Tonight marks the slow return of my calculator games to ticalc.org archives.
As some of you might remember or have heard about, Omnimaga community went through hard times in 2006 and 2007, due to rivalry with some other community members who were banned for trolling, who wanted to tarnish Omnimaga reputation (they saw troll banning as an attack against freedom of speech and a form of dictatorship, thus, tried to discourage new TI community members from signing up and encourage established members to leave). In late 2007, I promised that if they ever successfully triggered Omnimaga demise, I would also pull all my contributions from ticalc.org. At this point, I felt that after everything I done for the TI community, both programming-wise and by providing a site like Omnimaga, I did not deserve to be treated this way, and since most of the active members back then seemed on the haters side and that there was a general hate towards large games, I felt the community no longer deserved my files.
Then came New Year 2008, and the same day, Omnimaga demise, at a point where it seemed the entire Omnimaga staff turned against us. The same night, I sent a file deletion request at ticalc.org. It was awnsered on April 23rd 2008, then all my calc files were gone from ticalc.org archives. Only the news articles featuring ROL3, Zelda DLQ, Reuben Quest, XXR and Metroid II remains.
Here is what my ticalc profile looked like a few months before dissapearing:
http://web.archive.org/web/20071227065648/http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/authors/78/7864.htmlThat day, I promised myself that my files would only return in ticalc.org archives once the damages caused to Omnimaga from 2006 to 2008 would be repaired: the old Omnimaga board database would have to be restored and if Omnimaga ever resurrected, its activity would need to be back to the 2006 or late 2007 levels.
Finally, the damages caused to Omnimaga were not repaired, but they were patched, patched so well that in the end, Omnimaga became a better thing than it was back in the days. In other words, if anybody wanted Omnimaga to die, he shot himself in the foot: in long term, it simply backfired. Now Omnimaga has higher activity than the old site ever had, even if the total community activity is still half what it was years ago, 3 times more active members and is friendlier.
That and the fact the TI community seems to be more together again instead of against each others like back then finally convinced me to put my files back up on ticalc.org.
Technically, I was supposed to start reuploading everything two weeks ago, but then the Will_W incidents occured, followed later with a spam attack on the site, then a few other stuff. So I told myself they would wait one more week or two. Now it's time for me to reupload my stuff.
So tonight, the uploading has started: Axe Tunnel v1.1 was uploaded there. This update comes with a Ion, Mirage, Doors and no-stub copy of the game and a few other changes.
In a few days, I will also upload some of my old RPGs there. This time, Illusiat series will be separated by games instead of being uploaded in one zip file. I am not sure if all my games will be included, though, since some are kinda crappy.
Especially since the initiative about starting #ti channel, and what I've seen there so far, I feel the TI community in general has become more sane than it was back in 2006-08, even if activity, after reaching a bottom low in 2008, still hasn't come back to at least 2007 levels.
