Hi guys,

As my screen name says, I am Lunar Fire. I am an electrical engineering student in Quebec. I stumbled across this site by stalking Juju, one of your programmers.

I used to do calc programming when I had a TI-83+. I programmed both in TI-Basic and in z80 assembly. However all of my code is lost somewhere in limbo, probably on my lost calculator and my friends calcs, and in corners of the internet.

I am currently a developper for a french Zelda fansite called Puissance-Zelda. We are preparing the new version of the site (V8), which should be relased some time next year. Summer is an early estimation, but my knowledge of deadlines tells me that it probably won't be completed by then. I probably won't get involed a lot in your projects for now but I would love to after my other projects are done.

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I do have one project for those of you who might be interested, but for now it is at the stage of vague idea. The idea would be to develop a mobile application that would allow for basic programming of math functions with the same freedom that TI-Basic gave you.

Why did I have this idea? Because I remember that when I was still in high school, most of us had a programmable calculator. I also remember that some people with very basic knowledge of programming knew how to create programs to calculate the functions that our teachers were showing us. This is the experience that would be cool to recreate on mobile phones. The simplicity of a language like TI-Basic that would allow us to create micro-applications, like taxes calculation or simple geometrical calculations, without having to download countless "utility-like" applications from the App Store.

I know that calculator emulators are available on the App Store, but those don't give me the same feeling than TI-Basic did. What could be done is an application with a basic TI-Basic-like language and built-in mathematical functions that would allow you to create small programs like you could do on TI. And probably add stuff like graphing, fixed-point  - fraction conversion, etc...

So, what do you guys think of this idea? Does something like this already exists somewhere on the internet (maybe I just didn't find it)? If not, would some of you be up to the challenge?

Later,
Lunar Fire

Welcome on Omnimaga! Yeah, I know you're stalking my blog a lot and I often mention Omnimaga there... Glad you signed up here, that you have some projects you can share up here and have some peanuts!



And to answer your question, yes, at least on Android phones there's scripting languages, there's also TI-83+ emulators (dunno if Wabbitemu is still being developed for Android), but I would like to see TI-BASIC interpreters.

Thanks to all for your warm welcome.

JuJu: I have seen SL4A before, but that's not quite what I have in mind. One of the major things that efficient in TI-Basic was that it was simple and it was made of symbols (and not text) which made writing code faster (you don't have to type keywords) and less prone to common mistakes (like closing brackets or typos). This may seem insignificant but it decreases time spent debugging a lot.

This whole "let's recreate Ti-Basic" idea is a long-term thing that will require a lot of planning, but I think you're starting to get where I'm going with this.

JuJu is right, I am a brony, but not a member of any MLP fan club. Bronies where I live are a rarity (unintended maybe-intended pun), so trying to gather them to some fan club seems unlikely to me. And they are all on different networks. One is only on DeviantArt, one is only on Tumblr, one on Facebook, another is paranoid about social networks, and I cannot think of one physical place where I could gather them all at once. So yeah, I didn't expect to go on a tangent about this...

Isn't Rainbow Dash Attack already a running game clone? So a clone of a clone... You get the idea. But sure, I should check out the pony games that were made for TI calcs, maybe make one of my own. (The fun has been doubled!)

Simple answers to simple questions, no and no (we're not from the same place)

I don't know how fond you guys are of IRL events, I personnally didn't have the chance to do any because there aren't a lot of people from Quebec where I usually go, but I might be interested in one if you feel like it (Calcs in hand for a full afternoon of coding ).  I should also check out the BroniesQC thing on Facebook (Ugh, Facebook...).

I think it's "Hi Ho", not "Hi Huh".

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Quote from: flyingfisch on December 18, 2013, 09:38:11 am

I think it's "Hi Ho", not "Hi Huh".

* flyingfisch runs.

Pretty sure it's a reference to Fluttershy.

That was also my first thought