Re: LZ: I feel sorry for them
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Mel Tsai wrote:
>
> On Thu, 10 Oct 1996 19:22:54 -0700, you wrote:
> >At 07:16 PM 10/9/96 -0800, you wrote:
> >
> >I too was the first zsheller at my school. Being the big corp that they are
> >I don't think TI will publish on the back of the calc boxes (which is really
> >where anybody would read it) that some techno "geeks" on the internet made
> >an operating system that is designed (for the most part) to play games. The
> >best corse of action is for those "enlightened" ones to spread zshell and
> >its programs around like a bad cold and make everyone who doesn't have an 85
> >wish they did. So far this seems to be working around my school quite well
> >
>
> Yep, it became a daily ritual for me last year to walk by the physics
> class and see literally 10 people all playing super breakout or tetris
> or my game, columns. I think programmers like myself should be
> arrested for "contributing to the dilinquency of a minor." It somehow
> gives me a twisted satistfaction that I'm responsible for hundreds of
> students screwing up a math test because they weren't paying attention
> in class!
>
> -Mel
>
> --
> The TI-85 Memory Expansion Homepage
> http://pilot.msu.edu/user/tsaimelv/expander.htm
That might be one of the reasons TI doesn't like it. So far, they have
seen a multitude of games for zshell, but hardly any math apps. TI wants
the 85 to be a calculator, not a gameboy. Parents who buy them also want
it to be a calculator, so parents might be turned away.
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