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Site Feedback and Questions / Re: General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity - What can we do?
« on: April 08, 2012, 02:38:18 am »
Quote from: Juju on April 05, 2012, 10:11:57 pm
Hm, ironically this thread became pretty active. We need more of those threads!
Quote from: DJ_O on April 07, 2012, 10:36:34 pm
(Btw the future of TI-Nspire debate has been split to http://ourl.ca/15791 it seems, so I guess it should be discussed there now while keeping this thread about activity.)

Hmm yes though the mass activity was due to such long and constructive posts. Never knew of such a topic that started such involved discussion!
Hopefully this'll help in the overall increase in website activity.

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Forum Arcade Games / Re: Simon
« on: April 08, 2012, 01:46:33 am »
Nice game, though boring and repetitive. It can be an incentive to get up onto the highscores though!

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Site Feedback and Questions / Re: Unresponsive website (at times)
« on: April 08, 2012, 12:41:38 am »
A captcha? when was that installed? O.O
I think the problem I have in google chrome is that sometimes I load an omnimaga page and chrome says that the page is not available. It's like the whole site is offline. This only lasts a maximum of a few minutes. Usually force reloading or loading the home page eventually works.

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Miscellaneous / Re: Who was the first person you met on omnimaga?
« on: April 07, 2012, 08:19:08 pm »
Quote from: DJ_O on April 07, 2012, 08:08:48 pm
Yeah true. Although with aaroneus it surpringsly was very easy to communicate together, despite his french having an accent and my rusty spoken english. It was kinda easy for me to communicate with Eeems on Skype too, although with Geekboy and Netham45 it was rather challenging because they spoke extremely fast. :P Of course it's much easier with Juju than anyone else, though, since we both speak the same native language. :P

I can has communicate on Skype ?
Oh wait I need my webcam.

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Lua / Re: Numstrat - Stumbling into Lua
« on: April 07, 2012, 07:34:18 pm »
Thanks someone, though I'm don't completely understand sections of it.
So in your version "state" plays an important part here. and I also see "chance" defined as a table?

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Other Calculators / The Future of TI-Nspire Programming
« on: April 07, 2012, 07:30:46 pm »
Quote from: hoffa on April 07, 2012, 06:46:43 pm
Tossing my two cents.

I'm a relatively new guy in the calculator community, but I've read and experienced enough of TI's actions to not give the slightest damn about morality as far as they're concerned. Sucking TI's big corporate dick hoping they'll change their ways is ridiculous (does not apply to people like adriweb who have contacts), they won't change for an insignificant minority, that's how business works (and I fully understand them), deal with it.

Let's be honest, if I had a non-CAS calculator, I'd work on getting a CAS OS installed on it, would spare me a few bucks. If it was possible to control the LEDs, I'd probably write a PTT simulator just for the heck of it (not sure if I'd cheat with it though, it's not like I can't walk to class with PTT already activated, documents stuffed on it and pretend I just put it on). It would be a nice big "fuck you" to TI, and through my cynical eyes I'd probably enjoy the eventual aftermath. Either you bend down and adapt, or then you go against the flow, relish the advantages, and deal with the consequences.

In other news, I think changing the theme to a lighter, more modern and less "intimidating" one would encourage others to participate (no offence to whoever made the theme, just my view). I'm pretty positive there's a great deal of psychology involved, and many might have the tendency to go away or just quickly pass by if it looks too much like a concentration camp of weird and sweaty basement dwellers (yeah, you'll have to get used with my way of expressing myself). Think what you think, but that was what made me doubtful before I joined the party.
Hmm I can't remember whether it gets saved or not, though I like this theme. I understand what hoffa is saying though, as possibly it is a little heavy and people glancing over your shoulder will immediately be attracted to the heavy blue hues of Omnimaga.

Also I guess we still need to continue development in the nspire anyway. This is about attracting new programmers here, not about attracting TI here I guess.

EDIT: Just realised there were 5 pages in this thread already. And Whoah with the massive mega posts!!!!

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News / Re: Dive into Critor's TI collection...
« on: April 07, 2012, 07:27:53 pm »
Man critor, I knew you had several TI-nspire prototypes and stuff, but I didn't know there were that many! A whole factory or so of calcs! You could probably stack them up as building blocks or something :P

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Miscellaneous / Re: Who was the first person you met on omnimaga?
« on: April 07, 2012, 07:23:36 pm »
DJ_O had humongous influence when I first joined, and still does :D.
We definitely had some IRC conversations about things that I rarely had with other members. At that time he was also the mega boss of Omnimaga :P

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Miscellaneous / Re: ClrHome seized?
« on: April 05, 2012, 08:45:13 pm »
Quote from: Deep Thought on April 04, 2012, 08:25:24 pm
1984 is a famous (English) dystopian novel by George Orwell. It's about a world where the government has learned to manipulate everything in their citizens' lives to serve its own interest, and INGSOC and the slogans are references, as Jonius said.

Technicially it's not correct to state the title of the book as 1984. It's Nineteen Eighty-Four, unless if the American editions do actually say 1984.
They have telescreens which are like our surveillance cameras we have today, constantly monitoring people for any signs of rebellion.

Quote from: TBO_Yeong on April 05, 2012, 08:42:12 pm
I never read that book before, but it does sounds interesting.
Is the book like "Brave New World" ?

It may be like Brave New World, though it's so long since I read the synopsis of that that I can't really make a comparisoon.

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News / Re: Reflash your Nspire CX Diags without RS232!!!
« on: April 05, 2012, 08:36:09 pm »
Quote from: jimbauwens on April 05, 2012, 10:35:49 am
Well, TI-Planet has them listed in their archives, so I don't think it is necesarry :)
Ah Ok. Maybe a description of what each one does? And working OS versions and whatnot would still be useful.

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TI-Nspire / Re: TNS>LUA Converter
« on: April 05, 2012, 08:34:46 pm »
Quote from: Deep Thought on April 04, 2012, 06:21:13 pm
If you're using Windows, add the Python install directory to your PATH environment variable. See http://docs.python.org/using/windows.html#excursus-setting-environment-variables for more information. And no, it won't work with TNS files for OS 3.0.2 and above. (By the way, BBify can also convert OS 3.0.1 TNS files to Lua source -- sorry for the thread hijack, but I thought it was relevant.)

Ah Ok. I realised that may be the case as soon as I saw Problem1.xml in the code somewhere. :( OS 3.0.2 has that encrypted :D.

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Site Feedback and Questions / Re: General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity - What can we do?
« on: April 05, 2012, 08:32:51 pm »
I think so. Apparently it will come with the LuaSDK, but I may have got things completely wrong.
oclua can already edit on calc in an indirect way.
Also made minor edits to my post.

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Site Feedback and Questions / Re: General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity - What can we do?
« on: April 05, 2012, 08:29:23 pm »
Quote from: TBO_Yeong on April 05, 2012, 08:27:15 pm
Well, in my opinion, TI-nSpire's programming couldn't get much because they're not that simple to program with. (Lua needs computer, and so does C.)
If someone comes up with programming language on-calc for nspire, it could bring more people (Just like how Axe did)
True, this may change with being able to edit the lua script inside the tns file in OS 3.2

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Site Feedback and Questions / General Decrease in Omnimaga Activity from 2011 levels - What can we do?
« on: April 05, 2012, 08:22:44 pm »
Fellow Omnimaga Members,

After a discussion with DJ_O, he and I (Jonius7) have come to the conclusion that something must be done about the general decrease in activity on Omnimaga.

For those of you that need a little background info (DJ_O may be able to provide some more), Omnimaga reached a peak of around 400-500 posts per day in October - November 2010. This was mainly due to a surge of interest in the TI-nspire with significant ndless and nDoom and other TI-nspire hacking tools releases, though at this time z80 projects were also thriving too. However over the course of 2011 interest in the TI-nspire began to die out in general, and also combined with DJ_O's retirement from manager, several active members leaving Omnimaga or becoming inactive have lead to this gradual decrease in posting activity. Even with the opening up of the Lua programming environment on the TI-nspire, projects and forum activity in Lua are not as widespread as they could be.

In February - March 2012, Omnimaga is barely attaining an average of around 150-200 posts a day.
The stats graph illustrates this trend: http://www.omnimaga.org/statsgraph.php

Even activity on OmnomIRC is enough to show a general decrease in activity. The time period between 3am and 9am (IIRC in UTC-5) is often quiet, and even sometimes in some peak hours activity is low.


So I guess we need to collectively form a plan to tackle this. The big problem is that while we have more members joining than ever before (the rate of registration is exponential like), many of these members have only posted minimially or not at all and have left, leaving the older members to hold up most of the website activity. And when even some of the older members have become inactive, including some staff, there doesn't leave that much left of who remains.

What could we do to bring these inactive members back? What incentive would work? And how would we entice new members to stay and bring some new young blood to omnimaga?
Programming contests are one thing, however DJ_O and I have both agreed more action is required.

I leave these questions with the Omnimaga community. If anything is incorrect, feel free to correct. :D

Regards,

Jonius7 and DJ_O

Spoiler For PS:
DJ_O also wanted to point out that in the Programming Contests last year in 2011, there was very little activity in the TI-nspire Lua contest, with many entrants remaining inactive on the forums until the submission date. From what I have heard, precautions will be taken this year to ensure that this does not happen again.

Spoiler For Log of Conversation with DJ_O:
For those who want a clearer picture of the situation, read the logs here:

[02:57:28] <+Jonius7> activity has decreased or something. It does seem quiet even at times when it's meant to be busy
[02:57:44] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> yeah D:
[02:58:00] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> especially during morning from 4 to 11 AM it used to be quite active
[02:58:40] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> I think the Nspire community started to die, as someone else mentionned recently to me, like if no more Nspire projects were being worked on except for a few
[02:58:49] <+Jonius7> true
[02:58:50] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> kinda like if everyone decided to abandon the fight against TI
[02:59:05] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> because if you notice, there are still a bunch of z80 projects in the works
[02:59:06] <+Jonius7> there are lots of Basic programs I could port to Lua
[02:59:16] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> but barely any Nspire ones, even Lua
[02:59:20] <+Jonius7> Yeah
[03:00:56] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> and Prizm... well... most of the development moved to Cemetech (dunno if it was another round of mass-invite via PM like 2 years ago or just most of our prizm coders having moved on like z80man), although there are some topics here too from time to time
[03:01:08] <+Jonius7> Hmm
[03:01:11] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> even there it's quiet regarding prizm
[03:01:20] <+Jonius7> wow
[03:01:27] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> it's Casio, after all
[03:01:42] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> since ti got the monopoly casio calcs usually have much less coders
[03:01:57] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> But the sucky thing is how the Nspire scene seems to be dying like the 68K one
[03:02:12] <+Jonius7> I hope not
[03:02:23] <+Jonius7> there were lots of those boot2 and other tools released a week ago
[03:02:26] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> that would pretty much leave us only 83+ expertise for the most part
[03:02:27] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> yeah
[03:02:34] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> well there was Ndless, nDoom, etc
[03:02:44] <+Jonius7> Those are big ones
[03:02:52] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> but then nobody made custom programs like RPGs or arcade games
[03:02:55] <+Jonius7> but it's true there hasn't been that much other games and dev stuff
[03:03:01] <+Jonius7> Yeah
[03:03:14] <+Jonius7> and the nspire has so much potential now
[03:03:19] <+Jonius7> hope it picks up
[03:03:20] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> ndless probably had a novelty effect that weared off over time as newcomers didnt see any new stuff
[03:03:29] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> what we need I think is another contest
[03:03:32] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> but this time
[03:03:34] <+Jonius7> yeah
[03:03:42] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> to avoid last year's activity drop
[03:03:54] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> force every contestant to post about their entry on the forums
[03:04:12] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> last year only like 2 contestant did, the others worked behind the scenes, leaving the site for months
[03:04:13] <+Jonius7> Good idea, but "force" isn't the best word :P
[03:04:23] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> well i mean like last year on cemetech
[03:04:36] <+Jonius7> Ah Ok
[03:04:38] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> if someone wants to submit an entry he had to create a topic announcing it there
[03:04:58] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> this was most likely to prevent lurkers from participating
[03:05:17] <+Jonius7> I thought most people did post something and there was that list of entrants
[03:05:42] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> not really for the nspire iirc
[03:06:19] <+Jonius7> o
[03:06:24] <+Jonius7> disappointing
[03:07:26] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> anyway i have to go to bed. What you or me could do if we have time is post a topic in site feedback regarding the dropping activity and what we could do to bring the people back, why has most people became quiet including some staff and what could attract
[03:07:28] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> more ppl back
[03:07:58] <+Jonius7> Yeah.
[03:08:03] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> but again if nobody bothers to reply then that would mean nobody cares if the site becomes inactive
[03:08:13] <+Jonius7> waaaaa lots of unreplied topics
[03:08:15] <+Jonius7> Yeah
[03:08:16] <+Jonius7> OK
[03:08:21] <+Jonius7> cya DJ_O
[03:08:27] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> i guess a title like "Why has Omni activity dropped so much"
[03:08:35] <+Jonius7> nobody cares if the site becomes inactive
[03:08:38] <+Jonius7> NOOOOOOO
[03:08:39] <+Jonius7> I care
[03:08:59] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> well i mean if such topic gets posted and nobody bothers replying
[03:09:34] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> we kinda need ideas on how to bring the ppl back, bring new ones back and stuff (not just contests)
[03:09:38] <+Jonius7> Hmm
[03:10:02] <+Jonius7> Admittedly I don't see the managers around that often. BUt that's my perspective
[03:10:35] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> I mean if the removal of negative rating is what made ppl leave silently, or if it's due to the projects section split into categories, the bunch of inactive staff, or me not being admin anymore (I hope not lol)
[03:10:53] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> and it's best the ppl speak their mind so we know what happened
[03:10:58] <+Jonius7> "or me not being admin anymore (I hope not lol)"
[03:10:59] <+Jonius7> I think that does make a difference
[03:11:06] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> that could maybe be the case
[03:11:06] <+Jonius7> Yeah
[03:11:12] <+Jonius7> sigh
[03:11:30] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> but would the managers (besides deep thought) be willing or be able to be more active?
[03:11:42] <+Jonius7> Deep Thought is alright I think
[03:11:46] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> yeah
[03:11:52] <+Jonius7> I don't see EEems much tho
[03:11:53] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> same for qwerty and to a lesser extent shmibs
[03:12:07] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> (shmibs has sudden periods of inactivity sometimes tho)
[03:12:21] <+Jonius7> I've seen Qwerty but not really shmibs, yes
[03:12:29] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> and in my case i doubt i would get hired back considering how unstable I am (and my uncertain stability in short terms)
[03:12:35] <+Jonius7> hmm
[03:12:57] <+Jonius7> I have a feeling that ARS should have some role somewhere
[03:13:00] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> and idk if i would want to take over the job again (although I guess if netham45 is the leader that could help)
[03:13:10] <+Jonius7> in between Managers and CoT
[03:13:14] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> maybe
[03:13:21] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> well they do but mostly moderating
[03:13:28] <+Jonius7> Yeah
[03:13:38] <+Jonius7> Though I do'nt know
[03:14:17] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> ARS technically only started to exist because of the nDoom troll invasion tho
[03:14:38] <+Jonius7> yes
[03:14:47] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> otherwise it would probably not even exist
[03:14:53] <+Jonius7> but they are the moderators level type thing
[03:14:56] <+Jonius7> So Hmm
[03:15:06] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> of course a bunch of our activity decrease was probably due to the many bans of active users tho
[03:15:22] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> Ashbad ans SirCmpwn had a quite high activity rate until their final months
[03:15:44] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> Also maybe the site got blocked at more schools so that won't help x.x
[03:15:46] <+Jonius7> sad to see those two go
[03:15:59] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> but staff had to enforce rules so...
[03:16:13] <+Jonius7> they're both on cemetech right?
[03:16:16] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> yeah
[03:16:19] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> er not sir
[03:16:25] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> he's banned there too
[03:16:27] <+Jonius7> o
[03:16:39] <+Jonius7> Yeah I've seen ashbad there.
[03:16:41] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> anyway if you want I guess you can create a topic about the 3 things I mentionned earlier or something
[03:17:01] <+Jonius7> Ok. I'll do that for Omnimaga :D
[03:17:23] <+Jonius7> I just hope it doesn't add to the list of topics where you and I are the active posters
[03:17:29] <+Jonius7> and Yeong a bit
[03:17:57] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> why the site activity dropped so much (like from 400 posts a day to barely 150), why the formerly active users and staff rarely post anymore, what could bring them back and what could help bringing more members again to get some young blood
[03:18:32] <+Jonius7> Ok
[03:18:45] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> there's the how to improve omni topic but it only emphasises on site suggestions, not the activity and stuff
[03:19:07] <+Jonius7> I agree a new topic has to be created for this
[03:19:19] <+Jonius7> Like those news topics with the change in activity and other things
[03:19:20] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> heck maybe it's because of Netbot always breaking
[03:20:17] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> the issue is not when people leave due to moving on after a year or two of calc programming, then new ones coming. It's more when a shitload of people, even younger users, leave, then barely anyone remains from the ones who arrived
[03:20:49] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> cya now
[03:20:50] <+Jonius7> Oh about the ARS I was trying to say. I don't really know half of them such as rcfreak0 and Tribal
[03:20:54] <+Jonius7> Yeah
[03:21:01] <+Jonius7> Sorry for holding you up on sleep
[03:21:06] <+Jonius7> Good night :D
[03:21:10] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> it's fine
[03:21:21] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> plus i wanted Omni to be independent from my lack of activity
[03:21:31] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> i mean i stayed around the community for 11 years
[03:21:41] <+Jonius7> Yes :)
[03:22:01] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> in 2006-07 as soon as I left Omni it would immediately drop by 60% activity
[03:22:14] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> then slowly die until i return
[03:22:46] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> now even when I left it still remained somewhat active at the same level as before, but afterward I discovered it kinda dropped slowly
[03:23:13] <+Jonius7> Wow tribal hasn't posted since October
[03:23:25] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> not sure if it's due to me not being as around or not but that would suck if I was "doomed" to stay active like I used to be to keep omni active
[03:24:09] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> especially considering at one point my health was preventing me to do so (and still does sometimes)
[03:25:12] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> I wonder if there's a way for admins to grant full admin privileges to a member except for anything involving moderation (except moving topics) and banning members
[03:25:17] <+Jonius7> tricky situation in general I guess
[03:25:32] <+Jonius7> so what rights would that leave?
[03:25:48] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> that would probably be the only safe way to let me back in the team, if that was ever needed to save the site or something
[03:26:01] <+Jonius7> Hmm
[03:26:16] <+Jonius7> You are the founder, I guess you deserve something like that
[03:26:26] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> rights to edit EzPortal blocks, the about page, adding new subforums, removing dead ones
[03:27:11] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> i gave away the site tho so the new owners have every right to do what they want with it, including not ever hiring me again (i guess they would have a point tho, considering I blew up often before)
[03:27:22] <+Jonius7> So the general site template and pages but not getting "dirty" in all the forum post management stuff.
[03:27:44] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> yeah, plus I got sick of the moderating. It'sjust not my task
[03:27:57] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> i mean it was not a task for me
[03:28:06] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> i rather leave that to others
[03:28:11] <+Jonius7> I know
[03:28:30] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> anyway gonna let you post the topic I guess unless i manage to have time tomorrow and you didnd
[03:28:42] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> i might have to go shop for food before working during evening tho
[03:28:51] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> good night
[03:29:23] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> and the site stats btw http://www.omnimaga.org/statsgraph.php (scroll right, if necessary, since the graph doesn't fit the page)
[03:29:51] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> the peak spike in the 700s was a month after you joined, I believe
[03:30:14] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> the last 500 post days were around oct 2011 (a year afterward)
[03:31:35] <+OmnomIRC> (O)<DJ_O> i really should post about that life topic one day (I was supposed to do so last may but it took too long to write), although part of the issues (IRL) were solved a year ago

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TI Z80 / Re: Axe Parser Developer's Kit 1.0
« on: April 05, 2012, 07:10:45 pm »
Quote from: zero44 on March 30, 2012, 03:21:45 pm
This is a secret project  :ninja: for the moment, but I think in June/July it will be finished and publishable.
What I can actually say is that this is an Axe project, helping to make Axe projects  :hyper:
It's supposed to backup source code, launch asm program and edit the source code in some ways.
But if you can wait, I think (and §I hope) that it will help lots of people (for those who are not beginning in Axe).

Enjoy. (even if you have nothing to see  >:D )

Nice zero44!
I wonder how your program will edit the source code "in some ways". I hope this'll be an Axe program that'll be able to edit Axe Source code in a nice IDE type thing as others have said.

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