In 1980, before the Texas Home computer was released, I registered with TI as a developer. From 1980-1983 I developed primarily game programs for the TI994a.

Cory Burr has written a very good simulator for the TI994a that runs on almost any PC. Others have converted many of the TI disks and Cartridges to PC files that the emulator can load.

I stumbled upon SubOceanic on tigameshelf.net which is managed by Walid Maalouli. He had converted a version of one of my programs into a format that could be run on the Bursoft Win994a simulator. I downloaded the simulator and the Suboceanic and found it ran very well.

It was quite a nostalgic trip. I had published this program as "Bang Bang Sub" thru my own company Data Force Corporation in 1983. This SubOceanic version was submitted to TI thru the developers program for publishing in a cartridge. TI never published it and by 1985 TI was in trouble with its Home Computer and losing a lot of money.

TI fans might remember I had 3 arcade games on the TI994a.

Published by Data Force Incorporated. Bang Bang Sub Space Station I Kippy's NightMare

If you do download the simulator and SubOceanic, do to a quirk the download has an extension of .dsk which must be changed to .tidisk to run with the Win994a simulator.

Execute Simulator, Cart menu insert TI Extended Basic, Disk menu insert floppy SubOcean. Pressing any key should bring up simulated cartridge menu.

Use Caps on and S,W,E,R,F,C,X,D keys to control sub and enter to fire.

I contacted Walid Maalouli at togameshelf.net and have sent him my other games, which he says he will convert and post online.

Much of the TI software isn’t competitive today, and some wasn’t competitive in 1982. BUT I believe my games were competitive to major arcade games of that area, and while they are DATED they are still competitive to many of the Java games being published today.

I had been wondering ho long to hold on to this old stuff and the old hardware to run it, now it is available in simulation guess I can clean out my closet. ---------------------------------- If you do try it and have any problems use my email here for questions. If you know my programs from years ago please say hello in comments under the images available.

http://www.artwanted.com/imageview.cfm?id=706377

Because the comment system of rewards for comments is no longer active I have decided to turn on my comments for a while at leaste.

There are some 2010 color trends published already, I will be researching these shortly and doing some presentations. These are about 20 months out, the industry probably has always forcasted trends as early as this, but it hasnt been widely available outside of the industry this early. Apparently the internet is having an effect and the ease of publishing has caused a more widely distributed forcast. There are color trend subscription ($) reports available to the industry as well and I would suppose those making a living at it purchase these reports.

Because there are a few large DYE firms who create dyes for the textile industry these trends tend to prevail, if the dye industry offers a line of new colors for fabric, or printing they probably are widely used. The fashion industry needs palletes for their computers and other such tools to start creating textile designs, so they need to understand very early in the game where they are going with their designs.

While there are some simularities to Oriental, South Asian seems to have more muted colors traditionally, and a more complex design and astraction, Oriental seems to have a more direct presentation of simple forms and shapes, closely representing reality and presenting more of a storyboard presentation. These presentations of mine are attempts to isolate these differences and get some "recognition" from the viewer that these designs do match their observations and illicit the same reactions.

These designs attempt to bring both the senses of color and shapes from those cultures.

It is interesting to combine different shapes with colors and create a design, but it is a real challenge to try to actually capture the real essence of a regional cultures in shape color and composition. I will admit I have only limited success.

My success will depend on the viewers experiences being similar to mine.

What a beauty some of these are, my siblings moved to Tulsa Oklahoma and one of my sisters dabbled in Indian Jewelry which consisted of a lot of silver, bronze and TURQUOISE.

Some of the Squash Flower Necklaces have POUNDS of turquoise and silver and are literally magnificent works of art.

You can find some on EBAY but the best are collected and hard to find.

I have a number of turquoise pieces from Tulsa Oklahoma with litterlly 1 inch chucks of Turquoise, these have always been some of my favorites.

As has become my tendency I usually publish each day a single design in 3 renditions/repetitions.

I find that if you want to get the TEXTILE feel you really need an 8x8 rendition, but often fewere repetitions appear more artistic.

I will probably publish 50-100 Aztec designs I tend to try to saturate a topic when I approach it. This becomes a learning process for me.

I wrote the software That produces all of my work posted here, with very few exceptions.

DesignLab2007 creates and renders vector objects against some unique color palettes.

(NEW) DesignLabComposition can take any of the imaged outputs from DesignLab2007 and rearrange them in new compositions.

The program is unique in that you work in lower resolutions and can recreate image in any resolution you want, reaccesing original bitmap and recreating as hi res as possible for each image used..

For example.

1) I imported these images into Designcomposition and it brings into the project directories. 1) full size image 2) 100x100 thumbnail 3) 500x500 workimage

You compose using the 500x500 workimage

You then use the recreate function to recreate the composition in any factor you want. The program re accesses the large originals and recreates a workimage of the requested image and redraws it.

You can then save this re sized image.

This allows you to compose with smaller but adequate images, not stressing our cpu horsepower, but to produce very large bitmaps as well.

Of course everything depends on originals being of adequate size and quality. Anything that has ever been a jpg doesn't handle transparency very well. jpg muddies the transition between colors when it compresses. OK when color is there, but when made transparent leaves blocks of transition colors. You can fix this by making a range of colors transparent, I haven't wrote that software yet, and have only seen one program that does it.

It may seem a subtle change but design lab can now generated a gradiant using four colors instead of just two. On some objects such as butterflies the difference can be quite dramatic.

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Of course "work" is always relative.

Probably the pieces I construct in traditional ways are better, but I'm not "ENTIRELY" sure.

An artist tends to focus on form first, then composition Then color.

As a designer I focus on color, composition, then form.

To me form is chosing exactly the right and fewest lines to express the subject. Color is the life and breath of the piece. Composition is distribution of color and arangement of forms.

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I got a little bored qith that and woke my models up and now have them chattering Witicisms (I Hope).

I may be in my second childhood.

My gal is very conservative and thinks the cartoons are too risque.

Artwanted is sort of conservative, I do hope noone is offended. I think prime time TV exceeds my guidlines.

When doing studies etc thatare not serious designs I'll reduce pixel sizes.

Often the large bitmaps are not shown very well at 800x600 on screen. I make an attempt to provide a zoom image which portrays originals detail.

Often textures such as weave, canvas, burlap etc will be totally distorted or lost by these dramatic reductions.

Please scroll down to ZOOM when available.

I also will often provide a design progression because the single elemt of the design is represented more accurately than the 2x2 or 4x4 presentation. The bitmaps produced all retain the original detail.

To coordinate the color, fabric design, model poses and the lines of the garment is a great experience. This I REALLY enjoy doing. So look for a LOT of modeled/garment designs.

Soon I will publish a series of screen shots that illustrate the use of DesighLab2007 to accomplish this task.

I am not totally enamoured with the system, and have no real aspirations to collect comments like United States Quarters. Partialyy because I dont really consider myself an artist, and my main objective is to generate interest in DesignLab2007. Anyone interested in DesignLab can email me.

I do and still do put a value on those that take the time and effort to click into my gallery.

Let me assure you I review many of your Galleries and will continue to comment on your efforts when appropriate, and I understand many of you DO put a value on that, and I in no way disparage it.

I dont really consider myself an artist, but I am a good system designer, and DesignLab2007 is a system to create designs.

It is passable on fine art, but that is a secondary objective.