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u/Dream of Omnimaga February 28, 2017, 02:29:33 AM

Quote from: Ranman on February 28, 2017, 02:23:10 AM
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on February 28, 2017, 02:03:37 AM
Those old screenshots. Lovely stuff (I haven't used my TI-89T in ages, I should really play some of those again) :3

Also hi Ranman and welcome to the forums. Glad to see you're still around in the TI community and doing fine. I was wondering what happened after 2013 when you disappeared (although I remember you also left around 2010 for a few years). Jumpman looks very promising. I hope it gets finished.

And yeah I created Omnimaga, but then things happened and it ultimately led to the site splitting in two D:

By the way, didn't you also do some Casio calculator BASIC? I forgot which model, but IIRC you said it was in the early 90's. I got a few old models such as the fx-7000G and 7700GE, both of which uses the 1st-gen Casio Basic (with no getkey input). Also, since you do C, did you know that the TI-84 Plus CE supports C, via MateoConLechuga's C SDK/Libraries? I dunno how different CE C is to 68K, although the calculator almost has as much RAM as the TI-89.

I hope you enjoy your stay

Thanks DJ.

2010 to 2012 was not a good period in my real life.

Yes... I did some Casio BASIC programming on the old FX7700G and the FX6300G... I still own the FX6300G. It's still the coolest graphing calc ever made. A whopping 25x40 pixel screen and 400 bytes of memory -- still enough memory and screen to make an Artillery game complete with mountains, wind, and multi level opponents.

I own the following calcs currently:
- TI-89 HW1
- TI-92+
- Casio FX6300G
- Casio FX9860G Slim
- Tandy PC-7

I'm seriously considering getting a TI-84CE

Yeah I remember your neck issues around 2010-12 >.< and other things. I actually had neck issues since early 2009 and they peaked around 2013 IIRC, but they are nowhere as bad, just annoying.

And yeah the 7000G had 400 bytes of RAM too IIRC. I once wanted to make a JRPG with it but got carried away by other things. I made one on the TI-81 under 2400 bytes of RAM, though (which could have been much smaller had I used the Input command in a point-and-click fashion.)

The FX-9860 Slim is amazing too, other than the fact Casio thought it would be a good idea to never release OS 2.00 for it, leaving its users in the cold.

OS 2.00 added many BASIC commands and math functionalities to the fx-9860G and AU. The Slim was cool because it reminded me of the Nintendo DS.

u/Ranman February 28, 2017, 02:38:00 AM

Quote from: Juju on February 28, 2017, 02:25:42 AM
Ooooh, been a while, welcome here! ^_^

Hey Juju... it has been a while. Good to see you still hangin' out.

u/Unicorn February 28, 2017, 07:56:41 AM

Why dont you guys ever usw this? *shakes head*

u/Dream of Omnimaga February 28, 2017, 08:23:12 AM

^The last letter is cropped

u/p2 February 28, 2017, 08:32:20 AM

Hey there @Ranman

I don't think we've met before, have we? I was pretty active on omni from 2011 to 2012

Alo really nice screenshots!!

u/Dream of Omnimaga February 28, 2017, 05:16:02 PM

Yeah I think that was around when he disappeared once (He was around in 1997-2004, 2005-08, 2010, 2013 then 2017), and you happened to be active from 2011 to 2012 then 2016-2017

u/p2 February 28, 2017, 07:33:07 PM

uuh ok, in this case I guess it's an honor to meet such an old member

u/Yuki February 28, 2017, 10:07:11 PM

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on February 28, 2017, 08:23:12 AM
^The last letter is cropped

Blame the generator I used.

u/Krillan March 01, 2017, 04:51:14 PM

Hi,
am playing with pocket calculators since the first came here/germany on the market (Casio FX 502P, later Casio FX 602P). Now I use several newer, TI Voyage 200, some Casio FX, Classpad 300+, Nspire Touchpad/cx cas. My interests: programming little tools, may be a text adventure (just trying to do with some lua code from jim bauwens and jens editor). My experience is not profi level but hobbyist, doing it for fun, not for monumental projects.

u/p2 March 01, 2017, 04:56:15 PM

Welcome to the site, @Krillan

Are you rather specialized on Casio or on TI? Most guys tend to chose one side ^^
Also maybe you want to give a little 2D RPG a try?
Once you get the rendering is done, those game are usually rather easy to write yet give u pretty impressive results

Grüße aus dem Süden, BW hier

(btw wir sind so um die 5 aktiven Mitglieder aus Deutschland)

u/Dream of Omnimaga March 01, 2017, 06:21:11 PM

Heya and welcome here.

I don't know about the FX-502P/602P but I'll check them out on Google. I got various Casio calculators myself but I mostly do TI stuff. I hope you enjoy your stay

u/Sorunome March 01, 2017, 06:44:55 PM

Welcome to codewalrus!

Try hard not to lose your mind

:foxii:

u/Dream of Omnimaga March 01, 2017, 11:28:45 PM

Quote from: Sorunome on March 01, 2017, 06:44:55 PM

Try hard not to lose your mind

:foxii:

That can be difficult with so many walruses around

u/Krillan March 02, 2017, 02:15:10 AM

Hi,
that were really monsters at this time, FX 502 had 256 =in words: twohundred and fiftysix= bytes for programming. The FX 602 hat already 512 bytes and also alphanumerical display. Alphabetical signs were on the keys with 2nd function. And both could with the Interface for cassette saving/loading also play music (special overlay for entering notes). Wonderful machines, got my FX 502 for special price as last one in shop for about 200 DM (FX 602 was just arriving). The 2 batteries with silver oxide are running about some years.

Was 1st at omnimaga, its interesting for me, several info about nspire, but now I get no answer to my questions about micropython, nassembler and some other things. Then found there the way to codewalrus:-)

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on March 01, 2017, 06:21:11 PM
Heya and welcome here. I don't know about the FX-502P/602P but I'll check them out on Google. I got various Casio calculators myself but I mostly do TI stuff. I hope you enjoy your stay

u/Krillan March 02, 2017, 02:29:32 AM

Hello,
hm... deciding which calculator to prefer? I would if I could... For some time I liked voyage 200, but the display is really awful. Then I used the Classpad 300+, what a nice thing with its geometric and 3d functions. But the display... Then the CP 400 came, but casio did what they could to take anyones interests away, it's awful slow system, half cpu speed... No, also not the right thing. Now with nspire touch and later cx cas it's nearly the same with it's bad basic und strange lua (never experienced to get so much confused by a language, more than by c, and that menas something). So I prefer nspire cx cas at this time, but I don't like it really.

2d adventures, hm... there is an old style I played ages ago, like Das schwarze Auge and such with isometric graphic in fights and 2d in cities. hat ones with sight from above i don't like, they look often rather rude and plumpy :-). At this tme I try to write a text adventure. It seems it gets more an ebook on the nspire than a game...

Ach menno, jetzt brech ich mir hier einen ab mit meinem holperigen Englisch; hab vergessen, dass Du auch Deutscher bist :-). Hab grad ne halbe Odyssee hinter mir, wollte unbedingt den Nspire programmieren. Aber irgendwie klappt das mit keiner Sprache so richtig. Und als ich mir C++ dafür ansah... fiel ich fast in Ohnmacht. PHP und 18 dependencies installieren, nur um dann mit C++ anfangen zu können. Nicht das Wahre...

Mit 5 Aktiven meinst Du sicher hinsichtlich des Adventures? Ich bin nicht abgeneigt, bei einem Projekt mitzumachen, aber ich bin zu selten dabei, um mir eine Sprache so intensiv reinzuziehen, wie es dafür nötig wäre. Das schaurige Lua vergeß ich schon, wenn ich mal 3 Wochen nichts damit mache.
cu
klaus

Quote from: p2 on March 01, 2017, 04:56:15 PM
Welcome to the site, @Krillan

Are you rather specialized on Casio or on TI? Most guys tend to chose one side ^^
Also maybe you want to give a little 2D RPG a try?
Once you get the rendering is done, those game are usually rather easy to write yet give u pretty impressive results

Grüße aus dem Süden, BW hier
(btw wir sind so um die 5 aktiven Mitglieder aus Deutschland)