There is an article at slashdot as well.

Yeah, I saw it there first, but I didn't connect the Jimmy Mardell who won it with the Jimmy Mardell who makes calculator games. That's pretty cool ... Calculator programming can actually get you somewhere!

Wow! So does this mean that he gets the $10,000 prize?

Yeah.
When I saw this on /. I thought... "I think I know that guy...", but this confirms it.
Well done!

Way to go! That's great, and it shows that there *is* somewhere to go after calculator programming! :)

if ur doing something other than basic that is.
and on an unrelated note, there already is a 3d grpaher for 83+ in flash thats much better than urs so urs is useless. its called graph^3.

Um...yes, I'm aware of that, but it is Flash (i.e. not for the 83), while mine is. I am aware that Graph^3 is currently far superior in features, but I believe the accuracy of my program is fair.

lol I believe kerm is right that, while I would much prefer to use Graph^3, it's still really cool that it's in BASIC. I mean, Gemini is awesome, but why did SiCoDe make Urban Wars? It's cool for a BASIC program... it blows everyones' minds that something that good's in BASIC (wasnt that the goal of sicode in the first place?) even though nobody will find it actually thrilling.

Urban Wars was made a *long* time before Gemini.

yeah but I'm talking about now. when they were made doesnt matter at all.

n/m I hadnt looked at my post for a day...
you're right but what I said about g^3 still holds

Congratulations!

I just noticed that he is also one of the few on TICalc that are in ALL THREE lists for "top authors" (most downloaded files of all time, busiest authors, and most downloaded this week.) GREAT JOB!!!

Sqrxz and ZTetris honestly got me through six years of boring math. I am now a math major and doing unboring math.

Jimmy Mardell is a ray of sunshine in my otherwise cloudy day. Thank you.

Wow, that's pretty cool

Indeed, I remember playing ZTetris linked against my friends... those were the days.

And speaking of those days... I got the news first, whooot! ;) Thanks to Erik of course...

(For those that don't get it, I used to be very competitive at getting the news before ticalc.org for www.ti-news.com) =p

>> Indeed, I remember playing ZTetris linked against my friends... those were the days.

Hmmm, I was doing that last year. I always loved using my 86 against an 83+, because the 86 is much more maneuverable. Speaking of which, I believe that ZTetris was te only program that sucessfully linked different calculators together. That is just un-believabe. Congrats, does anyone know his plans for the money? :-)

At the time it was, and for a long time it stayed that way. I believe Squarez can do it as well, along with a few other programs.

Yeah, ZTetris always bring back memories.
Congrats to Jimmy Mardell.

Wow, $10,000. Do you have any to spare?

Yeah, my, uhh..., iguana needs an operation in order to survive. I would need $1,892 to pay for it, but I do not have that. I can't stand to see my iguana suffer! Really!

Umm, if u don't mind, could u please use PayPal?

Thanks,
-byron

Umm...well...I was taking to...umm...Bill Gates and...well...he said he would devote a team of his programmers for games for the 89. This would cost...umm...$10,000. You can give the money to me to pass it on. Paypal or cash. :)

Gates' Law of Computers:
Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.

As a side note, ticalc.org's cookies don't work if I use 62.65.69.4 instead.

That is to be expected. The cookies are tied to the domain ticalc.org (actually to the domain www.ticalc.org) for security reasons.

Oh, did you ping the site to get it's IP?
ping www.ticalc.org

*hint* I believe you can trick bess like that *hint*

no, bess gives you the ip in the url of the block page.

Aww... but I heard that you could trick bess like that......... :'( I will try it tomorrow.

Turn off your proxy in Internet Explorer, and Bess goes away. Ta-da.

Doesn't work on our computers.

yes.. on our school's turning off the proxy turns off the internet.. and bess sux and filters everything (sumtimes parts of ticalc even... its way too restrictive)

that's how you get the ip to trick b3ss with. it doesn't work all the time, though. :(

I know of another trick: https://www.nameofsite.com

yeah, but if you look at the firebird tweak article about setting up your browser to whitelist certain sites, you can see how darned easy it is to fix it.

oh, and like other ones, it doesn't always work, either, but it gets you into some blocked sites, like megaproxy :)

darn. is there some way for reverse-lookup to work on cookies? no, wait--some ip addresses would resolve to more than one domain name. darn.

No. One IP can only reverse to one host name. However, multiple hostnames can resolve to one IP. Thus, the reverse might give you a completely different hostname.

Example: anyhostedsite.ticalc.org resolves to 62.65.69.4. 62.65.69.4 reverses to ticalc.ticalc.org.

LOL! Very true. (about the Gate's law)