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Do you think the ticalc.org 83+/84+ BASIC games sections are too cluttered, right now? :P

http://web.archive.org/web/20060207030337/www.ticalc.org/pub/83plus/basic/games/

Once upon a time it was like that.

Do you think the ticalc.org 83+/84+ BASIC games sections are too cluttered, right now? :P

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Re: If you joined the community after 2007, this will give you an heart attack
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2010, 03:19:00 am »
Cool! Why isn't it like that now, nut with a filtering option? That might be nice, I like to look at everything on one page as opposed to going back and forth... (then again, I am one of the last people that advice on organisation should be taken).

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Re: If you joined the community after 2007, this will give you an heart attack
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2010, 03:21:31 am »
Because old computers and slow connections could barely load the page at all. I remember Firefox freezing completly while trying to load it. It was also impossible to find anything good among all the crappy stuff. A filter option would be nice, though, but I think categorizing the games by genre was a huge improvement compared to what it was.

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Re: If you joined the community after 2007, this will give you an heart attack
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2010, 03:23:48 am »
Ah, got it. That makes sense. And yes, now that I think about it, there is probably so much garbage on the website that it would be irritating to search through.

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Re: If you joined the community after 2007, this will give you an heart attack
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2010, 03:24:49 am »
Yeah, when I discovered about CTRL+F (search in page) in Firefox, I still could barely find anything and it took ages to scan through.

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Re: If you joined the community after 2007, this will give you an heart attack
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2010, 03:26:14 am »
Only ONE quadratic solver! :o

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Re: If you joined the community after 2007, this will give you an heart attack
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2010, 03:32:55 am »
It's because it's the games section. If you check archive.org for the math programs section that will be a different story.

Why is there a quadratic formula program listed there is beyong me. The fact there's one in the games section shows how bad the quadratic solver flooding was, though.

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Re: If you joined the community after 2007, this will give you an heart attack
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2010, 03:43:23 am »
The horror...
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Re: If you joined the community after 2007, this will give you an heart attack
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2010, 03:47:54 am »
The Ticalc rating system was supposed to be a kind of filter for the good and the bad. But it cannot be trusted because some people, unfortunately, rate great programs very low and some great programs never get rated at all.
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Re: If you joined the community after 2007, this will give you an heart attack
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2010, 03:49:35 am »
Yeah, most BASIC games, even good ones, get rated 1-2, and there are people rating good programs 1 for no reason. Also a lot of stuff is unrated. I prefer reviews.

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Re: If you joined the community after 2007, this will give you an heart attack
« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2010, 05:58:33 am »
Ratings are pretty unused.
anyway, the horror of going through all those files... shock!

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Re: If you joined the community after 2007, this will give you an heart attack
« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2010, 07:44:23 am »
..to my surprise, I've never actually viewed the ticalc games section (or much of ticalc) since around 2006.  I thought it was still that way.  It's more of a shock to see it semi-organized.

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Re: If you joined the community after 2007, this will give you an heart attack
« Reply #12 on: November 04, 2010, 08:54:46 am »
Theres a TON of Windows clones made in basic there (in the basic shells section) too. None of them are particularly well made, and its hard to not run into one every other time you search for something.

Maybe the discontinuation of the z80 series will be a blessing of sorts, since only people who currently own one will have one, which will hopefully lead to a higher number of experienced coders.

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Re: If you joined the community after 2007, this will give you an heart attack
« Reply #13 on: November 04, 2010, 09:35:17 am »
Not really, because when the 83 was discontinued I still saw crappy programs being uploaded for the next 3 years or so with only a few good releases. The amount of good coders would remain proportional and the total amount of coders would diminish to the point where nobody cares about your projects anymore.

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Re: If you joined the community after 2007, this will give you an heart attack
« Reply #14 on: November 04, 2010, 11:56:10 am »
oh :'(

We're a dying breed i guess