Teams:Omnimaga

• Name : Coders Of Tomorrow
• Founded : September 1st, 2001 (went online on March 3rd, 2004)
• Website : http://www.omnimaga.org/
• IRC : #omnimaga on EFNet

Description

Omnimaga was founded on September 1st 2001 by Kevin Ouellet (also known as DJ Omnimaga) as an off-line calculator programming team that released various TI-83 Plus BASIC RPGs such as the Illusiat, Reign Of Legends and Reuben Quest series. The team made it online only on March 2004 with a forum, but the team was dissolved shortly afterward. On April 2004, a TI calculator RPG website opened under the name Omnimaga, including all past programming team releases and other community RPGs. From September 2004 to May 2005, Omnimaga shared Epic Programming Studios' forums for discussion. In May 2005, the site got a new forum and grew in popularity. On December 12th 2005, a new programming team was formed on the site. The team "The Coders Of Tomorrow" was chosen for the programming team on April 10th 2006. Omnimaga closed indefinitely on March 4th 2008 then reopened under a new website on August 25th 2008 (altough the re-opening was never announced anywhere else).

Since 2006, Omnimaga is a website dedicated to TI calculator and PC game programming and music creation of any kind. Aside from the programming team products (which includes notable releases such as TI-Boy SE), it also provides a selection of the best community-contributed RPGs ever made for any brand of graphing calculators, including some very rare ones, as well as various programming tools. The site also include a discussion board that is primary oriented toward calculator game development and showcase. The forum goal is to provide a discussion environment free of any hostility for all coders wanting to learn, give or get help, show off their work and/or discuss. Both the staff and regular members have major projects in the works as well, such as F-Zero, Project M (Super Mario Clone), Portal X and is home of the popular Axe Parser programming language forum. [1]

Members

• DJ Omnimaga
• Builderboy
• Eeems
• Ztrumpet
• Calc84maniac
• Hot_Dog
• jsj795
• Mapar007
• Miotatsu
• Raylin
• Silver Shadow
• {AP}

Former Members (Excluding Old Site)

• Art_Of_Camelot
• Bfr
• Cooliojazz
• Luna
• Necro
• Netham45
• Nitacku
• Noahbaby94
• Speler
• Simplethinker
• Trevmeister66

History

2001

September

01: Omnimaga team founded

2002

June

10: Team expands towards music creation instead of just calculator and computer programming

2004

March

03: Team makes it online. Forums opened, hosted on yAronet

April

09: Omnimaga TI-83+ Calculator RPG Headquarter website opened

May

17: RPG Headquarter expanded to all TI graphing calculator models

September

10: Programming team disbanded, forums merges with Epic Programming Studio

December

17: Site shuts down due to lack of webspace

2005

February

1: RPG Headquarter reopens and expands to Casio and HP models.

May

12: Site moves from static HTML pages to Invisionfree. New forums, only reserved for news and projects discussions, opens there.

June

 ?: Forums opened to general discussions.

December

12: New programming team founded, hosted on Omnimaga forums.

2006

April

10: Team name becomes The Coders Of Tomorrow

December

 ?: Music downloads section added. Old Omnimaga music work from 2002 to 2004 added as well.

2008

January

1: Inter-community disputes leads to Omnimaga closing.

6: Following several requests, temporary forums opened.

February

11: Following a huge spam attack, site and chat becomes invite-only.

March

4: Dwindling activity and threats of more attacks leads to Omnimaga demise as a calculator community. Omnimaga becomes solely a music production team and only the music files remains online.

August

25: Following increasing requests in the past month, Omnimaga is resurrected as a programming team. Some of the old staff joins again.

2010

February

1: Omnimaga now hosts Axe Parser language sub-forum.

6: Team opens towards console ROM hacking.

April

24: Axe Parser sub-forum now has a direct access sub-domain: http://axe.omnimaga.org

Products

• Several RPGs such as Illusiat, The Reign of Legends, Reuben Quest and Mana Force series
• The world's first ever completed Zelda calculator project
• Metroid xLIB and TI-BASIC clones
• DDR xLIB clones
• TI-Boy SE (Game Boy emulator for the TI-83+SE and TI-84+ calculators)
• Gbc4nspire (Game Boy Color emulator for the TI-Nspire)
• Programming tools
• PC Games
• Music