Site News: 68k
2020
2019
Sep | 25 — | A new forum category specifically for CE and CSE programming questions has been added to separate these threads from those for the monochrome models |
2018
May | 21 — | Congratulations to TI-BD user Trenly for being promoted to Administrator! |
Apr | 23 — | The new chat is available for use by the TI-BD community! This chat should be more secure than the last one. |
2017
Sep | 13 — | TI-BD Contributor Battlesquid has been promoted to Moderator. |
Apr | 21 — | Congratulations to Trenly for being promoted to moderator, and to Xeda Elnara and jonbush for being promoted to administrator! |
Apr | 18 — | Chatbox temporarily removed due to lack of security, and rules being broken. The anticipated return date is yet TBD |
2016
Sep | 19 — | A chatbox has been added to the forums. If you need help, simply enter a nickname and ask your question. |
Sep | 04 — | TI-Basic Developer celebrates its 10th birthday! |
Apr | 14 — | Members can now discuss TI-Basic on the #tibasicdev IRC channel on EFnet. |
2015
Nov | 1 — | The homepage screenshots now link to their respective programs on TI-BASIC Developer. |
2014
2013
Jan | 16 — | There are discussions about redesigning the forums to be more robust. |
2012
Dec | 27 — | Mr Dino was made a site moderator due to his commitment and dedication to the forum |
Dec | 12 — | burr redesigned the main homepage to complement the respective calculator homepages |
Apr | 25 — | Xeda Elnara was made a site moderator due to her commitment and dedication to the forum |
Apr | 10 — | TI Story has moved to its own wiki — http://tistory.wikidot.com |
Feb | 01 — | burr started a new section of the site called TI Story for documenting the TI community history |
Jan | 31 — | burr reorganized the forum to make it easier to use. |
2011
Mar | 23 — | By today, 167 out of 366 command pages have been written in the command index! There's only 16 more to halfway! |
2010
Mar | 11 — | The archives have been upgraded to make uploading process much easier. |
2009
Dec | 17 — | Congrats to AJLitzau13 for winning Challenge 9! |
Sep | 28 — | Archives have been redesigned. |
Aug | 27 — | GoVegan made the site's CSS theme dynamic. You can manipulate the Site Theme or the Forum Theme without Administrator privileges and with instantaneous results. |
Aug | 09 — | The entire TI-Basic Developer has 1664 total pages today. |
Aug | 08 — | Milestone: 100 command pages have been written (Goal: to finish them all by November) |
Aug | 01 — | DarkerLine finished taking screenshots for all 366 command pages, present and future! |
Jul | 27 — | The TI-Basic Developer goes Pro on Wikidot! |
Jul | 25 — | burr, the founder of this site, transfers Master Administrator status to DarkerLine. |
Jul | 24 — | To bring the excitement of wiki editing to all visitors, a progress bar was added to the home page. |
Jun | 22 — | Congratulations to seb83 for winning challenge 8 with his Bomber game! |
Jun | 14 — | Program Challenge 8 ends soon, June 20th! Enter your programs in quick! |
Jun | 05 — | jnesselr created the projects page. Check it out! |
May | 28 — | Congratulations to jnesselr, who has been promoted to being a Moderator! Well done! |
May | 22 — | Program challenge 8 postponed to June 20th! Don't forget! |
Apr | 06 — | An incomplete pages section and wanted pages section have been added to the to do list. If you feel the need to contribute and don't know how, don't forget this page! |
Apr | 03 — | GoVegan created an all new system on recognition and awards for members of the TI|BD community. (see post here) |
Apr | 01 — | TI-Basic Developer has reached one million (that's 1000000) pageloads! |
Mar | 18 — | With the creation of the new members module, the current system has been replaced. |
Mar | 14 — | Timothy Foster centers the CHAR box in the forums. |
Mar | 04 — | GoVegan uploaded the first Portable Guide in PDF form (4.05mb). It is not a spectacular refined and polished version, and has many flaws. But at least we can see how the site renders when expanded to 150% on A4 sized paper. We will need to make some changes to some pages for better printability. Hooray! A milestone has been reached! |
Feb | 22 — | A new include has been created to replace the [[code]]..[[/code]]. It can be used in places where mark ups can be confusing, such as the T transpose command. Just type [[include inc:pgrm-code lcode=code]]. |
Feb | 13 — | Chat removed. Some people were only using it to spam, and some to trick others who were asking questions into erasing their calculator's memory. Not the kind of behavior I was hoping to ever run into. –Weregoose |
Feb | 08 — | GoVegan manipulated the side and top bar navigators of the site, after seeing the results of the two-month trial (see discussion here). These new changes are part of a secondary trial to see how people like them. |
Feb | 04 — | Don't forget about challenge 7! The challenge will end when there are three participants. |
Jan | 08 — | The TI-Nspire page is now finally complete containing documentation of the Nspire's programming capabilities and basic techniques. |
Jan | 02 — | Congratulations Zaphod Beeblebrox for winning Challenge 6. |
Jan | 01 — | Welcome 2009! Hopefully this year will be even more prolific for the TI-Basic Developer than the last. |
2008
Dec | 15 — | noahbaby94 creates a chat room. |
Dec | 06 — | An announcements box is created. |
Nov | 30 — | Timothy Foster has been promoted to Moderator status. |
Nov | 28 — | The home page has been revamped and the top and side bars have been switched to provide a fresh look to the site. |
Nov | 25 — | We receive news that the TI-Basic Developer, after two years of hard work and effort by its members, has become a popular site within the Wikidot community, the site that hosts this wiki and many others. This represents a major turning point for TI-BD. |
Nov | 11 — | GoVegan upgraded the date structure of the news and members sections of the site. Now the date format can easily be modified via the date include page! |
Nov | 07 — | A new convention has been added to the Code of Conduct pertaining to the rating of programs. |
Oct | 04 — | GoVegan finished upgrading the News, Did You Know…, Featured Article and Featured Command frameworks on the site. Now it is so much easier to add to these sections of the site, and is filled automatically. It also enables to display randomly selected DYKs, FAs and FCs. |
Sep | 27 — | Timothy Foster created the page TI-Nspire Programming. |
Sep | 15 — | GoVegan upgraded the framework of the archives. Now it is even easier to add, update, rate and moderate programs! |
Sep | 04 — | burr, the founder of the site, has finished contributing to the site, and moved on to other projects. (see his goodbye here) |
Sep | 04 — | GoVegan tagged the 25 remaining untagged redirect pages with the "redirect" tag |
Sep | 01 — | TI-Basic Developer has now existed for approximately two years. Thanks to all that made it a great year, and may the next year be even more successful and exciting. |
Jul | 03 — | burr and GoVegan set up the framework for the new TI-Basic Developer archives |
Jul | 01 — | Mapar007 created the page Binary and Hexadecimal number system |
Jun | 11 — | GoVegan created a "New Members" section on the 83 and 68k home pages |
May | 18 — | The development of the TI-Basic Developer site logo is complete, and has now replaced the previous site header. |
May | 15 — | GoVegan has set up a new framework for infoboxes for the 68k portal of the site. |
May | 04 — | krazyness initiated the development of the TI-Basic Developer site logo, to replace the current header. |
Apr | 02 — | DarkerLine and GoVegan worked together to upgrade the implemented "include template" sections of the site. Result: Site automatically retrieves the required parts of the "Did You Know" and "Featured Article" sections for the 83 68k home pages. |
Apr | 02 — | GoVegan made the 83 & 68k pages automatically retrieve the first 5 news items from the old news section. |
Mar | 30 — | burr started the downloads page, and added all of the 68k tutorials that he found on the Internet. |
Mar | 16 — | Weregoose created two pages on the calculator's internal fonts. DarkerLine has already found these images useful on other pages. |
Mar | 13 — | DarkerLine added include pages which makes adding a new command page much easier. Go for it! |
Feb | 09 — | burr created a portal page, which acts as a bridge between the TI-83 and 68k sections of the site, and is now the new homepage for the site. |
Feb | 08 — | DarkerLine started a tokenization page, detailing what tokenization is and how it impacts program size and optimization. |
Feb | 02 — | DarkerLine put together a calculators page, which provides a brief, but detailed look at the different calculators and their specifications. |
Feb | 01 — | DarkerLine started the key codes page, as well as the character codes page. |
Jan | 31 — | burr created 68k versions of all of the relevant system pages, which will hopefully minimize any ambiguity or uncertainty about where you are on the site. |
Jan | 31 — | DarkerLine added an errors page that lists all of the possible error messages that can occur, including the error numbers and their descriptions. |
Jan | 29 — | DarkerLine begins work on the 68k section of the site, creating the homepage, top navigation, command stub and the command index. |
2007
Oct | 14 — | burr created a downloads page with over 100 zip files to download. |
Sep | 01 — | TI-Basic Developer has now existed for approximately a year. May the next year be even more successful and exciting! |
Jul | 26 — | burr put together a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list of common TI-Basic related questions that people ask. |
Jul | 24 — | burr made a Sitemap that has a hierarchical breakdown of the site for easy viewing. |
Jul | 01 — | burr started a Code of Conduct page, which lays down some general conduct rules to follow when contributing to the wiki. |
Apr | 21 — | burr started the Old News page, which is the archive place for all the old news and is kept for posterity sake. |
Apr | 15 — | burr added a Wiki Conventions page that lays down some general guidelines about how to format page content. There's a similar Command Stub page for command pages. |
Mar | 30 — | The Wiki Tour was started, providing a general overview of the wiki and giving beginners some direction about using the wiki. |
Mar | 26 — | alexrudd began experimenting with internal page anchors, and has decided that we should try to integrate them into more pages. |
Mar | 23 — | burr updated the Contribute page with some guidelines to help beginners better use the wiki. |
Feb | 21 — | DarkerLine decided we should give each command its own individual page, so that all the relevant information about that command can be put on one page. Be sure to check out the Command Stub to see how the information is organized. |
2006
Nov | 08 — | alexrudd and DarkerLine are promoted to admins, so they are now able to do all of the admin-related things for the wiki. |
Oct | 07 — | Talks of merging the wiki with the Function Library forum occur, but they ultimately fall through because it is decided that the wiki already covers much of the same content and the forum quality isn't very good. |
Sep | 06 — | The wiki is moved from Wikispaces to Wikidot for hosting because the look of the pages and editor is better, and it offers a lot more space for the wiki to grow and mature. |
Sep | 01 — | TI-Basic Developer wiki is started by burr using the content from his TI-Basic Developer guide as the foundation for the wiki. |