JASS for CrASH should win...

No ti86 programs last time! Oh well, everyone was obviously too busy to write any. I've nearly finished mine. Honest.

Oh, everyone vote for Dying Eyes, best program ever except maybe Peaworm.

Ciaran

I won't say "First Comment" because someone else will beat me to it...

and nick will delete your comment if you do.

Probably. "First Comment" posts get on everyone's nerves.

Everyone vote for Dying Eyes. In case you didn't understand it the last time I said it. Vote. Vote. OK, maybe I should shut up now...

Ciaran

"First comment" posts are explicitly banned by ticalc.org

and, by saying for everyone to vote for a program, you are likely signing its death warrant on the poll, and as far as this, yes, you should shut up now...

--future martian

He he. I know. Things are not what they seem.

Knew it :)

And if you *had* gotten first comment, I would have deleted it.

But I'm not going to now.

Ironic, isn't it :)

--BlueCalx

What happens if it says

First Comment:

on the first line, and then goes on to make some REALLY valid and interesting points about the article in question?

Hmmmm?

GOTCHA! ;)

He deletes it as well. I did that once. It's the rules.

I think there should be 4 votes: 2 for TI82-86, and 2 for TI89-92+

That doesn't make sense to me. Not all people have both of those calculators.

I do

Yes, but you're not everybody. ^_^

actually there should be 6 votes. 82/83/83+ Basic/ASM, 85/86 Basic/ASM, and 89/92/92+ Basic/ASM. That way calcs and program types could be equally judged. The way it currently is now, almost always all ti-89 ASM games will win based on the number of owners of the calculator. At least this system gives fairness to the calculator type, the number of active calculator owners, and the style of programming.

Yeah, but then there would be only a few choices for each. I think the current way it makes more sense.

As an owner of an 83, 85, 86 and 89, I agree with you, especially since I program on all of them. I doubt that my programs will make it to the polls anytime soon, though because, at this point, I exclusively do BASIC math and science programs.

--future martian

imho, there should be seven:
1. 82/83/83+ game
2. 82/83/83+ nongame
3. 85/86 game
4. 85/86 nongame
5. 89/92/92+ game
6. 89/92/92+ nongame
7. best overall program
(There is an obvious reason why I am not suggesting POTM categories for the 73/80/81.)

I don't think there's a need to make a distinction between asm and basic. The best games are written in asm and nearly all nongame programs are written in BASIC, so the game/nongame distinction pretty much covers it.

That´s to much,
Three is enough.

There is one very important detail I forgot to mention in my last post. We should be able to vote for any programs and not just the featured ones.

Three *is* enough if you can only vote for featured programs, because there aren't enough featured programs for 7 POTMs. However, seven awards is a good idea if you can vote for any program and not just the featured ones.

We should be able to rank programs ourselves, on a scale from 0 to 10. In the File Info, I mean. Each month the highest ranked programs would be determined and promoted to "Program of the Month."

That would be great, especially if combined with the seven vote and user nomination systems proposed above.

--future martian

User file rankings would be great! Nick (or someone else at ticalc.org) are you reading this? Would it be possible to include user file rankings in the download pages?

Click on the link to see a previous suggestion I made awile back when this system was first put into place. It's basicially what I think the POTM should be IMHO.