Well, two years ago I was happy to get a new shiny piece of technology that could even do math and some friends told me you can play games on,
so I did a quick search "hack nspire" and found this forum here.
I way curious how it works and I programmed some small crappy games for 3.1, but I didn't join until I found the linux thread.

hmm my story is a bit confusing one for me

When I got my Nspire CX i was disappointed by the limited software onboard such a powerful device. First thing I searched online was games I found TIcalc. Some of the ReadMes had TIPlanet and Omnimaga mentioned. I first went to TIPlanet but seeing that it was french i focused on Omnimaga. Because I was still shy of forums at that time ( even though i suggested opening my forum for calculator help later on) i lurked as a guest on omnimaga for like 2 months before joining in as hking1

Before I joined I always thought forums were crap

I literally just stumbled across Omnimaga multiple times whenever I had questions I needed to answer about programming. That was while I was taking my first steps to programming on the Ti-84. I then thought about joining the forums, and when I did it felt awkward at first, it was my first real forum, and actually still is ( ). But I quickly fit in, and boom here I am now. Had a bit of inactivity beginning 2014, but I bounced back.


EDIT: Actually Ben_g's story is pretty much exactly the same as mine. Like to the last little detail too. 

Quote from: Vogtinator on November 07, 2014, 12:28:52 pm

Well, two years ago I was happy to get a new shiny piece of technology that could even do math and some friends told me you can play games on,
so I did a quick search "hack nspire" and found this forum here.

And two years later instead of "crappy games" you work on Ndless, Linux, MicroPython, PyWrite, nGL, a 3D textured Minecraft clone. Man that escalated quickly.

You forgot pwmtest Yeah, I wouldn't have expected that I'll find a new hobby here.

That reminds me, my first attempt at a real calc game was "Spaceship games", also known as "god so much shit"

My first was a snake clone. White background and the snake was in rainbow colors.

4 years ago I followed the French Axe tutorial (the biggest Axe tutorial that you can find on the internet) and I saw Omnimaga as a community forum in English. Since I was quite good at English at the time (I was still 12, let's stay realistic), I decided to come here.

How did you get to Axe? How did you get hold of a TI calc at 12?
My english was abysmally bad back then. It improved significantly after I started watching mainly english videos on youtube, most of them Let's plays.

well, three years ago I got a nspire, looked up if I could get games on it, found omnimaga, didn't join until recently (3 years later)

I found Omni because I joined TSA last year, did calc robots, made a google site on coding, found Cemetech through the internet (somehow), and after I was banned from Ceme came to Omni.

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