Hmm, I can't say that I completely agree with this method of POTM voting. . .it seems to get smaller and smaller each time. I guess this sounds a little old-fashioned, but couldn't it go back to when we nominated, then voted from the most popular programs in one giant poll? Well, I guess it's alot of more work for those who run it, and since none of my progams (err, program) would win anyhow. . .

Dan Coleman

That is a very good point. I have found that very good programs quite frequently "slip through the cracks" and are not featured. The opposite is also true; although it is a less common occurrence, programs are featured despite being high flawed, etc… All of this leads to very few programs to vote for and many good ones are left out. The old method (or a new one) would be preferable.

It's weird; the program to get full 720k of memory and a nice doorsos compatible open source kernel both were no match to a shoot'em up and a boxing game...should demo's really be nominated, though? I mean, the program could be nominated, and never worked on again, and when people see the nomination on the demo, they d/l it to test it and expect future versions...this is all hypothetical, mind you :P

Also interesting is the ratio of assembly games to BASIC games on those results...

<snip>Also interesting is the ratio of assembly games to BASIC games on those results...</snip>

What's so interesting about that? BASIC on TI calculators is slow and limited, so it's perfectly logical that asm games would get POTM more often than those in BASIC.

BASIC is useful primarily for math, but how many math programs get POTM nominations?

That's a good question; considering the original intention of TI Calculators was mathematics...

I don't mean nominate the 1000th version of "Quads R EZ v2000", but people should really start making more imaginative math progs, or something that extends the functionality of the calculator.

Well, I used to really care about voting, not when we have 2 or 3 programs for one calculator, it really sucks. Put the old one back.

Lock 83(+) v1.4 sux bigtime! Why did this crap ever become featured in the first place? Similar things never got featured, and neither did better things for other calcs! What is all of this coming to?

Don't you think it's kind of strange that the same program can be in the voting list twice in a row, while other programs that were updated in the meantime don't appear again at all?