Hey, yeah. Keep up the news, Michael! Yay, lots of news :)
As to the post, greyscale=cool. :) Who cares if it runs at 10% of the speed, hey, it's not BASIC!!!!

Actually, games run at approx 20 to 30 percent of normal speed. I didnt really calculate it, but my guess of 10 percent was wrong; the speed is actually 2 to 3 times faster ;)

-DP-

Even better :)

I am sorry that i caused some chaos about all this. As long as Michael uses moderation with all of this, I will keep my mouth shut about it. If you've heard of the saying "First impressions are last impressions," then I hope you all will understand that I got the impression that he would be a robot who would delete anything slightly off topic. I now understand that he was getting used to ticalc.org and needed some feedback on the post deletion. True, Michael always will be a better programmer than me, but some people (who i shall not name) feel that in that first day of his job, he took the rules a little too seriously by deleting posts that simply were protests. But, as long as he uses moderation, i will be happy and will not be another Abbie Hoffman (I don't want to be hit in the head with a Gibson SG by Pete Townshend).

On an on-topic note, this does look very cool, even though i'm doing C now. Maybe Mars Patrol can be updated using this..

Also, don't do TOO much news at once, then there's really nothing to discuss.

Can you do C on a TI-83 Plus (not that I'd want to, just curious).

no

Well, there might be some way to do it, but you can't use TIGCC. Besides, C for z80 seems a little... I don't know... it just seems to me that C doesn't directly translate to z80 without a LOT of space being wasted, therefore losing a lot of precious speed in your programs.

Well, it's not entirely impossible. You should ask Henk Poley about the issue. See the link.

I didn't say it was entirely possible (at least I didn't mean to). I (think I) said it was just inefficient. (It's hard to tell what you mean at a sch00l computer, when you're being watched by the librarian)

amazing, what rct said about not being enfuf to discuss with all this news, i think he is wrong, lots of news keeps the discussion on topic!

i meant enough time

we definately need an "Edit Post" button. eh magnus?

Yep.
What would be even cooler is a system that would make new posts that have appeared since you last logged on a different colout - maybe with an orange title bar instead of a blue.

Yeah :) But I visit this site so frequently that I memorize the posts (inadvertantly) and so I know which ones are new ;)

To check which ones are new and which ones aren't would be a lot of work. It would either require MASSIVE cookies, or a lot of confusing stuff in perl.

No, it wouldnt be so hard i think. You could just save the time when the user last checked the posts, and the next time you log on, just check which posts were posted after that. It would require just one cookie.

Yeah, but then you'd have to compare the last viewed date to all of the post dates and then it could take forever to load, like phpBB.

It would require only one query, so it wouldnt require much time *at all*.

My friend made a BASIC program that allowed the user to program in an alternate language (which he designed himself) that used strings to store commands and execute them accordingly, sort of like an interpreter. The only problem was the absolute slow-ness of the program (I mean, when you displayed text, you could acutally SEE the individual letters being streamed to the screen!). If anyone wanted, I could try to make an assembly C interpreter for the TI-83+ or TI-89...

Do you know how slow that would be?? And how much time it would take???

If I wrote it in assembly and made it efficient, or made a FlashApp that could allow the user to create C programs on the calculator, the speed of the executed C program should go about as fast as a BASIC program. Mind you, this could take a while to develop; all TI-calculators seem to have little object-oriented features, if any at all.

Even better, we could petition to TI to make an OS upgrade or patch to allow some, if not all, TI-calculators to have a C interpretor instead of a BASIC interpretor.

Yeah, and most Japanese graphing calcs have a C compiler built in! You enter your program in the text editor, then compile it all on the calc!