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Choice Votes   Percent
rom8x 16 10.2%   
SquirrelBox 14 8.9%   
TiEmu 58 36.9%   
TilEm 25 15.9%   
I have no opinion 44 28.0%   

Survey posted 2005-12-24 18:59 by Jon.

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Re: Favorite PC Program for 2005?
Jonathan Katz  Account Info
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Despite the fact that not only did I have my laptop crash on my this week, but also my desktop, I was still able to get the survey up :-) My desktop is just about 100% operational at this point, and I'm going to start working on my laptop shortly. I'm actually doing this on my laptop at the moment, thank you Knoppix! (That's also how I was able to save all of my data...and finally invest in an external hard drive).

Reply to this comment    24 December 2005, 19:01 GMT

Difficult Decisions
Num Account Info

rom8x, TiEmu, TilEm, Squirrelbox, were all hard to vote on since they were/are all very good. There are/were many good competitors, but I think TiEmu would be the most useful, since it emulates the v200 and the 89T. Good luck to all of them and their authors.

Reply to this comment    24 December 2005, 19:13 GMT

Re: Difficult Decisions
nexon  Account Info

I would have to agree, TIEmu has simply become the best emulator out there, replacing the old Emulator VTI for the 68k series calculators.

Reply to this comment    24 December 2005, 19:35 GMT


Re: Difficult Decisions
nyall Account Info
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Read the review of squirrelbox. (above link)
It is not 'very good'

Reply to this comment    24 December 2005, 22:01 GMT

Re: Re: Difficult Decisions
Num Account Info

Fine, excuse me for not looking into every single litte, minute, fine, casual, inconsiderable, insignificant, light, minor, minute, negligible, paltry, petty, shoestring, small, trifling, trivial, atomic, diminutive, eentsy-weentsy, exact, exiguous, fine, inconsiderable, infinitesimal, insignificant, invisible, itsy-bitsy, itty-bitty, Lilliputian, little, microbic, microscopic, miniature, minim, minimal, minuscule, molecular, peewee, piddling, precise, pulverized, puny, slender, teensy, teeny-weeny, tiny, wee, blow-by-blow, careful, circumstantial, clocklike, close, critical, detailed, elaborate, exhaustive, full, itemized, meticulous, painstaking, particular, particularized, precise, punctilious, scrupulous, specialized, and thorough detail.

Reply to this comment    25 December 2005, 01:19 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Difficult Decisions
Snave2000  Account Info

A most thorough reply.

Reply to this comment    25 December 2005, 01:38 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Difficult Decisions
nyall Account Info
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The review calmly explains why it isn't functional. It produces illegal assembly. Thats what a review is for.

You made a nice unoffensive blanket statement and I pointed out that it was sort of wrong. Its not worth getting bent out of shape

Reply to this comment    25 December 2005, 01:50 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Difficult Decisions
Kevin Kofler Account Info
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Your post is an abuse, assault, attack, discourtesy, disrespect, mistreatment, misuse, perversion, revilement of a thesaurus. ;-)

Reply to this comment    25 December 2005, 02:56 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Difficult Decisions
calkfreak83  Account Info
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Wow.. I don't think I could come up with that many synonyms at once..

Reply to this comment    25 December 2005, 04:37 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Difficult Decisions
Anidn Ménoscwicz  Account Info
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I hate, abhor, deplore, and dislike redundancy and repetetiveness.

Reply to this comment    25 December 2005, 06:04 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Difficult Decisions
something1990 Account Info

Really? I find it helpful, beneficial, not unhelpful, not unbeneficial, and good to be repetitive...

Reply to this comment    26 December 2005, 18:04 GMT


Re: Re: Difficult Decisions
MafiaMan  Account Info

Have you ever actually tried it? It's actually quite nice. I must admit it can't compare variables very well but it's still in a development stage. It's also the only Java-like language for z80 calcs.

Reply to this comment    25 December 2005, 03:06 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Difficult Decisions
nyall Account Info
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nope I haven't. I code in 68k asm.
But even if I did have a z80 calc, I'm not going to code in a language based on the promise that someday it'll work. I wouldn't do that for any platform.

Reply to this comment    25 December 2005, 03:40 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Difficult Decisions
MafiaMan  Account Info

What's nice about the compiler not working is that you have to learn asm so it does work.

Reply to this comment    25 December 2005, 04:31 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Difficult Decisions
Denial  Account Info

Huh? Wait, so you're saying that the point of this compiler that makes it so great is exactly that it is SO bad that it forces you to program in assembly? If I wanted something to encourage me to learn assembly, I'd hire someone to poke me in the butt every time I started programming in BASIC.

Reply to this comment    25 December 2005, 13:33 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Difficult Decisions
MafiaMan  Account Info

No, what I'm saying is that because it's not working I'm considering learning asm. You're idea costs more and hurts a lot more.

Reply to this comment    26 December 2005, 00:45 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Difficult Decisions
jesse frey  Account Info

I think that a good working compiler helps you to learn asm more than one that doesn't work. because you can learn how to program for the calc whith a high level languadge that you (hopefuly) have used before before you try a new launguadge.

Reply to this comment    29 December 2005, 23:47 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Difficult Decisions
burntfuse  Account Info
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Yeah, you can look at the output and see how it matches the high-level code.

Reply to this comment    30 December 2005, 00:35 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Difficult Decisions
KermMartian  Account Info
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That got a sincere lol from me.

Reply to this comment    27 December 2005, 12:40 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Difficult Decisions
burnsn Account Info

I agree. Despite what the review says, it is really very useful to someone like me who is too lazy to code asm from scratch.

Reply to this comment    25 December 2005, 22:29 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Difficult Decisions
Gergely Patai  Account Info
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Now, you made me curious. What can you do with it? What have you used it for so far?

Reply to this comment    26 December 2005, 07:50 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Difficult Decisions
burnsn Account Info
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Although pretty much useless as a program, I made this nearly entirely using SquirrelBox, with a minimal amount of editing done by me. (see link)

Reply to this comment    30 December 2005, 01:26 GMT

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