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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #120 on: March 05, 2011, 12:40:35 am »
My friend found Axe 0.0.2 (or something like that). After a while, I finally got around to checking for updates. When a saw an interesting-looking thread, I decided to join and help the guy. Then my appearances on the GMC slacked as I became a regular here.  eventually just quit going to the GMC altogether. :)
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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #121 on: March 05, 2011, 01:35:37 am »
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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #122 on: March 05, 2011, 04:17:48 am »
I remember I almost deleted you due to your nick then discovered you had legit posts. O.O

Also I noticed a new kind of spammer lately: ones that participate legitimabely in discussions and their posts are really constructive and helpful, even calc help mentionning calc keywords, but the post is followed by links to random websites he's advertising. So basically there are spammers that signs up on websites and participate normally, so their links looks less like spam, although sometimes it's clear it is. When a member posts and has a free WoW account link in his post/signature it generally looks like someone who wants to increase his google ranking.

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #123 on: March 05, 2011, 05:03:52 am »
I found Omnimaga on Wikipedia - it was listed as a reference in the 84+ series article (the thread about missing RAM pages).

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #124 on: March 05, 2011, 10:31:34 am »
I don't remember the first time I heard of omnimaga but I sometimes(hardly ever(less than 1 time a year)). But then when nDoom was released everything was focused on omnimaga. I was interested so I started going on omnimaga looking around. It seemd interesting so I signed up. And I'm happy I did!


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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #125 on: March 05, 2011, 10:34:58 am »
I found it after player RoL3 and seeing omnimaga.org advertised ;D

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #126 on: March 06, 2011, 12:56:21 am »
Did you like it Ashbad? That game was incredibly slow. O.O (although I spent a lot of time on graphics)

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #127 on: March 06, 2011, 09:40:32 am »
I was looking at unitedti alot for progress on nspire hacking, but after ndless came out, all the programming activity was here.

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #128 on: March 08, 2011, 04:06:04 am »
Yeah that one was kinda strange, considering we only had one Nspire dev to begin with (although he made a GBC emu). X.x

I think it might have been due to all the TI-Nspire news, the game-oriented-ness and the increasing Google ranking at the time, which kinda helped. A lot of people joined the site to ask where to download Ndless 1.1.
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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #129 on: March 08, 2011, 07:36:19 am »
Sometime last October I searced google for something along the lines of "online ti-basic ide".  This lead me to SourceCoder and Cemetech.  One thing led to another and I eventually wound up here. 
The first news article I saw was Wacky Fun Random Numbar Generator Wins Axe Programming Contest.  I bought it hook line and sinker because I knew absolutely nothing at that time about anything. ;D
As for why I didn't join Omnimaga until several months later, well, I guess I was just really busy.

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #130 on: March 08, 2011, 01:02:39 pm »
Lol XD, although I guess it could be understood. At first I thought red bordered news on ticalc.org meant extremly important news or bad ones instead of fake news. The WFRNG fake news was because of a WFRNG craze at the time and people being impatient at waiting the contest results, so the day before the real one came out, I posted this. Most people saw it as fake, though, because of the Justin Bieber part. :P

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #131 on: March 08, 2011, 07:32:47 pm »
I figured out that it must have been fake news after I downloaded and loaded the program to realize that there must be more to the story than what I was seeing.  Then the real news came out and everything was made clear.  Hence, my introducting to WFRNG and Omnimaga.
Also I like your avatar. ;D
I just got bored and decided to write something unusual (in this case a program that displays the Hello World z80 source code). Then, I just started messing around with the image in Picture Plot.  Everything except the syntax highlighting and the "Someday..." part were created on-calc.
I look forward to getting my own computer eventually so I can tackle more of the low level programming.  The sheer potential of a full color graphing calculator (:hyper:) is mind-blowing and I would love to someday be able to take advantage of its abilities.

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #132 on: March 08, 2011, 07:33:30 pm »
Cemetech brought me here. :)

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #133 on: November 07, 2014, 11:53:54 am »
Bump:

So a member was wondering how the current generation of Omnimaga members have found out about the website? (eg Google, Youtube, a specific computer or calculator program, music, Facebook, Twitter, friends, etc)

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Re: How did you find Omnimaga?
« Reply #134 on: November 07, 2014, 12:20:06 pm »
Well, soon after I got my 84+ for school, I started programming in TI-BASIC on it (which was the first time I ever programmed BTW). I didn't know yet that there was a big online comunity about it yet, so I just made some games on my own. A few months later, I discovered how to program on a computer, and while a computer is much more powerfull than a calculator, the challenge of the limited hardware together with the simplicity of the calculator (and it's availability during school) kept me interested.
3 years later, there was a period in school in which teachers were regularly absent, which meant that lessons were often replaced by 'study' hours (in which you have to sit silently in a classroom and can do homeword), which were obviously pretty boring when you don't have much homework, so I started searching the internet for more games to put on my calculator. I found a lot of them on ticalc, and there I also discovered that the calculator can be programmed in a different language that's a lot more powerfull than TI-BASIC: assembly, so I decided to look into that.
I learned the basics of assembly from some internet tutorials, and then decided to create a 3D engine with it as my first real project since I was programming 3D games on my computer at that time and I wanted to do the same on my calc.
Off course, starting a big project as a beginner ofthen doesn't go as expected, so after a while I got stuck and decided to look for help. At first, I ended up at Ti-Wereld (a Dutch calculator community), but decided to move on due to the very low activity. Then I eventually ended up here at Omnimaga.
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