i'll never retire either. this place is to good to let go

Well, being serious I don't ever see a reason to retire as long as AAA's or a suitable alternative are in production (for the 86)...Off topic: I've never seen a tutorial on how to replace ROM calls with pure z80, so I'll write a lesson or 2 for my TI-86 project. Replacing _puts is too easy, as is _clrLCD. The main purpose of such a document is to show coders how to take advantage of 8k barrier braking shells; and of course single-source multi-platform code :-)

Well, I'm already in my second semester of college, so the first two choices don't apply to me... I voted when my spouse insists on it (that's assuming I ever get married)...

Oh and at the current rate of archive processing, the last choice may well be the best... Of course, it's no where near as bad as it was two years ago, so the new guy(s) shouldn't have any problem getting the files processed in a few days.

...Or Michael could just do them all.

NO - the poor guy probably already has enough work, writing news articles and searching the message boards for troll comments (like mine a couple years ago, sadly) to delete.

Too late...

I'm halfway through my sixth semester at a community college. Four of them were mainly for highschool credit though, so I'm not sure those count...

I've already made a career out of it.

The real answer for me would be about when college starts, but when I saw the last answer and thought of the current state of the number of files, I figured if I posted something now it'd get processed by five months after I die... :)
Not to say I don't understand why there are lots of unprocessed files...even if it were because of laziness I couldn't blame anything, but I know that's not why.

Around the second year of college, I will stop being active, but this will (may?) always be my hobby!!!

That is, until there are portable supercomputers!!!

By then, they wouldn't be called supercomputers anymore... ;)

Just measly little handheld devices with only a pitiful little 50 teraflop processor...

Very true - my 1 Ghz Pentium III machine is a supercomputer compared to a mainframe in the 80s, but no one calls it a supercomputer. ;-)

You're so lucky, I only have a 350 mhz Pentium II

My participation at ticalc.org is like the phases of the moon, may wax or wan but nevertheless dependable.

Well, i've pretty much quit programming (moving to computers, taking Programming I in Sophomore year of HS) but I will still manage my website and do online stuff. And computer stuff!

What?? I thought you just started not too long ago? What the heck?

I do not program for TI anymore. I don't even write stuff in BASIC to keep to myself! But I still come here, and will until the day I die.

:-( I was hoping for another Pinball update! I have to admit, I have visited ticalc pretty much every day I could for the past 4-5 years. It is rather much like an addiction. I can't see being torn from this community until wife and kids come along. I've already got plans to give my son my 86 :-)

Well, I did start working on TI Pinball II (better graphics, fixed-point math, vector-based collision, tighter code, etc), but I converted to Palm OS development while in the middle of the project. I'll make the unfinished code available to anyone if they want it, though. Who knows? Maybe I'll finish it after all.