History of the TI community

[Eeems]

Ah, ok. Well you probably know more then anybody else of us :p

[Lionel Debroux]

A number of "old-timer" members of the TI-68k French community are still attending yAronet, even if for most of them, it's no longer for programming purposes. It shouldn't be hard to _reach_ them, though a significant proportion of them isn't likely to participate, due to lack of free time.
(I'm mildly among those "old-timers" myself, as I started attending yAronet no earlier than late 2001)

[DJ Omnimaga]

Hi and welcome on the forums Lionel. Actually it would be cool if someone did the 68k portion of the french community since I didn't own a 68k until 2007.

[Galandros]

There is agreement to evolve the topic on WikiTI. So let's start working. When it is mature (in terms of completeness and agreement), it is easier to move to wikipedia, I think.

I started a discussion on WikiTI with some pending questions and suggested adding two events:
    *  end of POTM and start of POTY, that means a major decrease in calc stuff. (easy to get date from ticalc)
    * Change of calculators popularity, exactly the transition between the TI-85/86 to TI-8x family. (variable in regions, vague and discussable)

You can see the topic here:
http://wikiti.brandonw.net/index.php?title=History_of_the_TI_Z80_community
And discussion here:
http://wikiti.brandonw.net/index.php?title=Talk:History_of_the_TI_Z80_community

@Eeems: check out the TI websites additions. ^^

[Eeems]

ah ok, well I have a few people who are willing to help on UTI, and one has made an account here so yeah...

EDIT: I took a look and well we should add every site . Hmm I'll add some more if I find some that we don't have.

[DJ Omnimaga]

I also heard about a Program Of The Week award that did not last long. I am curious if it actually existed, though.

[Galandros]

I also heard about a Program Of The Week award that did not last long. I am curious if it actually existed, though.

Some googling:
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/0/3/3025.html?p=1
Yes, there was a POTW.

About adding every site, I still have some sites in my list... It is question of reorder things to see what is missing on WikiTI. Plus see tifreakware sites list to add more. link: http://tifreakware.net/admin/link.php?catag=index

EDIT: someone explain the difference between these 2 sites:
http://www.calcgames.org/
http://calcg.org/

[DJ Omnimaga]

In 2007, Calcgames.org went through a major redesign, but it was moved to Calcg.org and they decided to also keep Calcgames.org up with a slighter design update for those who prefered the old design.

[Galandros]

In 2007, Calcgames.org went through a major redesign, but it was moved to Calcg.org and they decided to also keep Calcgames.org up with a slighter design update for those who prefered the old design.

Odd but it explains. The archive is the same or there is differences?

[Galandros]

* Galandros needed to bump some post

Could someone (DJ Omnimaga) suggest or add himself more memorable sites to http://wikiti.brandonw.net/index.php?title=TI_websites#Memorable_TI_Websites?
By Memorable sites, it means important sites of the community that are not longer online.

[DJ Omnimaga]

When I get some time I will probably register there so I can add or edit some stuff. I will try to remember most old sites and maybe post archive.org caches of them if they work

As for Omnimaga, I am wondering if we should cover its history from 2001 even if it had no website for over 2 years or if we should start from when Omnimaga first got a website in 2004? While it started in 2001, almost at the same time as MaxCoderz, maybe it couldn't be considered as a TI community group until 2004?

[DJ Omnimaga]

I updated a few of the community pages on WikiTI, such as missing notable program links and stuff. I also updated Omnimaga page to something more accurate (altough it still misses the releases in the history section):

http://wikiti.brandonw.net/index.php?title=Teams:Omnimaga

[Galandros]

Good work.
You made me remember that there many other notable programs and experiments. When it occurs again to me, I will look to add more and complete the information. Maybe even add a brief description for each one and clean up a bit the visual.

[DJ Omnimaga]

That would be nice ^^

Hopefully, later, maybe I'll get the motivation to add more info to the MaxCoderz, Revsoft and other pages. It might not be as complete, though.

[ztrumpet]

That looks great!  Nice work!