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TI 68K / Ultima V: General Discussion
« on: September 02, 2007, 01:37:00 pm »

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Ahoy matey! Keep a good lookout for whirlpools. B)cool.gif

Whirlpools can suck a ship under and kill the entire party. If your frigate is in tip-top shape, it may be able to survive the event -- I wouldn't chance it though. ;)wink.gif

I've also heard a rumor of a ship being sucked into a dark underground cavern. Meh... I never listen to rumors. :ninja:ninja.gif


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News / Harrierfalcon joins the club
« on: September 02, 2007, 12:46:00 pm »
Welcome aboard!  :thumbup:google.gif

Now get to work! :Ptongue.gif

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TI 68K / Doom89!
« on: September 02, 2007, 05:34:00 am »
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QUOTE (AaroneusTheGreat @ 2 Sep, 2007, 10:13)
A pendrive or a smart drive (a usb mass storage device) goes for pretty cheap now. You can get a 1GB smart drive for no more than $6-$80 dollars and often cheaper with rebates and such.

I just saw an 8GB USB drive at Fry's for $79. O_Oshocked2.gif

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QUOTE (AaroneusTheGreat @ 2 Sep, 2007, 10:13)
Ranman saves the day! I would have never thought to unplug the bios jumpers and the video card, plug everything back in and start it up.

My computer lives!!! Muhahahaha.
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TI Z80 / HACC
« on: August 31, 2007, 03:31:00 pm »
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QUOTE (Halifax @ 31 Aug, 2007, 21:16)
Woah woah, now you are talking about killing the face of C, and breaking a bunch of source trees.

Okay... I agree with you on 'const'. :Ptongue.gif But, a compiler could be designed to treat program constants as "implied" constants.

I agree with your point on 'goto' as well, but then you will have to implement labels -- which is something else that could be left out. :Ptongue.gif

But I'm not killing the face of C... because I prefaced my statements by saying you could implement a "Small C" -- suggesting a subset of C. Removing everything I stated will still compile with a standard C compiler -- while reducing complexity of the compiler. ;)wink.gif


These are just suggestions... take them for what they are worth. :)smile.gif


I always thought it would be cool to have a complete programming language as minimal as possible. C is pretty close to that, but it still has a few redundant and unnecessary things. :)smile.gif

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TI Z80 / HACC
« on: August 31, 2007, 03:07:00 pm »
You could also leave out the following C commands:

- do/while (redundant with 'for' loops)
- switch/case (redundant with 'if/else')
- goto (bad programming practice)


The following C types are not absolutely necessary either:

- register (you probably don't have enough registers to spare)
- auto (I have never even seen this used)
- union
- const
- and bitfields (redundant with shifting & masking)

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TI Z80 / HACC
« on: August 31, 2007, 02:46:00 pm »
QuoteBegin-Halifax+31 Aug, 2007, 20:32-->
QUOTE (Halifax @ 31 Aug, 2007, 20:32)
Nah I don't think I am going to take out anything really from the C language, except maybe from the preprocessor.

Actually, I was thinking about limiting things for the Z80 implementation such as:

- floats & double floats
- variable number of arguments (ex. printf() )
- possibly consider leaving out 32 bit integers

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News / Omnimaga 6th anniversary
« on: August 31, 2007, 02:06:00 pm »
Now that was a super cool & super nice thing to do! (hmmm... that sounded corny)

Happy birthday Omnimaga! :gift:party3.gif

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TI Z80 / HACC
« on: August 31, 2007, 02:01:00 pm »
If you define some rules and/or limitations (something like Small C), then your C compiler implementation complexity will decrease substantially. ;)wink.gif

Now... what are those darned rules/limitations? :gah:fou.gif

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News / Lord Of The Rings revived
« on: August 31, 2007, 01:51:00 pm »
Wow! O_Oshocked2.gif This is very nice looking!  :)smile.gif

Keep up the great work!

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News / 4 Casio RPGs added
« on: August 31, 2007, 01:48:00 pm »
Stop enticing me to switch to Casio. %)rolleyes2.gif:Ptongue.gif

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Casio PRIZM / MLC being developed for fx-9860G
« on: August 20, 2007, 05:29:00 am »
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QUOTE (DJ Omnimaga @ 20 Aug, 2007, 11:01)
Idk he doesn't post much anymore anywhere and he didnt posted any progress beforehand  

 Hmmm... The last update I read (I think) was back in January of this year.

Hopefully it is not dead. If so, maybe someone could pick up where he left off. I think it would be a great idea to be able to merge the communities again.

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Casio PRIZM / MLC being developed for fx-9860G
« on: August 20, 2007, 02:32:00 am »
Is bfr still working on the 86 and/or 68K port? I haven't heard anything in a long time.

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Gaming Discussion / the ultimate l33t
« on: August 19, 2007, 01:34:00 pm »
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QUOTE (spengo @ 19 Aug, 2007, 19:19)
Ho ho... yes well I've beat this game waayy to many times already. =) Now I'm just messing around with it.  

 Go for it! Sounds like fun!

I was just joking before.  ;)wink.gif

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Gaming Discussion / the ultimate l33t
« on: August 19, 2007, 01:10:00 pm »
Hey... That's cheating. :Ptongue.gif

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Casio PRIZM / MLC being developed for fx-9860G
« on: August 18, 2007, 08:27:00 pm »
Hmmmm...

This sounds interesting. %)rolleyes2.gif

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