This might not seem like it, but 5 days ago, the new TI-83+/84+ programming language Axe and the Axe Parser application already turned 1 year old! On February 1st 2010, Quigibo announced his new language project on Omnimaga forums, posting version 0.0.1 alpha to show what he had done so far. Over 12K Axe-related posts later, dozens and dozens of notable games were created with it already!

Initially, people were not 100% confident about the future of this project, because in the past decade, alternatives to TI-BASIC, hybrid TI-BASIC and Z80 assembly were attempted, but most were canceled due to the author's ambitions being higher than their skills and others had low success for some reasons in particular. This changed as soon as Quigibo added sprite support to the language, which could already allow games to be created. By then, entire calculator games could be created. In its first month after being announced, the Axe Parser project had over 700 posts in its sub-forum and about 30% of the entire forum activity that month. Afterward it started gaining more and more popularity, as dozens of arcade games were being made to showcase Axe's language capabilities and several people started learning the language. Although Ndless and TI-Nspire development were the main cause of our major activity increase in March, Axe played a huge role in it.

Eventually, I made a tribute video showcasing what the language could do. For those who are nostalgic and want to see what you could do with Axe Parser by May 2010, you can watch the video on Youtube or download it here (requires a forum account). Afterward, an Axe-exclusive programming competition was started on Omnimaga and when it finished, 13 game entries were competing against each others. In addition to that, several ticalc.org 2010 features were Axe games and today, several games using this revolutionary language comes out.

For those who didn't follow Axe development and don't want to read through both main progress threads, which are over 1700 posts each, a list of all Axe Parser versions from 0.0.2 to the latest (available for download) can be found here and the sub-forum here.

For answering many BASIC programmers' wishes with a programming language similar in use to TI-BASIC but almost as fast as ASM, we would like to thank you 12926 times, Quigibo, for your hard work and dedication to this project!

Congratz to Quigibo! Long live Axe Parser!

Huzzah for Axe!

Congrats Axe!  Thanks Quigibo!

Happy Birthday Axe! Yayyyyyyyy can't believe it's already been a year ^^ I remember when Axe first came out, I think we were all a little skeptical, but now, Axe is the most powerful non-asm language for the calc! 

And I thank you over 9000 times, Quigibo!  Axe Parser is perhaps the best thing that has happened to the Ti-83+/Ti-84+ series

Quoted from page 3 of the Axe Parser thread:

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Also, if you haven't done this already, I'd like to suggest that you auto-generate multiplication algorithms when multiplying by constants.

I probably will for powers of 2, but I don't think there will really need to be such high speed math operations, I mean, I don't think anyone will be making a first person shooter or anything.  But I guess if a few microseconds are important enough to account for the program size increase, you can always add some Hex code to do the faster multiplication.

Now I don't know about you, but I think first person shooters have been proven possible in Axe.

They grow up so fast