I think it would be nice if the file descriptions had an optional link to a web page

hey, i know for a fact, becuase i helped make them, that if you go to Dimension-Ti you can see a screen shot for every game, description AND a link to either a website or if they dont have one to the authors, email address.

but dim-ti doesnt have all the newest versions, and some of da archives are fubar

that's only cuz they're overhauling, in like a week or two, everything'll be fine

what the (bleep) is wrong with this string? did someone forget how to set margins--back to html school for you (j\k)

Cool, but I'm still waiting for the final version of SimCity85 for the TI-85... come on, anyone know when the final version will be released??? Good news people: I'm working on StarCraft for the Ti-85... due to memory contraints (i'm expecting the game to be around 64KB, currently it's 20KB), I'm gonna move to the TI-86 instead. Maybe I'll buy an 86 new month :)

Simcity on the 85 is canceled cuz Kirk Meyer retired. Starcraft would be a pain on the 86 due to the 11K size limit.

The ti-85 Simcity was being done by a different guy, so we may still see it

but maxis might just sue this guy as well...

No it wouldn't. It would be much, much easier on the 86. There is no 11k limit. You might be refering to the 11k limit that ASE and Rascall place on emulated 85/82 programs. But no such limit exists when programming.

The 86 has a special "_asm_exec_ram" area that is used for running assembly programs. When an assembly program is run, it is relocated to this 8k area and then run.

The 86 also has an entire (almost) 16k ram page that is just temporary memory for asm programming as well. The 85 has no such free memory, at least not when it is full of programs. The 86 has this ram even when you have 96k of data on the calculator (note that when the package says that it has 128k of ram, it is indeed correct, though only 96k is available to permanently store variables).

The 86's hardware allows it to have more ram than the 85 accessable at once. It would be possible to have almost 48k available to an asm program if the VAT and other data on ram page 7 (the last one) was relocated to another page, along with all the system vars on page 0 that are located before _asm_exec_ram. Of course, the stack would have to be moved as well, but it would be possible to have 48k of continuous memory to run an asm program.

That 32k (including all variables stored on the calc!) on the 85 is beginning to look a little small, isn't it? ;-)

I love StarCraft, but can't afford another calculator!

Make StarCraft for an 83+, instead!

Very interresting site.
Congratulations

That's all very well but I think you should make it easier to upload files... how about an explorer interface like your archives have? Or one of those EZ upload scripts that Geocities have to upload files? Or an email address like Dimension TI? I know this may sound stupid but I don't like FTP much because I have to buy a FTP client... I'm trying to upload a file to TiCalc at the moment :(

i think its pretty easy
netscape allows you to upload files, just click on file/upload when you're at the incoming dir

You may e-mail your ZIP files to filearchive@ticalc.org if you wish.

Thanks for the info. I'll do it!
In response to the other reply, I use M$ IE 4.0 as it is generally better (I've used both). I don't understand why TiCalc can't do an interface like it's Explorer interface - that's cool!

Haven't you seen http://www.ticalc.org/explorer/ ?

is it just me or has this page not been updated in a while

Yeah, your right.. but then again, neither has the ti-files or Dimension TI.. and it's not their fault if the "scene" is slow for a while

click on archives then go down to you see where they tell you how upload then click on the cgi link and look at the pull down thing and look at all of the pending programs that shows thos week has been very productive

Actually, the list you will see there are the programs that have been uploaded into the /incoming directory, but have had no information registered (such as description and author). The correctly uploaded files (which are normally processed faster) are not visible.

So do all of those files just sit in Limbo for their entire existence? Will they ever be checked, sorted, and maybe archived as "anonymous" or something?

Yes, I will check them every once in a while and archive the good ones and delete the rest.