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Title: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Stefan Bauwens on April 01, 2011, 03:48:43 am

Has Ticalc.org done something for fools day?
YES they have!
Before you check these spoilers, why don't you first go try found out what it is for yourself. It isn't that hard.

Spoiler For Spoiler:

EDIT: The files themselves I show in the picture have nothing to do with it.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Yeong on April 01, 2011, 07:10:41 am

lol.....This is kinda lame though D:

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Juju on April 01, 2011, 07:49:47 am

Yeah... Cemetech's new theme is way better.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Xeda112358 on April 01, 2011, 08:15:21 am

Hehe, I love the new categories :D

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: calcdude84se on April 01, 2011, 08:57:49 am

Spoiler For Spoiler:

Haha ;D

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Munchor on April 01, 2011, 09:36:39 am

http://www.ticalc.org/pub/83plus/basic/math/quadratic/best/ (http://www.ticalc.org/pub/83plus/basic/math/quadratic/best/)

Best page ever :D

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Juju on April 01, 2011, 10:56:59 am

Hahaha, clever :D

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 01, 2011, 04:42:39 pm

I lol'ed hard when I saw the new quadratic solver directories this morning. XD Some of the quadratic solvers directories actually really fit well. I also liked the random colors. XD

As for United-TI, a small calc appears on every page now. TI-BANK appears to have released OSLauncher, although I'm still not convinced this is fake considering DiagLauncher and Boot2Launcher releases, and they picked up the ClrHome.co.cc fake news about the Casio Prizm burning ceremony. XD

As for ClrHome, it was all in rainbow colors earlier. O.O

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: ralphdspam on April 01, 2011, 04:53:22 pm

Where's my quadratic solver? D:

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 01, 2011, 04:55:58 pm

Wait they didn't add it? D:

Maybe it didn't fit in any of the new categories. :P

I lol'ed at the uploaded quadratic solvers, though. XD

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Xeda112358 on April 01, 2011, 04:57:29 pm

I loved yeong's description :D

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: ralphdspam on April 01, 2011, 04:57:50 pm

I love their wording. :D

Quote from: TICalc.org

TI-83/84 Plus BASIC Math Programs (Quadratic solvers claiming to be the best)

LOL!

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: yunhua98 on April 01, 2011, 05:08:14 pm

http://www.ticalc.org/pub/abacus/

^lol, I need to upload an abacus file. XD

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Yeong on April 01, 2011, 05:16:38 pm

Quote from: Xeda112358 on April 01, 2011, 04:57:29 pm

I loved yeong's description :D

It's exactly 666 bytes if u put it in ur calc. >:D

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: ralphdspam on April 01, 2011, 05:18:16 pm

I need an abacus. These new-fangled calculator-imabobs are too complicated. :P

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 01, 2011, 05:19:09 pm

Lol we should post all the new directories we can find XD. Here's http://www.ticalc.org/pub/sliderule/ too.

EDIT: LOL they moved the quadratic solvers directory link to the root directory XD

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: yunhua98 on April 01, 2011, 05:26:38 pm

yeah, I noticed. I've gotta a slide rule, but didn't know how to use it until yesterday. I actually made a point of asking how to program for it. XD

EDIT:
Abacus extension: .abc
Sliderule extension: .old

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: ralphdspam on April 01, 2011, 05:29:20 pm

What's the header for programming an abacus. I heard that they don't hold that much memory.
:P

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: AngelFish on April 01, 2011, 05:30:52 pm

Well, the latest economy model by the producer doesn't have much memory, but the old versions you can find on ebay have loads of it.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: ralphdspam on April 01, 2011, 05:32:01 pm

Lol, can you tell me how many bits, though?
How many Hz is the processor?

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: AngelFish on April 01, 2011, 05:33:58 pm

I don't think it's very fast, but it uses a very unique architecture that allows powerful computations.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: yunhua98 on April 01, 2011, 05:48:20 pm

it depends on how fast you "type" on it. ;)

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: FinaleTI on April 01, 2011, 08:10:31 pm

Quote from: DJ_O on April 01, 2011, 04:42:39 pm

I lol'ed hard when I saw the new quadratic solver directories this morning. XD Some of the quadratic solvers directories actually really fit well. I also liked the random colors. XD

As for United-TI, a small calc appears on every page now. TI-BANK appears to have released OSLauncher, although I'm still not convinced this is fake considering DiagLauncher and Boot2Launcher releases, and they picked up the ClrHome.co.cc fake news about the Casio Prizm burning ceremony. XD

As for ClrHome, it was all in rainbow colors earlier. O.O

Did anyone else see the April Fools thing in the RFG Image Uploader?

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Xeda112358 on April 01, 2011, 08:20:14 pm

Dang, I cannot upload my abacus program !_!

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 02, 2011, 01:51:50 pm

Quote from: FinaleTI on April 01, 2011, 08:10:31 pm

Quote from: DJ_O on April 01, 2011, 04:42:39 pm
I lol'ed hard when I saw the new quadratic solver directories this morning. XD Some of the quadratic solvers directories actually really fit well. I also liked the random colors. XD

As for United-TI, a small calc appears on every page now. TI-BANK appears to have released OSLauncher, although I'm still not convinced this is fake considering DiagLauncher and Boot2Launcher releases, and they picked up the ClrHome.co.cc fake news about the Casio Prizm burning ceremony. XD

As for ClrHome, it was all in rainbow colors earlier. O.O
Did anyone else see the April Fools thing in the RFG Image Uploader?

Hmm nope, what was it? ???

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 02, 2011, 03:02:55 pm

Whenever you uploaded anything it rickrolled you on the preview page :P

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: DrDnar on April 02, 2011, 04:27:30 pm

They really should have kept the Quadratic Solver subfolders.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: critor on April 02, 2011, 04:50:05 pm

I'm very disappointed at the 2011 April's fool day from ticalc.org.
That's pretty lame...

Their previous April's fool days were great.
Omnimaga has been great too.

And seems nobody noticed OSLauncher on TI-Bank:
http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=1029

Did you all "believe" it?...

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: mikehill2003 on April 02, 2011, 04:55:32 pm

Quote from: critor on April 02, 2011, 04:50:05 pm

I'm very disappointed at the 2011 April's fool day from ticalc.org.
That's pretty lame...

Their previous April's fool days were great.
Omnimaga has been great too.

And seems nobody noticed OSLauncher on TI-Bank:
http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=1029

Did you all "believe" it?...

I believe OSLauncher is "real", yes. That it will be "released soon" not so much. Make it not run CAS on non-CAS nspires by default and it should be fine. The Prizm burning was awesome, though. What were the previous ticalc.org pranks?

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: critor on April 02, 2011, 05:41:16 pm

OSLauncher is under development.
The video is fake.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: mikehill2003 on April 02, 2011, 05:46:14 pm

Quote from: critor on April 02, 2011, 05:41:16 pm

OSLauncher is under development.
The video is fake.

Well, I knew OSLauncher was being worked on, so I didn't even watch the video (I did note the day you placed the news article, though, that did confuse me) As long as it's not too easy to place CAS on a regular nspire it sounds awesome.

Will it use dumped OS images or will it decrypt them on the fly?

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: critor on April 02, 2011, 05:49:28 pm

The current development version is "trying" to run allready decrypted OS images, like shown on the video.

Decrypting the OS on the fly would be much harder.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: mikehill2003 on April 02, 2011, 05:55:15 pm

Quote from: critor on April 02, 2011, 05:49:28 pm

The current development version is "trying" to run allready decrypted OS images, like shown on the video.

Decrypting the OS on the fly would be much harder.

Thats what I guessed. Awesome.

I just watched the video, so whats up with the non-existant product ID on the calc? Did you play a video created with nspire_emu, or was it a string edit? That's a very convincing video!

And somewhat unrelated, I am setting up the C development environment for my nspire, what emulator should I use? nspire_emu_051 or Ncubate?

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: critor on April 02, 2011, 05:59:39 pm

Quote from: mikehill2003 on April 02, 2011, 05:55:15 pm

I just watched the video, so whats up with the non-existant product ID on the calc? Did you just play a video created with nspire_emu?

Depending upon the OS, the product ID is just printed on the next line.
I've made 2 nspire_emu animated screen captures, and I've concatenated them.

Levak did the rest (mapping the animated screen captures on a Nspire screen), and will probably gladly explain all that.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: mikehill2003 on April 02, 2011, 06:01:55 pm

Quote from: critor on April 02, 2011, 05:59:39 pm

Quote from: mikehill2003 on April 02, 2011, 05:55:15 pm
I just watched the video, so whats up with the non-existant product ID on the calc? Did you just play a video created with nspire_emu?

Depending upon the OS, the product ID is just printed on the next line.
I've made 2 nspire_emu animated screen captures, and I've concatenated them.

Levak did the rest (mapping the animated screen captures on a Nspire screen), and will probably gladly explain all that.

Very nice!

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Darl181 on April 02, 2011, 06:48:37 pm

Apparently they're still not done...in http://www.ticalc.org/pub/ a ton of the categories disappeared...

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 02, 2011, 09:44:51 pm

Quote from: Darl181 on April 02, 2011, 06:48:37 pm

Apparently they're still not done...in http://www.ticalc.org/pub/ a ton of the categories disappeared...

O.o They're still there, but not linked to...

http://www.ticalc.org/pub/83plus/ for example.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: TravisE on April 03, 2011, 12:40:00 am

Quote from: Deep Thought on April 02, 2011, 09:44:51 pm

O.o They're still there, but not linked to...

http://www.ticalc.org/pub/83plus/ for example.

That link works for me. ???

One known issue is that the updated file list on the front page isn't updated and contains broken links. I somehow managed to crash the page generation system (again) and have to wait for Magnus to fix the bug. ;D Update: Now fixed.

Any other oddities are unknown bugs, so please let me know. :)

For the curious, the full list of changes on April Fools Day was:
* Random (but still mostly readable) color combinations on every fileinfo, directory, and author page
* Added 83+/84+ TI-BASIC quadratic solvers directories: best, caps, friday, grayscale, noq, pointless, prime, timeless
* Added root directory directories: abacus, sliderule
* Added root directory link to 83+/84+ TI-BASIC quadratic solvers

I considered adding HP, Casio, Sharp, etc. sections as well, but didn't want people to get fooled and take it too seriously, so I didn't. There was some discussion of a news article, and I was hoping someone would post one, but it sadly didn't happen (everyone was probably too busy). I'm glad I did something with the file archive at least—it wasn't the coolest thing in the world, but if it wasn't for that there would have been nothing at all on April Fools.

I didn't follow it too closely, but the TI OS upgrade joke done here seems like by far the best one. :)

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 03, 2011, 04:17:34 am

Quote from: DrDnar on April 02, 2011, 04:27:30 pm

They really should have kept the Quadratic Solver subfolders.

I agree XD, or at least some of them.

Quote from: critor on April 02, 2011, 04:50:05 pm

I'm very disappointed at the 2011 April's fool day from ticalc.org.
That's pretty lame...

Their previous April's fool days were great.
Omnimaga has been great too.

And seems nobody noticed OSLauncher on TI-Bank:
http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=1029

Did you all "believe" it?...

Personally I found ticalc.org prank funny, because the ridiculous amount of quadratic solvers included there was always a discussion in the TI community about the lack of originality in and redundant files, so that prank parodied quadratic solvers by making it like they had to be split into even more sub-folders. You have to have been around for several years to get the joke at its fullest, because before 2006, the entire math directory was one single folder listing 3000 files. It was also funny that 3 people uploads fake quadratic solvers for April 1st. I guess it depends of opinions, though. Personally my favorite Ticalc.org april fools joke still remains the Voyage 400.

And personally I believed OSLauncher because of DiagsLauncher and Boot2Launcher recent release, but I wasn't sure if the video was real or not. I kinda expected that on April 2nd it would say it's not ready yet but it will come out soon.

That was a nice one, though. :D

As for previous April fools jokes here are some examples:

Ticalc.org
1998 - Site shutting down http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/0/0/164.html
1999 - Program Of The Hour award http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/0/9/9917.html
2000 - File archiver seizes ticalc.org http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/3/30/30145.html Fake version of the newsletter: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/attachments/2000-04-01-apr2000.txt
2001 - Ticalc.org ads http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/4/48/48338.html (this one ironically became real 5.5 years later, to some extent. Because of that and due to the HP ad and TI-81 site ad, it's my 2nd favorite.)
2002 - Micro-payments http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/6/61/61213.html
2003 - Ticalc.org merchandise http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/8/84/84994.html Voyage 400 leaked http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/8/85/85069.html
2004 - Ticalc.org completes IPO http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/10/108/108150.html
2005 - File invitation system http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/12/126/126141.html (This one caused quite a flame war between BASIC and ASM programmers X.x. Back then, there was a lot of hate towards BASIC coders in the TI community, which is one of the reason why Omnimaga got a new forum that year)
2006 - Ticalc got replaced with a parked/squatted domain name page, simulating a shut down. However, the ad links lead to random ticalc.org pages and a lot of them were quite funny. XD One funny part was the HP calculator ad ;D http://www.ticalc.org/a/index.html
2007 - In-program ads (another BASIC program april fools prank) http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/141/141904.html
2008 - Magnus (ticalc hoster/co-founder/former server owner) death http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/143/143713.html (that one had quite a bad taste, though, since it's faking someone's death)
2009 - Web 2.0 revolution for the handheld graphing calculator http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/144/144892.html
2010 - Every file upload must include a quadratic solver http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/146/146123.html
2011 - Quadratic solver directory split in multiple categories & rainbow colored file/directory pages

United-TI
2004 - none
2005 - Every forum member became admin (some funny things happened to the site, although they obviously had backups, lol)
2006 - Purple forum theme
2007 - (I don't remember, as I had no internet access at home)
2008 - 8-bit forum theme (like a Commodore 64)
2009 - They appended random statements between asterisks in forum posts
2010 - About 60-70 fake logged in users were added to the online list
2011 - A small calculator was added on the site

MaxCoderz
2002 - none
2003 - MaxCoderz staff arrested (I don't remember who)
2004 - none
2005 - Fake cease and desist letter from Nintendo forcing Joe Pemberton to stop working on Metroid 83+
2006 - fake site downtime + smash brothers deletion prior that
2007 - Fake spambot flooding the board with spam, even the staff forum
2008 - none
2009 - none
2010 - none
2011 - none

Omnimaga

2005
Zelda The Minish Cap for the TI-83+SE/84+SE http://www.omnimaga.org/oldsite/news_v3.html
(http://www.omnimaga.org/oldsite/zeldamc.gif)

2006
Fake site hacking with deletion of every post and other random stuff like a rainbow theme

Spoiler For lots of large pics:

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: critor on April 14, 2011, 04:19:23 pm

Quote from: mikehill2003 on April 02, 2011, 05:46:14 pm

Well, I knew OSLauncher was being worked on, so I didn't even watch the video (I did note the day you placed the news article, though, that did confuse me) As long as it's not too easy to place CAS on a regular nspire it sounds awesome.

It's not April 1st anymore, so go get it... while you can!
http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=archives&ac=voir&id=3223

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Munchor on April 14, 2011, 04:25:44 pm

Quote from: critor on April 14, 2011, 04:19:23 pm

Quote from: mikehill2003 on April 02, 2011, 05:46:14 pm
Well, I knew OSLauncher was being worked on, so I didn't even watch the video (I did note the day you placed the news article, though, that did confuse me) As long as it's not too easy to place CAS on a regular nspire it sounds awesome.

It's not April 1st anymore, so go get it... while you can!
http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=archives&ac=voir&id=3223

:D Nice

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: critor on April 14, 2011, 04:34:22 pm

You can run any hardware-compatible OS.
They're not checked before being run, so you don't have to bother with the RSA 1024-bits key :P

So, you can run third party OSes or modified TI OSes for example. ^^

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: apcalc on April 14, 2011, 04:35:02 pm

Congratulations! :D

This is an amazing accomplishment!

Now, to go and test...

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: mikehill2003 on April 14, 2011, 04:38:43 pm

Quote from: critor on April 14, 2011, 04:34:22 pm

You can run any hardware-compatible OS.
They're not checked before being run, so you don't have to bother with the RSA 1024-bits key :P

So, you can run third party OSes or modified TI OSes for example. ^^

Sweet.
I'm still compiling ndless...
The OS needs to be unencrypted, right?

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: critor on April 14, 2011, 04:40:19 pm

The OS image can be zipped (to save space), but has to be unencrypted.

So for TI OSes, you'll have to decrypt them on the computer first.
(it's possible...)

Remember an important part of the OS is stored in the file system at installation time.
If you try to run an OS "too different" than the one installed (for exemple 1.6 OS runned from an 1.7 installation), system strings and icons will be all messed up if it does start.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Munchor on April 14, 2011, 04:41:08 pm

Quote from: mikehill2003 on April 14, 2011, 04:38:43 pm

Quote from: critor on April 14, 2011, 04:34:22 pm
You can run any hardware-compatible OS.
They're not checked before being run, so you don't have to bother with the RSA 1024-bits key :P

So, you can run third party OSes or modified TI OSes for example. ^^
Sweet.
I'm still compiling ndless...
The OS needs to be unencrypted, right?

Not sure if you know but brooom has a auto ndless compiler compiles ndless every day.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Levak on April 14, 2011, 04:42:11 pm

Yes. This is the only difficult part for users, and, I guess, is the only thing that makes the user responsable of its OSLauncher uses.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Jim Bauwens on April 14, 2011, 04:42:44 pm

I don't think they are encrypted in the first place.
They are just singed with a signature that protects the calc from running ones with invalid signatures.
(again, can be wrong in this)

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: mikehill2003 on April 14, 2011, 04:43:16 pm

Quote from: jimbauwens on April 14, 2011, 04:42:44 pm

I don't think they are encrypted in the first place.
They are just singed with a signature that protects the calc from running ones with invalid signatures.
(again, can be wrong in this)

The TI-Nspire.img in a tno/c is encrypted.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Jim Bauwens on April 14, 2011, 04:44:20 pm

Ah, ok didn't know this, thanks for correction me :)

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: mikehill2003 on April 14, 2011, 04:46:03 pm

Quote from: jimbauwens on April 14, 2011, 04:44:20 pm

Ah, ok didn't know this, thanks for correction me :)

It's how we learn :)
If you are interested, http://hackspire.unsads.com/wiki/index.php/OS_upgrade_files (http://hackspire.unsads.com/wiki/index.php/OS_upgrade_files) has more info on tno/c files.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: critor on April 14, 2011, 04:55:29 pm

Quote from: mikehill2003 on April 14, 2011, 04:46:03 pm

If you are interested, http://hackspire.unsads.com/wiki/index.php/OS_upgrade_files (http://hackspire.unsads.com/wiki/index.php/OS_upgrade_files) has more info on tno/c files.

I think this is a much more appropriate link (allmost everything about the TI-Nspire.img file)
http://www.yaronet.com/posts.php?sl=2&s=125502&p=4&h=116#116

Click it... while you can!

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 14, 2011, 05:58:08 pm

Awesome Critor about OSLaunch! Hopefully it can remain online for a while.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 02, 2012, 02:50:44 am

Bump:

I think Ticalc.org has divided by zero. After sticking with red and blue bordered news since their 1999 site redesing, here come green ones!

O.O

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Adriweb on April 02, 2012, 06:26:39 am

Dat CSS change.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Juju on April 02, 2012, 07:14:03 am

Oh my it's green what does this mean o.o

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Xeda112358 on April 02, 2012, 07:40:19 am

Does it mean it's real? o.o

EDIT: Or just a half joke?

EDIT2: Oh, it's red now .__.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: flyingfisch on April 02, 2012, 11:39:26 am

Quote from: DJ_O on April 02, 2012, 02:50:44 am

Bump:

I think Ticalc.org has divided by zero. After sticking with red and blue bordered news since their 1999 site redesing, here come green ones!

O.O

what opera theme is that?

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 02, 2012, 06:22:42 pm

Yeah it was actually green. I guess both jokes were the fake retirement from TravisE and the green-bordered news article (although it was blue at first). It was surprising at first, since it kinda... erm... broke the flow of time. :P

Quote from: flyingfisch on April 02, 2012, 11:39:26 am

Quote from: DJ_O on April 02, 2012, 02:50:44 am
Bump:

I think Ticalc.org has divided by zero. After sticking with red and blue bordered news since their 1999 site redesing, here come green ones!

O.O

what opera theme is that?

Standard Skin 9.6 Blue Mini. I originally used Opera Classic 9.0, because I don't like the Opera default themes from 10 upwards. Sadly, Classic 9.0 broke in Opera 11 D:, and Standard Skin 9.6 Blue Mini was the closest I could find...

Quote from: adriweb on April 02, 2012, 06:26:39 am

Dat CSS change.

I doubt it's CSS, because Ticalc barely use any. The only CSS they have it seems is http://www.ticalc.org/style . It probably didn't exist in 1999.

Anyway, here's a compilation of April fools jokes for 2012 in the TI community!

TI-Planet:
-TI-Nspire mini-projector

Omnimaga:
-Same as TI-Planet (joint prank)

Ticalc.org:
-Travis retirement
-Green-bordered news article

TI-BANK:
-OS 3.2 release earlier than expected (thank got it isn't real lol. I think we can wait for 3.2 :P)

Planète-Casio:
-Casio develops PRIZM game add-ins Solitaire and Pinball

Has anybody seen anything on Cemetech, Revsoft, MaxCoderz, yAronet, United-TI, TI-BASIC Developer or any other calc site?

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: TravisE on April 02, 2012, 08:10:19 pm

I was hoping to mess with people's heads with the border color, maybe making them wonder if it might have actually been real. I wanted to have it that way longer, but there wasn't much time left before April 1 was over.

Another thing I'm not sure if anyone noticed was that I made the front page return a 403 error for a few seconds at about 20–30 second intervals. This only lasted a few hours up until midnight April 2 CEST, though.

Also, if anyone happened to watch the file upload page, you would notice the pending files constantly increasing throughout the day, eventually reaching a peak of about 1650 files before I shut down the prank.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 02, 2012, 09:55:15 pm

Ah I didn't notice the 403 forbidden errors and I couldn't check the pending queue because I do not have an account there (anymore).

As for the border color it might have gotten more effect on older TI community members who have been around for almost a decade, though. :P

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Jonius7 on April 04, 2012, 03:18:22 am

I knew something was different with the green border, but I thought it was something like important news and I believed it for a while. Damnit! I even replied!
But good to see it is now fake news with the red border.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Yeong on April 04, 2012, 08:12:45 pm

I realised that it was a fake as soon as I saw it. :D
(but then again, I didn't check the query.)

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 04, 2012, 08:26:42 pm

Quote from: TBO_Yeong on April 04, 2012, 08:12:45 pm

I realised that it was a fake as soon as I saw it. :D

Same with me, but only because I visited on April 2 and saw the red borders :/

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 02, 2013, 02:46:19 am

Updated April Fools joke history (2014). Note: I grouped 2009-2011 TI-BANK material with TI-Planet since almost everything from 2009-11 was contributed by TI-Planet staff and was moved there after the dispute/split. 2005-08 and 2012-13 material was kept separate. I'll add Cemetech later.

Ticalc.org
1998 - Site shutting down http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/0/0/164.html
1999 - Program Of The Hour award http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/0/9/9917.html
2000 - File archiver seizes ticalc.org http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/3/30/30145.html Fake version of the newsletter: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/attachments/2000-04-01-apr2000.txt
2001 - Ticalc.org ads http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/4/48/48338.html (this one ironically became real 5.5 years later, to some extent. Because of that and due to the HP ad and TI-81 site ad, it's my 2nd favorite.)
2002 - Micro-payments http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/6/61/61213.html
2003 - Ticalc.org merchandise http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/8/84/84994.html Voyage 400 leaked http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/8/85/85069.html
2004 - Ticalc.org completes IPO http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/10/108/108150.html
2005 - File invitation system http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/12/126/126141.html (This one caused quite a flame war between BASIC and ASM programmers X.x. Back then, there was a lot of hate towards BASIC coders in the TI community, which is one of the reason why Omnimaga got a new forum that year)
2006 - Ticalc got replaced with a parked/squatted domain name page, simulating a shut down. However, the ad links lead to random ticalc.org pages and a lot of them were quite funny. XD One funny part was the HP calculator ad ;D http://www.ticalc.org/a/index.html
2007 - In-program ads (another BASIC program april fools prank) http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/141/141904.html
2008 - Magnus (ticalc hoster/co-founder/former server owner) death http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/143/143713.html (that one had quite a bad taste, though, since it's faking someone's death)
2009 - Web 2.0 revolution for the handheld graphing calculator http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/144/144892.html
2010 - Every file upload must include a quadratic solver http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/146/146123.html
2011 - Quadratic solver directory split in multiple categories & rainbow colored file/directory pages
2012 - TravisE retires from ticalc (and first ever green-bordered news article)
2013 - Social networking/web 2.0/flash based upload features addition
2014 - Cemetech forums (and archives) merges with Ticalc.org

United-TI
2004 - none
2005 - Every forum member became admin (some funny things happened to the site, although they obviously had backups, lol)
2006 - Purple forum theme
2007 - (I don't remember, as I had no internet access at home)
2008 - 8-bit forum theme (like a Commodore 64)
2009 - They appended random statements between asterisks in forum posts
2010 - About 60-70 fake logged in users were added to the online list
2011 - A small calculator was added on the site
2012 - none

MaxCoderz
2002 - none
2003 - MaxCoderz staff arrested (I don't remember who)
2004 - none
2005 - Fake cease and desist letter from Nintendo forcing Joe Pemberton to stop working on Metroid 83+
2006 - fake site downtime + smash brothers deletion prior that
2007 - Fake spambot flooding the board with spam, even the staff forum
2008 - none
2009 - none
2010 - none
2011 - none
2012 - none
2013 - none
2014 - none

Omnimaga

2005
Zelda The Minish Cap for the TI-83+SE/84+SE http://www.omnimaga.org/oldsite/news_v3.html
(http://www.omnimaga.org/oldsite/zeldamc.gif)

2006
Fake site hacking with deletion of every post and other random stuff like a rainbow theme

Spoiler For lots of large pics:

2007
Dragon__Lance returns (a former Omnimaga staff. Note that Omni was pretty quiet at the time as I had no internet at home)

2008
Omnimaga.org redirected to http://sscentral.org/ , in reference to what happened to Calc.org in 2006 http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/140/140165.html
NOTE: Omnimaga shutted down on March 4th 2008 due to TI community problems that caused its demise, and the site was replaced with a directory listing of our music, as Omnimaga was planning to become a music-only website featuring songs made by the former Omnimaga staff, removing any affiliation with calculator programming. However, on April 1st of that year we made an april fools prank where our domain name redirected to what calc.org redirected to when it closed in 2006. As for the Omni ressurection, it was requested by a bunch of former staff in August 2008 and I finally decided to answer their wish, restarting from scratch.

2009
Rickroll on front page. As I was extremly busy, we had no time to prepare a decent April fools prank in 2009.

2010
Fake DMCA notice from TI for usage of Keyfont73 in Omnimaga banner: http://ourl.ca/4495
Nspire z80 emulator video was a rickroll for April 1st, making people believe that Calc84maniac's 83/84+ emu for the TI-Nspire was fake. http://ourl.ca/4502 On April 2nd, we replaced the video and revealed that it was real: http://ourl.ca/4505 . It was some sort of reverse-prank (making people think it's a prank, even though it was real).

2011
OS 2.71MP leaked: http://ourl.ca/10053 (Wow, we've been really making fun of TI on April Fools day lately... 2 years in a row :P)
Randomness sub-forum renamed to random gibberish. Now it's still something random, but we still haven't decided a new final name. :P

2012
TI-Nspire CX Mini-presenter (shared with TI-Planet)

2013
Justin Bieber power metal tribute music album by DJ Omnimaga
TI-83 Plus moves to 84 Plus hardware worldwide instead of just France (shared with TI-Planet)
Site swaps names/designs with TI-Planet, while TI-Planet becomes Omnimaga. Pic here: http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/tiplanetomniswapaprilfoolsday.png

2014
Custer's Revenge 84+CSE clone http://xlib.mtv-music-generator.com/custersrevenge84c.gif
TI buys Omnimaga
Project Thundercloud for the NES

TI-BANK v1 (non Critor/Adriweb stuff) & TI-BANK v2 (after TI-Planet split):
2005 None, but Mic thought the Omnimaga Zelda Minish cap news was real and announced it on TI-BANK. When he discovered it was a hoax, he deleted the article from TI-BANK.
2006 None, I think, but with the site hacking a lot of stuff were lost I think
2007 TI-89 Titanium Solar http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=25
2008 TI-89T disallowed in exams/tests http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=682
2009 Infrared module for TI-Nspire http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=731 and Wi-fi for TI-Nspire http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=732 (the latter became real a while later with the TI-Nspire navigator, tho :P)
2012 OS 3.2 released earlier than planned
2013 TI-Nspire Premium in stock

TI-Planet & Critor/Adriweb TI-BANK v1 stuff:
2010 Internet Browser on TI-Nspire http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=801
2011 OSLauncher (although it's kinda real in some ways) http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=1029 and 3 people intoxicated by smoke in Casio Prizm burning ceremony http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=1030 (That one was easy to figure out since the article on ClrHome was a few months old and Deep Thought told us before it was fake when he wrote it :P.)
2012 TI-Nspire CX Mini-presenter (shared with Omnimaga)
2013:
-TI-83 Plus moves to 84 Plus hardware worldwide instead of just France (shared with Omnimaga)
-TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition in French
-Site swaps names/designs with Omnimaga, while Omnimaga becomes TI-Planet. Pic here: http://img.removedfromgame.com/imgs/tiplanetomniswapaprilfoolsday.png
2014: YoloCAS™ Platinum Plus (enhanced third party CAS for the Nspire CX)

Planete Casio
2005 ?
2006 ?
2007 ?
2008 ?
2009 ?
2010 ?
2011 ?
2012 Casio develops PRIZM game add-ins Solitaire and Pinball
2013 none
2014 none

Cemetech
2002 none
2003 ?
2004 http://cemetech.designerz-core.com/AprilFools.html (I forgot what is it, but IIRC it was a site hack simulation)
2005 none
2006 Hays Games merges with Cemetech + green site theme
2007 Site hacked
2008 Site joins Coders Exchange consortium
2009 Simms AI vs. Turing Test: 2/3 Say 'Human'
2010 ?
2011 Cemetech Retro theme
2012 none
2013 Kerm retires. Site becomes Comictech.
2014 Cemetech archives/forums merges with Ticalc.org

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Adriweb on April 02, 2013, 04:09:07 am

That's a very nice recap ^^
(also, for 2010-2011, it's also more Levak than me)

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 02, 2013, 05:13:35 am

Ah ok thanks for clarifying :). All I knew is that your current team pretty much contributed 95% of the 2009-11 activity since the admin was less active at the time and due to critor's heavy amount of discoveries. I think you joined in 2007 but at some point went less active until 2009 or so, right?

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Adriweb on April 02, 2013, 07:38:16 am

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga (Not Admin) on April 02, 2013, 05:13:35 am

Ah ok thanks for clarifying :). All I knew is that your current team pretty much contributed 95% of the 2009-11 activity since the admin was less active at the time and due to critor's heavy amount of discoveries. I think you joined in 2007 but at some point went less active until 2009 or so, right?

I indeed joined in 2007, and at the time, the forum was pretty much my home page, wether I actually posted or not. I started being very active alter, yeah.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 02, 2014, 02:19:56 am

BUMP:

So this year, we had the following:

Cemetech & ticalc.org: Forum/archives merging into ticalc.org

Omnimaga: Custer's Revenge 84C (http://xlib.mtv-music-generator.com/custersrevenge84c.gif) & Texas Instruments purchasing Omnimaga

TI-Planet: YoloCAS™ Platinum Plus release (best TI-Nspire CX third-party CAS ever)

Anything happened on TI-Basic Developer and other sites?

I also updated http://www.omnimaga.org/general-discussion/ticalc-org-fools-day/msg343480/#msg343480 with 2014 pranks.

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: Aspiring on April 02, 2014, 11:32:13 am

HAHAHAHA!!! My favorite three are "ti buys omnimaga" (of course), "os 2.71mp leaked", and also in-program ads on ticalc: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/141/141904.html (http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/141/141904.html)

EDIT: fixed embarrassing misspelling

Title: Re: Ticalc.org fools day
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 02, 2014, 12:02:15 pm

The OS 2.71 prank was definitively my favorite IMHO, since it looked so real at the time (something TI would have really done). The funny thing is that parts of it nearly became reality only two or three months later with Boot 1.03. I also liked the 2005 United-TI prank since it was fun, same for the 2006 ticalc.org one.