Author Topic: Status of the TI community (Read 25112 times)

Madskillz · « **Reply #60 on:** November 01, 2005, 04:49:00 pm »

wait Lionel, what game where you working on for the calcs...Sorry, but I have been out of the scene for a bit. Sad to hear people go.

Lionel Debroux · « **Reply #61 on:** November 01, 2005, 08:37:00 pm »

BTW, thanks Kevin Ou

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #62 on:** November 02, 2005, 03:49:00 am »

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(On a side note, have you seen that Sony is locking the PSP, and is now using rootkits to protects their DRM on Windows-based PCs ?).

ouch I gues this means mjenkins86 project of making the sword of darkness on the PSP instead of the TI-89 is dead then

, maybe he should make it for the GBA or RPGMaker

Lionel Debroux · « **Reply #63 on:** November 02, 2005, 08:31:00 pm »

No, the GP2X, which is an open platform running the Linux lernel, and has an USB connection !
Programming on the Game Boys is not that easy, it requires specific and expensive hardware.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #64 on:** November 03, 2005, 05:37:00 am »

I never heard about the GP2X before, maybe its something not avaliable here

saubue · « **Reply #65 on:** November 03, 2005, 10:23:00 am »

Hm, it makes me sad to see a talented programmer that did things that make other's life easier (e.g ExtGraph) going away

arti · « **Reply #66 on:** November 03, 2005, 12:04:00 pm »

http://www.gp2x.co.uk , http://www.gp32z.com

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #67 on:** November 04, 2005, 04:01:00 am »

oh I see, still I never heard about this here, must be one of those foreign platforms like the wonderswarm and the neo-geo, which are both not even avaliable where I live

Ranman · « **Reply #68 on:** November 04, 2005, 04:07:00 am »

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oh I see, still I never heard about this here, must be one of those foreign platforms like the wonderswarm and the neo-geo, which are both not even avaliable where I live

It is a Korean handheld. You can get it through mail order from http://www.gbax.com.

Another good GP32 forum is http://www.gp32x.com. It is similar to Ticalc except for hte GP32 and GP2X. The GP32 and GP2X are both Open Source and use standard memory sticks you can buy in any store.

I actually own a GP32 and it is sweeeeet. But, I still like programming my calculator better.

Spellshaper · « **Reply #69 on:** November 04, 2005, 06:23:00 am »

wow... the GP32 really looks cool... great hardware... mp3-support... flash cards... OMG I ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO GET IT!!!!

Madskillz · « **Reply #70 on:** November 04, 2005, 09:50:00 am »

I had once thought about buying a GP32, I waited for a year, and decided to buy a PSP instead...I got homebrew running on my PSP, Emus and roms, I plan to develop for that this summer.

the GP2x does seem nifty though

Lionel Debroux · « **Reply #71 on:** November 05, 2005, 08:20:00 pm »

> Hm, it makes me sad to see a talented programmer that did things that make other's life easier (e.g ExtGraph) going away
Talented at optimizing programs if you wish, but rather bad at algorithmics.

Sooner or later, you'll see a more public sign that I'm going away.

Ranman · « **Reply #72 on:** November 06, 2005, 01:58:00 am »

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I had once thought about buying a GP32, I waited for a year, and decided to buy a PSP instead...I got homebrew running on my PSP, Emus and roms, I plan to develop for that this summer.

the GP2x does seem nifty though

What happens if you upgrade to Sony's Latest firmware? Doesn't all of that capability go away? I thought they were really trying hard to crack down on that stuff. I read an article stating Sony's new released games will require the latest firmware. Hence, if you want to play new games you must upgrade your firmware, so no more EMUs and homebrew.

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Talented at optimizing programs if you wish, but rather bad at algorithmics.

Sooner or later, you'll see a more public sign that I'm going away.

Please don't go away forever -- that would be too great a loss for the TI community. I understand where you are coming from, I have done the same thing a time or two. But, you don't have to go away forever or completely. While you are gone... you will be greatly missed.

Lionel Debroux · « **Reply #73 on:** November 06, 2005, 07:50:00 am »

Agreed about the homebrew on PSP. They'll screw you up, like they can do with their rootkit on their DRM-infected CDs (if you're using Windows, of course - MacOS X and Linux are not affected by it).

Thanks for the support everyone, especially David.
But as I said, loss of motivation is not the only issue. Lack of free time is a great issue too. This year, I have slightly fewer holidays than last year, they're short and the work is harder:
* about a week out of two (and we shouldn't have had that many consecutive days, but I didn't make more than two hours of travel to go to a 3-hour practice I could do at home using ssh !), ending tonight;
* the "minimum" holidays for Christmas: 22 December - 3 January (the exams are right after);
* a week somewhere in February or March, I don't remember;
* a week in May (again, the exams are right after - but I think that's better than before the holidays, since we're all going to be less tired than we'd be right before the holidays);
* I'll be working ~10 weeks in a research lab this summer again, starting from around the middle of June;
* the next year is likely to start during the second half of September.

So yes, that's only two or three weeks of holidays this summer. Last summer, I had twice more, but that was not enough. I did not start this year as "fresh" as I was last year.

Lionel Debroux · « **Reply #74 on:** November 09, 2005, 02:36:00 am »

And as I've posted multiple times, no single person is indispensable within a community. Not even Kevin Kofler: there are other persons who know TIEmu and TIGCC, for instance.
I've been out for more than one month: the world has not stopped turning, has it ?

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