completion
 -code to handle input
 -...why am i typing this huge list of things out





needless to say a lot still needs to be done but were getting some where!

Twitch



http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=672

Well i love the old style and charm of Interactive Fiction games

if you Don't know what these are. http://www.ifwiki.org/index.php/FAQ should get you in the right direction.

Now that thats cleared up what is #Omnimaga - The RPG


Well it intends to be a unlinear(ish) exploration rpg in the land of #Omnimaga's Memes

Cherry dragons lolis and evil clones and all

There really is no goal set as to what the "object" of the rpg is. There will really be no leveling up there will be hidden areas and puzzles and such though to get threw to get to all the areas ^_^

Other than that thats all i have so far.

OH and for the record this hopefully will be an example of a good text based RPG


Questions
Support
Ideas
??
Fire away please ^_^