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Aliases
EeulPlek
ude.yelekreb.fco|dap#ude.yelekreb.fco|dap
Site URL
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~pad/
http://pad.calc.org
Ticalc.org URL
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/authors/7/734.html
Location
United States
Years Active
1997 to present
Affiliations
Patrick Davidson is one of the premier programmers in the TI community, as well as one of the most visible and longest active. His site was one of the sites that got hosting through Dimension-TI.
Significance
He has written numerous high-quality programs and games for almost every TI graphing calculator, as well as having his programs and games being ported by other programmers in the community. Several of his games have been featured on ticalc.org, with some of them even receiving the infamous POTM and POTY awards given out by ticalc.org.
He is notable for being one of the small number of assembly programmers to have high quality releases on both the z80 & 68k processor calculators. One of his most well known releases is Phoenix, at classic shoot-'em-up game, which is available across the majority of the TI calculator range.
Patrick was one of the first assembly programmers to start releasing games for the TI-84+CSE color lcd calculator in 2013, with Calcuzap & CMonster.
Contributions
(Screenshot of Phoenix)
- Phoenix
- Calcuzap
- CMonster
- Galaxian (with Sam Heald)
- ZMercury
- Pac-Man 99 (with Sam Heald)
- Orzunoid (with Sam Heald)
Milestones
- List of their important milestones (date joined TI community, important programs, etc.)
Site URLs
- http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~pad/
- http://pad.calc.org
Site Screenshot
History
Like other programmers in the TI community, he started out programming TI-Basic and then progressed to assembly and C.
Miscellaneous
Patrick Davidson helped Sam Heald learn how to program assembly, including writing and porting his first game to the TI-83 (Galaxian).