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Title: What's going on in Omnimaga?
Post by: Netham45 on July 05, 2007, 01:30:00 pm
So, I was browsing, and I was wondering, what are the people here working on? I am working on getting my computer working, and misplaced my calculator, so... but I am planning to one day finish Lurking Shades, which is good. I also am working more. =/ I am working 29 hours this week, which, I like the money and all, but it seriously cuts out on my computer time. =/
Title: What's going on in Omnimaga?
Post by: Speler on July 05, 2007, 01:33:00 pm
I'm gonna pick up Pirate RPG this weekend again, now that I've officially gotten bored of my Cemetech competition submission.

I thought I'd be doing more this summer, but 9 hours a day 5 days a week of work is draining me :(sad.gif.
Title: What's going on in Omnimaga?
Post by: tifreak on July 05, 2007, 03:19:00 pm
just working on some old projects, trying to be done with some of them instead of letting them go stagnant on the calc.
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Post by: rivereye on July 05, 2007, 04:01:00 pm
trying to get some stuff worked on for my CMS, but a lot of it is admin stuff right now.
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Post by: bfr on July 05, 2007, 04:11:00 pm
I'm taking two summer courses, among other things.

I have a job caddying, assisting a golfer(s) by carrying around his/her clubs, cleaning his/her balls (hehe...), etc..  I only do it like three days a week, though, but I have to be there by 6:30 AM, which means that I have to wake up at like 5:30.  And once I get there, I have to wait until a golfer comes.  I might wait there until...oh, let's say, 8:00 PM, and not get paid at all.  Or, I might get to caddy for somebody at 3:00 PM, and then four-five hours later, finish my "loop," and then wait another 3-60 minutes to get paid (the default is $25.00 for me, maybe up to $40.00 if I get lucky), and then go home.  So, while it isn't really a horrible job, I don't like waking up early, I don't like having to go there as often as I do (I know I only go there like three days a week, but I really don't need the money, and would prefer to have more free time and sleep, but my mom forces me to go there when I don't need to anyway because she says work is good for me, which I don't completely disagree with, but...), and...I don't feel like typing anymore....
Title: What's going on in Omnimaga?
Post by: JincS on July 05, 2007, 07:21:00 pm
Working 60+ hours a week, 7 days a week, at multiple jobs; letting multiple projects go un-worked on, trying to get my car(s) running (all 3 of them), and working on getting into college (again). Not much really. I'm gonna get another job here soon, either remodeling houses for a friend or working at Perfection Tires for another friend (possibly both).
Title: What's going on in Omnimaga?
Post by: Halifax on July 05, 2007, 10:37:00 pm
Well I have been working on some projects. NBA 68K to be exact. I have been trying to get a small job, but I am failing horribly. At least I built an application for $20 for my parents lol :)smile.gif . Oh well nothing interesting ever happens in my life.
Title: What's going on in Omnimaga?
Post by: Speler on July 06, 2007, 12:49:00 am
Halifax, yeah NBA 68k looks awesome.
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Post by: Halifax on July 06, 2007, 02:52:00 am
Thanks Super_Speler!
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Post by: JincS on July 06, 2007, 09:17:00 am
I'll definitely download it when you're done->I love NBA Jam!

Change of plans: It looks like I might be roofing for my uncle next week. Hard work, but if I can get on a prevailing wage contract, it'll pay $23 an hour! w00t! Good possibility too, since the company has 3 of them going on right now :)smile.gif
Title: What's going on in Omnimaga?
Post by: josephmarin on November 22, 2007, 07:19:00 pm
stabbing children, punching babies, working on FFROS. The usual.
Title: What's going on in Omnimaga?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 22, 2007, 07:45:00 pm
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Bah, I don't mind when the member hasn't been on for a while ;)wink.gif
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The usual.
*DJ Omnimaga
Title: What's going on in Omnimaga?
Post by: JonimusPrime on November 23, 2007, 03:14:00 am
Meh I'm learning LISP and making some ASM Utills for myself to fix my borked 83+.
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Post by: Liazon on November 23, 2007, 11:56:00 am
what's wrong w/ it?

the usual.  wish i had more screens for LL, but nothing worth noting atm in terms of progress.
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Post by: Delnar_Ersike on November 24, 2007, 06:52:00 am
Procrastinating with Space Trader, working [occasionally >.<] on my mini-program for those FPS sprites, chilling out, and mad at my dad because he gave the new Macbook Pro to my mother instead of me, despite the fact that she never complained about her previous computer (well, her only complaint was that it couldn't burn DVD's, but that could have been fixed with a new optical drive).
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Post by: trevmeister66 on November 24, 2007, 08:17:00 am
Working 20+ hour weeks, going to school, just finished applying for college, and am now waiting for their responses (already got acceptred into 1 though). Started my first asm game, although it's progressing slowly because of the holidays and family, but I'll pick it up again soon. Trying to fix some relationship problems :banghead:banghead.gif , which isn't going so well. And hopefully i'll be able to start my xLIB project again, after it got completely erased because of my calc crash  :rage:rage.gif
Title: What's going on in Omnimaga?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 24, 2007, 01:08:00 pm
sorry to hear about relationship problem :(sad.gif I hope things go better for you soon. I can't wait to see you coding more again :)smile.gif
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Post by: Liazon on November 24, 2007, 04:16:00 pm
cool!  good luck w/ the ASM

geez, calc crashes are the bane of basic programs  :(sad.gif
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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 24, 2007, 08:06:00 pm
true, and it seems to have made lot of ppl start using their pc to program in BASIC too. On calc programming seems to fade out now. I'm still used to it though because I started calc programming before owning a computer
Title: What's going on in Omnimaga?
Post by: simplethinker on November 25, 2007, 09:14:00 am
I still program entirely on-calc because I can do it really fast, and because I can't make heads-or-tails of any line that stretches longer than 16 characters.
I haven't had many crashes, but when I do have one I don't lose much.  I always try and keep a copy of all my files in the archive (with groups), so a RAM clear won't hurt anything.    I also try and back my calc up once a week, since I hear so many horror stories.
Title: What's going on in Omnimaga?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 25, 2007, 09:34:00 am
yeah same here, I usually grouped my files every hours when working on somethign and did a backup every two days on the PC. Lot of ppl should do this x.x

And I code on calc because it's much faster to test. no need to save program, open emulator, (trying to) load programs in the emu (hoping it will not freeze if it's wabbit and it doesnt always work in PindurTI if the file is for archive), test, etc
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Post by: bfr on November 25, 2007, 09:45:00 am
Yeah, I lost some programs on my TI-86 before because they weren't backed up (the TI-86 doesn't even have Flash ROM though).

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And I code on calc because it's much faster to test. no need to save program, open emulator, (trying to) load programs in the emu (hoping it will not freeze if it's wabbit and it doesnt always work in PindurTI if the file is for archive), test, etc


Although I like coding on my calculator for a few reasons (mainly because it's more portable than a computer), I don't really think it's really much faster than programming on a computer.  Example: I'm have a TIGCC project open, I want to test it, and with the click of an icon or by pressing a key combination, TiEmu opens up (if it wasn't already open, and it probably already was already open because I had pressed the icon/key combination to test the program before), and the program is automatically run without me having to type in the program's name or anything.
Title: What's going on in Omnimaga?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 25, 2007, 12:26:00 pm
keep in mind what i said applies to 83+/84+ though


89 on calc basic is a pain because of the scrambled letter keyboard
Title: What's going on in Omnimaga?
Post by: simplethinker on November 25, 2007, 12:52:00 pm
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89 on calc basic is a pain because of the scrambled letter keyboard

Same, the funky layout is really annoying.
The menu layout stinks compared to the 83/84/+/SE (I think) so I made a custom one that's fairly close.  :)smile.gif

Another thing that bothers me is that for getKey it will only return the code for the key combination  :banghead:banghead.gif (ie. if someone pressed 2nd before hitting left you would get a different number), so you have to add in extra checks in case somebody accidentally hit another button) and you can't read someone pressing 2nd, alpha, shift or that other thing (don't know what it's called). sorry for the rant
Title: What's going on in Omnimaga?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 25, 2007, 12:54:00 pm
wow this sucks x.x this must make games slow  
Title: What's going on in Omnimaga?
Post by: Netham45 on November 25, 2007, 01:02:00 pm
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and you can't read someone pressing 2nd, alpha, shift or that other thing (don't know what it's called).  

 Diamond, iirc.
Title: What's going on in Omnimaga?
Post by: Liazon on November 25, 2007, 01:02:00 pm
well at least you could just type out all of the instructions, since the 68k calcs don't tokenize like the 83+/84+ calcs.

ya, the key press thing is kinda annoying imho.  even in TIGCC, unless you use low level key reading, you can't get 2nd, alpha, shift, or diamond.  not only that, they always do the little status bar thingy at the bottom of the screen, even during TIGCC programs, which I think is annoying.  Kevin Kofler doesn't think it's annoying though, i think... That's why he highly recommends OSDequeque and the default getkey for keyreading, instead of rowread, which is essentially the equivalent of z80's direct input.
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Post by: simplethinker on November 25, 2007, 01:17:00 pm
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well at least you could just type out all of the instructions, since the 68k calcs don't tokenize like the 83+/84+ calcs.

That's a problem for me since I do so much on-calc stuff on my 84+SE.   I can type around 60wpm, and for programming I go even faster since it's just menus :)smile.gif .  Everything for me is muscle memory in my thumbs/fingers, so I can't get used to the different layout on the 89s.  It's actually pretty funny what I end-up typing by accident when not paying attention  :Dbiggrin.gif
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Post by: TIfanx1999 on November 25, 2007, 02:00:00 pm
IDK, I seem to find my way around either fine :)smile.gif. It is funny to me that after I hadn't programmed on calc for years that i could still remember all the key shortcuts and where everything was. It's like ridding a bike; you never forget :)smile.gif
*edit* 60 wpm on a calc is pretty sic, but i know what you mean. I am the same way XDsmiley.gif.
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Post by: JonimusPrime on November 25, 2007, 02:21:00 pm
Yeah The ti-86 tokenizes only when you close the program so you can type all the comands in yourself but I still end up using the menus because I can't remember how to spell the tokens. :)smile.gif
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Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 25, 2007, 03:27:00 pm
does it takes a while to tokenize?
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Post by: JonimusPrime on November 25, 2007, 03:34:00 pm
No it takes just as much time to exit a 86 program as on any other calc.