Seems like a cool unique game. :)

Good job Joel! A new creative game.
does it work with the TI-83+ emulator for the TI-89? If it does then I might actually get to play it!

try it...the worst that happens is it won't run

I'm hoping that I will have to get a 89TI for college level precalc (or physics)

I have a 83+SE and 84+SE but I want an 89 after borrowing one from a friend at school. Those games are really good quality and much better resolution.

*Person Dude gets kicked out of Target after trying to steal a TI-89 T

well, i tried to get multi to work. I sent it to my calc, (Titanium) and then It said I needed HW3patch, which I thought I already had. so I put the HW4 HW3patch on my calc (mine is HW4) and it wouldn't work.
ERROR: UKNOWN TRAP #11 HOOK
Multi still won't run. Oh well.
HW3patch worked fine for everything else I ahve used it for, (oblivion, etc.)

that sucks. that's what i wanted to do.

well i'm pretty sure that the problem is with HW3Patch, because normally it says HW3Patch installed. If it worked, then i'm pretty sure everything else would work.

Will any of the 83 plus programs work on the 89T hardware version 4 with "multi" or whatever it was called?

I'd appreciate anything you could tell me about that.

i tried the same thing

Did the same thing happen?

yes

you guys are weird. wait, look who is talking

Big LOL!

what did i do?

oh well

anyway, does anyone know if ti has postponed its release of the ti Nspire cas? I guess they're waiting for the very end of August.

I am going to say this once, so read closely,...closer,...Get closer...

OK, TI is releasing the nspire in GERMANY in August,
and in the U.S. in October, Yes i have insider knowledge, but that is all they told me.

Awesome! I won't be getting it though. My parents are to strict.

Same here. They say I already have a calc, so they won't get me another...
My only hope is finding one or when I am free in collage!

Of course if you can't wait to "use" the nspire, one can always download my TI-89 skin based on the nspire.
see link^^^

For a second I though I'd be able to program the 83+ with Perl, oh well. Looks like a nice game though!

is it possible to make the calculator compatible with Pearl, or other languages? I would like to see a calculator that was compatible with C++.

I agree! That's the only prog language I know.

Yes! tiBASIC has gotten /so/ boring since I learned C++....

Not enough memory, though, to do anything cool.

Why do you think I don't program anything for calcs anymore?

that's about like me. Anyone heard of U3 thumbdrives? I got one and wrote a C++ prog to make other apps that are portable run from the menu...

This ought to be my closing line

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//the longest program ever
int main()
{while(1);}

Yeah, 99% of my programs are in C or C++ for Linux now.

Being able to write C/C++ programs for your calculator isn't a matter of making it "compatible", it's that you need a good compiler. For the 68k calcs, there's TIGCC, and for the Z80s, you can use z88dk. On the Z80 calcs it's not really worth it, though, since from the little I've done with it it seems like it can't do much (probably better on other platforms). Also, with the limited memory and processing power, it's not going to be very efficient either, so overall if you've got an 83+ it's better to just learn assembly.

I agree mostly with you about using C for Z80 calculator programs. The compiler I tried a few years ago (Small-C) produced a fairly large program (about 5k) for a simple game I wrote. After super-optimizing the program (like using global variables instead of local variables in some places) and adding some peep-hole optimizer rules, it went down to 2 or 3k. If I wrote it in straight assembly, it would probably be less than 1k.

On the other hand, I managed to write that game more quickly than if I wrote it in assembly language. I also learned how C translates into Z80.

The overall lesson for me is that I won't give up on C for Z80 calcs, but its use will be limited to simple or quick-and-dirty programs.