| Author | Comment |
PhilosopherEd
Goliath
Posted: 27 Feb 2004
13:43 GMT
Total Posts: 134 | how long should does it take to upload new programs? i think i've uploaded at least 4 or 5 programs about three weeks ago and i still don't see them. i'm not complaining, i just want to know how long it will take. thanks! |
allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 27 Feb 2004
15:19 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | Oops, you might have been the person Z talked about the last post forum...I think you had a problem...
Heres a portion from Z on a forum about 3-4 weeks ago, begin quote:
"Okay, more files added (some replaced...).
Also, a person who submitted a file named "OBPRGMFILES.zip" please email it instead as it seems that our upload script doesn't like it (well, actually it fails to upload probably because of that apostrophe in the file path). I've seen you tried to upload it a few times, I apologize for the inconvenience but you may want to email it to me or Barrett instead. Thanks.
I think there may be a problem with Perl's file path parser function since it doesn't parse file path with special chars correctly. And MS just had to allow those in its Win XP file paths... Please only user letters/numbers and undescores in file/folder names whe uploading to ensure your upload works. Sorry about all this trouble."
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PhilosopherEd
Goliath
Posted: 28 Feb 2004
14:31 GMT
Total Posts: 134 | no, that isn't my file. my files are something like ebonic.zip, bm.zip, and something else (i forgot exactly what of mine i uploaded) |
allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 28 Feb 2004
18:46 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | Were there spaces in the file names? Because that screws up the uploader... |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 28 Feb 2004
19:47 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | actually, i've added all of the queued programs last week (in fact, it seems that it was the same day as your submission but it got there a bit late). hearing that you've upped it more than one week ago i'd guess it didn't make it into the queue. i've just looked at the file queue right now and only saw one files by you (ebonic.zip). tomorrow is my file adding day, so if you want you can resubmit the rest. make sure none of the filenames have spaces or special chars. oh, answering that question about how often i add files, usually every week or so. rarely, its two but that's only when i'm too busy. if however it seems long enough for you, please let me know on the forum and i'll add it asap (i don't check the file queue every day, but i do visit the forums every day).
sorry for the trouble btw.
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PhilosopherEd
Goliath
Posted: 29 Feb 2004
05:41 GMT
Total Posts: 134 | alright, thanks z |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 29 Feb 2004
15:00 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | Hey PhilEd, lol on that ebonic screenshot :lol_a:
you may want to practice using VTI and TI-Shot for animated gif capture.
Btw, I took care of all upload. There were only 4 up to this date and everything is up now. If it takes a while for your file to get posted, please don't hesitate to contact me.
[Edited by zkostik on 01-Mar-04 00:13]
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PhilosopherEd
Goliath
Posted: 29 Feb 2004
16:14 GMT
Total Posts: 134 | i would have used vti and ti-shot, but i can never get a rom dump from my stupid silver link (usb). since i couldn't use it, i just took pictures of the screen with a camera. :- D |
Digital
Guardian
Posted: 29 Feb 2004
16:28 GMT
Total Posts: 1051 | VTI does not support the USB cable. instead this is what you should do.
1) Use TI-Connect to make a backup of the files on your calc.
2) Download and put a copy of the TI-89's (that's what you have right?) OS in the directory where VTI is located.
3) Start VTI and then drag-n-drop the group file from TI-Connect onto VTI.
Now you just made it so VTI is an identical copy of your calc. |
allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 29 Feb 2004
16:38 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | I saw that screen shot, it's very origional...at least you have a screenie. |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 29 Feb 2004
18:27 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | yeah, it is indeed very original. in fact, i don't think i have ever seen such a screenshot (oh, this is truly a screenSHOT...not in a bad way of course).
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zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 29 Feb 2004
18:32 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | btw PhilEd, please give files fair ratings. From your ratings its evident that you haven't even tried the files you've rated. It definitely doesn't sound like you've already tried the 3 new files and gave them a 6 each and of course you gave your own file a 10. This is just something to think about. And no, I'm not going to do anything with ratings, they're for reference only anyway.
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PhilosopherEd
Goliath
Posted: 1 Mar 2004
03:43 GMT
Total Posts: 134 | i have tried the three other files, actually. however, i do apologize for giving my own file a ten. it won't happen again. |
allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 1 Mar 2004
07:27 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | Who is it that for every new file, except for those last ones, gave every new file an '8'? I've always noticed that. |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 1 Mar 2004
10:16 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | i don't say that all of these files are good or bad, i just don't think that they all only deserve 6/10. i gave the mathpro file an 8 or 9 (i have tried that files it deserves better than 6), dunno about others. PhilEd, you're more than welcome to rate files as you like, just try to be more fair on your ratings. if you look thru the file ratings, you'll see that most files only have 6 or 7 and even the games which are nearly perfect still have low ratings. this is because people don't really care. personally, i value reviews over ratings as long as they give nice description and comparisons to other titles. btw PhilEd, your mario level set is actually pretty good.
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spiral
Wraith
Posted: 1 Mar 2004
16:13 GMT
Total Posts: 958 | actually, don't all files start at 5, so if it has an 8, it should be because the mystery person is giving it a 10, and 7.5 rounds up to 8? |
Barrett
Administrator
Posted: 1 Mar 2004
16:20 GMT
Total Posts: 1676 | they don't start at anything... with 1 '8' vote that file would have an '8' rating... and then with a 10 vote it would go up to 9... then with a 2 vote it would go down to 6 or 7 (6.6667)(i forget how it rounds) then if it got a 10 it would go up to 7 or 8 (7.5)
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PhilosopherEd
Goliath
Posted: 1 Mar 2004
17:55 GMT
Total Posts: 134 | ok, digital. i made a backup of my TI-83+ OS and tried to do what you said, but i got no results. any other suggestions on how to get a rom dump? |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 1 Mar 2004
19:08 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | all new files start with no rating. ratings are rounded like this 6.44 would actually round to a 6.4 and 6.45 would round to a 6.5. the script only keeps the tenth place when it rounds. so basically yes, what B said is correct. this is for precision and error margin reduction. however, what you actually see on the file page is an int round. the script rounds down these floats to a closest whole number.
btw PhilEd, email me for a copy of the OS (write to my CG account: zkostik@calcgames.org).
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Digital
Guardian
Posted: 2 Mar 2004
14:31 GMT
Total Posts: 1051 | Not any more. Sorry Phily (phonetic pun). How is that for a nickname? |
allynfolksjr
Administrator
Posted: 2 Mar 2004
19:22 GMT
Total Posts: 1892 | I didn't want to make a new topic: On the left margin menu, the 'Popular files' heading says 'Recent Files' |
PhilosopherEd
Goliath
Posted: 3 Mar 2004
03:26 GMT
Total Posts: 134 | yeah, i noticed that, but i just thought it would be a temporary thing. however, the title has been like that for quite some time now. |
PhilosopherEd
Goliath
Posted: 3 Mar 2004
12:50 GMT
Total Posts: 134 | i didn't feel like making a new topic...sorry. anyways, how can you take a screenshot of a mario level in VTI? i can never seem to run Mirage in the emulator and i don't see how its possible to get mario without that. help? |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 3 Mar 2004
16:24 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | all fixed, thanks for pointing this out. i'm not sure how exactly i managed to do that... :)
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zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 3 Mar 2004
16:30 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | actually Philly, you should have made a new topic for that one. i'll answer this here but in fiture when you're asking for soemthing unrelated to the current topic it is best to post a new one.
to make a screen shot you need to do the following:
right click -> take screenshot -> lcd only black/white (you can choose truecolors if you want to preseve the grayscale)
other option is to save it to a file, which is a bitmap though. taking screen caps to a clipboard allows you to use your favorite gfx editor to save the file into any format you like, best choice if of course gif.
Mirage does not run on VTI because of its poor flash emulation. you can however get an unofficial VTI 3.0 which has good flash support but only emulates 83+/SE. always be open to some experimenting business, that's how people learn.
BTW, your files were upload successfully and I'll add them in tomorrow.
[Edited by zkostik on 04-Mar-04 01:39]
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PhilosopherEd
Goliath
Posted: 3 Mar 2004
18:05 GMT
Total Posts: 134 | sorry and thanks z. |
calculatorfreakCG
Wraith
Posted: 15 Mar 2004
15:38 GMT
Total Posts: 739 | I like to randomly give a file a rating on certain things. I am always harsh. I rarley give above a 6. |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 15 Mar 2004
15:46 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | Oh well...that's why ratings are public and are not admin controlled unlike reviews. It's up to you to rate files however you like. Though, random ratings kill the value of rating system...
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Kevin
Guardian
Posted: 28 Apr 2004
08:24 GMT
Total Posts: 1390 | Could you try to see if there is files called rol.zip, rol2.zip and rol3.zip in your upload3ed files list? I just want to see if they haven't screwed up.
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Barrett
Administrator
Posted: 28 Apr 2004
12:28 GMT
Total Posts: 1676 | well, according to this, we have ol.zip, ol2.zip, and ol3.zip
edit: sorry, they are not in the upload folder... try again, be sure there are no weird characters in the filenames (like spaces or weird R's)
[Edited by Barrett on 28-Apr-04 21:33]
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Kevin
Guardian
Posted: 29 Apr 2004
04:41 GMT
Total Posts: 1390 | I'll wait for a week. If the ol.zip file are "The Reign of Legends", it will be OK. It because the Hard Drive on school computer is locked so I upload directly from a floppy disk.
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zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 29 Apr 2004
19:12 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | It doesn't look like the files made it to our server. Try again when you get a chance.
Btw, nj on your other rpg's. You keep a steady 2nd most downloaded place.
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Barrett
Administrator
Posted: 3 May 2004
07:25 GMT
Total Posts: 1676 | Z there are a lot of files in the queue... i don't have my computer so i don't have ftp to add the files... it could be a while... so if you get time, could you add the files (quite a few last time i checked)
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zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 4 May 2004
17:51 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | i'll try B, this is the last week of semster so i'm rather busy these days. i found a little time to check the site but i might have some time tomorrow, i'll see if i can go thru our file queue.
EDIT: wow, lots of uploads here. hopefully i'll get to go thru the files and add them this evening. i still need to finish my english portfolio and papers, so i'll probably only add the older ones today and leave the rest for weekend. sorry that it takes so long but next week is the final exam week in college.
[Edited by zkostik on 06-May-04 15:33]
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zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 8 May 2004
12:22 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | Most of our uploads have been taken care of as you have probably noticed. You can go ahead and check out some cool games such as updated Phoenix or TIHex if you're a 89 user. There are also some nice games for the 83+ crowd. Okay, I'm going to work now and hopefully will get to add the rest of the files this evening (say B, why don't you add the rest?). Alright, later then.
Note to uploaders: Please only submit screens in GIF or JPG format. We can not post screens in BMP format and have to convert them thus increasing the time it takes to work thru uploads. Also, its a good practice to include readme files along with your archive. I've noticed that quite a bit of the new uploads have no readme files in them. Oh, you may want to include screens with all of your files to boost your downloads.
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PhilosopherEd
Goliath
Posted: 12 May 2004
13:30 GMT
Total Posts: 134 | i'm just wondering if any of my files made it to the file queue or not. |
PhilosopherEd
Goliath
Posted: 14 May 2004
08:25 GMT
Total Posts: 134 | still wondering... |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 14 May 2004
10:09 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | Yes they have and will be added soon. Sorry for the wait but we've been rather busy lately. When I was adding files this week I didn't have enough time to get to the end of queue. Your files are in the beginning now and will be added today or tomorrow.
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PhilosopherEd
Goliath
Posted: 14 May 2004
15:58 GMT
Total Posts: 134 | thanks, z. no big rush though. i just mainly wanted to know if they made it. many times, i'll do something and then worry for the next week if i actually did it or not. thanks for the confirmation. |
Kevin
Guardian
Posted: 13 Sep 2004
11:37 GMT
Total Posts: 1390 | Are you going to add files before christmas 2004?
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Digital
Guardian
Posted: 13 Sep 2004
16:35 GMT
Total Posts: 1051 | We are lazy. Someone will get to it in the next few days. Z or B usually do it. If I have time, I might be able to get to it on Wednesday. |
zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 14 Sep 2004
10:18 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | Hey Kevin, for some reason your files don't make it to our server. Last time I was adding files I've seen like 4 or 5 failed attempts from you. I'm not sure what exactly is causing the problem but you can always just email me the files or try using our beta-test uploader. I'll send you the link via PM.
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Kevin
Guardian
Posted: 14 Sep 2004
12:56 GMT
Total Posts: 1390 | For some reasons my mail won't work too. The files I want to upload are Reign of Legends 1,2,3 at ticalc.org. I use IE6.
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Kevin
Guardian
Posted: 8 Oct 2004
06:16 GMT
Total Posts: 1390 | By the way, can I continue using the new upload form you sent to me via PM? (you will not believe what I want to upload)
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zkostik
Carrier
Posted: 8 Oct 2004
17:30 GMT
Total Posts: 2486 | Sure go ahead. I'd appreciate if you send me a PM or email when you upload something with the new uploader because its not being checked since its not officially out for public use. Thanks. :)
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