So buckeye has been MIA for a while, presumably with school. Using wabbit I ran into some bugs with it that needed fixing and decided I might as well fork it and start picking up the maintenance and development of Wabbitemu.

That being said:

http://wabbit.keepdream.in
You can find current builds here.
Release Builds will be faster then the debug builds.

Changes so far:

*Added version info the the help about screen.
*Fixed some issues with the debugger and port 27 and 28
*fixed some other non issue bugs (bad usb port initializations and stuff)

Changes wanted but in planning:

*Remove bootfree support (sorry its just not legal to me)
*Replace com setup with a proper scripting language support
*Optimize lcd handling for color screens (this is not going to be easy )

Feature requests and bug reports here. As well as on the bit bucket tracker, Located here

Any questions on how wabbit handles things I will also gladly look into and let you know.

Last Wednesday, Cemetech Contest #12 drew to a close. For this contest, entries were restricted to TI-83 Plus, TI-84 Plus, and TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition programs, yet we still had close to a dozen community members come up with creative projects. We received seven entries by the Contest #12 deadline: four assembly programs and three TI-BASIC programs; three TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition-compatible programs, and five TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus-compatible programs. All seven showed the ingenuity and inventiveness we expect from Cemetech members, and all seven met the requirement of teaching users or students something concrete in their program. Many of the entries included some form of quiz or game to test students' knowledge, and many also included reference information or tutorials for students to learn from. I'll first introduce the non-winning but still admirable entries, and conclude with the winners.

• Basic Handbook: This z80 ASM program makes use of the Doors CS GUI routines to present lessons on the fundamentals of TI-BASIC. At present, it teaches a simple "Hello, World" example plus a few additional commands.
• Bit Manipulation: A much-needed tutorial on bitmath by pyrotechnic, written in z80 ASM for z80 ASM programmers. It's a work-in-progress that currently teaches boolean logic commands and z80 ASM bitmath operators, and has extensive documentation on its plans for a quiz mode.
• Survival: Newcomer APotato submitted this TI-84+CSE TI-BASIC game inspired by Darwinian evolution and the principle of "survival of the fittest". It includes several minigames of chance and skill that determine if the player's hypothetical species thrives or perishes.
• CBCRTR: An electronic circuit builder and simulator by 16aroth6 that also teaches the basics of electronics. The main missing piece is the simulator component, which should bring this already capable learning tool to the next level.

We'd also like to tip a judicial hat to ordelore for his unfinished, unsubmitted entry "Earth Impact", a port of the STEM Behind Hollywood activity of the same name. Although ordelore will be unable to work further on the entry, he has sent his code to a few community members to hopefully complete.

And now, our third, second, and first place winners, in that order. Our prizes include three calculators: a TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition, a TI-Nspire CX, and an overclocked TI-83 Plus Silver Edition. We again thank our anonymous donor for the two new color-screen calculators.

• In third place, Element Teacher by CalcGuy123 teaches information like name, symbol, atomic mass, and more for elements on the periodic table, then quizzes students on what they learned. It earned high marks for including a wealth of useful information, and with a small bit of additional polishing should be ready for Chemistry students everywhere.
• Second place went to geekboy1011 for Resistor Calculator, a color z80 ASM program for the TI-84+CSE that translates resistor color codes to resistance values and also offers reference materials for electrical engineers. Geekboy1011 earned particular recognition from the judges for showing consistent effort and progress on his project in his contest topic throughout the competition.
• Matrefeytontias wins first place for A Whole New Perspective, a sprawling z80 ASM project that teaches 3D programming. Matrefeytontias has produced a number of impressive 3D projects in Axe and assembly in the past, and has shared his experiences in an easy-to-understand format with this interactive tutorial.

To all our contestants and winners, congratulations! Please PM me your mailing address, and we'll get your prizes to you soon. If you feel like eventually posting up photos of your prizes and/or what you plan to do with them, we certainly won't complain. Since all contestants have uploaded their entries to the Cemetech Archives, we ask that you notify us if you don't want us to accept the upload. Most importantly, if your entry is unfinished, please finish it as soon as possible and publish it to help underscore the value of programming for creating educational calculator programs! If you didn't win, then keep your eyes open for Cemetech Contest #13 starting this fall, which will have more TI-84+CSEs and TI-Nspire CXs as prizes and for which we have a few extra surprises in store.






Left to right: "A Whole New Perspective", "Resistor Calculator", and "Element Teacher"
[source: http://cemete.ch/p223089#223089]

Back in 2004 DJ Omnimaga released his grayscale BASIC RPG "Reuben Quest: Ev Awakening". Just a bit of time ago now member Sorunome finished his port of the game to the AXE Parser Language. This port of the game is a Single Page Application + a few archived data files in size. This means it requires less then half the space of the original to run! This port also works on the original 83+ which the original did not!

So get ready to play as Rueben and fight evil monsters, solve some puzzles, and save the island!
    Download the game on ticalc.org

Back in February, Cemetech reported on the promotion of the previous Executive Director of Worldwide Marketing & Product Strategy, Peter Balyta, to president of TI Education. At T^3 2014 in Las Vegas, we had several opportunities to interact with Dr. Balyta, and he reiterated his mission to work with the community as well as to encourage programming wherever it intersects with and enhances TI's mission. Dr. Balyta generously spoke to me(Kerm Martian) this past Friday, answering questions about the present and future of TI's technology, its role in promoting programming and STEM, and his thoughts on the calculator enthusiast community. I was very pleased with what he had to say, and the fact that the following 4,000-word transcript is an edited and abridged version of our conversation (!) should belie the depth of our discussion.

If you lack the time or patience to read the full interview, a few important quotes are worth your time. For example:

Over the last few years, as I've been more involved in product strategy and then going into worldwide marketing, I've worked hard to help the organization see that the community can really help us, and that we need to work more closely with the community along the positive lines I've discussed with you, adding value to the products, and I believe that that far outweighs the negatives. Most of the people in the community want to innovate, they want to improve their programming skills, they're very competitive people, and the vast majority is working on positive innovation. Those are the initiatives that we're excited about.

[W]hat you guys do is extremely valuable as well, whether it's programming or just showing what's possible. I refer to it as "extending the capability" of our platforms. That is very helpful for us to see what else can be done today and what should we be thinking about tomorrow. While I can't comment specifically on any roadmap plans and especially not what the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition will look like in the future, what I said earlier, that there's an important customer base there, it's one of our two hero product lines, and we're committed to improving the customer experience, and in my mind that includes performance going into the future.

In some parts of the world, programming as part of STEM regardless of whether TI is involved is really taking off, and I'm happy to see that. We're partnering more and more with folks to have kids start programming early on, knowing that all kids could have a platform for programming right there in their hands. They can do it in schools, they can do it at home, on the bus, waiting for lacrosse or soccer, and we're seeing that take off in parts of the world, for example in France. The TI-89 and now the TI-Nspire CAS platform is really taking off as a programming platform, and we try to encourage that wherever we see it. We're starting to see some of that here, and we're excited to recognize that. If you have ideas on how we can encourage that more, let me know.

Dr. Balyta spoke at length about TI's educational mission with its graphing calculators, including the classroom material and activities and professional development that it offers. We touched on the ever-popular STEM Behind Hollywood program, including whether that program might feasibly find a home on the TI-84+CSE. Perhaps most importantly to the community, Dr. Balyta discussed his views on the value of the community to TI (and vice versa), and how we can continue to build a close positive relationship in the future. I thank Dr. Balyta once again for his time, and I'll look forward to continuing to liaise between Cemetech, the community, and TI Education in the future on the behalf of our many skilled and passionate programmers, students, and teachers.

A link to the full article on Cemetech can be found Here

So over the last couple weeks I have been working on a small side project that will be being used in an upcoming project of Iambian's and mine. This project is a Text Subsystem that would be used in an RPG.

Features
* Arbitrary Bounding Box
* 5xW Font (Borrowed with permission from DCS)
* Customizable Corners
* Word Wrapping
* Character  Wrapping
* Post processing Effect (see next list)
* Supporting Routines

Post Processors
* Italics
* Mirror
* Flip
* Inverse
* Underline

It comes with a host of supporting routines to make interfacing with it easier for the end coder

Routines
* NewLine
* HomeUp
* SetFulScreen
* SetBoundsStack

The program is interfaced with 2 Main routines these are DrawBox And PutStr. PutStr Puts the null terminated string pointed to by hd inside the bounded box that has been defined. DrawBox Draws the visual Box around the Text and takes the corner style in A.

The PutStr Routine supports inline modifiers for the text output that is supplemented via a macro.
Mod(Italics,Underline,Flip,Mirror,Inverse,WordWrap) OR any combination of the settings. Which makes adding effects to strings rather easy.

Ok enough Jargon Lets put some examples and screenies

.db "Welcome to Cemetech",CrlF,Mod(Italics,Underline),"LTTFW",0


.db "This Is right up",CrLf,Mod(Mirror,Flip),"This is not!",0


.db Mod(Inverse),"White",Mod(Clear),"Black",Mod(Inverse),"White",Mod(Clear),"Black",0.db Mod(Inverse),"White",Mod(Clear)," Black",Mod(Inverse),"White",Mod(Clear)," Black",0


Its' Word Wrapping is rather robust.


And it supports style changes by changing a byte in ram


Why is there no release? Because this is just a showing of it so far I have to polish some of the code and make some changes to make it so when compiled with a DCS program you don't have to include the entire DCS font map and other things. (saves a few hundred bytes worth of data!)

So thoughts and suggestions/Things you would like to see?

We released an update! Please read below!
UPDATE (3/5 @ 3:40 PM):

Hey guys! This is alberthrocks, your friendly invisible CoT! A couple things to clarify:

• This is technically Omnimaga v2.0, big upgrade. No kidding, we did a super big upgrade, which is no small feat!
• That said, the upgrade is a WIP. Call it Omnimaga v2.0 SUPER ALPHA ALPHA ALPHA. Consider the website in alpha right now, with tons of bugs and problems at the moment. We're actively working to fix all of them, but for now, we ask that you bear with us during the upgrade. To repeat, the upgrade is not complete yet!
• The old theme WILL be back - we've planned this from the start. This is just a temporary theme that we'll continue to tweak to make better until upgrades are complete. Once done, we'll begin working on porting the older theme to v2.0, and bring it back eventually. You'll have the option to pick the current new theme or the old theme once the upgrade is done.
• We upgraded to protect you from hacking! The reason why we are upgrading this fast is because we were running on an older, unsupported version of SMF. For you guys, that means spambots, super prone to hacking attempts, etc. (Some bots even managed to start going through accounts and steal personal info, like your email!) We upgraded to stop that from happening, as we believe that's really important to protect!
• Help us help you! Please report issues using this form, not here! We want to make this upgrade a success, so please report issues there! Reporting it on that form helps us more than posting about it here!
• Finally, please stay put as we work through this - don't harass/complain/etc. until we announce that we're done! We know there are issues, so please use this form to report it! We're working around the clock to fix it, and we'd appreciate if you tell us about the problem! Once we get out of alpha, we'll open up for changes and such. For now, to keep our admins sane, please use the form to tell us about issues and hold tight till its done!

Thanks for reading!
-alberthrocks

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As many of you know we have been painstakingly working on upgrading smf and we are finally ready to move. You all should have received this mail

Hi everybody!

So as some of you might know, Omnimaga has long been waiting on an upgrade to SMF2. This upgrade has been in the works for a while and very shortly, the site will be migrated over to SMF2 for everybody to use. This means that there will be a lot of changes, some of which you might not be happy about. There will be a lot of new features, but there will also be some features that either go away for good, or are temporarily gone until we implement them all. For a list of what we know will be broken look here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HeBItJBoBIix_ErZa7wg1UInyLSAVWZ5XRwR3AjC8_Q/pub

Omnimaga has had a downloads section for a long time, but with the upgrade to SMF2 the mod we are using for it will no longer work. The downloads section isn't going completely away though, it will remain in the read only form that was recently introduced on http://www.omnimaga.org/files/. If you want to update files you have in the downloads section after the upgrade, please email the admins with a request.

The old themes will temporarily be unavailable for use and everybody will be stuck with a new theme that is still in the works, but is usable. This new theme will eventually be flushed out better, and the old themes will be ported to the new version of SMF. The current theme is a Work in progress

During the transition to SMF2, the forum will be disabled for a period of up to an hour. When this happens, keep an eye on IRC or our facebook or twitter accounts for updates on the situation.

On behalf of the Omnimaga admins,
Nathaniel "Eeems" van Diepen

The down time will start soon and the site will be on maintenance till it is done. The changes will be different but it will be worth it.


EDIT:

New site is live welcome to SMF 2!!!! Hope you all like what is to come changes and all!
Regards,
The Omnimaga team

Ok Omnimaga, your turn to join in on the contest! Linked is a google document and a dropbox link to the games! Please go to it and cast your vote!


Now the current rankings!

Asm/Axe:
1st Place : Tip Over
2nd Place: PiKo PiKo
3rd Place : Jezzball

Basic:
1st Place : Plot+
2nd Place : Binary Puzzle
3rd Place : Toy Wars

The contest Entries!

Voting will end December 13th at 11:59PM. Any votes submitted after that will be ignored!

Also: To the Contestants wishing to release their programs to compete in POTY 2013, you can do so now. All programs can be released as you see fit! Sorry for the delay!