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I don't know for 86, but Mega Man's a great game for sure ^^

Mega Man 86 is GREAT, if that's what you meant...

It's a miracle! They used the message!

-TrumpetMan

I missed it, but I think I know what that message said ;-) Anyway, did MegaMan 86 ever receive a POTM? I can't remember.

I wonder what the message said...but I guess it does not really matter. The Mega Man 86 demo won a POTM, but POTM was stopped before the final version came out.

Well, it was a pretty cool program. That doesn't surprise me that it got POTM. Oh, you'd probably remember the message... think back a year or so... it was all he said. :-D At least he was supporting your game. LOL

Glad to hear it was good, hate to think it was a waste of two years. :)

BTW, his constant "advertising" for the game was actually what prompted me to download it and check it out (I had to use VTI, though). It is pretty cool.

All the message said was that you should play MegaMan 86. :-)

That is what I assumed, since it was the title of the message I replied to. But, it is rarely safe to assume anything in my experience. :)

I assumed it was that since that was his saying back then.

From what the replies are saying, it seems like it was on-topic and shouldn't have been removed in the first place....

From what some people are suggesting it seems as if he may have been advertising a site with rom dumps on it to use vti to play it... which *would* be against the AUP...

OK, so maybe it did deserve to be removed....

See? And you guys said that he did not use that anymore.

-W-

Congratulations! I'm glad to see that at some people here are POTY-trained! I tried to enter the conest but I had an accident!

Yeah, I know what you mean...I hate it when I don't make it to the bathroom in time as well... j/k :)

LOL!!!! That's pretty funny... I didn't even see that the first time. :-D

LOL!! Pretty good....I guess POTY is a good name after all....easier to make jokes about...

Congratulations! (How I hate you people who get their programs featured!!! and win the awards!!!)

Mine I just asked if mine could be featured...
and once more I got runner up in a ti calc contest...

>> I just asked if mine could be featured...

Hmm...no you didn't??

Yeah... it was actually featured originally because of the sweet screenshot, though it probably would have been newsworthy anyway. Asking us to feature your own file actually makes it slightly less likely that we will.

>> Asking us to feature your own file actually makes it slightly less likely that we will.

Really? I thought I saw somewhere that Morgan wanted to be be e-mailed about programs that are worthy of being featured.

MWM

I think the idea is that you would nominate other programmer's work, not your own. Having someone else email ticalc saying your program is good might suggest that it deserves to be featured. Suggesting that your own program is good just wastes their time (would you trust a review of a game written by its own author?).

Exactly-programs nominated by people *other than the author* are more likely to be good.

>> Asking us to feature your own file actually makes it slightly less likely that we will.

Not true, we actually are beginning to encourage this!

>> Really? I thought I saw somewhere that Morgan wanted to be be e-mailed about programs that are worthy of being featured.

Yep! Of course something that has been on ticalc.org for some time might be harder to convince us. But I personally think that the standard for making programs featured has been increasing ever since ticalc.org has started featuring programs, almost to the point where it is indimidating to even try. We need to talk about this and see if the "standard" is too high and if it should be lowered.

No, please DON'T start featuring Quadratic Solvers. :-)

HAHA ROFL....far from it! :-)

Actually we are not allowing any more quadratic or guess the number programs in unless they offer something new for the calc they are programmed for. We have 500+ for each and we seriously don't need anymore.

What more could you possibly add, at this point? ;-) LOL People have done everything.

They could be windowed or MDI, they could have animations, they could be interactive, they could have cursors, they could be TSRs, they could be modules in other programs...

Animations? For a quadratic formula program? That would be funny...

x^2 + 10x + 25 = 0

((BOOM!))

x = 5

Ooooh, look at my animated quadratic formula program!

http://www.geocities. com/blackthunder746 /ThundersGFTIC /QuadForm.gif

Take out the spaces.
Or click the link above.

Hehe... those are the only two programs I have on ticalc... although it was a while ago...

Okay, I guess that means I should forget uploading GuessNumber 85. ;) Oh, well, I never planned on uploading it anyways.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't!!!! (What idiots keep on writing them for the 86, anyways, when the calculator has a built-in polynomial solver?)

OMG...someone else knows about that!!! I don't feel like suck a loner now.

I've seen all kinds of programs for the 86 that duplicate existing functions, and not even as well as the built-in ones...quadratic solvers, equation solvers, multiple equation solvers, etc.

You mean 'such', right?

Really? I could've sworn I'd asked in an e-mail or on the comments of when I'd uploaded the original file...speaking of which, is there any way to change the file descriptions? I found some gramatical errors in some that I uploaded and I'm that kinda guy, not wanting to have crappy l33t or anything like that to do with my stuff, ya know? And I don't wanna have to go through adding it to the queue again ¬_¬

You lazy butt, just upload/update it!! :-)

I can do it manually...but not going to waste m time for something that you can do yourself. Now who sounds like the lazy butt?

Yeah, but in reuploading it that means there's someone who has to do some work on your guys' side to do that updating as well, rather than just me, the author of the program, updating my program's description right then and there without having to wait for anyone to update on the archiver's side...Just wanting to save you people some work is all V_V

I'd assume it would be more work for them to edit it manually. They upload tons of files daily, so it's probably a very quick routine to them, by now.

Now, I have been wondering for quite some time now... does your screen name mean "Mickey Mouse Fan" or "Michael McElroy Fan?" Just wondering.. :)

I always thought it was "Mega Man".... :-[

It probably is, but I don't think he ever said.

Maniac Mansion Fan.
I wanna get it changed but in a little while it won't matter :P

It takes considerably less time for me to update a program than edit the description myself.

I believe at one point in time the idea of allowiong author's to edit their descriptions was toyed with...but the whole site policies kicked in and the idea of having people change their descriptions without the change being approved by an archiver would be potentially bad.

And if we did have it go through to be checked by the archiver, it would be no different from an update besides the fact that it shows up on the front page.

Yeah, the fromt page thing is what i am talking about. It gives you more exposure.

-W-

It does. The weekly downloads of my programs always spike when I update them.

Yep. That's why I update often. :D

But i'm not saying YOU do it, I'm saying the authors THEMSELVES do the editting, you people at ticalc.org don't even see it (well, for the most part. Of course you'd have to have some sort of filter or something).

Then contribute something to the archives, if you are the universal authority on how everything 'stinks.'

I think he was kidding. Though you can never be sure...