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Voyage 200 programs currently do not appear on the front page. The problem should be fixed asap though, so don't re-upload your files.

what constitutes the id number that you need to link files together?

All of my zip files for the ti-89/92p could be linked so that the Ti-89 files are also the ti-92p files

ticalc.org / archives/files/authors/33/3317.html

in addition, my recent NOSTUB port of Jimmy Mardel's Tetris, KerNO, compresslib, Insane Game, and TI-Bullet Time work on all three calcs...

-Greg

The ID number is the last part of the URL to the fileinfo page - the filename part. Although URL:s to the file itself (i.e. .zip files or whatever) also works.

The easiest for the filearchiver is if you format your emails like this (this info is for one file pair):

* URL to fileinfo page of file to keep
* URL to file to keep
* URL to file(s) that are to be merged and then linked

Make sure to mention that you wish to both merge and link the file(s).

ok, i can handle that :)

just one thing to clarify (for my sanity) and whoever gets my mail in the filearchiving department

linking just links the download stats for specific files, and merging combines two or more files into one... right?

-Greg

Linking creates a link to the original file from any folder you want, just like shortcuts in windows or, well, links in Linux. The link will appear in the archives, but not in the author info page (I think) or the front page. An unfortunate side-effect is that the fileinfo page will also be shared and will therefore point to the wrong folder (i.e. the one with the real file) but I'd like to think our users are smart enough for that :)

Merging, btw, is simply removing one file and transferring its stats to another, so no file contents or screenshots will be kept from the removed file.

Yes, they do :-)

But you may need to go into preferences and reload a cookie, YMMV.

It was, however, impossible to select the Voyage 200 in the list of "calculators I own" on your account, so you couldn't filter it. That has been fixed now.

D'oh! Should have figured that one out I guess. :)
Oh well, it works now.

Um, what are the compatibility stuff between the TI-89, TI-92+ and Voyage 200? If I have a 89 program that I want to "port" to the Voyage 200, how would I got about doing that? I don't have one to test with, so I don't know what will run and what won't. :(

So... does anyone have an answer?

Guess not. :(

*sigh* nobody has an answer. :(

Guess who requested the FLASH section for 68K calcs.... :)

ME!
bwa-ha-ha
(I don't even have one :)
(I just have a TI-83 Plus)

guess who requested tankers levels!


GO TO MY SITE AND MAKE TANKERS MAPS!!! WE MIGHT HAVE A MAP CONTEST SO START MAKING GOOD ONES IF WE DO

GO TO HIS SITE... wait a minute...

You do have a pretty cool site, but tankers needs to have a computer player so you can play during english when no one has a link cord.

Okay, the site doesn't load right. When you click on a link, it displays Loading Site... in the status bar forever and ever and ever and ever... Is it an error, or are the sites to load really big?

No your internet connection (I assume a 28.8K modem on AOL) really sucks. His website loads in seconds and then I never get the loading message again.

AOL? What the heck? I would never use GAYOL. I have a 56K modem, and ticalc always loads instintanious, so maybe the site was having problems.

Site loads fine on my 56k modem and temp files disabled. Takes around 6-8 secs to load. Well, maybe our host did have an outage, but I've never had any problems myself. And from the school comp it loads instantly. So, I doubt its a site problem.

Works fine for me and my 56K too...

Mabye I'm defective. :(

dunno, maybe. or maybe it was a host downage afterall...

That's what I thought it was too. I'll try again and see what happens.

It worked fine this time (see comment way below) the site was probably down or something.

Shut up, you homophobe. Alan Turing, a British mathematician who helped crack the German Enigma code, died because the British government decided that homosexuality was a crime, and so made him take pills. These pills either killed him, he committed suicide, or he was driven insane by the pills and committed suicide. He was not even 50 years old.
AOL is awful, though. My dad tried it and it took him a month to unsuscribe.

Um... okay...

i take it you're not american (USAian american)... 'GAY' in the US means 'stupid' or 'useless' or 'happy'. he means 'happy aol'. although i personally disagree with homosexuality, i don't hate those who are homosexuals, i only disagree with their actions, not them (in other words i also disagree with gays getting killed because they are gay)

yeah it's annoying.. the problem is that in order to download the entire site's index page, you need to request like 20 different files... and 95% of the wait is due to requesting seperate files... i'm gonna invent a new kind of server (and plugin for browser) that looks at all necessary files that will be requested, and puts them in a zip; which will be unzipped on the PC (the server will deny access by macs)... but seriously, isn't that a good idea? hasn't anyone thought of that yet? it would reduce internet traffic by 50% (average html compression... unless there are more gifs and jpg's on the internet than i thought) and pages would load much faster (especially my site with 20 seperate requests).

Modern web browsers should support gzip compression on all requests... at least for Apache there is mod-gzip (or whatever it's called), and I think it supports both static and dynamic compression (for php pages and the like).

It doesn't zip all files together, but together with HTTP/1.1 should almost take care of that. :)

http/1.1 zips them together? how does it do that? can i do it?

No, it doesn't, but it supports persistent connections (or whatever it's called). Basically, instead of opening a new connection for each file, it downloads several (or all) on the same connection. I think it only helps if you have high ping times, but it sure is easier to program :)

Hey, I like the effects on your site. (I assume it's DHTML)

DHTML? You idiot. Probably a Netscape user who likes to make fun of microsoft. It's JavaScript you fool! Any web programmer would know that in seconds!

GO TO MY SITE AND MAKE TANKERS MAPS!!! WE'RE HAVING A MAP CONTEST!!! (WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON ON MY SITE, SO GO THERE!!!)

btw, calm down, you don't know what effects he's talking about. (although i'm assuming the rollover buttons... which is js).. i wouldn't know cus i didn't design the site. but for all i know (and i don't) there could be dhtml on there... even though i don't know what that is.

U really should make Tankers a 1 player game, if you don't want to waste time creating AI, email me permission to edit the source and I'll do it.

i will eventually... it won't be open source until i'm done with TI programming in a couple years. it'd take you a year to figure out the code anyways... (i'm busy with other projects right now... (SAS, SC))

btw, get rid of the background or make it simpler on SAS, it is waaaay to hard to see the ships. Good game othrwise

The background issue in SAS has been fixe, but that new version hasn't be released yet. The scrolling in SAS has been changed and now, enemies don't get blurred with the backgorund. You'll see how much better SAS has become as we're working on finishin up SAS beta and it should be done pretty soon (really).

I suppose he was talking about the transitions seen in arrows when they light up and go out. These are just plain animated gifs. (no DHTML was used...) Other stuff including the "loading..." message is js. News are dynamically generated by a cgi script. As goes with loading, its only the main page (I'm not going to explain why) and the rest of the site loads very fast and you don't see its blink annoyingly as with sites that reload everything over again when you click a link. Anyways, the load time of main page is cause by the layout. The navigation menus doesn't allow us to take off frames. I believe that having the navigation scrolling up with the site a bad practice. Neverthelss, it only takes about 6 to 8 for me to load it after I clear the internet temp folder, and I'm on a 56k!

As with Tankers, single player mode is coming, we understand that its needed and will try to get it done after we release SAS beta (finally). Also, in new SAS the scrolling has changed and background doesn't blur with enemies as it was seen in previous versions. The new SAS should be finished pretty soon. Usually, you'll see most recent updates on our site.

So, I think I answered all the questions. Ask away if you still have any. Also, this is nick is my temp one coz my main account got jacked up and still didn't get fixed up. (oh, sorry for long comment, I'm just notorious for writing long comments if you've been on my site's forum...8D )

i'll i can say is cool

Well DUH! :-) That's what I meant! I program in javascript/dhtml too you know! You can't really have any good effects on a site without javascript, unless you're using a flash application or a java applet, but they are confined to one space.

The way I'm referring to "DHTML" is using any HTML tags that can be used dynamically, like being placed anywhere on the page, having a certain transparency, and stuff like that, because normal stuff can't do that. Now, do make all the effects and stuff that go with it, you use javascript. Like if I wanted to move layer A to coordinates 50,50, I would have A defined something like
<DIV ID="A" STYLE="position:absolute; left:0;top:0">Hello, this is layer A.</DIV>
and for the script,
<SCRIPT><!--Hide
document.all.a.style.pixelLeft=50;
document.all.a.style.pixelTop=50;
//--></SCRIPT>

There are plenty of easier ways to do that, but that's what I meant when I said DHTML.

oh, you were just talking about the dynamic stuff. so far only news are dynamic. and menu transparency is faked with checkred looking transparent gifs. png's have real transparency but apparently don't work well in NS (and are pretty large).

Well, in IE, you can do this
x=50;
document.getElementById ('MyDiv').style.filter ="alpha(opacity="+x+")";
(((take out the space after getElementbyId and style.filter)))
where x would be the transparency level (0=invisible; 100=fully displayed) and MyDiv would be the tag you wish you use.

thanks, i already know this. but again, it only works in IE. although we try to have the site our way, we still try to have it as cross-browser compatible as possible. not all features may work in all browsers, but atleast the site's contents can be accessed and viewed in all browsers. we're still improving (and there's much more to be done) the site so that it works better.

Okay. It was just a thought. :) Hm.. the site seems to be loading much better now.

There can only be two causes to this. First, you upgraded your internet connect, which I doubt. Second, numerous optimizations throughout the site (internal stuff, almost nothing visual changed) had their intended effect, which many others noticed and commented on that on our forum. Anyways, I'm glad that site loads better for you. :)