I wish I still had my 89!

(anyone wanna fix up Galaxian 83 to get it this good?)

This is one AWESOME game!

(btw, FIRST COMMENT!)

You don't have first comment (boy am I getting tired of saying this - doesn't it say in the rules that you can't say first comment?)...

DOH!

It said zero coments when I posted this...

Wow, at least 5 people think that they got a first comment, that is funny!

<joke>
One of my proposals to the staff was to have an elaborate AI script analyze comments for people who /thought/ they got first comment, but really didn't.

It would then send emails to the appropriate people with the following:

<email>
Yousuxbad!

Warmest regards,
the ticalc.org project
</email>

It was shot down :(
</joke>

--BlueCalx

Form the informal Ticalc.org Comment Gestapo and have them email all who claim first post telling them how dumb they are. Then, Echelon them 'till they go away!

Verbing weirds language.

--BlueCalx

You quote Calvin! Another reader of quality literature!

Mark Hazard

You know, it wouldn't take an elaborate script at all. Just a few lines of Perl or PHP.

But the problem is if somebody said "I'm tired of 'first comment posts' the program would delete the person's comment thinking that they had a first comment boast.

amicek

true, but if most people said that, would they really care that the post got deleted?

now, if they had something important to say about, say, assembly, and said "the first comment in the assembly source program on my website shows how to...", THAT would be a problem.

I wish first comment posts would be deleted; one time, though, for the Lotus 86/Teos/Bomberman news item, I put "lotus 86....sweet" as my comment, and it got deleted too :P

Well, I'm the only one who's posting time is actually tied with the time of the comment listed fist. :P

I think it'd be funny to post "first comment" comments on day-old topics, just to irritate people... But then, I have a strange sense of humor. And it violates TI-Calc policies.

-Kevin

(commenting on the previous version, but apparently what i'll say is still the same)

I like the game, I liked it since I saw it. But it's kind of short. Despite all the weapons you have, it's quite short. Galaxian for the 83 was a lot longer a lot funnier because of that. And more interessting graphics to. I mean, driving an M? Please... :) And the ships exit formation to atack you in galaxian, which is great, well, it's just not as repetitive as Phoenix... I'll be puting it on calc tonight, though.
And, people, neither of you got first post and we are all laughing at you, so stop it.

Cd_Slayer

it looks more like a w to me :P

no no no its a drunk capital Sigma that fell off the barstool...

This is correct. Maybe omega symbols for another game...

Play a little longer...it's not as repetitive, plus the ships *DO* exit formation to attack you, plus turn on some weird evasive action while shooting innumerable bullets at you. It's quite fun. Plus I don't see how you can compare Galaxian to this game at all. Besides the same game type, that is. You can buy stuff to upgrade your ship in this game. You ROCK Patrick Davidson!!!

~ferich

Then the game would be called Galaxian , not Phoenix.
anyway, the graphics can be improved. But I was thinking in my old Atari 2600, and I remembered that phoenix was a little different. This phoenix for TI89 is a mixing of space invaders or something like that.What do you think?

well, I finally tested the game with my HW1 ams2.03 calc, I got the same bugs that other people got, but the game is great, just when the triangles come to attack me, I said "yes, it's a good game".Very fast and playable. I like it. YES, it's like phoenix, but in the Atari 2600 the graphics were diferents,not triangles, but animals, like eagles, and robots(?).