Travis has been fairly amazing on this whole reorganization project--he's basically doing it himself.

In the meantime I'm monitoring filearchive@ticalc.org, which means that a) file specific correspondence will now be read and responded to, and b) the "inappropriate file" box is now monitored!

Regarding the inappropriate file box, we're working on rephrasing that soon, but in the meantime feel free to use it to report just about anything regarding the file.

you guys are doing an awesome job.

it's good to see this project, which I've been suggesting for years, finally get implemented, though its a shame it had to be a one-man undertaking.

I agree to a point, but we could not really think of a way to consistently move everything across the board and keep each other updated--especially since it gets sticky if more than one person is working on the archives at once.

lol, Nikky==Filearchiver. Congrats to both of you guys, good luck, and I hope you keep ticalc.org vibrant for many more years.

Well, I'm certainly not the first to say, congratulations guys!

I'm really glad to see this place getting back off the ground again. It's nice to be able to check here and see new files every day! I'd been noticing it for a while, but I had no idea you were behind it all, Nikky.

So is it time for me to submit my Hello World program?

j/k :)

Welcome and we're glad to have you. I surely hadn't been holding up my end of the file archiving task, mainly due to no time. Hope you guys can stay focused and give the users the response time they deserve (which I was unable to provide).

Patrick

It's nice filing something and having it approved the same day.

Wow congrats. Travis seemed pretty active at ticalc, I'm sure he will do a great job. I was surprised with Nikky since he is alerady admin of Calcgames (and is also file archiver there with tifreak8x and doing a bit of everything), but seeing his work on Calcg I'm sure he will do a very great job here on ticalc too.

Also I love the new directory layout, especially now that almost every programs has been moved to each appropriate sections. I noticed the new sections a month ago but no news were posted yet.

tifreak does all the archiving, I basically only keep the server running anymore.

(Regarding 83plus/basic/science/unitconv/)
Wouldn't it be better to put everything related to unit conversion into math/unitconv/? It seems like that would be a lot more consistent.

On a related note, is it technically possible to "symlink" from one part of the archive tree to another? For instance, keep a "unitconv" item in science/ but make it a link to math/unitconv/ instead of an actual directory.
Another way of implementing this would be to not have any files in science/unitconv/, only the message "these can be found here" (with "here" a hreffed to math/unitconv/ of course).

Good to see ticalc getting out of hibernation. Good luck Travis and Nikky!

«(Regarding 83plus/basic/science/unitconv/)
Wouldn't it be better to put everything related to unit conversion into math/unitconv/? It seems like that would be a lot more consistent.»

Well, as I went through these, I started seeing a bunch that had everything from the usual length/temperature/etc. conversions to more specialized, arguably scientific things like Joules, kinetic/potential energy, etc., all combined into one program (and being in the science directory already). This makes things a bit complicated. But since most of these units and conversions are probably usually used in science, that's why I put them there.

«On a related note, is it technically possible to "symlink" from one part of the archive tree to another? For instance, keep a "unitconv" item in science/ but make it a link to math/unitconv/ instead of an actual directory.»

It's supposed to be, but the last time I tried it I couldn't get it to work for some reason. I'm not sure if I was doing something wrong or if it was a bug. But that actually sounds like the best idea. I'll have to look into that.

Okay, there is now a link in 83plus/basic/math/unitconv to 83plus/basic/science/unitconv. The problem I was having was due to a bug that Magnus had to fix.

I can personally attest to what a good job they're doing: I submitted a file and it was up the next day. Also, when I emailed about problems with some of my older files, they were corrected within a day. As for the organization of the archives, it's great; now I don't have to wade through 1,000 programs to find a type of game that there are 10 of. Keep up the good work!

I'm unsure if I missed it but was there finally a directory added just for Yu-Gi-Oh life point counters? I remember a few years ago at least one appeared in the archives everytime Jason/Joey updated the archives

These are currently going in basic/programs/gametools (along with things like scorekeepers, strategy guides, etc.). I'm trying not to be too specific with the new directories since it helps keep the number of files in each more balanced (if that makes sense). Being relatively general with new categories will also make it easier to subdivide them further into more specific ones in the future if needed.

I am also curious if the summer screenshooting project will ever be revived? I remember they did it almost every year. There are still a lot of files with no screenshots in the archives.

I'm planning something similar to that. Stay tuned!

I just made a few changes:

* There is now a directory named 83plus/basic/math/unitconv which is a link to 83plus/basic/science/unitconv (meaning that both directories will always have the same contents)

* 83plus/basic/math/converters has been renamed to 83plus/basic/math/numconv (numeric converters) for consistency with the name ‘unitconv’

* I added a link at 83plus/basic/games/misc/gametools to 83plus/basic/programs/gametools

* 83plus/basic/graphics/screensavers has been removed and its contents moved to 83plus/basic/media/animations. I did this because there were a quite a few “screensaver” programs in media/animations already and I don't see an easy way to distinguish between “screensaver” programs (which are not always labeled as such) and static movies or animations.

And don't be surprised if the directory structure changes slightly from time to time—I plan to allow it to evolve and improve as necessary; it's not totally set in stone.

Nice work so far

On a side note I wonder if Hays ever tried to reupload files to the archives since their last appearance in October 05 with their porn website?

I don't think I've seen it happen yet. (At least, I hope I don't miss it and let it through if it does.) The most suspicious thing I've seen so far is someone (not Rusty Wagner) uploading an “update” to Virtual TI 2.5 beta 5 which had just an .exe and nothing else. It was substantially larger than the original (probably by a factor of 2 or 3, IIRC) and had absolutely no documentation or source code included describing what was changed, so I rejected it to be safe. Other than that, there haven't been too many odd things happening that I know of.

Was the exe file 1922560 bytes huge? If so then it's the hacked version of VTI that runs the Voyage 200. It's a very rare version that I only saw posted once before on yAronet french 68k TI forums around 2004-2005. I'm unsure if the download link still works considering it has been so long but I added it in Omnimaga archives back in the days (altough I obviously removed the v200 ROM from the zip file). This hack got quickly obsoleted with Tiemu though.

I don't remember, and unfortunately didn't save any copies of it before rejecting it. But, yes, it was significantly larger than the Vti.exe already on this site. I attempted to run it on WINE on my system (since I use Linux) but it never made it past the splash screen.

Lunix is for lusers.

that's kind of mean

Yeah, well, I'm a luser. What can I say. :(

You saw that too? I left it in the queue with the intention of downloading the zip, but it disappeared before I got a chance. :(