I was wondering when this was going to come out...

>Open source fanatics: Attack!
Agghh!!! WINE stands for [W]ine [I]s [N]ot an [E]mulator - it just provides a Win32 API. We forgive you, Jon. ;-)

BTW, about the cross-platform tools mentioned in the newsletter - if you go to the revsoft.org forums, you'll see Spencer's assembler, which according to him should be easy to port to *nix systems. There's also zasm in the archives here, which seems to work pretty well, even though it can only generate 83+ output files so far. <shameless_plug> Also, I'm working on an Assembly Studio-like GTK frontend for command-line Z80 assemblers. Right now it has about the functionality of a text editor with buggy syntax highlighting, but if anyone would like to beta test that would be great... </shameless_plug>

Actually, he alread did! I'm gonna test it out in a while but he says it 'should' work.

Oh, so he's released the source already? *can't wait to test it*

except its endian specific and thus wont run on PPC.

Oh well, I use an x86 anyways. ;-)

still leaves me without a decent compiler on my mac.

About how long does it take for an uploaded program to appear on this sight?

About a week or so. If you want it faster, yell at my professors to stop giving me work.

there hasnt been any new posts for over a week (about 10 days), and i know that there are submitted entries (since i submitted one)

I missed the april fool's joke... anyone care to fill me in?

Sure. ticalc set up a fake web page that made it look like they didn't renew their domain and lost the page, but all the links went ot either the education.ti.com ot ticalc.com page.

See this link to see what it looked like. :)

Link don't work no more (I hate grammar).

ok back on to the actual topic

nice newsletter! you missed 1 statement

"beware the power of the v200" (yoda to luke)

and a spinoff

"beware the power of the ti 99A!!!"

for all those who dont spend hours looking at and worshipping calculators the ti99a was discontinued if i am correct. i also heard it had wireless internet but that is just a rumor.

Wireless Internet?!?! Not a chance. This this is early-to mid-eighties. Try no Internet capability whatsoever.

And no, I disagree (about the v200 "quote"). I spent several hours making these. I didn't miss anything, moreover, it's a "Top 10" list: there was no room for an eleventh item.

when my dad was in college he and some friends hacked a ti calculator to speak its answers.

wish he still has the code/hardware schematics for it. of course that was on a ti-50 something iirc

Um, yeah, the only Internet access was over phone lines.

HAVE YOU SEEN THAT THING? IT IS THE SIZE OF A KEYBOARD! IT'S A MONSTER! CHECK LINK!!!!!

That's because it's a computer.
And there is no "TI-99A". There's a "TI-99/4" and a "TI-99/4A", but no "TI-99A".

calc.org needs help. i was just visitting the link, and it seems like it used to be similar to ticalc.org.
Any PHP/MySQL coders with mod_rewrite experience should take a look at the link (which is under the 'other sites' column, unless you changed your account preferences)
or you can type www.calc.org into your browser.

It was kind of like a combination of ticalc/hpcalc/and a hypothetical casiocalc IIRC... It suffered mostly from being managed by people who lost interest in calculators easily... Or at least coding a web site for them... Personally, I didn't really like the interface to the archives over there that much...