Heh, I knew it was going to arrive at the end of February... better late than never :-)

Hey Michael, will you be providing the "humor" from here on out? It's not that I don't like them, but I've noticed that you've been the only one providing our "nerdy calculator jokes" since Jonathan picked up the newsletter :-D

Long live ticalc.org!

I was asked, and failed miserably :-/

Anyone can submit their jokes to the newsletter, hard part is coming up with them.

"Yay! Something in my Gmail account worth reading. There's a joke: Gmail."
Anyway...

I really liked the casio joke.

The first one was good too.

How's this:
Q: Why was the calculator's tan function messed up?
A: It didn't go to the beach often enough.

I wrote one a while ago about how nerds don't tan, they arctan to get that whitish skin...

Chicks dig it.
EOL

"<insert name of object you despise> is really useful at being a paperweight." is a little overused.

I don't know. Jonathan keeps asking me :)

Well, you make good calculator jokes, what can I say? I'm not sure the community would like to see the ones I have...but maybe they will!

Hahaha, I like the jokes in the Humor section. Nice job, MV... I'm sure it's not easy to come up with calculator jokes.

Nice job guys. I downloaded this gem into my inbox after a particularly crappy day. Thanks.

bi-monthly doesn't mean what you think it does...

Should it be hex-annually?

or tri semi-annually :)

I was thinking dimonthly seeing as bimonthly apparently has two meanings (now that I've looked it up...)

I wish you guys had bi-WEEKLY newsletters...

I just can't get enough.

Btw, when do you think that there will simply cease to be any (game) programmers for TI calcs?

When people stop playing games in math class.
Answer: Never

If the current downwards trend continues, soon. :-(

I see less and less programmers actually releasing something useful. Many of the current "programmers" just talk a lot about their projects and never release anything usable. And then there are people who are well-known in the community because they lurk around a lot on forums, but who haven't ever programmed anything useful, or in some cases who released their last calculator program ages ago.

Luckily, there are also people like Fisch2 or JfG (and others; please don't feel offended if you weren't listed) who keep coding high-quality games all the time. And then there's also Samuel Stearley's great work on useful utilities. (I really like Complete.) But somehow, I have a feeling that these great programmers are becoming less and less over time.

I also try to keep the community running myself, my main project being maintainance of and improvements to TIGCC. But we need more than a handful programmers, and definitely more than one!

Note that this is a view centered on the TI-89/89Ti/92+/V200 community. I don't follow the TI-Z80 scene enough to see the overall trends there.

From the looks of the bottom of the upload page, it looks as if the files are being uploaded, but just not prossesed, around 350 are in line to be added. what im saying is in no way an insalt to Niklas Brunlid or Joey Gannon, hopefully when the new staff person is added it can speed up a little

That's roughly 2 nights of lazily testing programs. It could be done in 2 hours but you'd have to be on a high or really enthusiastic. Either way, it would beat the average rate of uploads at the moment. =P

P.S. The Z80 "Scene" has slowed down a LOT compared to 68K development so quit, 'bitching' (I think the term is). The lack of development can also be accounted for the fact that those who have learnt ASM are either in Uni with a full load of schoolwork or have full time jobs. The new age of developers just aren't given the resources to learn assembly fast enough to start programming before other distractions come into their lives.

Haha, that is very true. It's not that there aren't as many good, dedicated programmers, its that there are less proportionally. Since you guys put out tigcc there has been an influx in programmers, but i think the number of truly dedicated ones hasnt changed too much. Certainly though it would be nice if more big projects got completed. That's the problem, that so many programmers will learn so that they can make their dream game, like someone who decides they want to port crash bandicoot or something, so they learn a little and then get started. Unfortunately they discover its not so easy as they thought, and then they get discouraged. It's those programmers like Jf who start with smaller things and start working their way up, and eventually they can tackle their "big" project. At least that's the way I see it. I should talk, seeing as how I made that mistake a year ago when I tried to make a real Super Metroid clone. Of course I'm now making up for that, since I actually know what I'm doing now and have a nice engine running.

Same mistake with DBZ in 2001 :-D Now that I know what to do a grpahical Dragonball/Z/GT RPG is planned. At the moment there aren't very many active, quality z80 coders. I count myself in the top 100 and that may be pushing it. There needs to be a port of The Guide from 86 to 83+. Ash school seems to have no attendance either, which is more useful than several 83+ tutorials. I'm an 86 Guru with 73-85 abilities - peace to all and our future is dim...

If you will gladly do all my schoolwork, I will gladly do a bi-weekly newsletter :)