Remember the days when the work needed to make a video game was emmence?  Development teams were somewhat small, programming had to be done in ASM, and of course the consoles themselves were limited.  And yet people these days still love playing those games!  (I myself love the original Metroid.)

With huge development teams and C++, I personally would love to see games made in similar style to the old games, but longer.  Sure, we can vamp up the graphics, but so much time spent on game gimmicks, extra animations and special moves could be spent on extending the gameplay time of the basics.  Any comments on what it would be like if, for example, a year-long period was used to make Metroid with modern colors and looks but NES engine, graphics and gameplay to allow enough time to make a 600-hour long game?

Hello all,

As you know, our biggest goal in Omnimaga is community.  The only way we are going to have community is by respect for each other.  That does mean that if one person is bothered by something reasonable (for example bothered by something other than being banned for an action he deserved) we need to change our actions around that particular person.  Our community is going to hurt if this is not a habit of ours.

I had a friend in my early years of college--not a girlfriend, but a girl friend, if you will.  Unfortunately, even though I knew how upset she was at my teasing her, I kept on going.  Why?  Because nobody else was bothered by how I teased them, so why should she be any different?  She lost it and our friendship broke up, my loss.

"Our community goal is to provide a discussion environment free of any hostility for ALL coders," and so we don't want to lose somebody on the site because he or she feels threatened.  As a poor example, I know that I do not liked hearing the work F**K for instance.  Now, if there were two friends using that word all the time, and I am not involved in the conversation, I shouldn't try to stop it.  It's none of my business.  But I would leave the website if people pointed that word at me all the time

So guys, if there's only one person who doesn't like what you are doing, don't do it directly towards him, even though your other friends are okay when they are involved.  If only one person hates negative critism, don't give him any no matter how many other people like all forms of criticism.  Not knowing what a person doesn't like is reasonable, but we have no excuse once we gain knowledge of a member's personality.

Does anyone know of a good, FREE screen recording software package for stuff like youtube?  One of my friends wants to create a video tutorial for Correlation

As many of you know, Correlation is coming out for testing in about a month.  If there are any Java programmers who would like to write a simple, but much-needed application, it would be greatly appreciated.

There are two options available.  It will be "one-or-the-other", since I will not need both.

1. Easier: Create an application where a user can paste text.  The application will alter the text by turning it backwards, and then skipping every 5th, 6th, and sometimes 7th/8th character.  The new text will be available for the user to copy and paste.
2. Create a Correlation Font Compiler.  I wrote one, but it requires .NET, and I am concerned about cross-platforming and all.  I will have the exact .8xp file format provided, so all you would need to do is create the code to accept user values and write an .8xp file.

Thanks for any help!

When you come onto this website, what is the thing you enjoy the most, whether you are thinking about it, talking about it or recieving it?

For example, from what I remember, Iambian likes cherries, Raylin likes squirrel ninjas, and DJ Omnimaga likes lobsters.

For me, it's lobsters.

If the trace hook is on, is there any code that will keep tracing from happening whenever Trace is using inside of a Ti-Basic program?  I have a very important use for Trace that cannot make use of the parser hook

By the way, it's hook $9BA8

How do I find out for sure where a string is located after being parsed?  For example, Text(1,1, "AAAAA")--how do I know where in RAM AAAAA is?  I can't help thinking it has to do with OP1, but I'm not positive