Random News Tidbits
Posted by Nick on 19 March 2000, 22:49 GMT

For some reason, people tend to email me in sporadic bursts. Maybe it's part of a massively coordinated anti-Disabato movement or something; it's a frequent occurrence to see fifty new things come out one day and then for the next three weeks all I get are three emails for laser printer toner advertising.
This is one of those days where I received fifty emails. Actually, to be more specific, one hundred and six.
Due to this *cough* outburst, here's a bunch of links to places I have received in the past few days.

Shermco Studio v.5 Beta has been released by Shermco Industries. This is supposed to be a development kit for 83/83+ BASIC programs. Weighing in at a miniscule twenty-three and a half megabytes, this program seems like it would have more than its share of features. It's still in beta. I haven't tried it myself; my little ISDN line is currently struggling to get it on my machine.
BAPG is accepting new members. Go to their site and fill out the application - they're looking with ASM programmers with at least a bit of experience under their belt. If you have any questions, email Chris Dietz.
Programmers Anonymous has redone parts of its web site. They're using CGI scripts for automatic news posting and comment boards, and their archives are now done in JavaScript. Check them out :)
(What's with all these hosted sites emailing me, anyway?) Jimi Malcolm sent me an email telling me that guide.ticalc.org has been redone as far as its navigation structure. A menu system has been implemented. Also, an extensive index is available here.
Diego Pontoriero of ZAPO emailed me to give me a link to a TI-83 Plus selling for the low, low price of $130 on Mercata - a site that purchases items in bulk to drive prices lower. Oh, and it's marked down from $170 :-)

That's about it for now from the grapevine. Thanks to everyone who emails me about all these crazy new things :)

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