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(May 25) 🦠 Delays...

Just when things finally start turning around, things turn again. I don't think I need to explain why. I've been rather busy lately, but June will see things slow to a stop and "hobby work" can resume. I don't have much else to say right now; I'll say more when I have more to say.

(Mar 8) 🆕 The Return, AlbuquerqueCE, Calculators Against Humanity, and more!

After disappearing for almost half a year and two clock changes (for the US, anyway), I am back and I have news to share. Let's jump into it:

Website and existing programs

I'll get back to work on finishing and updating the work for the website and other existing programs as outlined in the post below. Most of the stuff still stands and even though it's now late, I'll still make Valentine the top priority.

ASCII Clicker

I've gotten the notifications of people filling out the form asking for work to resume to resume on ASCII Clicker. Unfortunately, I'm personally done with it and with the new projects below, I'm not dedicating a lot to a dead pressing enter simulator. With that being said, I will release one final update to give the game a proper goodbye at some time in the indefinite future. The 3 remaining clicker fans can rejoice!

AlbuCE

I haven't done much on it but as I'm dusting stuff off everything else, I'm going to start spending some free time at school on AlbuCE. For those of you who don't know what it is, AlbuquerqueCE is a port of Albuquerque: The Game to the TI-84 Plus CE and CSE. I'll also be updating the original game to patch bugs I find in the process.

Calculators Against Humanity

This is the big story. As part of my English class, I need to do an Inquiry Project on a topic of my choosing. I (obviously) chose to remake the card game Cards Against Humanity as a calculator game with the working title of Calculators Against Humanity. This is especially big because I'm making it in C, not BASIC. More info will be made available as soon as it can be.

Contact Page and Form Revamps

Having a single unified contact Form is really nice on the user end, but it is so annoying to scroll through to find a response to a later section; Google Forms just isn't meant to be used like that. This has been on my mind for a little while now (read: everytime I look at a response I got)

GitHub

I'm not completely in on this yet, but I've been considering publishing the source code of my projects to GitHub where possible. I'm not worried about the code being out there because anyone can already see the source of TI-BASIC projects in TI-Connect. It'll also be useful for tracking my progress on CAH.

(Aug 20) 🎉 OFFICIAL LAUNCH!

After a brief hiatus to work on a few other important personal projects and a good amount of review and reworking, I am proud to officially launch Alex's Program Emporium. Updates will now also be posted to Reddit and the Google listing, and this is the first one. This site is far from done, but it's done enough that I'm ready to launch it. With that being said, here's what's still on the list and what I'm doing about it:

• Customize individual Program pages with download links and information
  • Rest of Personal Programs: Valentine
    • Priority number one, I'm working on this now and will publish once it's done
  • Rest of Third-Party Programs: Flappy Bird, Tetric A
    • I'd like to include these, but I haven't been able to contact their original creators to secure permission
    • Friendly reminder that you can submit your own programs for inclusion on this site
• Add information about variables used by a program to Info sections of BASIC Programs
  • Lower priority, these will all go up at once I do them, though
• Make the beta sign-up form for AlbuquerqueCE (separate from the normal contact form)
  • Next big thing I'm doing, I'll probably start this before the ReadMe info goes live, but you'll see it after
• Port as many Personal Programs as possible to TI-84 Plus CSE, Plus SE, and Plus
  • Also lower priority, I have some free time during school to knock these down

Constantly updated to remove completed tasks