Actually, the computer programming contest was scheduled to be a different contest because, well, we wanted to leave this one only for calc programming. And yeah, we ought to poll people to see who would participate in an eventual 68k contest.

Also coming soon: a TI-86 contest!

Congrats all winners!

EDIT: And i'd like a computer contest

Actually, the computer programming contest was scheduled to be a different contest because, well, we wanted to leave this one only for calc programming. And yeah, we ought to poll people to see who would participate in an eventual 68k contest.

Also coming soon: a TI-86 contest!

I would enter I think, although you never know what could happen. Perhaps I'm busy, die or get banned in the meantime.
An other idea I had in mind was one contest where anybody could enter in which category he wished(maybe excluding computer). Something like Cemetech did last year if I'm not mistaken.

EDIT: Also, DJ, I refuse to let 68k be considered dead. I'll try to save it.
Actually I believe that 68k might be still a bit active in french websites, although I'm not sure at all.

I refuse to let 68k die as well. I'll enter if there's one.

@Yeong: TI-86 programming (BAISC or ASM) isn't much different from the 83+/84+ Series.

I think the reasons why 68K died were the following:

1) One person we will not name pretty much killed the 68K community by driving every veteran and newer programmers away with his constant flame wars and attacks towards people's hard work (generally aimed at programs in which he was not involved, from competing sites or written in BASIC). Not much was done against that, and because it was so extreme, that one person alone was nearly enough to bring down the entire 68K community, and it never really recovered because of point #2 and #3.

2) The arrival of the TI-Nspire CAS: After the Nspire series arrived, TI kinda pushed 68K calcs behind, moving all the attention towards Nspire calcs. Because of this, even when the 68K community cooled down after the above ended for a while, there were no new 68K coders joining. Today, with the lack of 68K programmers on forums, it's hard to convince a calc programmer to get a 68K now when he knows only two or three people in the world might play their game, when that game would be played by hundreds on the 83+ or the TI-Nspire.

3) CAS not being allowed in most USA tests: This severely limits the marketability of 68K calcs in North America, as they all includes a CAS. Most people who want an high-end calc that can still be used in exams now get a TI-Nspire. Also, the 68K prices are kinda prohibitive.


Also yeah music would be nice Juju. I kinda forgot about that, but now that TIMGUL URLs redirect to Omni music section and that we already had a music section to begin with, it would probably make some sense to have one.

New contests, due to being at unusual Omnimaga times (Fall?), would probably need a mass-email like the old newsletters, though, especially music. There could be bonus points for MTVMG1/2/3/DHF/M1/2000/3000 users maybe?

OFF-TOPIC: By the way, those who need programming help, the C and ASM sections can also be used for that and of course there is the projects and ideas section

Hey, good idea shmibs.

Congrats to all the winners!

* shmibs thinks that, before the the next contest, we should have a poll to see who would take part in what, and if at least 5 people say they would (in case 2 drop out), have that category be included.

That is a good idea