Close the poll: WFRNG wins all.

So there is:
* an ASCII art TI-BASIC RPG, ported to the TI-81 by removing features until it fitted (Illusiat),
* the first ever assembly shell for the TI-81, a calculator which doesn't even have a link port (Unity).

To me, it's clear what's the higher technical achievement!

I actually added features. The battle system is much less broken than the original. The only thing that was toned down is graphics and controls.

I voted for Unity, though, because I never thought a calc with no link port could even run ASM without any hardware mods, yet Benjamin and Randy did it.

The POTY vote isn't asking "What's the highest technical achievement", but rather "What's the best program?".

It's a small but important distinction. :)

ok, so what if someone gets featured this month?
Will they be added to the poll?

Nope, December features go onto the next year's poll. =)

Why, do you happen to have a secret TI-81 project on the table? :) Good luck to both the contestants.

He's talking about a ti-83plus series.

A few questions. There will be more categories, right?
I hope so :)

Anyways, how to vote?

Yes there will. Also the poll is located on the front page in the sidebar.

Looks to me like these are the TI-83/+/SE/84+/SE candidates for 2010:

Age of Culture II (hybrid, featured in May)
Axe Parser (ASM, featured in May)
Bubble Breaker (ASM, featured in July)
Geometry Wars (ASM, featured in July)
xLIB (ASM, featured in July)
The Impossible Game (ASM, featured in August)
Contra83 (BASIC, featured in August)
Doors CS 7 (ASM, featured in August
Space Dash 1.2 (Axe, featured in September)
Splut (Axe, featured in October)
Mimas (ASM, featured in October)
Cuberunner (Axe, featured in October)
Simul (Axe, featured in November)
Bejewelled (ASM, featured in November)
Puyo Puyo (Axe, featured in November)

Wow, Travis and Chronomex and Nikky, I think different categories, like "utilities/shells/libraries" and "games" might be in order here. :) What do you guys think?

Also, there's only a single TI-82 candidate (Robot Wars), so that pretty much wins that category by default.

Yeah I wonder if they'll do different ones? In 2004 they didn't, though, even with 20 83+ programs and 40+ 68K ones. For 68K programs, they even split the survey in two parts.

Puyo Puyo was actually made in assembly, not Axe, but was only featured recently even though it was made over a year ago. Also, you forgot about Pyoro which was featured in January.

I think its awesome there was a poll this year for the 81 series calculators! Two really impressive programs I definitely wouldn't have though possible for the 81, good luck to both contestants!

Travis has really been hard at work this year! I don't think we'll split them out by type of program. It's a little subjective, and would lead to having maybe too many surveys.

I think that splitting them up is a good idea. This is definitely too many programs to only have one POTY award for the entire 83+ category. I myself am rooting for Axe Parser as the POTY of this year, but there are so many programs. I thus propose three different methods by which we can split the award:

1. Split up by category, "utils" and "games"
2. Split up by year they were made, "Yesteryear" and "2010" (this is the one I've mentioned several times, although I think there are better ideas)
3. Award honorable mentions to the second and third place winners in the survey

Good luck to all 15 of the contestants, no matter what the awesome staff decides to do!

Well, regardless of what they decide to do, tomorrow will mark the next stage of POTY, I believe!

On a side note I think this is the earliest POTTY in ages. I remember a few years ago it sometimes started in mid-December and results would be announced in February. :P

Interesting. I noticed that there were no computer utilities featured this year.

Which means that while we have two new calculator polls, and one "wins by default" calculator section, but minus one "regular" poll.

FWIW, SourceCoder 2.5 was featured, but I don't know if that really counts since it's not an archive upload. :)

Well, it wasn't listed in the Featured Programs page, so probably not.

Same thing (sort of?) with PS3JB - mentioned on ticalc.org but not uploaded and officially "featured".

Yeah. I'm pretty sure we only feature programs that live on ticalc.org.

Correction: There is one computer utility featured this year: tiosmod OS patcher + amspatch TI-68k OS patch

Oh, whoops, I forgot about that.

So it wins by default.