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I think that if Silent Fury were to add "ly" to his last name it would be an old Metroid code.

The one where you get to see Samus without her spify suit. Just a thought.

-dabud15

p.s.
I accidently left my calculator at school over the weekend. Doh! I tried putting the CD in the computer and it says my computer must have, like, 3m of Virtual memory free. What the heck does that mean?

Am I the only person who types "like" in the sentence, when they would say it in "real-life"?

I'm thinking about making a metroid game sometime in the distant future. Anybody wanna help?

stickboy

to disappoint you, but one is already being made (in asm) by Joe P, who made Phantom Star and some other stuff. Looks veeery nice, too :) The URL is to a scroller engine screenshot. Go to Maxcoderz.com for full info.

Like, what are you trying to so? I mean, like, I don't say, like, like that much, and if you are like, railing on me, just because, like, I say "Like", well that's just, like, not fair, I mean, like, don't be, like, so un-feeling. ;)

Gerhalt

P.S. Sounds like a bunch of teenage girls discussing make-up doesn't it? I put a long sentence, and the word "Like" together. Not a good combination!

I only use "like" when I intend to use sarcasm, or if I don't know what I'm talking about.

My cat's breath smells like cat food.

Hey....I just figured out how to stop all traffic for a week on this site. No one's said anything ever since I've posted that last note.

Yup that must be the secret code. I know it's not just coincidence, so WHO TOLD YOU?!?! Of course, you do realize, now that it has been publicized, THEY have created a new code...
btw, I just watched the Matrix... AGAIN. <beep>, that movies is AWESOME.

lol, pardon my grammar; i meant "that MOVIE is awesome"... Can't wait for the reloaded to come out... (6 days and counting...)

Hey gerhalt, can you remember when (what year) you signed up for your account on this site? I can't remember, and I want to know, and our UserIDs are pretty close... Just wondered...

could you just go back in the pages and look for your very first post? Look at the date on it?

No,
1) I have NO idea where I made my first post, and
2) I'm not even sure I posted anything until a while after I joined.

Hmmm, I don't remember, But I imagine in 2001. I am pretty sure it wasn't '02, I think probably the first half of '01 I got it. Didn't start programming for a while, but I did sign up here after I got the link with the cd. Well, tried to help ya!

Gerhalt

P.S. My ID no. is around 400 below yours :p

WELL then, Mr... ummm... never mind.

I don't see a little icon next to your name. What's with that?

There's a box you can check in acct prefs if you don't want your info to be publicly available by putting the little button by your name. I guess you do that if you don't want anybody to know your name or e-mail or something. But I know his name, because he emailed me... Unless ***** is his dad's name, but probably not...

I'm Working on the website. I'll send you guys updates every week for your input. Gotta Go!

Okay, just to get everything straight about the group: There are going to be four members: Me (silent_fury), Reggie (stickboy?), Josh (Gerhalt), and Jesse (calcprgrmer); and Jesse's making the website. Correct? Just trying to make sure there are no misconceptions on my or anybody else's part.

Yep everthing sound right to me. I might have some others that want to join later though.

I just remembered: Nick S. (whoever he is; I don't know) was wanting to be in from the beginning; I remember on the StarCraft thread he said: "Let's start a group and make that one of the projects" I dunno...

Never mind; that was stickboy. Nick S. was the one who started the SC thread, though...

I'm Nick S
(Nicholas Sprenger)
I'm learning Z80 ASM
Can I be in the group?
my email
sthemutater@aol.com

Stickboy, Gerhalt, and Silent Fury; can each of you send me your bios (Programming Languages, Calcs Owned, Interests, etc.). I will add this to a staff page when I get them. Also could you guys send any program images of upcoming programs for the calc and a description, I can add more to the site. By the way, do any of you know of any free domains with little advertising. The only one I can find is Geocities. It's good, but there isn't very much space, so we would have to limit the archive space to 2-4 mbs a piece depending on new members.

One solution to the space problem would be not to actually have the programs we make on the page; instead just do what benryves does and have the download link point to ticalc.org. A small drawback is that we'd have to wait for them to actually upload it to ticalc, but that seems to happen pretty fast nowadays...

Good Idea!

BTW, what is your email 'Silent Fury'? I've tried sending emails to you at the one listed on this site, but it doesn't seem to work. It might be a good idea to create on with yahoo or hotmail with your nickname (i.e. silentfury or silentfury03 etc)

Jesse

I'll get a bio to you as soon as I can.

stickboy

my bio is sent; i'll send the project stuff later when i get more time

What If We got ticalc.org to host our site. Whatta ya guys thinks of that? No advertising, 20 mbs of free space. email forewarding. Just wanted to know what ya thought

They haven't restarted hosting yet. That's kinda frozen right now, along with reviews and other stuff. Eventually, though, that would be awesome.

Hey, guys, incase you didn't read my e-mails carefully, I was on vacation, so that's why I wasn't answering. Anyway, I'm back now. Vacation was cool, but I missed you guys. I had fun (And got an X-box!). Well, gotta go. Just thought I'd let you know!

Gerhalt

And we all know that the X-Box isn't going to distract you from your duties as a Sonic Studios member, right? ...Otherwise we'll have to demand that you get rid of it ;) j/k

No way! My parents have a set amount of time I can play (The computer or X-Box), so the answer is no. On a side note, I live close to their headquarters in Redmond. Anyway, get the site up, and I'm happy to help. :)

Gerhalt

Two questions:
1) How in the world did you get an X-Box over vacation?
2) What games do you have?

I live in Washington state, which has an 8.8% sales tax. We took a vacation down to Oregon, which has no sales tax but they do have income tex. So, I saved about $18 bucks. Also, I bought the pack from Costco (X-Box, JSRF and Sega GT2002). It cost about $220. That's why I bought it on vacation. Well, my brother and I did. We had to pay for it tho. Anyway, we have those 2 games, and we ARE going to get MechAssault, and hopefully Halo if we can convince our parents to let us get it, since it is rated "M". The only other "M" game I have is Half-Life. He probably will let us anyway. Oh well, that's about it. Hopefully we can get a Forum up on our site so we can post without cluttering up this area.

Gerhalt

Eh, don't worry; all we have to do is (as soon as the site's up) send an anonymous message to michael vincent that there's been an incredible amount of offtopic posts on these few pages, and he'll come and wipe 'em all out. Of course, now that I made this post, that might not work, but oh well.

He won't read that, lol. He just deletes it from first glance. I hope... ;)

Gerhalt

Gerhalt and Stickboy, I need your bios [above]. By the way, Kevin Cackler (I think that's how it's spelt), offered to host our site for free, along with giving us 5 free email adresses. 100 mb, 2 GB bandwidth, etc. All he asks is to have a link to his website on ours. His site is above. This will make it possible for message boards, "Chatting", etc. I'm waiting on Gerhalt's and Stickboy's bios, then I'll post it, until then, I'm making it better.

BTW, Silent_Fury, how did you make simcity's sprites without using Omnicalc?

Jesse

Ummm... I'm assuming you're talking about the basic one, since you're talking about Omnicalc (I'm working on an asm version right now, also). Anyway, here's how it works:
I wrote a mini-program that scans an 8x8 block in the upper left corner (0,0) and spits out a list with every point that was turned on in the sprite on it. {x,y,x,y,x,y...} These were stored in prgmZZDATA1, which has the following format:

:If X=1
:{0,0,0,2,0,4,0... (not stored to anything
:If X=2
:{0,0,0,2,0,4,0...
...etc...
:{0,5,8,4,2,4,0...
:Return

When prgmZZSPRITE is run,

Ans->L1
L1(1->X
L1(2->S
L1(3->T
If X>12
Goto RD *
prgmZZDATA1
Ans->LSPR
For(U,1,dim(LSPR)-1,2
Pxl-Change(LSPR(U)+S,LSPR(U+1)+T
End
Return
*Roads are drawn w/ a seperate algorithm that uses lines

...Well, you can figure it out.

And if you meant the asm one, well, it's a little too long to post here ;)

Whoa, that is a NICE site!!! Better looking than ticalc.org! (If that's any standard to go by... ;)Ahem... Anyway, good deal on the website. Good luck with it.

btw, how'd the logo turn out? (y'know, the bullet ripping through the letters) I thought it would be pretty hard, so I'm just wondering.

I couldn't add those cool effects, I basically kept it the same as the attachment I sent, but made it larger. I need all of you to send me or kevin crackler an email with your email@nexusprograms.net and your passwords. Make sure if you send it to Kevin, You use Sonicstudios Email as the Subject.

BTW, I still need your bios

Gotta run, Jesse

Password(s)?