Published by PT_ on December 30, 2016 at 4:55:39 AM CST | Discuss this article (2)

Now that the polls to vote for your favorite program of the year are closed, ticalc.org has published the results of the 2016 Program of the Year contest. There were 4 categories, the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus category, the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition category, the TI-84 Plus CE category and last but not least the TI-Nspire category. There were numerous entries, but only one can win, so let's see who the winners are.

In the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus category JWinslow23's This Is The Only Level has won the PotY by default, as it was the only program or game made for the monochrome calcs.

KermMartian had a resounding lead in TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition category with his program "Graph3DC". Other entries were

• Checkers 84+ CSE
• Connect 4
• Pong with sound

The TI-84 Plus CE category was the most interesting poll in my opinion, because there were 12 entries competing with each other. Cemetech global moderator PT_ won this category with his program "ICE Compiler". Other programs/games that were in the running were:

• Catylizm CE
• Chess CE
• Crystann or the Diamond Dungeon
• GalagACE
• Game of Life
• Minesweeper
• Snail Maze
• SPLASHCE
• StackerCE
• SwipeCE
• Zombie Chase CE

The last category was the TI-Nspire category, and this poll was won by Jens Kolbinger with his program "Jens' Script Editor". The other programs or games to vote at were:

• Another World
• PicoDrive
• Squirrel
• ZeldaSoulds

Congratulations to all winners, thanks everyone for voting, and if you didn't won, don't be sad, at least your program was frontpaged!


From left to right: This is the Only Level, Graph3DC 1.0, ICE Compiler

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Published by KermMartian on December 25, 2016 at 6:31:21 PM CST | Discuss this article (4)

To all of our members that celebrate Christmas, Merry Christmas; to everyone else, happy holidays, and to all, a very happy New Year! We hope that despite the tumult near and far of the past year, that you have made the most of it, in your personal endeavors, your programming projects, and your relationships with friends, families, and colleagues. We have enjoyed seeing everything that our members have created this year as enshrined by tifreak8x in our monthly Projects of the Month posts, from impressive games to valuable programming tools to feature-packed utilities. We look forward to what you'll create in the coming year, and we hope that at least for a few days, you get to slow down and celebrate with festive pursuits, delicious food, and glad tidings of the season.



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Published by KermMartian on December 23, 2016 at 6:29:30 PM CST | Discuss this article (18)

Cemetech has persisted over seventeen years of growth and evolution as a community driven very much by its members. Although many of our administrative staff have now been with the website for well over a decade, we feel we've been able to stay relevant by promoting promising young members from within our ranks. Great examples include geekboy1011, who simultaneously gained prestige and responsibilities here and on Omnimaga. Relative newcomer jonbush was promoted to Contest Coordinator after taking the initiative on coming up with some great contests as a member (and distinguishing himself as a community liason and teacher at TI-BASIC Developer). The list continues, but the takeaway is that we want to continue to encourage members to make Cemetech their own. We want you to make constructive suggestions that can help us improve the site and keep it relevant to today's young programmers, hackers, DIYers, Makers, inventors, and engineers, and we want you to take action to do what needs to be done to help other Cemetech members.

In recognition of his superb adherence to that ideal, we're proud to announce that Peter "PT_" Tillema has been promoted to a Global Moderator at Cemetech. This past February, PT_ was promoted to moderator of three subforums, and since then he has continued his excellent work as a moderator and as a programmer. Besides helping to keep the order on SAX and on the forum, he has been working very hard on the ICE compiler, which some have called the Axe of the TI-84 Plus CE. It is a TI-BASIC like programming language that lets you write faster, more powerful, more graphical programs and games without learning much beyond what TI-BASIC requires. Finally, PT_ has been a friendly, encouraging presence in advising other members and pushing them to complete their projects. As a global moderator, PT_ will be responsible for keeping the peace across the forum, especially when our US staff is asleep or unavailable. We look forward to working with him, and hope you'll join us in congratulating PT_!



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Published by jonbush on December 18, 2016 at 3:01:34 PM CST | Discuss this article (28)

During the previous Cemetech Contest, On Rails, we challenged contestants to make complete train-themed games for a graphing calculators. This contest generated a good amount of interest, and resulted in the production of at least four new calculator games. Cemetech members reviewed these games and decided that Unicorn’s entry “Switch Operator” deserved first place commendation, followed closely by Rico’s “RailMaze” and Kydapoot’s “Railroad Empire.”

Overview:
For Winter Wonderland, you are challenged to create three programs over the course of four weeks. At the beginning of each week, a keyword will be posted in this thread indicating the theme of that week’s programs. Each program must fit into one of the categories listed below, provided that you have not already submitted a program in that category. Programs must be submitted within 7 days of the weekly keyword posting. You may only submit entries for three out of the four weeks.

If you would like to participate in Winter Wonderland please state your intent by posting in this thread. If you decide to participate, you will receive a Cemetech Private Message containing your “contestant key” used when submitting your entries.

For each submission, please put all necessary files and instructions inside a single zip file and upload it using the form at http://jonbush.net/contest-submission.

Categories:
▪ Games
▪ Math/Science Utilities
▪ Graphics/Simulation
▪ Anything else

Rules:
1. Each entry must be related in some way to the keyword for that week
2. Each program from a particular contestant must fall into a category distinct from the respective categories of all other programs submitted by that contestant.
3. Entries must be submitted within 7 days (168 hours) of the weekly keyword posting
4. If multiple entries are submitted during the same week, only the latest will be considered
5. Judging will be performed by a team picked from among the Cemetech administrators and members; all judges are disqualified from entering the contest
6. Entries may be made for any platform and in any programming language. If the judges do not have access to your platform of choice, you must provide a video demonstration.
7. Only the first three distinct weekly entries from a contestant will be considered by the judges
8. Fine print rules can be found here. Please note that members from France are now eligible to receive prizes.

The first keyword will be posted shortly.

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