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File Invitation System Announced
Posted by Michael on 1 April 2005, 05:46 GMT

We will be moving within the next month to an invitation-only system for all BASIC programs in our archives. This will involve several stages. All BASIC programs will be removed from our archives. Backups will be kept and will be available upon request for authors who don't have a copy of their work. Now don't panic about your quadratic solvers just yet - you will be able to upload your programs back into our archives. The difference is that from now on an invitation code will be required to do so.

Each author in our archives will be given invitation codes, one per each ASM program. The assembly authors can then select BASIC programs to approve from a list of pending potential files. When an author is out of codes, that's it. This will accomplish two things: The number of BASIC programs and assembly programs will be at most a 1:1 ratio. This should clean up the quality of our BASIC programs and ensure only the innovative and well-written programs are in our archives. Second, we hope this will increase the number of program reviews as authors will be inspecting all of the BASIC programs closely. In the case of older programs where the original authors may no longer be active, we will be manually reviewing those programs and will put them into the approval queue as needed.

Before we finalize this drastic change, we are soliciting comments about the idea. Please post in this news article with any suggestions. In the interim, BASIC programmers can e-mail basic-invite@ticalc.org to request that when we purge the archives, their programs be automatically placed in a potential queue to be re-added. Please put, and only put the file id of your program in the subject line (one per e-mail). The content of the body does not matter. You can find the id of your files by the number in the URL of their file information pages (e.g. "12345.html").

I understand that many BASIC programmers are going to have misgivings about this, but please try to keep an open mind and realize that in the long run, our archives will be more relevant to visitors.

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File Invitation System Announced
Kevin Boyer  Account Info

Goddangit! I didn't even remember it being April Fools, for a few moments I was like: Hurray! Hurray! But alas... This would (in my opinion) be a pretty good idea. But no more.

Reply to this comment    1 April 2005, 14:40 GMT


Re: File Invitation System Announced
Michael McElroy Account Info
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Uh... no. It would be a horrid idea. It wouldn't promote improvement in the quality of approved BASIC programs - it would just encourage people to submit crappy little ASM programs so they could get an invitation code.

Reply to this comment    1 April 2005, 14:56 GMT


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_RCTParRoThEaD_  Account Info
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Hello lord_nightrose.

Reply to this comment    3 April 2005, 07:23 GMT

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Morgan Davies  Account Info
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Hello RCT! How are the guitar forums going? :-) Hey does Joey still have you blocked too? :-)

Reply to this comment    5 April 2005, 08:19 GMT

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no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Yo, RCT! Is this your third account here? ;-)

Reply to this comment    6 April 2005, 23:06 GMT


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Michael McElroy Account Info
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'sup girl?

Reply to this comment    8 April 2005, 12:47 GMT

Re: File Invitation System Announced
tdavis07 Account Info

I don't like this a all. Even if it is a joke, it is a mean one. I have several useful BASIC programs. There not uploaded because I can't get my calc link to work. I've been trying to learn ASM, but it is rough. If anyone can recomend a ASM tutorial for the 83+/84+ let me know. The email idea is nice, but it doesn't look like it can be use to upload new files.

Mabey I should just fish and not worry about this.
Walleye what I want...

Reply to this comment    1 April 2005, 14:43 GMT

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tdavis07 Account Info

Another thing, if they were going to get rid of the BASIC archives, why did they just upload new BASIC programs.

Reply to this comment    1 April 2005, 14:49 GMT


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Shawn Zhang Account Info

Agreed, its a joke. On a side note, it seems like 99.99% of submitted files are crap and BASIC. Of the remaining .01%, it appears that half is crappy levelsets for crappy games, about another half of that .01% is crappy ASM progs.

Reply to this comment    1 April 2005, 18:20 GMT

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Coolv  Account Info
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So everything in the archives is crappy.

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 02:34 GMT


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Shawn Zhang Account Info

Finally somebody that agrees!

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 15:31 GMT


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aml1358  Account Info
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U forgot the occasional game or two. Takes up about 0.001%.

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 20:14 GMT


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Jake Griffin  Account Info
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I honestly think that there are more good (good meaning I kept them on my calc more than a week) math/science programs than there are good games...games are fun, but most get tiring. Math/science programs are useful especially if written by yourself...I find that if I am able to write a program to solve, for example, physics problems, it helps me understand the topic and not even need the program for anything but checking my work...

Reply to this comment    4 April 2005, 03:36 GMT


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burntfuse  Account Info
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Hey, if you don't like any of the programming languages used for calcs (in one of your later posts) or any of the programs in the archives, why do you come here? (No offense, just wondering.) Actually, there's tons of great stuff in the archives! I would post a list, but I'm sure that would count as inappropriate use of the message boards.

Reply to this comment    3 April 2005, 19:26 GMT

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CajunLuke  Account Info
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83pa28d

TI-83 Plus ASM in 28 Days - so much the best manual that it is effectively the only one out there

Reply to this comment    1 April 2005, 16:55 GMT

Re: Re: File Invitation System Announced
Andree Chea  Account Info
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The Independent Z80 Assembly Guide (written by the same person who wrote Acelgoyobis) is not bad for a beginner either.

^link^

Reply to this comment    1 April 2005, 19:41 GMT


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John Carlson  Account Info
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>>>If anyone can recomend a ASM tutorial for the 83+/84+ let me know.

Learn TI-83 Plus Assembly In 28 Days:
http://www.dragon-fire.org/Asmin28

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 03:26 GMT

April, fools!
Timmc Account Info
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I waited until April 2nd to visit ticalc.org to see April 1st news post; knowing the time difference; and OMG! YUS! Basic is teh kewlness!

Giving users such responsibility will go largely unused with a lot of the archive not being downloaded often (excluding spider downloaders) and when they're the user doesn't bother to rate the file.

Although a few more sections could be added to the Basic archives. Specific Games folders and subjects for Math programs... and Science/Chemistry/Physics etc. That would atleast sort out the junk.

Bandwidth shouldn't really be such an issue with the archive being about 600MB (not including PC related software) and serving a little over 30,000 files. *random guesses at stats*

Reply to this comment    1 April 2005, 15:55 GMT


Re: April, fools!
Michael McElroy Account Info
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You may well be the only TICalc-er who lives so far to the East that it's already April 2. It's 12:35 PM here :B

Reply to this comment    1 April 2005, 17:36 GMT

Re: Re: April, fools!
Shawn Zhang Account Info

Its 1:17 in Michigan right now...

Reply to this comment    1 April 2005, 18:21 GMT


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Shawn Zhang Account Info

now its 4:37...

Reply to this comment    1 April 2005, 21:42 GMT


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tdavis07 Account Info

now its 9:11

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 14:10 GMT


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Shawn Zhang Account Info

now its 10:29

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 15:34 GMT


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aml1358  Account Info
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we can stop now...

Reply to this comment    2 April 2005, 20:15 GMT


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Ryan_McClain Account Info
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lol

Reply to this comment    7 April 2005, 19:15 GMT


Re: Re: April, fools!
Drantin  Account Info

Hah... I'm from TX (as my profile should say) but by volunteering to live in a steel cage I'm in port Okinawa atm... it's currently 11:10 AM here... on the 3rd

Reply to this comment    3 April 2005, 02:09 GMT

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