{"id":166,"date":"2012-04-12T21:43:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T21:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2018-01-24T12:01:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T18:01:05","slug":"ti-83-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greg-kennedy.com\/wordpress\/2012\/04\/12\/ti-83-software\/","title":{"rendered":"TI-83 Software"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One Christmas in high school, I got a TI-GraphLink, allowing me to connect my TI-83 to my computer and transfer files between them. This was a great tool: now I could save my programs to the PC and no longer be at the mercy of memory resets from battery failure or an upcoming math test.<\/p>\n

It also let me try out some Z80 programming, but I didn’t ever get too far with that. Hard-locking the calculator and forcing a battery pull was just too much of a hassle. I followed tutorials and had plans and sample code, but never pulled off a complete program.<\/p>\n

All I have left now is just a handful of TI-83 BASIC programs. Sadly my GoldenEye 007 port is gone. I did find a couple of sprite pages for a work-in-progress “North and South” and “Smash Bros.” conversion, both would have been written in assembly and played over the link cable.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> There is still “Fruity Vegas Slots”, my most polished game (a slot machine simulator). Also found Hearts (which used cards 2-14 instead of 2-10, J, Q, K, A), Bombs Away (clone of the Palm Pilot game “City Bomber”), a quadratic formula, and my own version of the classic “RACE”.<\/p>\n

I deleted a couple of stupid inside-joke type programs and some WIP stuff. Nobody wants to see that : )<\/p>\n

I have a lot of fond memories of working on this platform. The slow execution speed and laggy LCD screen reminded me a lot of working on other 8-bit systems, except this one was a handheld and had a wide user base of “everybody in school”. Built-in BASIC is such an endearing feature that I am surprised modern OSes don’t include something like it: QBasic and HyperCard, for instance, were both greatly loved and yet they’re both dead software.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Click here to download the complete package: ti83.tar.gz<\/a> [2.88 KB]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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