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Aliases
thruska (at) tir (dot) com
Site URL
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/8504
Ticalc.org URL
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/authors/6/613.html
Location
United States
Years Active
1997 to 1998
Thomas Hruska was a TI-Basic & assembly programmer for the TI-82 & TI-83 calculators. He had his own one-person programming group called Shining Light Productions, which is the banner that he released all of his programs under.
He was a regular on the Calc-TI mailing list, as well as the various ticalc.org mailing lists.
Significance
Thomas released a selection of games in TI-Basic for the TI-82 calculator, such as Breakout, Nuclear War, Decsent & Star Trek: The Next Generation. Decsent was also released on the TI-83.
He also wrote an assembly program for the TI-82 called Game Wizard, which was a game hacking type program, designed to allow users to adjust the speed at which programs run, as well as search for and modify in-game variables (player lives, health, etc.)
Contributions
- Breakout (82 basic)
- Decsent (82 & 83 basic)
- Game Wizard (82 assembly)
- Laser Fighter (82 basic)
- Nibbles (82 basic)
- Nuclear War (82 basic)
- Scorched Earth (82 basic)
- Spikes (82 basic)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation (82 basic)
- Tic-Tac-Toe (82 basic)