Is there anywhere on the internet where I can downgrade
my calc? I've got AMS 2.03 and am going through game withdrawl! Or are they planning on releasing a fix for V2.03 as well?

Yeah you can, go to this website I found and click on downloads.

http://h4x0r.cjb.net/

email TI to get the lowest version of the AMS your calculator can handle (if its hw1 then ask for 1.00, if its hw2 ask for 1.05)

but finding ROM's anywhere else is pretty much illegal and I wouldn't suggest getting it illegally :P

This absolutely sucks hehe.... I have a HW 1 TI-89 (bought it less than a month before they released HW 2) and thought I could live with it knowing that I had an advantage over HW2. Now this happens, and they are on top again. Life sucks, hehe.

I got my 89 yesterday (12/24/99) and it has hardware version 1 still. How long ago did hardware 2 come out, and what should i do?

Where'd you get your 89?

As for Hardware 2.0, go to the link under my name (or remove the spaces I've added to the URL at the end of this post) as this is all that I can find regarding a release date. Haven't found anything else regarding this.

http://www.ti.com/calc /docs/faq/ 89faq017.htm

This is great. I think I am going to get a TI-92+ for Christmas, so it will be great to actually have games.

I can't believe these work! I love playing mario and sf2 on my ti-89 hw2, I hope they fix the slow down and the flickering but I can't complain because this is great.

Just one slightly off topic question:

Which programmers out there are going to buy a Professional or Educaitonal SDK to make free programs/shells/games for the HW 1 that run in the ROM that I can't use?

With all the buzz over AMS 2.03 and its incompatibility with previous games. I am so, so confused over all these versions of the Ti-89. Could someone who knows what they're talking about please tell me what the different AMS/ROM versions offer that the others don't. And what's the difference between
HW 1 and HW 2? Also with the news over the new grayscale libraries for HW 2, what games are playable with the different HW and ROM configurations. Like what could I run with HW 2 and ROM 2.03? Or HW 2 and ROM 1.05? What in your opinion is the best tradeoff between functionality and entertainment? What Shells do I need to run on the different ROM's? And could someone please translate Kernel 0.6's readme? I don't know french (I take spanish). For all those out there that know what they're doing and are working on the problems I graciously commemorate your time and effort. For the rest of the Ti-XX community like me, we need to gain some work ethic and learn!!

~TaiGuy~ evelephant@aol.com

ok..
ams 1.00 works only on hw1 and ams 1.05 works on hw1 and 2. ams 1.05 doesn't like games, so if you have hw1, don't get it. Now, ams 2.03 works on both hw1 and hw2, and it lets you have something like 720k(?) archive memory. you can only use 390k of it on hw1, because of a bug, and the rest can only be used by flash apps. in hw2, you can use all of the archive memory for your personal use (as in street fighter 2)
AMS 2.03 also offers user defined functions in the catalog, and it has collapsable menus in the var-link screen.
The difference between hw1 and hw2 is that hw2 had a modification or something to the lcd screen to speed up complex equations and stuff, but it's giving programmers a hard time to make greyscale programs working like they did in hw1

if anyone has anything to correct or add, just do it, and i'm sorry if i screwed up something

Nathan

Welp I just finished downgrading to AMS 1.05 on my 92+ HW2, after a week without any games. I installed the new Grayscale libraries, and Sonic MisAdventures. When I tried playing the game, it gave me a few errors about "not enough memory".. so I deleted everything I didn't need, and archived all the rest. Yay! It actually worked! Well, to my dismay... it wasn't exactly "full screen" and I finally know what they mean by "flickering" It gave me a little headache, heh. But all in all, I'd like to thank everyone who made Sma, Doorsos, Grayscale, and everything else I forgot to mention. Keep up the great work! I'd love to see it on AMS2.03 HW2 sometime.

~Manny

PS: For some strange reason, I don't know but doesn't SF2T support grayscale? I didn't see it on mine. And also does anybody know how to make the backgrounds work? My background is always blank.

Has anyone else have problems with runing tetris on their calculator. The graphics are totally messed up. with the new libraries.

I have an 89 with HW1 and Rom 1.00, and a 92+ with HW2 with Rom 1.05. I finally got the greyscale to work on my 92+, thanks to those libraries, but street fighter 2 still doesn't work. Its greyscale, but it won't let me do anything from the menu. Any ideas? The 89 is working great with HW1 and Rom 1.00, I can live without the extra ram that the 92+ has... keep up the good work guys.

HEY TICALC.ORG STAFF!!

(there are times when I want to temporarily disable carriage return ;) )

Let me know when someone fixes the flicker y'all are talking about. When everything justifies a HW2 calc (the games, grayscale, mem are all compatible) then I'll want to know if there 's a way I could find the trade-in value of my module-upgraded 92+?

While I "don't" have that option, is there a way someone could make a way to do 16-level gray on HW1? (mainly for pictures)

Another thing: could someone come out with 10, 12, and/or 16-level gray libs for the 92+ HW1? I would mainly use it for better pictures, although games would be nice (especially 3D, btw, when will you guys start porting 3D games from the PC?)