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TI-GCC Library v2.1, AUTOmatix 3D v0.01, Wormy v1.0
Posted by Nick on 27 June 2000, 22:33 GMT

Yesterday found me with innumerable updates and minor tweakings at some other site.
Because of this, here's some belated news!

Sebastian Reichelt, frequently known for correcting the poor German skills of the ticalc.org staff (despite the fact that Chris majors in German), has released a Lotus Turbo Challenge-esque program for the 89 called AUTOmatix 3D v0.01. For those who are concerned, source is also available. This program is in demo form right now, but it should be completed soon. It looks very good, even for being in an early stage.

TI-GCC Library v2.1 by Zeljko Juric is now out. Once again, I got the customary 10 page email from him (hint hint, programmers *g*) outlining, in detail, all the new features. Some of the more notable ones include nine major bugfixes, enhancements to the documentation, and a few minor tweaks to the compiler.

Sam Heald ported Wormy v1.0 to the 82. This is a port of Matt Shepcar's incredibly 31337 game. Aside from the *ahem* cryptic readme, this game is really good. Check it, yo!

 


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AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
EvanMath

Your best is 562? I got 560 on my third game!

     28 June 2000, 01:09 GMT


Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Sebastian Reichelt  Account Info
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Jeah, I got 560, too (20th game, maybe). I wonder if you can go faster than that. I always suck at games, even my own ones. :-) Don't think you can beat me at Lotus III for the PC, though. BTW: That game came out 10 years ago, and I still consider it one of the best games out there. Amazing, isn't it?

     28 June 2000, 01:14 GMT

Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Sebastian Reichelt  Account Info
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Oops, I can't even spell "Yeah" right. It's hard to type right now, because I had to move my monitor right next to the keyboard. I can't even see what I'm typing.

     28 June 2000, 01:23 GMT


Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
JaggedFlame

Well, think of it this way - in Spanish and many other languages I'm sure you're familiar with, the 'j' is pronounced 'y', so technically you didn't do anything wrong... :-)

     28 June 2000, 03:49 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Daniel Bishop  Account Info
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Isn't 'j' pronounced 'h' in Spanish?

     28 June 2000, 16:51 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
JaggedFlame

Yeah, but it's close enough, right?

Or at least it's better than 'jeah'... ;-)

     28 June 2000, 21:54 GMT

Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Amalfi Marini  Account Info

I specially love F-zero(super nintendo), I think it's one of the best games, released 10 years ago too. I think it's more easy/probable to make an F-zero-like game for TI than lotus. What do you think ?

     28 June 2000, 02:20 GMT

Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
DanTheTubaMan  Account Info

What?!? Punchout was the best game ever made! It game out as an arcade game in the early 80's and it was a smash hit! It has you all beat! But it, Punchout for Nintendo, and SUper Punchout for SNES, are the best games I have ever played.

     28 June 2000, 04:48 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Nick Disabato  Account Info
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You are, especially as of late, extremely wrong.
Bubble Bobble was the best game to ever be created.
It's a known scientific fact.

--BlueCalx

     28 June 2000, 06:04 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Robert Xeon Smith
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False. Half-Life was the best game ever created. Anything else is government disinformation. :-D

     28 June 2000, 08:05 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Marcos Lopez  Account Info
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I'm with you. No one like Half-Life.

     29 June 2000, 00:48 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Reno  Account Info

DNA testing proves that Chrono Trigger is the best game ever conceived

     28 June 2000, 08:07 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Jim Ho Account Info
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I agree, Chronotrigger is such a good game considering its on an SNES, yet still tops all the competition. If any of you disagree, you probably havent played it.

Go CHRONOTRIGGER!

     29 June 2000, 21:59 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Kouri  Account Info
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Nope, it was Contra. Then Excite Bike. Make this a poll and we'll find out for sure tho, eh? :)
BTW, I like what you've done with your site, Nick.

     28 June 2000, 09:39 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Nick Disabato  Account Info
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Thanks a lot :)
Sorry I wasn't on AIM this morning: I was asleep and I forgot to turn it off.

--BlueCalx

     28 June 2000, 19:30 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Sean Kinney  Account Info

You totally neglected to mention Final Fantasy III. Not only is it the best RPG there ever was, or ever will be, but it is the best game total. The soundtrack was incredible, particularly during the Opera House, and the characters were very detailed. Tell me you didn't feel for Celes when she lept off the cliff. Setzer and Daryl were also very interesting characters. The story, the music, the characters, even the graphics. All of these lead to final fantasy III being the best game ever created.

     28 June 2000, 14:04 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
AuroraBoriales  Account Info

The soundtrack, you mean the SPC files, that are the dumps of the actual SPC700 music processer of the SNES.

They are the EXTREME fidelety music that is EXACTLY the music of the SNES. Goto www.zophar.net, look for SPC and SPC players. There is a plugin for Winamp(notebly the best MP3 player in the US) that allows it to play SPC's. SPC is WAY BETTER than MIDI, which sometimes dosen't sound a bit like the orig.

BTW, i'm trying to make a SPC player for the 89, the SPC files are only 64k always, so It might be possible to make a player. If it is at all possible with the hardware of a calc.

     28 June 2000, 20:49 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
AuroraBoriales  Account Info

I cur( you know concur, well this is the opposite)

Total Annihilation is the best game ever created. It is way better than Starcraft, Red Aleart, the old CC, Tiberiean Sun, and Warcraft, Warhammer 5000, I could go on. Just give it a try, it is THE BEST game ever created.

     28 June 2000, 20:44 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
SigmaPhi  Account Info

How could you? Bubble Bobble AND Punchout? They are both awesome.....

SigmaPhi

     1 July 2000, 02:35 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Jonas Lööf

Well actually... The best game ever is:
Dungeon Master

     8 July 2000, 13:27 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
EvanMath

GO RIVEN!

     28 June 2000, 18:41 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
MathJMendl  Account Info
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No no no no no no no! SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2 for Sega Genesis!!!!!!!!!! Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles were also pretty kewl. And they almost matched Sonic 2 on NEOGEO Pocket Color with their own copy of Sonic.

     29 June 2000, 01:47 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Nick Disabato  Account Info
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I hated Labyrinth Zone.
What a pain in the rear.

--BlueCalx

     29 June 2000, 06:11 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
MathJMendl  Account Info
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I agree with you that Labyrinth wasn't that great, but wasn't the Casino zone just awesome?

     29 June 2000, 07:27 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Nick Disabato  Account Info
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OH GOD YES!
Man.... now I need a genesis emu and the ROM for Sonic 2.

Anyone willing to oblige?

--BlueCalx

     29 June 2000, 19:26 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
MathJMendl  Account Info
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Well you could use kgen (windows, right?) as the emulator and I do happen to have sonic crackers (sonic 4 beta), sonic 1, sonic 2 beta, sonic 2, sonic 3, sonic and knuckles, sonic spinball, and sonic 3D, all in zip files zipped into a tidy 14.6 meg file that contains all my roms from my rom collecting and emulating days, of which the sonic games are pretty small. =-) If you wanted I could email, aim, or irc any of the files to you. Some people think that you should delete them within 24 hours but since sega doesn't produce genesis (and it's for an educational purpose, right?), I'd say it's fair use.

     30 June 2000, 07:54 GMT

Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Sebastian Reichelt  Account Info
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I don't know, because I don't know F-Zero. I searched in the internet and found a demo, but I couldn't play it. Looked pretty professional, though, unlike Lotus. And I think the simplicity of Lotus is what makes it so addictive. Or maybe it's the two player mode with split screen. I should definitely have that in AUTOmatix, with two people on one calc, or through link play.

     28 June 2000, 04:51 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
akadajet  Account Info
(Web Page)

I pitty he who does not know f-zero.

     28 June 2000, 06:55 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Amalfi Marini  Account Info

F-zero demo? you will never find a demo of that. The easiest way to play F-zero is to download the Super Nintendo emulator(Zsnes), and the F-zero Rom. I think F-zero is as simple as lotus, but the best thing is the "3D effect" of the track(a kind of a special feature made by nintendo).

     28 June 2000, 20:20 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
AuroraBoriales  Account Info

I woudent' say THE super nintendo emulator, ZSNES. Although it is THE BEst, it is not the only. There is also Snes9x, which some people debate to be the best, although it is slower than Zsnes.

There are many more SNES emulaters, such as
Esnes
NLksnes
SNES96
SNES97
just to name a few

Emulaters can be found throught the web, a good ROM site is www.oneminuteleft.com

     28 June 2000, 20:56 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
DWedit  Account Info
(Web Page)

Those emulators listed are DEAD!

ESNES and NlkSnes got mixed into NlkE (or something like that)
SNES96 and SNES97 are merely older versions of Snes9X
You forgot SNEMul, the Nesticle of SNES emulators.

ZSnes is the fastest and best, unless you don't have a PC.

     28 June 2000, 23:17 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Amalfi Marini  Account Info

I only recomended Zsnes. It's obvious is not the only one!!! but it works, very well. Last versions are better than snes9x.

     29 June 2000, 05:18 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
AuroraBoriales  Account Info

I know of some french site called lambda technology, and they claim to be making something called Formula 0,
a mixture of F-Zero and Formula 1. It looks cool, much better than automatrix, i do understand that automatrix is still a demo. Anyways, it's cool. TI-FR constantly mentions it.

     28 June 2000, 20:53 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Sebastian Reichelt  Account Info
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Is the screen shot actually a read one, or a gameboy screenshot? Anyways, that looks really good.

     29 June 2000, 19:51 GMT

Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
CircaX  Account Info
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F-ZeroX is the Best! sure, I like the classic too, but nothing can compete with the sense of speed that X makes WHILE having 29 other racers to compete against!

Still, I'm a racing-game addict at heart.

     28 June 2000, 16:32 GMT


Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
redhick5  Account Info
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ok...4 words: Out-Run, Rad-Racer...some might say thats 2 words but sitll, those are both much better than F-Zero, and I have F-Zero and i think its one of the best games out there, but Rad-Racer's 3d effects (push select and put on some glasses) and OutRun's classic arcade feel are MUCH much better than F-Zero's nice jumps and powerup areas....

     29 June 2000, 19:19 GMT


Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
prabal  Account Info
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where can i find that game. i have been looking all over the abandonware sitez. neways, automatix crashed my 89. i have rom 2.03 w hardware 1... help

     28 June 2000, 08:06 GMT


Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Sebastian Reichelt  Account Info
(Web Page)

I need to know what shell you are using.

     28 June 2000, 12:53 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
YesMan  Account Info

I dont know about him, but I am using unios. I have rom 2.04. Every one of my progs and games work, except for AUTOmatix 3D. It shows the road and then freezes. By the way, I didn't upgrade to 2.04 by accident. It is much better than the others, especially 1.0x.

     28 June 2000, 18:43 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Amalfi Marini  Account Info

It doesn't crash!! You have to press the up-arrow key to accelerate, but wait a while because is very very slow.

     28 June 2000, 20:22 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Amalfi Marini  Account Info

I should say "it starts moving very slowly" because the game is very fast

     28 June 2000, 20:30 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
YesMan  Account Info

Oh i didn't realize this. It works now. Not that it didn't work before. Thanks.

     28 June 2000, 21:06 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: AUTOmatix 3D v0.01 high score
Sebastian Reichelt  Account Info
(Web Page)

If all else fails, read the doc. :-) 2nd+Esc exits. I might change that back to just Esc in the next version, now that I know why the program always quit unexpectedly.

     29 June 2000, 02:10 GMT

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