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Re: Real Life Nightmares: The stories of what could have been, but will never be
« Reply #15 on: April 23, 2009, 05:31:05 pm »
I've lost quite a few good programs before.
I can't even remember how many I've lost.

The original AI Checkers was lost when I fried my calc trying to connect it to a DC power supply. The calc was still covered under warranty, so I was able to get a new one by sending it in. I wonder if TI ever found the program... meh, probably not. Good news is that the re-written code was much better than the original. It always works out that way doesn't it?
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Re: Real Life Nightmares: The stories of what could have been, but will never be
« Reply #16 on: April 23, 2009, 10:30:21 pm »
In case some people don't check other topics much and for those who don't frequent IRC, I forgot to mention that when I lost all Illusiat 2002 work back in March 2002, I also lost Illusiat 1 through 4 and Donjon (similar to the old Illusiat games but on homescreen like Illusiat 8 and it was very hard). Fortunately, the first 3 games were rather simple due to simple graph screen graphics, but Illusiat 4 was simply impossible to recreate. For dungeon I didn't remembered the dungeon layouts and enemies enough because I didn't replayed the game a lot since it was quite long (about 7-8 hours) and I was in the process of making Illusiat 4 at the time
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Re: Real Life Nightmares: The stories of what could have been, but will never be
« Reply #17 on: April 23, 2009, 11:44:23 pm »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on April 23, 2009, 02:03:33 pm
Oh ok I see. x.x

Also I never found Omnicalc RestoreMem function to be very reliable. Some people says it saved them many times, but I tried it often before on my SE and sometimes everything would be corrupted with programs weighing at like 50000 bytes and stuff like that
I'm pretty sure that happens only if you Garbage Collect (thus moving around stuff in archive) then Restore Mem (restoring the pointers to the old locations).
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Re: Real Life Nightmares: The stories of what could have been, but will never be
« Reply #18 on: April 24, 2009, 03:47:03 am »
nah I got it to happen almost 80% of the time when I tried it. However, back then I had an older ROM (1.13 or 1.14 I think). It was more reliable past Omnicalc 1.20, though. Back in the 1.0/1.1 days (when Omnicalc still had a clipboard functionality), it sometimes caused archive corruption and stuff requiring a full memory reset.

Btw, for those who still use MirageOs 1.1 (we never know?), if you added the : character at the beginning of an homescreen entry it caused a program called ! or # I think to be displayed in MirageOs. Archiving these caused something similar to what killed Illusiat 2002 project to happen. I don't remember what happened when locking/hiding these entries, though. I think when locking them down the goto option would simply not appear when you did an error and hiding them did the same thing than archiving them
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Re: Real Life Nightmares: The stories of what could have been, but will never be
« Reply #19 on: April 29, 2009, 11:47:06 am »
I recently had a close call.  After just finishing the preliminary testing of a new movement routine (which already entailed major changes to the code), I was in the middle of converting the initialization code to accommodate it.  All the changes were in RAM-resident programs.  The new code utilized my String->Matrix ASM program; unfortunately, I accidentally transferred an old buggy version instead of the current one, and you can probably guess what happened next.  I ran Chip's Challenge, but when I got to the title screen I remembered I hadn't backed up, so instead of continuing (the next chunk of code would run that ASM program) I quit and backed-up.  Then I ran it and it crashed on me.

Morals of the story:  Delete or at least label old buggy versions of things, and of course back up major changes.
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Re: Real Life Nightmares: The stories of what could have been, but will never be
« Reply #20 on: April 29, 2009, 07:57:45 pm »
ouch that sucks, glad you could backup in time, and yeah when I send a backup on my PC i usually move the old ones in a different sub folder
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Re: Real Life Nightmares: The stories of what could have been, but will never be
« Reply #21 on: April 29, 2009, 08:22:46 pm »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on April 29, 2009, 07:57:45 pm
ouch that sucks, glad you could backup in time, and yeah when I send a backup on my PC i usually move the old ones in a different sub folder
Right now my backup folder has 18 versions of Chip's Challenge.  They're all dated and have short summaries of the major changes.  Just in case there's a huge mistake that I didn't notice for a while.
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Re: Real Life Nightmares: The stories of what could have been, but will never be
« Reply #22 on: April 29, 2009, 08:24:43 pm »
yeah this is why i keep my old versions too. Once I accidentally sent a old file from my TI-Nspire to my 83+ instead of doing the opposite and it was a good thing that I still had a copy on the PC
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Re: Real Life Nightmares: The stories of what could have been, but will never be
« Reply #23 on: June 01, 2009, 09:03:43 pm »
the programs i have/make arn't usually too big. and i have a habit on writing them down on my note book. * i find it easy to edit on it. cause i can enter side notes and like. do edits easly. and it's like a library of programs XD which is cool
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Re: Real Life Nightmares: The stories of what could have been, but will never be
« Reply #24 on: June 01, 2009, 09:11:35 pm »
good idea... i wish there was a cell phone app... or an IDE that you can type, and make notes on, and even run tests of it without needing to open anything else or load it on to your calculator or an emulator! that would be hot.
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Re: Real Life Nightmares: The stories of what could have been, but will never be
« Reply #25 on: June 01, 2009, 09:40:03 pm »
maybe you should make one.. xD. i don't think you'll expect anymore downloads then the people that actually want it.. (which im guessing.. isn't alot)

Yo DJ. i don't know why.. but i remember ur uh. Reputation level being like 100..Oo". *can u spam Reputation levels?
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Re: Real Life Nightmares: The stories of what could have been, but will never be
« Reply #26 on: June 01, 2009, 11:14:49 pm »
well with the recent incident with zera i don't really feel i really deserve this reputation so I just deleted my positive karma (positive karma data is separate from negative one, btw)
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Re: Real Life Nightmares: The stories of what could have been, but will never be
« Reply #27 on: June 02, 2009, 11:09:26 am »
aww, that's too bad, I'll put you up a bit...
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Re: Real Life Nightmares: The stories of what could have been, but will never be
« Reply #28 on: June 02, 2009, 10:39:16 pm »
Ye.il put you up too.

And uhh. DJ. i think i stole 1st places on lots of games had .. Lols. Sozzy XD
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Re: Real Life Nightmares: The stories of what could have been, but will never be
« Reply #29 on: June 02, 2009, 11:03:01 pm »
Ti-newb do you mind thinking a bit more before you post? I honestly can't understand half your questions.
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