Patrick Davidson

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Aliases

EeulPlek

Email

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

Dimension-TI

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

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(Screenshot of Phoenix)

Milestones

  • List of their important milestones (date joined TI community, important programs, etc.)

Site URLs

Site Screenshot

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(Screenshot of Patrick Davidon's homepage circa 2000)

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).