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100000th News Post!
Posted by Michael on 24 December 2003, 18:31 GMT

This news article marks the 100,000th post in our news database. The actual number is less, because of deleted comments. Thank you to all the authors and users who have made us able to reach this milestone! As you know, Magnus has recently been working on improvements to our system, and we hope to have an even better news system in the future. What programs get to be featured in the one-tenth of a million news article, you ask?

XPak 1.0 and uView 1.0 have been released by Paul Froissart. XPak is a file compressor for the 89/92+/V200 that works like ZipLib, is almost as powerful as TTPack, and several times faster. uView is a companion text editor.

Basicbuilder by Martin Warmer is a Windows program to convert your BASIC programs into flash applications for the TI-83 Plus. This seems perfect for personal use, packaging games so that they can be run from flash and avoiding the pain of constantly ungrouping them. Please don't release a million number guessing game apps, however.

Oh, and right now - Merry Christmas to those of you in Australia.

 


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burntfuse  Account Info

>>and we hope to have an even better news system in the future

How could they improve it? There are already 10-second posts and almost-real-time conversations!

The BASIC-app thing sounds interesting...does it store each program as data in the app, then when one needs to be run, copy it to RAM as a new program, run it, and then delete it? (I was pretty sure it didn't do any kind of BASIC-assembly conversion.)

     25 December 2003, 01:56 GMT

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coinmanz  Account Info
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most likely it runs the TI-Basic commands as the tokens they are, using sprites and text to fill in the data (easy in asm). No extravagent conversion would really be needed. I wonder why my TI-Basic Porter's gotten so very little ttention. It ports TI code from any TI to any and all others almost instantly (.htm files)

     25 December 2003, 02:17 GMT

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DWedit  Account Info
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Um...
It just decompresses the compressed TI-Basic games to ram and runs them.

     25 December 2003, 02:31 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

That's what I was guessing! :-)

     27 December 2003, 01:59 GMT


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jrock7286  Account Info

You're horrible at sneaking in ads for your programs. Me on the other hand, my program "3d Parametric Surfaces" for the TI-89 that graphs 3-dimensional parametric surfaces, I could advertise that and no one (not no_one) would know what hit 'em. Also, my TI-Palm OS program that stores contact info? that's a great program... :)

     26 December 2003, 01:30 GMT

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mindstorm23 Account Info

>>How could they improve it? There are already 10-second posts and almost-real-time conversations!

I guess if you really wanted, you could ask them to make a chat room for real real-time conversations.

However I'm not particularly endorsing this as a good idea...

     27 December 2003, 13:06 GMT


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W Hibdon  Account Info

Acutally that is a great idea.

Wait a minute..... They already have an IRC chat, no?

-W_

     27 December 2003, 18:05 GMT


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mindstorm23 Account Info

Oh ya I forgot about that.

     28 December 2003, 03:49 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

Just realized how the news system could be improved-THAT IDIOTIC NEWS EDITOR COULD STOP DELETING ON-TOPIC COMMENTS!!!!!! A WHILE AGO, I GAVE SOMEONE HELP ON SITE NAVIGATION, AND THAT WAS DELETED ALONG WITH ANOTHER *PERFECTLY ON-TOPIC* ONE I POSTED IN THE "TICALC.ORG DOWNTIME" ARTICLE. ALSO, IN THE "COMMAND POST" ARTICLE, SOMEONE ELSE SAYS THAT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEIR OTHER *ON-TOPIC* COMMENTS IN THAT ARTICLES HAS BEEN DELETED. I ALSO JUST REALIZED THAT A DISCUSSION IN WHICH I WAS INVOLVED WAS REMOVED FROM THIS ARTICLE, AND IT *WAS ABOUT CALCULATOR MODELS!!!!!!* WE NEED TO STOP ALL THESE LEGITIMATE COMMENTS FROM BEING POINTLESSLY REMOVED!!!!!!!

     31 December 2003, 17:09 GMT

Re: 100000th News Post!
Halfmoon Account Info
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Whoohoo! Merry Christmas!
I got a TI-89!

So many mathematical and other features! *gasp*

     25 December 2003, 18:34 GMT

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no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Yay! Congratulations! The TI-89 is the best calculator you will ever put hands on. Have fun. :-D

     26 December 2003, 01:20 GMT


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jrock7286  Account Info

Or put mouth on...I mean...ummm...never mind...*shrinks away*

     26 December 2003, 01:32 GMT


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no_one_2000_  Account Info
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HAHAHAHAHA!!!! I am in love with my calculator! :-* :-*

     26 December 2003, 14:54 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info

I've been called obsessed with calcs, and even I like girls better than calcs in THAT way....

     2 January 2004, 23:38 GMT


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jordan krage  Account Info

mathematical?
is that why u got an 89?

     27 December 2003, 00:51 GMT


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Halfmoon Account Info
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No, not really. Though it kind of does algebra and precalculus for you.

     30 December 2003, 18:48 GMT

uses for ti-73
Greg M Account Info

A few comments about basicbuilder

I was wondering if this could be used to allow ti-73's to have extra basic programs on them?
also, would it be possible to create a hex app, load it in the debugger, and use the link feature to send it to a real ti-73?

This looks good, and maybe it will fix that problem everyone has with 1.16/mirageos/trying to run basic progs from mirage

     27 December 2003, 16:08 GMT

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W Hibdon  Account Info

What is the problem that 1.16 has with running BASIC?

More to the point, when you are at a prompt or input in a BASIC program that was archived and you hit [2ND] [QUIT], does it creat a little program called Z.1,? It eats up ram, and I am annoyed with people coming to me saying they cannot play games and tis being the problem.

-W-

     27 December 2003, 18:10 GMT


Re: uses for ti-73
Martin Warmer  Account Info

I don't have access to a ti73 so I can't really test it. But I might try to port it using the flash debugger.

The problem with mirageos is that something changed in os 1.13 that makes the basic execution very unstable. Thus you need to get an os lower than 1.13 to make mirageos execute basic programs without problems.

     27 December 2003, 19:50 GMT

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Martin Warmer  Account Info

I just remembered that we don't have any freeware key for the ti73. Thus you would have to let ti sign every app you generate. I don't think it's worth it to port it if you can't sign the apps yourself.

     27 December 2003, 19:57 GMT


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DWedit  Account Info
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I've tried the freeware key on a TI83+ flashapp with the header changed to indicate TI73, and along with changing the program, it outputs a .8xk that works fine on the flash simulator in TI73 mode.

Never tested it on the real thing though. It might or might not work.

     28 December 2003, 18:58 GMT


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Michael Vincent  Account Info
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Will not. The simulator accepts anything.

     28 December 2003, 21:38 GMT


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Geek_Productions Account Info

Well, that would explain why 83+ SE's ALWAYS clear your RAM after using Mirage to run Basic progs. The OS my SE came with was 1.13...
Hey! Could you send 1.12 to a SE? I wonder...

     29 December 2003, 21:06 GMT

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