I say it was all just a publicity stunt.

I think that he did the right thing to stay. I play my calc after a test or quiz. I would never play it during, for instance, a lecture. If I missed something, I wouldn't know it for tests, therefore, getting bad grades. If somebody is using it during a lecture, they either know the stuff really good or are always getting low scores.

good point, if people don't want to pay attention then they deserve to fail, unless of course they already know the stuff thats being lectured about.

I think that all the games in a calculator are not really a lot of fun, since TI calculators are not enough powerful, and don't have enough memory for graphics stuff. It's cool to play at one or two games but that's all.
Look at the math assembly directory, there is always NOTHING. That means that assembly is not used to make useful program. It's a shame, we could make a lot of useful stuff, and it don't have always to have something to do with math, we could make phonebooks, useful thing! Look at the Hp48 calculator, there is games on it, but there is also very usefull programs, and math programs (that enhance the mathematic symbolic system: you can compute symbolic integrals, and much more, there is a kind of "pretty print" add-on...a program like excel...) we could enhance the power of our calculator making really useful tools, this means not wasting too much time on games...and do things for what the calculator was made. (if you want to make games, program on a PC! And it will be useful because maybe you will be able to work on games as your job. But if you say to someone that you made games on a calculator he will laugh at you and not hire you to make games on a PC)

STOP to talk and leave me to play !
Yes, the games on a PC are very good, fast...BUT A PC COST 1000$ !!!!!!!...and not a TI...
Moreover, games on a PC cost money and do you pay what on this page ?...

*chuckle* Read my Cheap Computing article.... perhaps a TI *can* be a PC. (I swear, I'm not biased!)
Anyways, I agree that games are WAAAAAY too prevalent. Cool math programs MUST be released. Perhaps I'll U/L my programs.

I agree that more practical programs should be produced for the TI calculators. There are a lot of cool games, but they are all inevitably limited. It would be nice to see more programs designed for math/physics/engineering instead. I posted a message a while ago in bit.list-serv.calc-ti how feasible it would be to say, program an RPN-shell/interface/evaluator/whatever for the TI86 in ASM, something that I would really like to see, though no one's really replied yet...

I also agree that there is very little in the math assembly directory. Wouldn't it be possible to convert some of the programs in the basic/math directory into assembly? Some of the basic ones are too slow, especially when taking a test. If I could program better in assembly I would try, but I'm not that good at it.

Do you know if there a GALAXIAN games for the ti86. I find that games on the ti85 very addictive and fun.