I bet...

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Thu 14 Apr, 2005 4:34 pm

I bet Ben didn't give this website permission to mirror his game...
Or Joe Wingbermuehle, Sam Heald, Kerm Marian...
Oeh, CoBB is even there with Death Rally...
And I see Gemini, Joltima...

Why on earth does scholieren.be think it can just go ahead and host all those games? :S

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Thu 14 Apr, 2005 4:37 pm

I think that if you search the net you will find a whole load of places hosting games from ticalc.org. I guess it comes hand in hand with making good games.

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Thu 14 Apr, 2005 4:41 pm

Yes, I expect that from individuals who want to put a few nice games on their calc websites, but this kinda surprised me because it's such a big website, and they have put so many games online, without even linking to their sources

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Thu 14 Apr, 2005 5:10 pm

tr1p1ea wrote:I think that if you search the net you will find a whole load of places hosting games from ticalc.org.

Like Omnimaga?

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Thu 14 Apr, 2005 5:28 pm

There are alot of places that host games without authors consent. But it's not like there taking credit. the point of ticalc is to distrbute what you got, those sites just prove that.

See kevin, I can increase my post count to.

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Thu 14 Apr, 2005 5:38 pm

I dont think that hosting games is a bad thing, altough some authors might not like it since their dll stat would not increase as much as before, but dll stats arent really important. Games reviews, however, are. There is one thing I hate though: sometimes instead of putting the games on their site, people will link them to other sites. This save space, but what if the other site shut down, all links stop working. I hate browsing a site, see a cool calculator game, click on it and get to a 404 error page

See kevin, I can increase my post count to.

See, you still have some work to do:

especially to catch up tr1p1ea

Also about the join date, keep in mind that I signed up on dec 20th 2004, but I only started posting regulary on january 25th 2005, when I got internet at home so...

Jim e · Post by **Jim e** » Thu 14 Apr, 2005 5:48 pm

Yeah but i wasn't able to get to my computer last week, I lost alot of posts that I could have made in pindur. BUt whats really holding me back now is that avatar of yours, they're making me sick.

I don't think tr1p will let you surpass him. He's mod and can delete your post. Phear him!

j/k j/k

leofox · Post by **leofox** » Thu 14 Apr, 2005 6:04 pm

Scholierer.com (Dutch version) has all those games too. It even has an old version of NimbusOS.

coelurus · Post by **coelurus** » Thu 14 Apr, 2005 7:15 pm

I don't mind if they have my game available for download, as long as they don't hotlink to my host (limited bandwidth)! One stupid fellar did that once, then twice, then never again

lloydkirk1989 · Post by **lloydkirk1989** » Thu 14 Apr, 2005 7:30 pm

I don't think there's anything wrong with hosting other peoples games aslong as the credit is given to the author and there's no hotlinking. Though, I don't think linking to the game url on ticalc.org should realy matter. I would imagine that programers would be pleased to know their games are being publicized. Besides, many new people in the TI-community are not aware of the vast archives of games on ticalc.org,especially the older ones.

Spencer · Post by **Spencer** » Thu 14 Apr, 2005 8:30 pm

We distribute under a free license, anyone can distribute as long as they include all files unmodified.

Shadow Phoenix · Post by **Shadow Phoenix** » Thu 14 Apr, 2005 8:34 pm

Spencer wrote:We distribute under a free license, anyone can distribute as long as they include all files unmodified.

is there anything you can do if they do change them?
/me is worried about slordax

merthsoft · Post by **merthsoft** » Thu 14 Apr, 2005 8:58 pm

Sue them, but it probably wouldn't hold in courts unless you say it's released under thn GNU public lisence, or write your own big ol' copywrite information.

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Thu 14 Apr, 2005 9:36 pm

Well, the problem I have with this is that it's impossible to reach your users. I actually prefer hotlinking, because then I can at least update my files.
When I upload something to Ticalc.org, I know where it goes, and how to update it, how to check if it's popular. But when people start copying and decentralizing things, I lose track of who downloads what from where. Yet I am the one who gets all the stupid e-mails complaining that something doesn't work for someone, when they are using outdated version x and do not know the location of the website that explains how they should use it

That may not really be a problem with something that's self explainatory and done when you upload it, like a pacman game, but my projects tend to be under constant development...

Kerey · Post by **Kerey** » Fri 15 Apr, 2005 2:27 am

You could always put something in the readme that says the lastest version is at ticalc.org. A good spot would be before your email address.