That said, in the Koran, it DOES endorse a holy war, or Jihad, but this has already happened, as in the Crusades.

I'm not going to get into this discussion, just a quick remark about the statement above: "Jihad" does not mean "holy war", even if that's what most western mainstream media as well as some deranged clerics from the Muslim world want you to believe. The word actually translates as "effort". In Qur'an it refers to the fact that Muslims should work hard to make a better person out of themselves.

Since yesterday, whenever I try to access omnimaga.org, I'm greeted by this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
# -*- Mode: perl; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*-
#
# The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public
# License Version 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file
# except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
# the License at http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/
#
# Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS
# IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or
# implied. See the License for the specific language governing
# rights and limitations under the License.
#
# The Original Code is the Bugzilla Bug Tracking System.
#
# The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Netscape Communications
# Corporation. Portions created by Netscape are
# Copyright (C) 1998 Netscape Communications Corporation. All
# Rights Reserved.
#
# Contributor(s): Jacob Steenhagen <[email protected]>
#                 Frédéric Buclin <[email protected]>

###############################################################################
# Script Initialization
###############################################################################

# Make it harder for us to do dangerous things in Perl.
use strict;

# Include the Bugzilla CGI and general utility library.
use lib qw(. lib);

use Bugzilla;
use Bugzilla::Constants;
use Bugzilla::Error;
use Bugzilla::Update;

# Check whether or not the user is logged in
my $user = Bugzilla->login(LOGIN_OPTIONAL);
my $cgi = Bugzilla->cgi;
my $template = Bugzilla->template;
my $vars = {};

# And log out the user if requested. We do this first so that nothing
# else accidentally relies on the current login.
if ($cgi->param('logout')) {
    Bugzilla->logout();
    $user = Bugzilla->user;
    $vars->{'message'} = "logged_out";
    # Make sure that templates or other code doesn't get confused about this.
    $cgi->delete('logout');
}

###############################################################################
# Main Body Execution
###############################################################################

# Return the appropriate HTTP response headers.
print $cgi->header();

if ($user->in_group('admin')) {
    # If 'urlbase' is not set, display the Welcome page.
    unless (Bugzilla->params->{'urlbase'}) {
        $template->process('welcome-admin.html.tmpl')
          || ThrowTemplateError($template->error());
        exit;
    }
    # Inform the administrator about new releases, if any.
    $vars->{'release'} = Bugzilla::Update::get_notifications();
}

# Generate and return the UI (HTML page) from the appropriate template.
$template->process("index.html.tmpl", $vars)
  || ThrowTemplateError($template->error());

I'm using http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?www right now to access the site.

That's a ZX81 keyboard. Looks exactly like this, unfortunately - there are no real keys or anything Believe me, it sucks, even though the idea of having the BASIC tokens on-keyboard was pretty neat. Sinclair got it right with the next machine though - the rubber 48K keyboard is awesome.

Aaand of course this has to happen at precisely time of the year when I'm most busy. Well, will try to whip up a small something anyway. I want that Omnimaga shirt

Parcus calcs are ugly IMHO.

Not just that, they seem to be made from the cheapest plastic available, the keys feel akward, and the link port is a joke. Mine already starts to wear out after using it maybe 10 times.

Ironically, the TI-83 Parcus model came out one year after the TI-83 Plus and the TI-83 Plus never saw a Parcus redesign.

Fortunately it didn't, one might add. But well, it's not too late yet... maybe TI will release one in order to try and cash in on "developing" markets.


Wait what, there's an 83 Parcus? Oh boy... And as luck has it, it seems to use a different ROM and display driver, too.

Sorry for the load of edits

I've searched everywhere for some proper documentation on the TI-82 "Parcus" and ROM 19.006, and so far haven't found much except the modified crash.inc by Jumbo and the 82-rom.txt by Lindqvist and Justesen.

So I thought let's start a thread for collecting documentation about the Parcus, TI-OS 19.006, and possibly other more obscure Z80 models.

One thing I've confirmed now is that the Parcus uses TI-83 style link port management. That means the correct values for the link port are $D0..$D3 rather than $FC/$C0/etc.

There might be something different about key handling, too. Today I managed to crash HoustonTracker by pressing the VARS key, which dutifully acts as stop button in all other versions. Will update this post if I can find out more.

Whoa, rad stuff.
I don't remember the last time doing papercraft, must've been nearly 20 years ago now. Back then the design had to be done by hand 

After taking a break to take care of my personal life I'm now working on HT again. And more importantly, I've finally gotten around to publishing the source code.

I didn't clean up yet so the code is a bit of a mess. Also I'm a complete n00b in regards to git and version control in general, so please excuse me if not everything is set up correctly. Namely the formatting is screwed up right now, thanks to github forcing LF line endings. I'll fix this with the next commit.