Author Topic: Copy/Paste Programs  (Read 7106 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline meishe91

  • Super Ninja
  • LV11 Super Veteran (Next: 3000)
  • ***********
  • Posts: 2946
  • Rating: +115/-11
    • View Profile
    • DeviantArt
Re: Copy/Paste Programs
« Reply #15 on: May 29, 2010, 12:15:24 am »
ROL2 is DJ's Reign of Legends 2 game. Can't answer the other two questions, sorry.
Spoiler For Spoiler:



For the 51st time, that is not my card! (Magic Joke)

Offline DJ Omnimaga

  • Clacualters are teh gr33t
  • CoT Emeritus
  • LV15 Omnimagician (Next: --)
  • *
  • Posts: 55941
  • Rating: +3154/-232
  • CodeWalrus founder & retired Omnimaga founder
    • View Profile
    • Dream of Omnimaga Music
Re: Copy/Paste Programs
« Reply #16 on: May 29, 2010, 12:31:09 am »
Oh wow don't remind me about my first Garbage Collect message XD

The first time ever, I got scared. The word Garbage seemed like it was to delete the entire calc content. I went to check the manual immediately to make sure. :P

As for drummist calculator, I don't remember if it works anymore. If you can find the old contest poll topic, I think he mentionned about it, but it was several months ago.

ROL2 is The Reign Of Legends 2, one of my old calculator RPG
. The 3rd game was featured on ticalc.org, because it had better graphics, but it's much shorter and less complete than ROL2. Here are ROL2 problems, though:

-It was coded during Summer 2003. Back in 2003, when you did not close quotes and parhentesises, you were considered as a TI-BASIC god. Using special chars not accessible normally in BASIC made you look cool, Text(-1 was nearly a secret and nobody knew that Lbl/Gotos caused memory leaks when exiting a block/loop with them. In other words, back in 2003, such game was considered as coding mastepiece, but since TI|BD opened, it's scary to look at the code. This also means: prepare for some ERR:MEMORYs.
-Back in 2003, Kevtiva shutted down and never uploaded Flash Gordon on ticalc.org. No one knew FFTOM2 (Final Fantasy 2: Tales Of Magic) included a copy. Back then, FG was the only utility that allowed BASIC programmers to copy archived programs to temporary RAM files.
-United-TI had 5000 posts and still had a calc-related horror stories sub-forum.

One of these days, that game will need a rewrite and a new translation. I don't know about changing graphics, though.

Offline Deep Toaster

  • So much to do, so much time, so little motivation
  • Administrator
  • LV13 Extreme Addict (Next: 9001)
  • *************
  • Posts: 8217
  • Rating: +758/-15
    • View Profile
    • ClrHome
Re: Copy/Paste Programs
« Reply #17 on: May 29, 2010, 02:18:10 am »
Oh wow don't remind me about my first Garbage Collect message XD

The first time ever, I got scared. The word Garbage seemed like it was to delete the entire calc content. I went to check the manual immediately to make sure. :P

As for drummist calculator, I don't remember if it works anymore. If you can find the old contest poll topic, I think he mentionned about it, but it was several months ago.

ROL2 is The Reign Of Legends 2, one of my old calculator RPG
. The 3rd game was featured on ticalc.org, because it had better graphics, but it's much shorter and less complete than ROL2. Here are ROL2 problems, though:

-It was coded during Summer 2003. Back in 2003, when you did not close quotes and parhentesises, you were considered as a TI-BASIC god. Using special chars not accessible normally in BASIC made you look cool, Text(-1 was nearly a secret and nobody knew that Lbl/Gotos caused memory leaks when exiting a block/loop with them. In other words, back in 2003, such game was considered as coding mastepiece, but since TI|BD opened, it's scary to look at the code. This also means: prepare for some ERR:MEMORYs.
-Back in 2003, Kevtiva shutted down and never uploaded Flash Gordon on ticalc.org. No one knew FFTOM2 (Final Fantasy 2: Tales Of Magic) included a copy. Back then, FG was the only utility that allowed BASIC programmers to copy archived programs to temporary RAM files.
-United-TI had 5000 posts and still had a calc-related horror stories sub-forum.

One of these days, that game will need a rewrite and a new translation. I don't know about changing graphics, though.

Ah, found it: http://ourl.ca/36525.




Offline DJ Omnimaga

  • Clacualters are teh gr33t
  • CoT Emeritus
  • LV15 Omnimagician (Next: --)
  • *
  • Posts: 55941
  • Rating: +3154/-232
  • CodeWalrus founder & retired Omnimaga founder
    • View Profile
    • Dream of Omnimaga Music
Re: Copy/Paste Programs
« Reply #18 on: May 29, 2010, 02:27:19 am »
Yeah that one

I admit, I was very shocked when I saw his post.

Trust me, in almost 9 years into calc stuff (I started calc stuff on July 4th 2001), Drummist post was the first time I ever read or hear about someone who managed to wear out his Flash ROM. And given that my 83+ got through extreme usage around 2001-05, I am surprised my calc flash ROMs still work fine.

Most people said that it should take something like 20-30 years to wear it out.
« Last Edit: May 29, 2010, 02:28:07 am by DJ Omnimaga »

Offline ztrumpet

  • The Rarely Active One
  • CoT Emeritus
  • LV13 Extreme Addict (Next: 9001)
  • *
  • Posts: 5712
  • Rating: +364/-4
  • If you see this, send me a PM. Just for fun.
    • View Profile
Re: Copy/Paste Programs
« Reply #19 on: May 31, 2010, 03:14:53 pm »
Oh wow don't remind me about my first Garbage Collect message XD
The first time I saw it I ended up deleting the programs I had unarchived so I didn't have to Garbage Collect.  It sounded like such a bad thing...  I think after I realized that my calc would never work the same again I tried it.  Then my calc worked! ;D