Detached Solutions website says that the mirageOS code is available under GPL. Where do we get the source? Plenty of stuff I want to add.

The source isn't up yet. I've been waiting for some Sourceforge issues to be resolved. I want to seperate the 1.2 code and the current 1.3 beta code, and there are some other organizational issues which will simpler with a CVS repository. If sourceforge continues to cause trouble, I will just zip up some code and upload it somewhere prior to the start of SoC.

There should be a news item on this site about mirageos source code. thanks for the info.

it seems to me most people on this site are younger then 18- lots of middle and high schoolers (including me). This is a shame since there is a lot of young talent, maybe if a guardian or parent signed off for a child it would be allowed...

Yeah, it's really unfortunate that there's an age restriction. Unfortunatly it is imposed by Google, so there's nothing we at DS can do about it. Hopefully Google will continue to offer this great program and you (and others) can participate in a few years.

So glad I'm 19 then. :)

is the age restriction actucally imposed by google or are their some sort of leagle issues?

Students apply to SoC through Google and Google's the one paying them. And Google decided that only those age 18+ were eligible. So that's what I mean when I say Google imposed the age restriction. As for *why* they created the age restriction, it's probably in part because of legal issues, yes.

think of all the talent in about three or four years, as long as everyone continues programming. The way I see it, most people start young, get really good, and then do something more worth their time, thus leaving the ti community. In about three years, there's gonna be a lot of really good programs/ games coming out.

Why do we have to wait so long? In three to four months there are going to be a lot of really good programs released.

By the way ... We're guessing that most proposals will be for projects coded in z80, 68k, or C. We're not limiting it to that, however. If you think you have show-stopping idea to code in BASIC, go ahead and send in a proposal. Also, it's been asked several times: programs for the computer are acceptable as well.

Actually, that would be interesting to see a programmer get paid for a really good BASIC program...

It would have to be *really really very really* good.

Its to bad that there isn't any realllly good C compilers for the Ti-83\84 calculators... If you know one could you post?

I heard about this awesome one...
I think it was called "assembler" or something... :D

I remember seeing one on the scource forge websight that could compile for the z80 processor, I'm not sure how good it was though.

I believe you mean TISDCC.

there are a couple others floating around, but TISDCC seems to be the best.

BZC is also maturing quite nicely....

Indeed it is.
http://www.cemetech.net/forum/ viewtopic.php?t=907

BZC is not a C compiler.

It's a nice substitute.

I didn't say it was.....I said it was maturing nicely.

See the "homepage" URL for a Z80 C cross compiler.