Survey posted 2001-01-18 17:54 by Andy Selle.

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I agree with most of the programs featured. However, the featured programs seem to lean heavily towards 89 and 92/92+ platforms.

I beleve that there are some very good programs for earlier calculators that definitely bear a look and a spot in the sunlight.

Knight/Rocket's 2c.

Most people on this site have TI89s or better and those calculators can support better programs and apps. This is especially possible thanks to the TI-GCC suite which is immensly appreciated.

Refer to an above post I made for the rebuttal to the "most people have 89s or better" hypothesis.

Knight/Rocket's 6c.

You seem to be over particular about defending sub-TI-89 calcs!
TI-89 is sacred! It would be a calc-utopia if everyone had an 89 (and would be competent enough to handle it).

I own an 89 and consider it the best calculator I own. However I get irritated when someone says that nothing but 89 or 92/+ programs should be featured, because I am also an 83/83+ programmer.

I sincerely hope this clears everything up.

Knight/Rocket's 8c.

Not denying that there are good z80 programs out there (I have seen many on my TI83+), but if a TI89 is the best calculator you own, wouldn't it thus have the best files?

Please look to the rebuttal to your rebuttal above.

I know that I work hard on the programs I write (above url is my author page) and so I believe that other people work hard on thier programs and I see the excellence in other people's works.

So I think the "featured" program thing is meaningless.



-Samuel Stearley

I think that all the programs that are featured by ticalc.org are good, but they miss a lot of them. There are many good basic games and other games that SHOULD be featured, but they arent.
Thanks/Hello Will

Look, the opinions of everyone are different. You try to please one person and you make another upset. It is impossible fo everyone to agree with the staff so we should just respect what they say.

Im just wondering if they actually test all of the programs to see how good they are. I think we should be able to vote if it should be featured or not, or at least give the program a rating or something like at dimmention ti.

Btw, wormwar should be featured. Its a good game but it never did get screenshots or become featured.

It may take indefinitely long for changes to come.
Just look at the survey stats!

despite the differences of opinion, a vote can determine a general idea of the majority of opinions

despite diff. of opinion, TI89 and better calculators are the majority and the best calculators

I agree with most of them, but I would like to see more useful progs. featured and fewer games. It also seems that the majority of featured progs. I see are _games_ for the 89.

because the majority of calc users and good progammers are TI89,92(+) users

How true!
For some reason everyone thinks that the 89 92 calcs are too complex and difficult to operate and what not. Our calculus teacher even discourages people from buying an 89.
So, only those who are sufficiently competent have the audacity to get an 89/92.
(at least generally)

because of this, tigcc was developed for ti89/92/+, and there aren't as many trashy progs, and, hence, more featured programs.

They are usually good...

But sometimes programs will be featured without playing the program for long, and I've seen multiple buggy featured programs in the archives. I think that stability should be a requirement, as it is one of the most aspects of good programs.

What are nice graphics and good gameplay if you lose your memory after two games of it?

Yeah, I downloaded the Incredible Adventure, and ten seconds later my calc crashed. They should've said something about hardware compatibility...
BTW, is anyone gonna release a patch for HW2 AMS2.05 anytime soon? I'm dyin' out here!

incredible adventure almost fried one of my calcs, as well. ticalc should have more people who aren't necessarily staff, but rate games or vote on them.

Yeah, they should let anybody submit a review, like on RPGamer. That way, the people will get an opinion from the group that matters - the people.

If you mean a written review, I don't know if this would be a solution for buggy games. People are more likely to write reviews for programs they like, not ones they don't. If you mean rating it on a scale of 1 to 10 or something of the such, though, I agree with you.

a number , vote or even a plus-minus would be sufficient to weed out the buggy and awful programs.

I can say that about 80% of the programs I download and I could have confidently said the same thing about the Adventure without downloading it.

Thank you for telling me this, I was going to try the Incredible adventure, but now I probably won't, if its that buggy...

There are so many buggy programs in the archives I am getting paranoid!
I NEVER download math/science programs because of that (I program them myself) and I know many people who share my opinion.
You have to agree with me that posting so much junk among the few good programs, defeats its own purpose, since it makes us afraid of downloading programs.

why does ticalc post so many buggy programs?

is it some kind of plot. i mean, quite a few featured programs w/ news articles are frying calcs. can't we form some kind of thing that announces programs to beware of?