Welcome to Cemetech! Since 1999, Cemetech (pronounced KE'me'tek) has been developing and publishing both software and hardware in many technology-related fields. Among Cemetech's specialties are TI graphing calculators, web programming, and hardware modifications. Kerm Martian has for nearly five years held the title of the world's most prolific graphing calculator programmer, with over four hundred completed projects and more than half a million direct downloads. He has also expanded into Web 2.0-based interactive programming via an array of web applications. Currently, Kerm is working to complete his magnum opus, the Doors CS 6 calculator shell and GUI. As an active webmaster and developer, you can often find him idling here in the Cemetech AJAX chat room, SAX. Numbers: 704 users have written 81,929 posts in 2,807 topics totalling 2,672,640 words and garnering 4,484,748 topic views. The 285 programs in the file archives were written by 28 authors and have been downloaded a total of 7,432 times, News: 334 articles have been posted. View News Archives.

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Published by KermMartian on June 20, 2008 at 7:57:08 AM CST | Discuss this article (49)

For its fifth official contest, Cemetech has announced that the topic will be puzzle games. Two classes of entries are being accepted, pure BASIC and pure ASM. Note that hybrid BASIC (ie, BASIC using Xlib or similar) does not constitute a valid entry. The topic is pretty broad, so the contestants have some latitude in where they go with the idea; so far there are about six BASIC contestants and two or three assembly contestants. Entries must be received by contest@cemetech.com where .com is .net by 11:59pm EDT, Friday, July 25, 2008. The full rules of the contest as debated by the current entrants:

1) Only pure BASIC or pure ASM programs may be submitted. No code may be borrowed from other programs, but ASM programs may be made for a shell such as Ion, Doors CS, or MirageOS to take advantage of that shell's libraries.

2) All entries must be new projects or previously-unannounced projects. Announcing or publicizing your entry before results of the contest are revealed will lead to disqualification.

3) Prizes are not finalized yet, but there has been discussion of Cemetech merchandise and/or calculator hardware, accessories, or carrying cases of some kind.

Please make a comment in the attached thread indicating that you'll be participating in the contest if you haven't done so already, and good luck!

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Published by KermMartian on June 16, 2008 at 8:24:42 AM CST | Discuss this article (8)

As per the many comments, items of feedback, and angry complaints I have received about the beta of the MIDI to mobileTunes 3 song converter, I have upgraded it with a plethora of new functionality and believe it's just about ready to come out of beta. I was inspired to do this by bug reports a few days ago of features that were very easily fixed, which then led me to tackle the more challenging problems. Among the things I have added to and changed about the converter:

:: Full integration into the Cemetech6 template system
:: Support for so-called "running status," which fixes a lot of the "unknown event" problems into which people were running
:: Better support for files that omit the Note Off events and use Note On on the same channel to indicate all notes off.
:: A clearer track visualization system
:: Complete automated handling of single channels that contain more than one simultaneous note
:: Automatically attempts to merge channels if there are more than four channels (or simultaneous notes) selected for conversion
:: Improved time signature handling, should now match oncalc output songs closely to their original MIDI tempo

Feel free to head to the converter, give it a try, and post bug reports in the attached topic.

mobileTunes 3 Converter

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Published by KermMartian on June 9, 2008 at 10:01:52 AM CST | Discuss this article (13)

I'm happy to announce that since the initial rollout of Cemetech6 ten days ago, it has undergone significant modification to make it more functional and useful. Among the additions are a completely new Photos section, a new News archives and news system upgrades, better functionality for low-resolution users, SAX updates, and complete SourceCoder 2 reskinning and assorted fixes. Here's a semi-exhaustive list of the new features and fixes:

Photos Section (http://www.cemetech.net/projects/photos.php)
:: Photos can be individually added, or it can read Apache folder listings
:: Allows album creation with titles, description, and arbitrary levels of recursion
:: Generates static thumbnails for any images added from Cemetech
:: Permission control to allow just yourself, all users, or selected users to view items with album or photo granularity
:: Photos are easy to browse using keyboard arrows keys, or clicking on a photo advances to the next in the album

News Section (http://www.cemetech.net/news.php)
:: Completely rewrote old news archives from scratch
:: Allows calendar view, monthly view, and full-year view
:: Upgraded news backend to use better timestamp system
:: Added permalink to all news articles

Projects Section (http://www.cemetech.net/projects)
:: Added ACP features to add and edit categories
:: Added ACP features to add and edit projects
:: Added Web Apps category and several projects
:: Repaired categories table structure in database

SourceCoder 2 (http://sc.cemetech.net)
:: Skinned all four sections: Index, View, Edit, Permission
:: Fixed export bug, due to ASCII inconsistency
:: Repaired <TT> styling using upgraded CSS
:: Fixed a few bugs in the physical calculator input panel

Miscellaneous Fixes
:: SAX reports post edits once again
:: Google searches in SAX fixed
:: Horizontal scrollbar fixed for all high resolutions
:: Site made more friendly to low resolutions down to 1024x768. 800x600 and lower unsupported.
:: Repaired hourly cron to update site stats and archives stats

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Published by KermMartian on May 30, 2008 at 11:46:48 AM CST | Discuss this article (66)

So, Cemetech6 is live at long last! This new skin has been about two years in the making, and I'm quite happy with it. It should all be nearly fully functional; there's only a few things that I know still need to be fixed:

:: Make 'Search' search news, archives, and projects as well as the forum
:: Fix SourceCoder styling
:: Fix SourceCoder exporting with syntax checking

Edit: This article has been modified to reflect the items fixed today, and only shows those issues still unresolved. Please view the associated topic for the full list of issues resolved today.

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