Good. Now my friends who are calculator newbies won't complain to me as much that there aren't any games for their calculator.

I think this was a smart move. We don't need any more newbies complaining!

Yes, the move was hella legit.

Sorry for using slang. The above statement in formal English is as follows:

Yes, the move is extremely commendable.

i dont think this is really smart. first of all, the archives are so freakin crowded that 1) it takes forever to load, and 2) it takes forever just to scroll past A, which puts the programs starting at A at an advantage since they get more downloads. The last thing we need is a merge where there's even more files to sort through and compatibility problems, however slight, may come up.

yeah, I saw the heading's changed eariler today....I wondered what was up.

me too.
so jealous of the timerize author's free news plug o_0

Is there a reason it's not going to be "TI-83 Plus / TI-84 Plus"? Right now a newbie might think that the TI-83/TI-84+ means a regular 83.

It still shows two seperate directories on the root listing, although they both link to the same actual directory. Is this intended?

Also, the page at http://www.ticalc.org/pub/83plus/ still says 83+ (doesn't say anything about the 84+)

File info also has the old directory descriptions.

I wasn't told exactly what to name them....however everything that you mentioned I did on purpose. I called it "83/84 Plus" becasue that was the shortest. In my mind its not a big deal. If I get a lot of people complaining about it or people begin to upload '83' files into this directory (A LOT) then we might consider changing it. But still its not a big issue at the moment.

You'd have to be pretty special to not notice "83" above "83/84 Plus" and then expect the "83" to be duplicated inside the "84 Plus" directory. *for any n00bs reading, this is not the case*
Hopefully this change will deter users from porting other programmers basic games from the 83+ to 84+.
"Guess The Number (84 Plus Editon)" OMG!OMG!OMG!

*checks directory structure*
Thank goodness, it hasn't changed for my files! I'd have to update the friggin database on my site otherwise...

You mean you hotlink files from this site?

*shhhhhhh!*
Actually, yes I do.
The download links say "Download from www.ticalc.org" next to them. That way I can log statistics and make sure that the files are always the most up to date.
Observe by clicking the web page button above. (note - site is not yet finished)

Good. Now to be really fair you should make a titianium section. There are REAL compatibility issues there.

Aye, aye.

Definitely, considering I've crashed my calculator 9 times within 5 weeks mainly with ASM and C programs...and thankfully super start was there to recover the archives on crashes #2-9.

Mine's crashed at least once per day for the last week and a half. Specifics follow (please help):

My Voyage 200 is having problems running ASM programs. Monster makes a blue screen ("of death"), and Space Dementia I makes a black bar across the top. I am running 2.09, clock on, APPs Desktop off, running isl, and I have Xpanded my calculator. Can anyone help? I have already reloaded the AMS, but the problem is recurrent.

Agreed.

er, "titianium"?
I know of a TI-89 titanium...but no TI-89titianium

I guess thats why there's no TI89 titianium section....

*glares*

-W-

Spelling Nazi.

just as long as he's not a bathroom Nazi

Sure, but all new programs are going to be compatible and there is no way authors are going to upload them to all FOUR directories. I'd just keep picking the 89 one arbitrarily. So the Titanium directory wouldn't be of much use.

Not sure. You still can target only the ti-89 (called TI-89 classic inside tigcc) due to limitation of the Titanium. And old programs (except Kernel Programs) are not compatible, except if you use GhostBuster + HW3-Patch.

You can drop the "except kernel programs"...
* You need the HW3Patch to be able to even install a kernel (except TitaniK, but you don't like that one, so...).
* You still need to patch them. PreOs 0.70 does it automatically and without asking the user, but it is still patching them. And your patcher doesn't even fix all the compatibility problems GhostBuster fixes, only a very small subset.

Cf news about PreOS 0.70 for more details.

Specially since it is a different calculator!
If you read the Product Id of the 68k calculators, you will get:
TI-92+: 1
TI-89 : 3
V200 : 8
Titanium: 9
So it is clear, that the Titanium is not a ti-89 calculator but another one.

The same holds true for the 83+, 83+SE, 84+, and 84+SE. (At least between the 83+/SE and 84+?SE.)

As far as TIGCC is concerned, the Titanium is just a TI-89 HW3.

Rationale: There will be no other TI-89 HW3 (TI has discontinued production of the "classic" 89), so it's a unique identifier (we have a HW_VERSION pseudoconstant even in _nostub mode for quite some time now), and we can't give a non-0 value to CALCULATOR on an 89-family calculator because this would break source compatibility with the tons of programs writing CALCULATOR?foo:bar. Also, the keyboard layout is practically the same between the 89 and the Titanium (the Titanium keyboard has just been distorted by a curve freak, but other than that it's the same), so there is no reason for the typical game or utility to conditionalize on Titanium or not. Launchers or shells will indeed need to conditionalize on HW3, but they should conditionalize on the hardware version, not on the calculator model, in order to accomodate for future HW3 V200-family models.