Sounds good, guys. Just another little addition to make TI-Calc a cool place to visit. :)

-Kyro

"Keep up the good work, blah blah blah"

that's pretty darn cool. I will have to go look at them right now!

Hmmm... I wonder why the creater of the ANOVA shell would send four versions of his/her program to TI-Calc when s/he could have just sent the final one...

I could see updating periodically to keep people interested, but why send four versions from two days' work?

BTW - all you TI-83 users, is it pretty good?

nah

Well, I've heard, not seen, that ANOVA is a code rip off of SOS.
- Matt

i haven't seen the code, but it's compatible.

-KAKE
IP (o)

After further investigation, it would turn out that part of it is a ripoff. And the other part is amazing similar.. so it was removed.

They really give a good idea of what the programs are like.

So, ticalc.org, you are now masters of the ticalculating business. What is next on you agenda? I customizable ticalc.org possibly? What other kewl features are you going to add? How about selling calulators really cheap :)

Yeah, there's some pretty cool other stuffs in the works. However, refer to our FAQ, we will not be selling calculators ever. None of us have the time, and plus its a legal responsibility that we don't feel like taking on. In a world of crass commercialism, it's nice to know that we provide something for free.

Well y'know, Dimension TI sells calculators, and their website is customizable. In a lot of ways too, I might add. Here's a quote from your comment: "In a world of crass commercialism, it's nice to know that we provide something for free." Aren't all TI websites (and just about every single other website out there) free? What are you offering for free that others aren't?

-Fil

you're smelly

Wow! they are now willing to spend 5 minutes (or less) to make a animated screen shot! If anyone cares, here is how they do it:

1) They go over to a share ware archive and download a screen capturing program that converts what happens in a certain part of the screen into an avi

2) they run a pogram in an emu and activate the capturing program.

3) they convert the avi to a animated gif also using a free shareware program

4) they put it up.

Not very hard....

Jeffrey Malone

No, we actually have an in-house, proprietary method for creating animated screenshots.

Here's what they do:
they have a Connectix Quickcam set up so that it shoots the LCD of a calc. Then they hit "record" and play the game a bit. Then they paste it frame by frame into Gif Animator.

I've got to stop posting 20 minutes after I wake up (really).

Actually, what we do is we have a camera take pictures of my computer screen at 100 millisecond intervals. I have the job of pressing the button really, really fast. After I spend obscene amounts of money at the 1-hour photo, I scan them all in using my invisible scanner right here and make seemingly flawless screenshots.

Consider yourselves enriched.

--blue

Actually, they don't. Kirk Meyer modified VTI to produce animated GIFs. The method you described takes much longer to produce good animations. And, they are usually larger and require palette tweaking (though they look MUCH better than the two they currently have). Then again, grayscale games always look better in the emu than on the calc...

correct!

Actually, no. We have a program that automatically latches onto any emulator, automatically locating the screen and rescaling as necessary. It eliminates contrast effects that might not look good and converts to greyscale, and even installs as a taskbar icon to look nice. Sure, you can do it the way you described, but as David said, it takes longer, they're bigger, and require palette optimization.

Dang Kirk, giving sensible, logical, *TRUE* responses is no FUN! :)

--blue

well, all i can say is, it's about time! btw, can we send in our own animated screenshots if we know that you wont take them because the program isn't that popular?

No, we want them all to look the same, which means they have to be taken with the utility. But we aren't giving the utility out. Nick said he'd try quite hard to take some of the less popular games (BASIC even) too, so don't worry too much.