Confidential to the great Patrick Davidson: Thanks a bunch!

Go Patrick, and go TICalc.org! This just proves that TICalc.org is once again alive and kicking.

Does this include updates to existing programs AND new programs or only new programs? Either way, still a lot of files.

It's the total number of new files added, since updates are added over the old file. However, the number of files in the archives is slightly less than 30000 because of stuff we've had to delete in the past.

A little more than 500 files have been removed, since the downtime in late 2001.

I estimate it to be closer to 3000...

How...

Why, through mathemagical guesstimication, of course!

Since I don't have to make things up, I will allow you all a glimpse of the ticalc.org database:

ticalc=> select count(*) from filetable;
count
-------
25985

There, thats how many files are actually in the archive. Everyone happy?

Normally we post news based on how many files are actually there, but hey...

--
Phil
A staff member of yesteryear

Hooray for GNU! With that, I could have uploaded it. But that would be cheap.

Sounds wonderful! I would get it if i had an 89, 92+, or V2000... *sigh* oh well... wish someone could make something this good for TI-83+ ;)

I would have to think that there is, it's called MirageOS. Only because both MirageOS Ion programs will run on MirageOS, but MirageOS won't run on Ion.

Well, the TI-83+ has shells, like Ion, MirageOS, and all the rest of them. PreOS isn't a shell, but it's a kernel.

that would be nice...

Well, kernels such as PreOs aren't as useful as you may think. The TI-89/92+/V200 calculators have well-working native assembly support (like the TI-86), so kernels or shells aren't really needed. However, there are lots of old programs which do need a kernel (usually because they are quick ports of TI-92 Fargo programs, or were written by programmers used to Fargo on the TI-92, and the environment provided by the kernels is closer to the one provided by Fargo on the TI-92 than the one provided by the native assembly support). This is no longer the case with nearly all current programs. (There is a very small number of programmers still writing programs which need a kernel for no real reason, but only very few of them release any interesting programs.) In other words, kernels on the TI-89/92+/V200 are obsolete and practically only exist for backwards compatibility.

Yet, some of the nicest games were written way back when...:)

Some additional information:

* No HW2Patch needed. No need to manually install h220xTSR either. It automatically installs h220xTSR.

* Don't keep old copies of dynamically-linked libraries around. Use either the "stdlib" compressed library pack or the individual libraries in the Src\Libs folder of the PreOs ZIP archive.

* Don't worry if you don't like the file browser shown in the screenshots. It is a very limited default shell just asking to be replaced. :-) You can:
- use the TICT Explorer (recommended). (You can get it at http://tict.ticalc.org or in the archives here at ticalc.org. 1.30 Beta 9 is what you want, it actually has less known bugs than the 1.20 release. 1.20 won't even run on AMS 2.07/2.08/2.09. 1.30 Beta 9 runs on AMS 2.09 without any problems.) There is a version of PreOs specially adapted (by me) to run the TICT Explorer with [SHIFT]+[ON]. It is included in the ZIP archive ("preos-tictex").
- use any kernel-based file browser, renamed to "shell" so it is run with [SHIFT]+[ON].

And don't forget that for now, PreOs is the only kernel still up to date. Don't use DoorsOs anymore !

was PreOS not on ticalc.org before this?

No, it wasn't.

FYI:
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/07/25/122 247.shtml?tid=126&tid=158&tid=95&tid=99
(remove the space)

I think ticalc.org already has the required warnings, but make sure you are complying.

Where are the warnings for ticalc.org?

Err..., you are right, they aren't there. :-)
I guess the login page should at least print this quote from the site policies (http://www.ticalc.org/ about/policies.html)

<< Our site makes use of cookies strictly for the purpose of convenience to our visitors. Cookies enable your browser to "remember" your account name on our site and to store your customized settings. We do not use cookies to track usage or collect personal data from our visitors. >>

Henrik suggests that you read the comment in my website link to see why this doesn't really apply to us.

I think we can assume that Henrik understands the actual law text. :-) (I can't read the actual law myself because I don't speak Swedish, and even less so Swedish legalese.) So if he says ticalc.org is not affected, I think we can trust him. :-)

Hmm, I never thought of that. Now it makes since of why they put this law in place. Then again, the people tracking visitors with ads could just use CGI scripts. For example, every time someone looks at the counter (in my link), the server records the person's IP address, browser, host, screen resolution, and a few other things. Is the government going to try and stop that?

And how is the government going to stop stuff like that? It's not like they can really do anything about it.

Well, it seems like they can do something about these cookies.

Actually, it's kinda hard to stop petty Internet crimes. In the US, there's plenty of legislation that is supposed to prevent spam, but it hasn't worked very well yet.