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New online editor in beta
Like calculator programming? Spend a lot of time online? Following the success of the online ORG assembler, ClrHome is announcing the new Integrated Editor System, an online IDE for TI-BASIC, Axe, and Grammer projects. Integrated image and code editors with inline sprite editing, autocomplete, and many other features helps to simplify programming for calculators online.
ORG autocompletes!
The ORG online Z80 assembly IDE is now better than ever with such essential editor features as syntax highlighting and instruction autocompletion. As always, the webapp allows you to manage, host, and build your Z80 projects online for a variety of platforms. Or you could simply use it as an easy way to play around with Z80 assembly without ever having to install an editor or assembler.
Fruit Ninja released
One small experimental calculator project turns out to be far more successful than first hoped. Besides featuring some highly detailed 3D animated graphics, the Fruit Ninja project introduces a strange but satisfying new way to play calculator games—by swiping your fingers across the keypad, as if it's a touchscreen on your calculator.
This year, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) received numerous complaints from native and immigrant Martians that over nine years after their planet started receiving Internet service, they still do not have their own top-level domain. In response, the ISO finally decided to assign .rp as the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for Mars. This decision, reported world-wide (on both worlds) this morning at 3:14 GMT, was met with spontaneous celebrations all over the Red Planet.
"I'm really glad they did this for us," said a native Martian blogger when we interviewed web users there. "Now I don't have to upload everything to some registry on the next planet over, waiting 20 minutes, or more, just to get some message at all."
Of course, not everyone was satisfied with the change. In particular, citizens of the Philippines were unhappy with the fact that this denied them the country code RP. According to one Filipino: "RP was our code, and they never should have given it away! Give it back, you ——— Martians!" A considerably less vehement Filipino citizen put it this way: "I don't see why Mars needs a domain in the first place. In any case, RP is supposed to stand for the 'Republic of the Philippines.' What'll they need it for?" The ISO spokesperson responded that they had the right to change the identity of codes. "Besides, the country code RP was already 'indeterminately reserved,' meaning it should have been removed eventually. We couldn't give the Martians any other codes, since .ma, .mr, and .ms were all taken. You could imagine .rp to stand for Red Planet, if you really need an acronym."
In the few hours since the decision was made public, dozens of foreign and domestic organizations have already begun switching to the new domain. Most conspicuously, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have already registered domain names at google.rp, yahoo.rp, and bing.rp, respectively, hoping to take advantage of the over 100 million Internet users on Mars.
Welcome! ClrHome is a site and programming group with a variety of upcoming projects and finished products for the Texas Instruments line of graphing calculators, as well as an extensive collection of popular resources to help you make your own programs.
