Great! I've been waiting!! Great job Ahmed!!!! BTW: that firs post was completely unnecessary.

-Joel

Ahmed: a little side note. On the 83 Ztetris, if you turn it off during the pause screen or let it shut down with APD, it erases all memory. Also, I did encounter many problems with it on the 83+.

-Joel

First off.. extreme thanx to Ahmed for the ion conversions! : )

Here's my experience with Ahmed's ports. (I'm using a 83+ bios v1.12) All work fine except Ztetris, which has the following problem: If I press "mode" while playing, my calc crashes and when I take out a battery & turn it back on, the RAM is cleared. (not archive) If I don't press "mode", i have no problem. (press "del" to quit game at current position, and pressing "clear" until program exits work fine)

Solution for me = DON'T PRESS "MODE" while playin Ztetris. Of course, you can backup everything, including Ztetris (which gets deleted if you *crash* it) with groups.

I have 1 question for you out there, because I'm new to the whole Ti-83+ thing. What are the "BAD" effects of running all your ION programs out of archive memory? Just wonderin...cuz that's what I've been doin. Thx. Peace... Thx again to Ahmed.

um there arent any cept for the fact i have knocked down my total RAM by half cuz of all these AWESOME ION games, i keep everything in archives, cept for the lvl files for breakout, diamonds & bytes

First of all, let me say that ION dosen't run the program from the archive, it unarchives it, then when the program quits, it rearchives it. The problem is that flash (archive) memory is limited to 1,000 writes (maybe it was 10,000, I'm not sure) I've had problems like getting a 'bad address' error when trying to archive/group anything and I had to backup my stuff to a computer and clear ALL of my memory. Just a note - clearing all your memory makes the calculator go alot faster.

Hey Guys,
It's been brought to my attention that ZTetris is having some problems under ION... first of all, there is a bug in Joe's FastCopy routine in ION, and he is working on fixing that. However, I will look into the source to see if I can find any other bugs that may cause crashing, and if you find any specific bugs [ex. it always crashes when you do this], please let me know. I already know it crashes randomally at times, and I am working on fixing that. Thanks.

Yeah, no kidding, my TI-83 + is all screwed up now, when i turn it on, it turns back off (the screen flashes on then off) and all i did while playing ZTetris was hit [c l e a r]! now the whole thing is screwed up, it wont turn back on or anything, i had version 1.03 and yea, i think the version matters. i have e-mail texas instruments, and i am hoping they can help me fix this, but if any of you have any suggestions, please e-mail me at ralf_born@earthlink.net
please!

Have you tried checking the contrast, I've seen this happen with a regular ti 83. If it still does not work then it is on page B-4 in the instruction book on how to fix this type of problem, but you need a graphlink. ZTetris messes up my calc too, but never like that.

when the batteries r out, try holding down the on key 4 a few seconds and then (after letting go of the on key) put the batteries back in and turn it on if it's not already. i use this 4 my 89, but i remember it working on my 83 (so probably it would work on an 83+), 2. if not, then u'll have 2 take out both the regular and lithium batteries at the same time to clear it :(

This happened to my 83+ too (but while running some other Ion game, I forget which one)... it is relatively easy to fix. Remove one battery from the back. Press-and-hold the Clear button (it is next to the arrows). Now re-insert the battery while still holding down the Clear key. Now, while still holding down the clear key, hold down the On key. It should start-up, then clear all the memory (including the archive). Page B-5 of the 83+ manual.

hm, it seems like the most reasonable thing to do.... but will it work if the whole calc's flash software is GONE? i dunno but i'll try it.....

OH MY GOD YOU ARE SOME SORT OF GENIUS, READING THE INSTRUCTION BOOKLET, WOW! IT WORKED!

My brother's calc also is performing many garbage collects, it cleared his RAM three times, turned off the calc, the ZTetris screen is screwed up, and very annoying since we are going out of state!! Is the updated version working, does any one know?






p.s.
Read my post below.

uh yea... ALWAYS SAY YES TO ANY/ALL GARBAGE COLLECTS WHILE RUNNING ION OR ANY OTHER ASM GAME ON THE TI-83+ OTHERWISE YOU GOT A PROBLEM!

The 2nd update of ztetris has no problems that I have seen. The only problem I have seen is that the game moves to the left of the screen(squished) but you can fix this during the game by pressing mode (pause) twice.

ztetris erased my ram!, the first time it did it completly caught me offguard and i went around the room yelling explicatives, at least i had most of the stuff archived. it happend after i completed 2 lines then the screen went blank then the screen came back on saying my ram was erased, which it was. i didnt know it was ztetris but i decided to play it again after i put ion back on my 83+, and the same exact thing happen. i have bios 1.12 dont know if that matters or not

Matt

I have 1.12 also, and ZTetris didn't erase my ram. I really dont think that it matters what version you have (1.10, 1.12). I think that it only affects certain ones, however, I don't know why.

damn those new programs really fked up my calculator more than i though, that garbage game is screwing around with me too, even though its been deleated it keeps asking me if i want a garbage collect?, and the calc is all messed up now,its all buggy and crashes when ever it feels like, i guess ill start by reinstalling the bios, but man am i not happy

Matt

Allright!!! I just got an 83+, and I already had all of the assembly games for it. Now there's all these good ones.

I'm not putting Ion down or anything, but it would be better if it were like ase on the 86, where it lists both Basic and Assembly programs.

Hey man could you tell me how to get all those good games onto my 83+ because all of the good ones I download it always says "SYNTAX". If you could tell me what you did I would appreciate it. Thanks Sean

I found one big problem w/ tetris. When I'm playing the game, and press Quit(Mode), there is an error:undefined and everything gets screwed up after that.

Yea the only problem is whenever you clear the ram after this to fix It crashes again
My only solution is waiting
I'm going to try an all mem clear next