Author Topic: What's going on in Omnimaga? (Read 8321 times)

trevmeister66 · « **Reply #15 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

, 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:

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #16 on:** November 24, 2007, 01:08:00 pm »

sorry to hear about relationship problem

I hope things go better for you soon. I can't wait to see you coding more again

Liazon · « **Reply #17 on:** November 24, 2007, 04:16:00 pm »

cool! good luck w/ the ASM

geez, calc crashes are the bane of basic programs

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #18 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

simplethinker · « **Reply #19 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.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #20 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

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

bfr · « **Reply #21 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.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #22 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

simplethinker · « **Reply #23 on:** November 25, 2007, 12:52:00 pm »

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QUOTE (DJ Omnimaga @ 25 Nov, 2007, 19:26)

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.

Another thing that bothers me is that for getKey it will only return the code for the key combination

(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

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #24 on:** November 25, 2007, 12:54:00 pm »

wow this sucks

this must make games slow

Netham45 · « **Reply #25 on:** November 25, 2007, 01:02:00 pm »

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QUOTE (simplethinker @ 25 Nov, 2007, 16:52)

and you can't read someone pressing 2nd, alpha, shift or that other thing (don't know what it's called).

Diamond, iirc.

Liazon · « **Reply #26 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.

simplethinker · « **Reply #27 on:** November 25, 2007, 01:17:00 pm »

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QUOTE (Liazon @ 25 Nov, 2007, 20:02)

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

. 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

TIfanx1999 · « **Reply #28 on:** November 25, 2007, 02:00:00 pm »

IDK, I seem to find my way around either fine

. 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

*edit* 60 wpm on a calc is pretty sic, but i know what you mean. I am the same way

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JonimusPrime · « **Reply #29 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.