Silver Shadow:
(ninja'ed DJ Omnimaga )

Apparently, TI is soon going to release a new OS for the 84+ !

Source:
http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=792

(Note: all the screenshots are from a reliable source.)

It should be out on the 15th of February.
Hope it will also be for the NSpire...

Unfortunately, it looks like it will break compatibility with some old games, as shown in the following screenshot (from Reuben Quest: The Lost Mirror, during a Home Screen sequence where the text-inversion flag is activated):


Here's a complete changelog of the new features in the OS, if you can read french:
http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=archives&ac=voir&id=1624

DJ Omnimaga:

Source:

http://netham45.org/irc/EfNet/view.php?log=ti.20100207 (see BrandonW's lines)

http://www.unitedti.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=9243&view=getnewpost

http://groups.google.com/group/tinspire/browse_thread/thread/ce9e166b0425a583/e84f628607d4aa98?hide_quotes=no

http://tibank.forumactif.com/actualites-f7/nouvel-os-84-t5072.htm

(google translate: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftibank.forumactif.com%2Factualites-f7%2Fnouvel-os-84-t5072.htm )

Interesting rumor... I wonder if this will come true, given how TI hasn't released any OSes in years

And I'm not sure if I read correctly, but did BrandonW really get a copy of it?

On another note, there was talk about a possible new TI-Nspire OS ( 1.8 ) on two french TI forums too, but that was a shorter while ago:

http://tibank.forumactif.com/actualites-f25/infos-nouvel-os-nspire-t5027.htm

Google Language Tools did a poor job, though... try it for yourself but I doubt you will understand much

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftibank.forumactif.com%2Factualites-f25%2Finfos-nouvel-os-nspire-t5027.htm&sl=fr&tl=en

UPDATE: added screenshot demonstrating the compatibility with an old lib-assisted BASIC game.

Some of you might have recently noticed that the board stats started appearing on the front page and that some new sub-forums were recently added. Not only the old Starcraft sub-forum that we had in 2006 is back, but there is now also a new sub-forum that leads to the old board caches from http://www.archive.org and many of the original 56401 posts. A small bug in SMF sub-forum code allows HTML to be used inside topic titles, thus, allowing us to use redirect boards that were normally only available starting on SMF 2.x. Since it is also possible in forum descriptions, this allowed us to add a fake sub-forum that leads to the Webarchive and even display the total stats from the old boards (altough the topic count is slightly lower than it was).

To reflect this change, with the help of some forum members, the board stats layouts were slightly modified in a way that we can now display both the current board stats but also the total posting stats since May 12th 2005, date of the opening of the old board. So basically this is where the 77000+ total post count comes from.

The Starcraft board was added due to the growing interest in Starcraft on the forums and to make it easier to plan games (and help) if our members wanted to play together.

Besides all these additions, a new download section was opened: ROM Hacks. I guess it was a given since eventually actual ROM hacks would get released. Talking about ROM hacks, the sub-forum of the same theme was renamed to ROM Hacking & Console/Handled Homebrew, as it was kinda confusing to people who wants to produce console stuff but that aren't necessarly pirate games.

As other updates, the community featured projects are also listed on the front page, like our team projects now. Also, the file archive downloads and articles statistics now shows up on the board statistics page, right below the posting stats.

Hopefully some other new stuff might come soon.

Enjoy!

In January 2010, Omnimaga forums have hit 2591 posts total, making it the first time we hit 2500 or higher since 2006 ended. We also have made over 2000 posts for two months in a row, December 2009 being the first time we make it past 2000 on the new board (which opened on August 25th 2008). After we reached a peak of 1649 posts in June 2009, activity dropped due to summer vacations, then went back and forth from approximately 800 to over 1100 a month. After October 2009 low activity of 827 messages, we jumped straight to 1559 in November, an increase of 732, then in December our members made a total of 2094, an increase of 535 over the previous month. In January, we had an increase of 497 over December. This is a total increase of 1764 since October, meaning our activity more than tripled in 4 months!


In other words, Omnimaga new forums activity is now the same as it was in the old forums glory days. The differences, which makes the new community even better, are that after only 40% of the total amount of posts we had on the old board (over 55000), we already have hit our old total member mark and more people seems to have stayed around. In addition to that, the overall post quality seems to have increased considerably in overall, even in our members-only Randomness sub-forum. 8149 of our 20419 posts, 40% of the entire board, are calculator projects and ideas discussions.

We would like to thank all members who are participating to our discussions, who share their work with us, help as well as all the staff who make Omnimaga a better place every day!

These days, it is getting common for spambots to no longer post any ads in topic or reply form on forums, and instead, send private messages to entire member lists or put advertisments in their forum signatures or website links fields. Some will even use their AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo fields to advertise, as well as their personal bio, when avaliable. These bots are harder to spot than regular spammer bots because they do not post new topics so the staff won't notice right away. This is made even harder due to the fact bots also rarely add these advertisments (which can often lead to malicious or innapropriate content) right when signing up on forums and can even take weeks to do so. While some people may consider these less visible advertisments less harmful than conventional ones, they can still cause problems if a member click the link when browsing profiles and the more time they're linked to, the higher their search engine rankings are.

A few months ago, we have solved the issue of PM spam by disabling the PM system for members who have less than 5 posts. Now, in order to filter profile ads, the only profile section that will be editable for members who have 0 posts will be "Account Related Settings", where they can change their e-mail address and password. While this will not prevent the increasing wave of bots from registering on Omnimaga, this will make it much harder for them to advertise, as now their only way to do so will be to post, which will alert the staff and the bot will end up banned and posts deleted.

We are sorry in advance for the inconveniences this might cause for new members. For new members who have questions regarding the website, we recommend the "Feedback & Questions" sub-forum at http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?board=13 and as always, the other appropriate sections for other kind of questions (and obviously, the search engine, in case the question might alerady been awnsered).

No, ZagorBNK is not gone, in fact he has just changed nickname to Silver Shadow, but today, he is joining Omnimaga Coders Of Tomorrow programming team.

He has been part of Omnimaga community since the opening of this SMF board and has acquired experience with TI-BASIC and xLIB over the time, while working on some projects including DoorCS-related stuff. He is currently working on a xLIB game to be packaged in Basic Builder format, but the project is still secret. He should be announcing something soon.

Welcome to the team!

We have added a new subforums for all TI-BASIC subroutines. So far only mine and one of ti-newb's are there. The purpose if this subforum is to make it easyier to find any subroutines you may need and to show off any you make.

Certain members of the #TCPA IRC channel on EFnet, where is also located #cemetech and our own channel #omnimaga, has started a project a few days ago that involves the revival of the formerly active #TI channel. Back in the late '90s, #TI was used as primary calculator discussion on EFnet but eventually became less active as most people used #TCPA as primary calc chat. #TI was also cracked somewhere around 2004, leaving the channel inaccessible for over a year.

Currently, there are 3 major TI calculator-related channels available:

#TCPA: Originally used by the TI Calculator Programming Alliance programming group, it remained active as a general channel even after the disbanding of the team in 2001 and is currently used as primary channel for Ticalc.org, MaxCoderz, RevSoft and Detacheds Solutions. This channel has discussion about computers, OSes, hardware and general calculator discussion. This channel promotes free speech and unabridged discussion, while keeping randomness to a limit. The channel ranges from 50 to 60 users excluding the bots and activity, according to their log list, averages at 100 KB of text per day.

#Omnimaga: The Omnimaga channel opened on July 18th 2005 as add-on to the forum that opened not long before. The discussion in this channel is mostly focused on video games, computers, anime and calculator game and projects. To keep the environment as friendly as possible, this channel moderation is stricter, although it is more lax on randomness. This channel ranges from 15 to 30 users excluding the bots and duplicates. This channel is slightly more active than #TCPA.

#Cemetech: The Cemetech channel opened around 2005 under the name #ltwttf, later renamed to its current name. The discussion in this channel is mostly focused on video games, FreeBuild (LEGO game), computers, hardware and occasionally calculators. Like #TCPA, this channel promotes unabridged discussion, but like #omnimaga, is more lax on randomness. This channel averages at 15 users and is still active, although its activity level is unknown.

The two goals of the #TI revival project would be to unify the TI community by creating a place where everyone could come to talk about calculators and interact with users of other communities, while still keeping the other channels around. Basically #TCPA would keep the off-topic discussion. #Omnimaga would remain about TI calculators, but when we cannot awnser questions by new users, we would redirect them to #TI instead of #TCPA. We do not know the plans for #Cemetech.

While we plan to continue maintaining #omnimaga IRC channel as it is, and still encourage our users to pop in from time to time, we hope that the revived #TI channel will help developers who don't frequent all 3 other channels at once to stay in touch easier, while not hindering other channels calculator user base and activity. It will also hopefully make it easier for newbies to receive real-time help on programming and general questions.

Original article about the project: http://nykida.net/2010/01/20/uniting-the-community-reviving-ti/