Cool, now if they would focus their attention on games that would rock.

Lol, ya. This makes my drawing program look like crap on a stick. :(

Looks pretty nice. Making animations would give you something to do when you're bored in class :)

And a cooties program!? LOL- interesting... that makes me curious, so I'm going to download it when I get home from school, just to see what it is.

Wow, that's really cool. It's neat that they're developing these for calcs, pocket pcs, palms, and gameboy adv (!!).

Wow, gameboy advance? That's cool... of course, to put it on the real GBA, you'll need one of those cartrige things, and I think that's illegal (maybe not). But that's still cool. I know there are some GBA emulators out there...

Yeah, gb emulators, my friends are all into those things. I keep telling them to get TIs, but do they listen? Of course not. I don't see why anyone would make a game that is only possible on an emulator, when you can make something in java/c++ or whatever that is 50 times better? It's not like learning z80 ASM (what GBs run on) would be any easier than a real computer language.

Is there such thing as a C SDK and compiler for gameboy?

Sounds interesting...I will too!

I wonder if I can get this source...

Sorry... THE source, not this source***

Games? :P

"Center for highly interactive computing in Education?" does that sound like a firm that *could* ever consder making a game?

Hmm, that cooties one looks rather interesting...

I can't tell from the web site what this "Center for Highly Interactive <more jargon>" is about. You'd think if they were legitimate, and actualy about computing, they could design a decent web site. It doesn't display well at all in Opera, the king of browsers. Perhaps someone here can inform me.

They also say their software is licensed by GoKnow, INC. I am starting to suspect that HICE is a pupet of this company - they perform research to help sell the product.

Neither web site mentions TI's at all. http://www.ti.hice-dev.org/ seems to be the developer's real web site.

There's nothing sketchy (pun intended) about HICE. HICE (The center for highly ...) is a research group at the University of Michigan. If you want to know why the website is ghetto (which I'll concede, it kind of is), it's because we're made up of a couple professors and a bunch of students who spend our time writing what we hope is useful and innovative software. We're not a company, and we don't have the money to hire a company to maintain our website.

The "point" of HICE is pretty simple. Technology (whether it be PCs, palms, pocketpcs, or calculators) are entering the classroom at an astonishing rate, but there's not always the education software/curriculum to go along with them. HICE develops software and accompanying curriculum/methods to help teachers effectively use technology in the classroom. We also try to do stuff that's fun, like Sketchy :)

The TI operation is just once facet of HICE, and is probably the smallest. The main focus is on palms, pocket pcs, and the like. We're also the newest group, which is why there aren't links everywhere on the HICE site yet. (Check out http://www.handheld.hice-dev.org/ for the different groups) Nevertheless me and Jared (the two of us are the calculator programmers) are working hard to make cool calculator apps.

Hope that clears it up.

The website has a nice theme, good job. Thanks for making these apps!

what does the cooties program do?

You could download it and find out for yourself (like I'm doing)

...although, I don't recommend you do like I am and put off your homework that is due first thing tomorrow in order to do so...

actually, I'd do that too, but my 83+ is experiencing some...problems with Apps. Although I have over 50k of available space, its memory is always full, according to TI-Connect. I'm going to try a MEM clear though and see if that works.

hmmm...I don't know about that but I know mine wouldn't let me sent "cooties" because of a "unexplained error" or somthing like that.

I think it simulates the spreading of a disiese throughout a population, but i'm not entierly certain.

I've just uploaded a new version of the site. I'm think my lack of experience in anything web-related will be obvious, but I'm fairly sure things aren't any worse ;-). Check it out at www.hice.org/ti.

Two years ago (when I was in sixth grade) HICE came to my school and work with us on Palm Pilots. I have sketchy on my Palm and it works great!Cooties is also a neat program. My point is, I have worked with HICE personally and it is a legitimate group

How is Opera the 'king of all browsers'? It's the only one that displays ads! And you have to PAY for a version w/o ads. Get Mozilla Firebird/FireFox.

Sorry, I wasn't thinking. I didn't mean to flame or offend anyone there.

I still think IE is the best :-D

by all means...

Isn't Firebird the "stand-alone" version of Mozilla Mail? Anyway, it doesn't show up right in IE either.

MWM

no youre thinking of Thunderbird, their email client. Firebird is the currently in development next gen browser whose name has been changed to Firefox. The latest release is Firefox 0.8, which i am using, and which is vastly superior to IE6 and Navigator at least, ive never tried Opera.

ya... im using firefox .8 too

Opera has ads? Really??? My friend has Opera, but no ads, and the only web browser I've heard of with ads is ZeroNet.

Then your friend is either using a paid-for copy, or a "cracked" copy...

And no one her would do that, now would we?

-W-

Heh... suuuuuuuure ;-) <innocent> I'd NEVER use cracked software! </innocent>

Do you think that Microsoft etc locates and prosecutse people who download a whole lot of expensive cracked software (which of course never happens!),

You mean like, make a site of cracked software and watch who downloads it? that'd be kinda mean...

I prefer Safari.