Survey posted 2005-04-05 05:17 by Jon.

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I'm not too shy or too busy, I just wouldn't have anything interesting to say.

Same goes for me. I haven't even uploaded any programs.

I have uploaded a few programs but I don't what I would say.

whatkindofprograms? I mostly dogames

... space bar?

I suck at game programming. :-\ So I just do utilities... Although I should recode the one and only game I did make that was actually fun (I lost it in a RAM clear... ARG).

the space bar was being random, cause it was on a Pentium2 I had just reconstituted from a pile of junk on a table

I also suck at games unless they don't really require a lot of movement/graphics...I pretty much am only a BASIC programmer...I know a little ASM/C but not really enough to make something unique and useful. The only games I've made are like, towers of hanoi and yahtzee...they were pretty simple to implement...Oh, and I made that Pi memorization game, or updated it anyway (it was no_one's first)...

I'm working on a TI-Basic version Towers of Hanoi. Its pretty good but you try and move from and empty tower and everything goes BANG!

That would be why the 'If' statement was added.

Just some miscellaneous stuff but I’m thinking of programming the entire New Testament and am looking for help. As soon as I update my webpage it will explain everything.

Shouldn't be hard, even not using an ebook reader. What version are you planning on doing?

How about "Yes, but I've already been interviewed?"

You;ve never been interviewed by Jon!

or a "Yes, but it'd be the most boring 10 minutes of your life to read it."

BTW, that comment was referring to if I got interviewed...not your interview...I would definitely like to be interviewed, but most of my programming is no longer for TI's and when it was, it was mostly calculus programs or other math/science/utilities...

Maybe...If I every get around to finishing my current project. :^)

Sure, you could interview me. Not much to talk about I guess, just Metroid. But I guess I have some ideas about this whole business as a whole. Back in the day, there were only a handful of people who could do asm. And they worked their butts off making tools, fixing compatibilities, writing routines, etc. Nowadays there are a ton of resources available, from tutorials to source code to VTI to TIGCC, and a lot of people take it all for granted. In some ways, the new bunch of programmers taking over the scene is too focused on making the game of their dreams that they lost sight of actually learning how to do it right, and do it well, as well as developing something new to contribute to the calc world along with the program they make. So many people no longer learn anything new and fresh when they write their games, and so few people are willing to get down and dirty with the hard stuff and update things like VTI, which is in sore need of an update.

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Now, I don't exactly profess to do this right either, and I don't have plans to work on VTI or anything, because that's not something I feel capable of. But I know that out of our huge talent pool here, there is a ton of untapped talent, of people like Rusty Wagner and Bill Nagel and Joe Winghbermuele(?) who could produce some really amazing innovations and tools if they were just pushed to do so, rather than just use what they are given. That's why I'm going to do my best to encourage the exploration of talent of our youngest programmers here, or idle passers-by to get them interested and learning, so that we continue with new innovations. I've started offering personal email help to even the most hopeless sounding new member on various forums to get them up and running with VTI, or whatever they are having trouble with rather than let them get discouraged and leave the pool. Wow! I didn't realize I was going to write that much when I started this post. I'm going to hit post and it's going to tell me its too long, isn't it? Oh well...

[nevermind, I had to chop it]

Wait, there's a post length limit now? When did that happen? And why is it so short?

Yes, but I don't remember when it was added. (It happened to me when I replied to the "Is it Time to Replace TI-BASIC?" article the other month.)

I started programming in VB6 and Java before I came on the TI scene and I at least view programming as a personal challenge. so far I've been trying to get as much as possible out of basic, using asm subroutines and such, and I'm trying to learn ASM but unfortunately there are almost no resources at there for Mac users(i.e. me). I think it would be nice if the some of the older guys out there would try developing some stuff for Mac, or even just porting existing PC programs.

My current project will run on ANY platform!!!!!

It being? I'm not saying there's nothing out there it's just most of its outdated. THe only Z80 compiler out there is for 83 not 83+, and the only Unix compiler that will run on Mac is still way beta.Somebody should do something with Java

I'm working on a Cocoa port of TIGCC, and I've got the GUI down, just not the action. I simply don't have time to sit down at my computer, finish Vermont Recipes, and write the code.

Nothing compiled will work cross-platform.
This is going to be Python, and That's all I'll tell you about it right now!