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Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
« on: December 08, 2012, 09:23:05 pm »
Thanks mostly to all the attention that the game got outside the calculator community, but also the many fans that the game got during its two and half a years development stages, Portal Prelude for the TI-83 Plus has managed to reach 8000 downloads only one week after being released! On top of that, the day before this achievement, the game surpassed gbc4nspire (online since March 2010) as the most downloaded file in Omnimaga archives overall.
Portal Prelude: 8328
gbc4Nspire v0.9: 6832
NspireEmu (outdated): 4771
Ndless (ticalc mirror): 3360
Ndless (v2.0): 2434
TI-Boy SE: 2036
Ncubate: 970
Reuben Quest: Ev Awakening: 879
Pacman Nspire: 793   
BBC Tetris: 701
If we also include programs that are only released on the forums as attachments, it even surpasses nDoom, which got a lot of attention outside the calculator world back in 2011. nDoom isn't in Omnimaga archives, but the attachment file has 2119 downloads (2999 with the source). In that case, only Axe Parser (which was used to make Portal prelude) appears to have gotten more downloads in total (10768 for all versions). All sites included, the most ever downloaded Omnimaga staff release is Zelda: Dark Link Quest, with 48136 downloads during its first stay on ticalc.org.

It is rare for an Omnimaga program to get that many downloads in such a short period of time. The previous record for weekly download stats was xLIB xLIB Revolution in October 2005, peaking at 2800 downloads per week (ranked #1) on ticalc.org. Both Portal and XXR made Engadget and ticalc.org front page, as well as many other popular sites after their respective releases.

Congrats to Builderboy!
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Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2012, 09:24:39 pm »
Wow, this is pretty epic, congrats builderboy! :D
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Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2012, 10:49:41 pm »
Congrats Builder, but on a side note, DJ are your programs going to return to ticalc in april?
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Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2012, 11:14:20 pm »
I don't know yet. There are some chances that they might, although maybe only the ones that were featured before will. (Plus gamepacks of others). Before putting anything there though I would like to update all my old readme files with the proper URLs and contact info. Some still redirect to [email protected] and www.omnimaga.tk O.O
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Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2012, 11:17:40 pm »
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Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2012, 11:19:10 pm »
didn't ourl.ca have a virus? D:
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Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2012, 11:33:39 pm »
Hopefully it gets over 9000 downloads.
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Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2012, 11:44:48 pm »
Quote from: Sorunome on December 08, 2012, 11:19:10 pm
didn't ourl.ca have a virus? D:

That's kinda off-topic (unless you are confusing ourl with omnimaga.tk), but yeah it did. :P

Also omnimaga.tk was used from March 2004 to December 2004. It redirected to wherever the Omni website was, because back then we constantly switched from a free hosting provider to another every few month, due to free hosting sucking balls.

I have no clue why OURL had a virus. It was probably squatted after Netham45 stopped using it, or the server it pointed to was infected.
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Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2012, 11:51:27 pm »
Wow!
That got downloads fast!

And I can't believe that I've yet to play it O.O
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Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2012, 06:24:06 am »
I can't believe I have to wait till there's a Z80 emu for nspire since I fried my usb port D:
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Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2012, 07:05:43 am »
Quote from: aeTIos on December 09, 2012, 06:24:06 am
I can't believe I have to wait till there's a Z80 emu for nspire since I fried my usb port D:
Don't you have a SilverLink ?
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Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2012, 08:34:12 am »
Nope and I'm not gonna buy one either since it's too expensive imo <_<
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Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2012, 09:24:44 am »
Hey guys!

Just seen this game and it seems very promising! The only problem is that I've got a Nspire CX CAS and not a TI-83 or 84... Is there a solution?

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Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2012, 09:26:21 am »
Quote from: DerSandmann on December 09, 2012, 09:24:44 am
Hey guys!

Just seen this game and it seems very promising! The only problem is that I've got a Nspire CX CAS and not a TI-83 or 84... Is there a solution?

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Use an emulator? like wabbitemu...

EDIT: btw if you're gonna stay active on the forums introduce yourself in your own topic in the introduce yourself forum ;p
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Re: Portal reaches 8000 downloads in 1 week
« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2012, 09:32:34 am »
First, thanks for your anwser (think I'm gonna stay on the forum, so I'll present myself when I've time :P )

I was meaning playing the game on my nspire CX.. Wabbitemu will be my last solution if it isn't possible, I have to try this game out!

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