well for one... i want to write an actually good scorched earth type game... since i couldn't find any good ones... and the ones that are great are found to be unbalanced by me and my friends at school lol...

oh... and something else is missing in the TI-84 archive... a pacman game that is true to its classic original... since personally i don't really like pacman that has a different stage or level changing stage... i prefer the actual classic layout and balance... so i am thinking of making a clone of the original classic... like... identical

hmm... and those are whats on the top of my head at the moment

thx! i will keep that in mind...

though i am probably not going to release anything at least until summer...
since i am currently in grade 12 and i am still stuck in the suspense of which university i will e able to enroll in lol

oh... and i am probably going to buy a TI-89 titanium and a TI-Nspire since all the good stuff are coming out for them!

oh ya!! and i am definitely going to try and make all my games greyscale too since i simply can't get enough of them!

p.s. i found this and you can't believe how envious i was when it first got uploaded to ticalc.org a few days ago lol...
since i have wanted to make a pacman game months ago
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/426/42651.html

see...
but ya... when n i first started playing with calculator stuff is when i found a TI-85 on ebay for really cheap prices and bought it lol... (school also wanted us to get one)

i thought the ram was large and basic programming must have spawned games for a calculator with such a large screen lol... and began to google...

first i found ticalc.org lol.. i was amazed at someone hacking the calculator to be able to run assembly code! and so i bought the black serial cord and began loading stuff on to that old sucker! (oh... and i was doing that on an old pentium 1 i got from the my highschool for free since they were throwing away old comps lol, plus i knew the comp teacher pretty well.. and that pentium 1 was the only computer that had a serial port...)

i used shells like Usgard and Zshell but then one day i i was bored and decided to look around the site with programs for other calculators... and then i stumbled on the GIGANTIC TI-83/84 archive lol!

then i simply bought a TI-84 by grade 11 and here i am (also i had another reason to get a TI-84, the TI-85 was too old or considered illegal for tests )

edit:
ya.. grade 12 is the hardest... i think the most important part are the provincial exams at the end of June
and it is the last grade... though here we have a choice to go straight to university or collage first...

but alot of people here thinks your either dumb or a looser to go to collage first or not go to university at all... donno why...

but i am heading in to the field of computer science anyways lol

nice

About planes, do you build them yourself? On United-TI forum, one of the former admin and founder of the site was a big fan of a guy who did. Some cool stuff. You just had to be careful when making them land so they won't break, since some were rather expensive

I should be fine for my signature and avatar for now, though. As nostalgic person, I decided to stick with the Omnimaga logo from September 1st 2001 as avatar and for my sig I wanted to include both my sites and Xbox live thing (altough eventually maybe I will switch)

oh right yeah you are in Canada too

Everything is so expensive over here compared to USA (except Casio FX-9750G calcs. They suck compared to TI but for $25 it's worth it )

And yep, same Youtube account that I saw

For Casio stuff:

The algebra FX series and the FX-9860 are the only ones supporting asm (as add-ons. No asm commands like the 83+ to run libs). The ClassPad 300 supports C++ applications IIRC. BASIC-wise, the language is more limited in overall, and 10x slower on old models. It's even worse on the AFX series (20x slower). However, on the 9860G it's not too bad. Output equivalents are 10x faster than on TI calcs. This calc has 64 KB of RAM and 1.5 MB of archive. There are graph screen commands too.

Personally I don't mind the CFX series too much since they have color screen display, but they are slow and with 32 KB of RAM you don,t go far. Also I find that the commands locations are really weird. Everything is hard to find on these calcs and the manual won't go in depth. Casios are not too bad for the price, but most people use TI so if you code for Casio you will not get a large audience (altough the community is quite nice in general, having been part of it for 4 years, despite doing nothing)

If the CFX was cracked like the Nspire did, color asm games would have been awesome. Unfortunately, though, this model is not used much anymore, since it has been discontinued in 2003.

EDIT: how the color works on it and why, despite the fact it only had 4 at once (including the background, which could range from yellow-gray-ish to orange-ish), it would have been awesome if it was cracked and remained popular: http://xlib.mtv-music-generator.com/casiocfx9850g.wmv . We could have got color palettes in a style similar to the NES

I assume grade 12 is the final grade of hi school, right?

In Quebec, grades are divided by elementary and hi school. There's Kindergarten, then 6 years of elementary school (grade 1-6), then you return all the way back to grade #1 as you start hi school, until grade 5. It won't continue as 7, 8, etc. But the issue is that the fact some states and provinces has more and fewer years of school makes it harder to understand each systems

Once you finished hi school over here you can't even get into uni yet, you have to do 2 or 3 years of pre-universitary college beforehand. Otherwise, there's the option to just do college (3-4 years) or professional school (for stuff involving mostly manual work, such as mechanic, computer repairing, hair cutter, soldering, etc). On top of that, sometimes the later won't even require grade 5 of hi school. I think in USA they finish hi school at 18 and over here we finish at 16.

Come on DJ, you and I just went over that the other day