Show-off.
The trick is to just for every prog you make, make a version for every calc. That way you cater to all.

Well, it's not exactly easy to make every game for every calc.

I know, I meant like for Basic games (or math progs), where only a bit of syntax change is needed to port a game....

But, Sam made mostly ASM games...

You can get a lot of downloads that way, but to get 1,000,000 downloads, you really have to write some good ones.

Yeah, it's not all about the amount of programs you have.

it feels great to know that i almost have 1/1000ths the downloads that mr.heald has!

It's gettin' harder and harder to get downloads now-a-days. So I'm very impressed, congrats.

Congratulations, Sam! (Where are you?)

I will be next to 1,000,000!... or maybe not ;-) (check my author profile and see, lol)

Calc.org seems to be making some progress with their program archives. There are quite a few programs in queue already.

I like their file upload system. It's automatic and almost totally user-supported and bad programs don;t get added. I got my program added to the archives the same day I added it to the queue.

I actually put most of the ion stuff in!

I think same day service is because they don't have the quantity that ticalc.org gets. I would be willing to bet that ticalc has about 10x the traffic.

I would bet that you're correct!

Um, MichaelV? Could you make a general discussion board? It could be a board that automatically clears itself at the beginning of each week, and it could be uncensored... that way we could all discuss a range of topics to each other. I think that some people visit this site more than they check their e-mail (In a day, the ratio of times I visit ticalc.org to the times I check my mail is averaged around 5:1) Besides, it's more of a community when more than two people can talk to each other at once... and I'm not allowed to chat anymore (@#$@#), so this is my only connection with multiple people I can get... and probably not just me.

If it were to be censored, the only thing that I think that should be cut out is strong profanity or really bad flames.

It seems that discussion isn't as lively when it's strictly on-topic, so that's why I thought we could have our on-topic discussion (the news), and then, our general discussion: all topics, anything.

I don't know where else to ask this question, because I assume that the ticalc.org staff views the news more commonly then their e-mail. (I do)

This could make both sides happy, and we wouldn't need to worry as much about off-topic posts cluttering up the news.

Could something like this be set up? That would really be great. Thanks for reading this,

no_one_2000_

if everyone also visits calcgames.org, this would not be a problem - discuss all you want, there's a forum for each topic (including off-topic)... obviously i don't expect you to do that cus you don't expect other people to do it, but let's all go over there at the same time and we'll all be happy.

Lol, good advertisement :)

But seriously, the General Discussion Board would be a great addition to ticalc.org Anyone else agree? Oh, and when I said "erase itself after a week"... I meant to say "start a new one"... slightly different :)

At the moment, this is not possible. We have a few behind-the-scenes changes going on right now. When that is done, this is definitly one of the things we will look at putting up there.

Cool :) What behind-the-scenes changes are going on now, or are you not allowed to say?

Well, it's nothing you'll notice anyway :-)
Changing some db structures, changing some libs used in all our scripts, etc.

Oh, okay. Well, that's fine. I can wait a while :)

Hoping this isn't offtopic...

What host do you use? I go through Feature Price's Premium Plan but they have recently become unreliable with almost daily breaks.

I am starting to get slightly p.o.ed. I posted a perfectly valid question about ASM programming on the 83, and it got deleted. In the article before MV arrived, there was a very similar discussion about a function of C++, which did not get deleted. What's up with that???

HEY.. he deleted my posts about the rules... i guess my replys to this specific one about rules broke the rules.. so the delete was justified :)

Ok, now hes taking it too far. I am glad there is more news and what not, but he is deleting way to many post. I don't mind deleting stuff that contains vulgar language, or stuff that is dumb (pyramids, stuff that only says lol or w00t!, etc..), but he is deleting it even if it is almost on topic, Micheal, I thought when they hired you that it would be better, but now, I am fed up. I don't mind responsible moderation, like deleting dumb stuff, but resonable post are being deleted. This post will probably even be deleted. If an off-topic board was created, I wouldn't mind deleting logical questions from this board. But there isn't one. So please, stop deleting our post, especially, the ones that are perfectly valid, even if slightly off-topic.
Thank You for your time,
Nathan Crank

P.S. you stifling our first admendment rights...

And how is that? Read the rules above the posts. You'll see that almost every one of these posts is "off-topic" in some way, so just feel grateful that he's considerate enough to leave most of these posts up :)

I hate when people ruin my point...

My point was that the way it was before wasn't good either, people just abused the boards...
But now, its the other extreme, now no one can speak, most of the post are deleted.
There needs to be a middle ground.

It's not extreme now, it's back to the way it used to be. I know that you want to have offtopic dicussions, and an offtopic discussion board. But just because one doesn't exist, that's not an excuse to justify your posts. If you notice, I'm leaving up more posts than I did in my first day. This isn't the place to discuss general questions though.

You and a vocal other minority keep complaining for an offtopic board, and then you wouldn't supposedly mind me deleting the posts. However, you seem to continually ignore the point that there are other sites for offtopic discussion, namely calcgames.org or ti-progammers.com, or you can even start your own site. You aren't limited by chains to ticalc.org, so if you want a place to talk offtopic, then go somewhere else. If ticalc.org ever had an "other" area, then you could come back and post there.

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Flaming the trolls doesn't exactly solve the problem either :)

erased every week? nooooooo, it should go to an archive :P
Good idea no_one_2000 :P

Thanks, I was thinking the same thing after I read it the second time. :)

K, since the last one was deleted...
Visit my site, and use the forums too, nothing gets deleted....
it was a longer post last time, but I am too lazy to retype the whole thing

Well, why don't you go to my website?