Incredible, TI is gearing up for summer: rom support of larger games.

Not games, I'm sure they just made some huge flash app that goes larger than 8KB and they don't feel like making it smaller...

Flash apps have no limit.
Assembly programs do.

--BlueCalx

Hmm... that's interesting; I didn't know that. (Actually, isn't there a limit to the available memory? ;-)

But whatever it is, I'm sure it's not because of games... <g>

Hmm... no limits for TI's Applications ($$$), but limits for user made ASM progs! Three guesses why! :)

- Jeff

A word of caution:
TI's ROM upgrades usually mean you will not be able to play 80% of the games created for the older versions. If the squirrels living in your skull insist that you put the new ROM version on your calc, i suggest that you save your old version on your CPU. You can also get the old one from a friend if you heeded this too late.

--meek

if you want an older ROM version, say 1.05, all you have to do is e-mail the friendly people at TI. they sent it to me after i upgraded to 2.03.

is this a good thing or bad thing?

ANYBODY KNOW HOW TO SEND V2.04 TO THE TI-89 USING A PARRALELL LINK CABLE?

Please don't type in ALL CAPS. It's regarded as "shouting" and generally looked on as obnoxious.

My only success with updating my calc's ROM was with the gray (~$50) link cable.
This is ironic because the black one is *newer* :p

--BlueCalx

Yeah, besides, he's asked this question three times in the last hour. :-)

Not last hour... I should have said "the last fifteen minutes."

It doesn't work with that black link? wow, I have gotten it to ONLY work with my black link.

I recall hearing about one in the vast comments section of the article "AMS 2.03 released". This was in December of 1999, and Some guy keeps mentioning the use of the parallel link to send ROM versions

??? O_o

Anybody else notice how 2.03 won't convert temperature scales?

Use the tmpConv( command - it's in the manual.

you don't have to rely that much on a calc... i don't think that there is a life or death situation where you have to convert C to F... and it's not that hard to remember that F = 9\5 * C + 32

- skyraid

Or you don't even have to do that much... Just remember 0C -> 32F and 100C -> 212F, and you can just create an equation from (0,32) and (100,212), if you don't remember the equation itself.

I'm glad I still have version 1.00. I had upgraded to 1.05, then 2.03. I was fortunate to have found someone with a 1.00 calc and prevented the hair from being removed from my head by my own hands!

BTW, STOP WITH THE FREAKIN' PARALLEL PORT!! IF ANYONE CARED, THEY WOULD HAVE ALREADY SAID SOMETHING!!!

1.00 S_U_C_K_S, lol r u livin in a cave or something?...

Nah. 1.00 is the best, actually. Most of the earlier games will not run on later versions, wheras almost all of the ones made for newer will run on 1.00. I had to 'trade' with an unwitting victim to get my 1.00 HW1.

-meek

and what descent games might those be??? there's nothing..........

with ams 2.03 you'll get 702-384 = 318kb more of flash memory. I got HW1 calc. With doorsos 0.96, I use 450kb of flash memory : pretty working games and progs -impossible with ams 1.00- .

oops , that's wrong (see my post a few metters below)

I run 1.00.
I have never, ever, ever had a problem playing anything, and I've loaded just about every game out there onto my 89.

Every game, of course, that we have in our archives. :P

You must be thinking of Windows 1.00 or DOS 1.00... *nothing* runs on those! Why, I was running DOS v1.00 the other day, and it gave me this:

C:\> dir
Syntax Error
C:\>

--BlueCalx

Kind of funny you would write that. DOS 1 was quite similiar to CP/M. It didn't support directories nor hard drives :)

Actually, it is "?Bad command or file not found" or similar. Source code for DOS 1.0 follows:

10 INPUT A$
20 PRINT "?Bad command or file not found"
30 GOTO 10

No, I just like to have my calculator spend more time upwards doing math problems than face down while I'm attempting to take out the backup battery in school with a bent paper clip after it crashed for the millionth time.

- Jeff

Funny that someone would say something that stupid. Looking at your homepage url, though, it makes more sense. Why do all the idiots of the world use aol?

I used to have the parallel rom and flashappp sender, and it worked for me. I installed 2.03 and the list editor, it worked perfectly. Check the December article announcing that 2.03 is out.

all you have to do is email ti and tell them that you are having trouble with the current rom and would like a old one instead and they will e-mail it to you.