bad eric. very bad. old news :)

there's gotta be some way to hack the apps so you can change the specified ID...

anyway, this is really pretty silly. like john mentioned above, nothing is validated (except a check to see if the zip code, state, and cities match up) and they're going to lose a bit of money on this...

i hope that the inputted ID will count hyphens as spaces, or vice versa, else I'll have to re-buy everything again...lol...

of course they are NOT validating anything...
anyway, is this supposed to be a joke? what the hell is TI doing this time? well... i guess anyone with a 83+ SHOULD use the oportunity (as in MUST), if anything just 'cause.
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Cd_Slayer

TI uses RSA/MD5 verification and the public RSA keys are cached, which means that you've got one chance on 2^128 to change the Id of an App. Check out the 83 Assembly list for more info on that subject.

There is a new one coming out, I am not sure if it is going to be part of this package or not.

-Corey

Bah, it's still vaporware as far as I'm concerned - shaddap and finish it, Corey

Why are you people complaining so much? This is cool - TI giving out bug-free (so far) software they worked hard to create. These are great apps (even if the periodic table is a bit redundant) that are backed by a reliable company. I'm sure their goal here is to get users interested in their flash apps site, but that's okay. And for those of you complaining about buying a GL, everyone should have one, and why would you visit ticalc.org if you didn't have one or plan to get one? Quit complaining! This is capitalism! Be happy!

Quite true, why would people keep coming back to this sie if they didn't have a graph link.

Maybe they just enjoy typing programs by hand.

TI's website says "you must have purchased your TI-83+ between August 15th and October 15th"

However, it doesn't specify from whom you must have purchased your calculator. Does this mean it would be perfectly legal for me to buy someone else's year-old 83+ and download all of ti's apps for free?

LOL

LOL! About a year ago i bought the periodic table app, what a rip off...

anyway, even though it is not right, i downloaded them for free, they should not charge for them!

I think this is to get ti out of the news for the recent tinews.net fiasco. Kind of a goodwill--give back to the community (Forgive us, take these silly apps)--type of a thing.

I personally dont believe in buying apps. Why are they selling calculaters with missing features and CHARGING THE PUBLIC for the additional features? Sure, a periodic table is not required for anything, but it sure would give them a better image to give it away. Kind of like choose your features. That would be neat "hey i dont use finance/stat plots/Cubic reg, so if i delete them from catalog, i'll have more flash memory, and i could put it on later<--Missing end quote I have the image of TI being like old Stalin-russia--"Must hide/ burn/ destroy/ encrypt/ all secrets or THE ENEMY will get them and ?????(insert favorite verb here) them!!" Why wont they let us use our own OS, for example.

If they went open source( the only way to go ) then we could make some truly powerful apps indeed.

Actually, I think this happened before the TI-Net fiasco.

If somebody could write their own OS comparable to TI's, that would _OWN_!
I'd love to help, but the problem would be hacking the current one to overwrite it.

:)

When are they going to start producing cool TI-89 Flahs programs and make an offer like this? I mean, I spent the extra 50 dollars to buy it, and there's only stuff in the flash section that my 83 came with. Man, I thought by buying an 89 I'd atleast get some good free flash apps.. just look at how many there are in the 83+ section.

Actually, there really aren't that many 83p APPS... there are really only 4 apps for purchase, its just that three of them you can also buy the version with a site license... making it look like there are 7... then for free there is pretty much just the updated OS, start-up customization, and A LOT of CBL/CBR stuff (useless if you don't have one). Then there are DEMOS of the ones you can buy. There's even a chinese language localization thing, which is only useful for those who speak chinese...

As for 89 flash apps:
free: there is the OS, statistics with list editor, and finance.
purchase: EE Pro, Sketchpad, and Cabri (Sketchpad and Cabri are very similar and there's no reason why anybody would want to buy both... they can't both fit on the calc at the same time anyway...)

So there are a few more 83p apps but most of them you can't use unless you have CBL/CBR and others are just demos, so subtracting these the 83p has maybe 1 more app than the 89...

It would be nice to have start-up customization for the 89 though... (although this is probably possible with some assembly programming, it would be nice if TI "ported" their start-up cust. from the 83p to the 89!)

sorry for my seemingly endless babbling...

~Trooper_Max~

The Chinese localization thing isn't just for Chinese speakers; it has a lot of information on the actual function and its arguments and stuff, and only has the Chinese translation as an extra.

How can the Applications check if you have bought the calc between aug-oct, ????

I think some ASM programmers (maybe myself too) should work on programs that do
the same thing that the apps do so that charging for them becomes obsolete...

As in TI comes out with a new app, and ASM programmers work on a (smaller) program that does
exactly the same thing. I wonder how long it would be until TI tries to shut down the free
program environment when it starts affecting business. Just a thought. Because none of those
apps are really worth what you pay for it... I would have more fun writing it myself _ANYWAY_!

Just some food for thought there :)