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March and April 2000 POTM
Posted by Andy on 2 May 2000, 01:19 GMT

It is once again time for the Program of the Month Results for last month and voting for this month. You can view the March POTM Results. When you are done with that please visit the April 2000 POTM voting page.

The May 2000 Newsletter has also been posted to the newsletter archives.

 


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Re: March and April 2000 POTM
JaggedFlame

Looks like TI-Chess blew everyone away...

     2 May 2000, 01:38 GMT

Re: March and April 2000 POTM
Reno  Account Info

April's selection doesn't seem too fair for the z80 calcs; too many damn good 89/92+ programs :)

     2 May 2000, 02:18 GMT


Re: Re: March and April 2000 POTM
Cigamit  Account Info
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There would have been more programs in other categories besides the 89, if they would have bothered to put them in. There was way more than 2 82,83,83+ programs released last month. Knights Of Time v1.1 and TSE were both featured programs for April. And TxtView v1.52 was in a news post, but surprisingly, they are not in the voting list.
There truely were not many releases for the 85/86 last month so I have no complains about that section. :)

     4 May 2000, 08:07 GMT


Re: Re: Re: March and April 2000 POTM
compman32386  Account Info
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You guys should stop complaining because the TI-89 and TI-92+ are getting so much attention! If you are so worried, you should go and get one. I should know, I have a TI-89 and a TI-86.

     4 May 2000, 16:11 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: March and April 2000 POTM
Cigamit  Account Info
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You should know what???

Well anyways, I wasn't complaining about the attention that 89/92 calcs are getting. Reno said that there was "too many damn good 89/92+ programs" so I was pointing out that a few other good 83 programs were released last month, had publicity and yet still were not put into the list to vote on.

If I truely wanted a 89, I would get one, but seeing as that I haven't even used my 83 since I graduated a few years ago, I think it would be a waste of resources otherwise spent on something worthwhile.

     5 May 2000, 08:09 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: March and April 2000 POTM
compman32386  Account Info
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Ok

     5 May 2000, 16:13 GMT

Re: March and April 2000 POTM
DWedit  Account Info
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Regardless of what is released, the stuff for the 68k calcs always wins.

     2 May 2000, 03:04 GMT

Re: March and April 2000 POTM
Cigamit  Account Info
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They really should have 2 seperate groups. Z80 and 86k. Then you pick 1 or 2 out of each group at there discrepency, depending on how many are entered.

Another solution (and probably the best) would be to just pick one for each calc. This gives a better portrayal of which programs are good for which calc.

     2 May 2000, 03:57 GMT

Re: March and April 2000 POTM
Scott Noveck  Account Info
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TI-Chess definately deserved that - it's an amazing program. If only I could figure out how to get loading/saving to work right, get castling to work (switch king/rook - what's the key combo?), and learn to beat the computer on the lowest dificulty more than 1 in 100 games - even WITH cheating. . . pr0ps to Thomas and the TI-Chess team

     2 May 2000, 04:00 GMT


Re: Re: March and April 2000 POTM
Mike Grass Account Info
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There isn't a "key combo." Simply select the king and move it into its position (c1 or g1) and TI-Chess automatically knows that you want to castle and moves the rook to its position (d1 or f1, respectively).

     2 May 2000, 08:36 GMT

Re: March and April 2000 POTM
S67  Account Info
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I think fact maxmem might be the only utility to win the POTM. I mean, any program that gives me 200 K more of archive is something that I like.

     2 May 2000, 05:13 GMT


Re: Re: March and April 2000 POTM
Harper Maddox  Account Info
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then again, what good is archive space if you don't use it for anything :)

     2 May 2000, 16:44 GMT


Re: Re: Re: March and April 2000 POTM
Nick Disabato  Account Info
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*Real* men don't archive anything.

Ever.

--BlueCalx

     2 May 2000, 23:31 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: March and April 2000 POTM
David Hall  Account Info
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Probably another example of *normal* women being more logical and intelligent than *real* men...

     6 May 2000, 18:11 GMT

Re: March and April 2000 POTM
MathJMendl
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People are always complaining about how the categories are all lumped together. I personally think that this is unavoidable with the number of possible selections, as many categories barely have any programs. One possible idea might be to increase the selections for the vote or to even make make the vote every other month. Although, when you think about it, most of the programs that make it to the vote are already some of the month's best, so it seems that it is a little redundant to have a vote on those very few every month...

     2 May 2000, 05:24 GMT

Re: March and April 2000 POTM
tnussb  Account Info

Thanx to everyone who have voted for TI-Chess as POTM. My motivation to keep on with that project "makes a high leap" =8-)

     2 May 2000, 10:00 GMT

Re: March and April 2000 POTM
Scott Uhl  Account Info
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Come on! Put back the old one! There is no point in voting! Now it's just a 89/92 voting, no other calculators have more than 2 programs to vote for!

     2 May 2000, 23:09 GMT

Re: March and April 2000 POTM
Paul Zipfel  Account Info
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It was nice to see a BASIC program on the list. Especially a TI-83 one at that. Way to go, SiCoDe.

     3 May 2000, 00:04 GMT


Re: Re: March and April 2000 POTM
Bengt Werstén  Account Info
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Yeah, it is hard to do a good basic-game.

     4 May 2000, 07:52 GMT


Re: Re: Re: March and April 2000 POTM
David Hall  Account Info
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Thankx guys ;)
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- David Hall
SiCoDe Member

     6 May 2000, 18:12 GMT

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