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Virtual TI Surpasses ZShell For Most Downloaded File
Posted by Steve on 20 May 2000, 03:20 GMT
Virtual TI just passed ZShell v4.0 in the top downloaded files list. Each file has close to 50,000 downloads - 10,000 more than the third most downloaded file. ZShell has held this record from the time ticalc.org was created. Without ZShell, ticalc.org and the TI calculator community would not exist. VTI has made great progress over the past year and has been trailing ZShell for quite some time. Congratulations to Rusty Wagner for this outstanding achievement. Update (Nick): Here's some added information I was going to put in my news post, but Steve got the drop on me. Enjoy! :) In the four years that ticalc.org has been around, ZShell has *always* been the top download. It was almost a fixation on our site. The original ZShell page was merged into ticalc.org at the beginning of the site, so it's no surprise that it would rank among the most popular files.
For those of you who don't know, ZShell was created by our very own Magnus Hagander, Dan Eble, and Rob Taylor. It was the very first assembly shell for the 85, and without it, you probably wouldn't ever see assembly-based programs for any calculator. Ever.
Virtual TI is made by Rusty Wagner. VTI will emulate any TI graphing calculator (except the 81, 80 and 73) on your computer. Over the past months and years, it has become an indespensible tool for programmers, developers, and the staff of this very site. As of this posting, 17.0% of our users do not know what ZShell is. Update (Nathan): Uh, Nick... you screw up our precise, scientific survey results when you put in an explanation of ZShell on the main page. ;) ZShell was a tremendous victory for calc hackers--at least VTI is another massively successful programming feat. Fitting that it is a platform on which ZShell can be kept alive as TI-85 sales dwindle...
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Re: Virtual TI Surpasses ZShell For Most Downloaded File
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Sebastian Reichelt 
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"Survery" results? Don't you have a program with spelling check to create an article in, and then copy and paste it?
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20 May 2000, 17:16 GMT
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Re: Virtual TI Surpasses ZShell For Most Downloaded File
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Henry Pate
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Here are some big steps in the ti world (at least as it see it:
First there was ZShell, which started the ti calc frenzy.
Then there was the hack on the 82 and other calcs.
Then VTI came along and allowed us to emulate the calcs.
The next BIG step would be reverse engineering the TIOS code. (But since it is illegal, we wouldn't do that, would we...) Think about it, with the TIOS code, programmers could customize the OS, to be more user friendly, have more options (that is if the code was even legible, meaning, not spagetti code) Then instead of always going for games, people could go for their own customized OS. I just think that would be great.
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20 May 2000, 20:50 GMT
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Re: Virtual TI Surpasses ZShell For Most Downloaded File
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Tommy Kromer
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Ok this is sort of off topic but the best place i could find to place this.
I have a VTI w/ROM versions 1.0 and 1.05 and am trying to add 2.03. However, my graph-link is in disrepair and the only way to do this would be with the download at ti.com. I can't seem to get the VTI to "take" the new ROM. SO, if anyone can help me post something or email me PLEASE.
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22 May 2000, 04:15 GMT
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