>>and we hope to have an even better news system in the future

How could they improve it? There are already 10-second posts and almost-real-time conversations!

The BASIC-app thing sounds interesting...does it store each program as data in the app, then when one needs to be run, copy it to RAM as a new program, run it, and then delete it? (I was pretty sure it didn't do any kind of BASIC-assembly conversion.)

most likely it runs the TI-Basic commands as the tokens they are, using sprites and text to fill in the data (easy in asm). No extravagent conversion would really be needed. I wonder why my TI-Basic Porter's gotten so very little ttention. It ports TI code from any TI to any and all others almost instantly (.htm files)

Um...
It just decompresses the compressed TI-Basic games to ram and runs them.

That's what I was guessing! :-)

You're horrible at sneaking in ads for your programs. Me on the other hand, my program "3d Parametric Surfaces" for the TI-89 that graphs 3-dimensional parametric surfaces, I could advertise that and no one (not no_one) would know what hit 'em. Also, my TI-Palm OS program that stores contact info? that's a great program... :)

>>How could they improve it? There are already 10-second posts and almost-real-time conversations!

I guess if you really wanted, you could ask them to make a chat room for real real-time conversations.

However I'm not particularly endorsing this as a good idea...

Acutally that is a great idea.

Wait a minute..... They already have an IRC chat, no?

-W_

Oh ya I forgot about that.

Just realized how the news system could be improved-THAT IDIOTIC NEWS EDITOR COULD STOP DELETING ON-TOPIC COMMENTS!!!!!! A WHILE AGO, I GAVE SOMEONE HELP ON SITE NAVIGATION, AND THAT WAS DELETED ALONG WITH ANOTHER *PERFECTLY ON-TOPIC* ONE I POSTED IN THE "TICALC.ORG DOWNTIME" ARTICLE. ALSO, IN THE "COMMAND POST" ARTICLE, SOMEONE ELSE SAYS THAT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEIR OTHER *ON-TOPIC* COMMENTS IN THAT ARTICLES HAS BEEN DELETED. I ALSO JUST REALIZED THAT A DISCUSSION IN WHICH I WAS INVOLVED WAS REMOVED FROM THIS ARTICLE, AND IT *WAS ABOUT CALCULATOR MODELS!!!!!!* WE NEED TO STOP ALL THESE LEGITIMATE COMMENTS FROM BEING POINTLESSLY REMOVED!!!!!!!

Whoohoo! Merry Christmas!
I got a TI-89!

So many mathematical and other features! *gasp*

Yay! Congratulations! The TI-89 is the best calculator you will ever put hands on. Have fun. :-D

Or put mouth on...I mean...ummm...never mind...*shrinks away*

HAHAHAHAHA!!!! I am in love with my calculator! :-* :-*

I've been called obsessed with calcs, and even I like girls better than calcs in THAT way....

mathematical?
is that why u got an 89?

No, not really. Though it kind of does algebra and precalculus for you.

A few comments about basicbuilder

I was wondering if this could be used to allow ti-73's to have extra basic programs on them?
also, would it be possible to create a hex app, load it in the debugger, and use the link feature to send it to a real ti-73?

This looks good, and maybe it will fix that problem everyone has with 1.16/mirageos/trying to run basic progs from mirage

What is the problem that 1.16 has with running BASIC?

More to the point, when you are at a prompt or input in a BASIC program that was archived and you hit [2ND] [QUIT], does it creat a little program called Z.1,? It eats up ram, and I am annoyed with people coming to me saying they cannot play games and tis being the problem.

-W-

I don't have access to a ti73 so I can't really test it. But I might try to port it using the flash debugger.

The problem with mirageos is that something changed in os 1.13 that makes the basic execution very unstable. Thus you need to get an os lower than 1.13 to make mirageos execute basic programs without problems.

I just remembered that we don't have any freeware key for the ti73. Thus you would have to let ti sign every app you generate. I don't think it's worth it to port it if you can't sign the apps yourself.

I've tried the freeware key on a TI83+ flashapp with the header changed to indicate TI73, and along with changing the program, it outputs a .8xk that works fine on the flash simulator in TI73 mode.

Never tested it on the real thing though. It might or might not work.

Will not. The simulator accepts anything.

Well, that would explain why 83+ SE's ALWAYS clear your RAM after using Mirage to run Basic progs. The OS my SE came with was 1.13...
Hey! Could you send 1.12 to a SE? I wonder...