Great!
Thank you for dealing with this problem so quickly after being asked to.

And now, go on with the next step

Quote from: critor on October 20, 2012, 05:48:24 am

Fine - go on fighting!

WHat do you mean with "fine"?

Sorry...
Nice? Good? Great?


Not the fact that the audience is moving to FaceBook/Twitter... But the fact that we try to adapt ourselves.

Quote from: aeTIos on October 19, 2012, 06:58:41 am

Actually didn't you have like 10 posts a day for a few months then kept disappearing for 3? And nice you got something in the works

Quote from: critor on October 19, 2012, 03:21:15 am

- OmnomIRC (and if necessary, finding a new server)
- improving the download sections (latests uploads on home page, screenshot + descriptions, online emulator, categories and subcategories, possibility to update the files...)

Yeah I've been suggesting Juju and a few other alternatives for servers, but to no avail so far. The issue is that staff simply can't afford the extra $20-40 a month that it would cost to run OmnomIRC.

How much do you pay the server per month currently?

Can OmnomIRC be run on another server than omnimaga.org ?

And an emulator on Omnimaga would require TI-Planet help since staff here would probably not be able to implement such thing otherwise.

I didn't say no.
Just keep in mind that the emulator I currently maintain does not support 83+.
So it would only be useful for Basic programs, or assembly programs for basic TI-83.

We haven't asked Kerm if we could integrated jsTIfied yet, nor for the required conditions if any (links? banner?...).

Also you would need to modify the emu to force the user to provide his own ROM for legal reasons. (like jsTIfied does).

No problem - I've got a build which asks for the ROM, although it's not the one we're using.

But yeah there are so many reasons why a community could become less active over time (or more) that it's hard to tell which ones in particular are the cause. It could even be the economy: Notice how few europeans are joining Omnimaga since Europe economy collapsed. Bad economy == Unable to afford internet/3G bills, let alone your own calculator. Even my Youtube videos get fewer views since the past years.

Europe is not Greece and Greece is not Europe.


Don't worry, we are perfectly fine. There aren't any difference in everyday life: it's the same as years ago.

Almost all my students have their up to date color smartphones.

And by the way, TI-Planet had in september 2012 almost as many visits as in May 2012 (exams period), which was allready a record.


So you can't give such simple/generic explanations.

Thanks Stefan.



By the way DJ_O, if you check the stats, you'll see that the news aren't the main problem.

I've made many news for Omnimaga during the last year and especially last summer - but the activity went on dropping more and more.


The problem is something else...

This is a situation, mostly hypothetical. If you upgraded your TI-nspire Clickpad from 1.4 to 3.1 without using TNOC first, but then you can install ndless, nTNOC can't remove the 3.x boot2 can it? So then I don't know how you can avoid using TNOC without resorting to installing TI's 3.x boot2.

nTNOC doesn't remove the Boot2 from the Flash.
It does remove it from the OS file which is stored on the handheld in /phoenix/install/TI-Nspire.tnc.

Update: My new TI-Nspire CX CAS got really lucky and can clock its CPU up to 276MHz without crashing (282MHz is an instant crash). I have yet to see if 276MHz will cause occasional random crashes, but a simple test of gpSP-Nspire seems stable so far.

Edit: Okay, starting up Metroid Fusion in gpSP-Nspire causes a crash at 276MHz. Stable at 270MHz.

Great! Congratulations
Which AHB setting did you use?

May we have your Nspire CX hardware revision too ?

Maybe we should improve the Omnimaga website to be more than "just a forum"


First, OmnomIRC definately has to come back.
People (especially young people raised with FaceBook and other things) don't like forums and prefer interacting directly with others.


Maybe we could improve the upload system to handle screenshots, bbcoded descriptions, categories (sorry if it does allready exist - it would mean I've missed it, which might prove that the menu would have to be redesigned).


Maybe we could have an online player/emulator for uploaded files.
TI-Nspire files can easily be previewed online using the official TI-Nspire Document Player.
Most non-Flash TI-z80 programs (TI-76, TI-81, TI-82, TI-82Stats, TI-83, TI-85) can be run by the TI8XEmu GPL online Flash emulator from Brandon Meyer under GPL, which I host and maintain since Brandon disappeared from the Internet (his blog went offline for some weeks some years ago, then came back but was never updated again).
TI-Planet.org can provide some of the needed code.

But... This emulator doesn't support TI-83+/84, and we should ask Cemetech for that, as the only previous online TI-83+ emulator which was advertised here has disappeared (links broken and no source code released).


Maybe we could start newsing about math & science & exams and hosting such programs.
Young people are playing more and more on their phone and tablet, and less and less on their calculator, especially on their monochrome calculator.

Young people looking for calculator websites online will be more and more interested by maths/science programs or documents, and less and less by games because they have their phone in the pocket which is 1000 times better.

We could also have online editors which would let users generate their own calculators documents by typing/pasting text for example.
Cemetech has many high-quality online tools like that.
TI-Planet can provide some code here too.


The world is changing... Omnimaga has to evolve and resume PHP/Web development quickly.

Feel free to disagree with me.

But something has to be done... as soon as possible, definately.
Just dare checking the stats if you're not afraid of:
http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=stats