Will they ever upgrade the Ti-83+ (SE) OS? Please.

Not many people have that calc. Sorry.

It is pretty much the same as the Ti-83+ (if Im not mistaken, only the hardware is different) so, until Ti kills the 83+ and makes us all upgrade to 83SE, don't expect it to get much better.

They aren't killing the 83+. It's their number one selling calc.

If you read me post correctly, I didn't say they were, I said until they do, which is alot different.

O. sorry. =)

This is a public awareness announcement:
There is an emulator by ti that comes with a rom image. This means that people can download this emulator for free from ti and then play games on it without every owning a calculator or rom image, and do it legally! The info about the emulator is at http://83p.tigalaxy.com/emulators.html with a link to the download

The flash debugger 5uxx0r5 and u need to edit the apps so u can load them. All 83+ emulators suck

Well, u can still run asm and basic programs on it so it is good enough for me. The best part bout it is that u dont need a rom image.

They just did :) Version 1.15 is now available.

So are you telling me that the only new functions (besides the clock ones) are the cot() sec() and csc() and their inverses? Wow useless. I was trying for a long time to make my backup of all my programs go and it kept stalling on three functions I had written: cot() sec() and csc().. That explains a lot.

Also, TiCT Explorer no longer works! Before it gave me some error message, now it just freezes the calculator! :-( How now can I use the ppg packed programs? Anyone?

Auto alpha off and auto close brackets also fail. How can I get these to work (well at least how do i get auto close brackets to work - I see autoaoff is being redesigned?)

On another note I just uploaded four new ebooks:
Neitzsche's Beyond Good and Evil

And some samurai books:
A Book of Five Rings
Budoshoshinshu The Code of the Warrior
The Hagakure (The Way of the Samurai)

Are they up? If so has anyone tried them? If they are good e-mail me or message me somehow. Thanks!

--Brandon Siegel

Also has anyone determines what all the clock and tiemr functions actually _do_ or what variables they take?

--Brandon Siegel

they don't do much... you can use them to ... time things...

startTmr() gives you a current seconds count...
checkTmr(x) gives you the current seconds count, minus x seconds... which is kind of dumb.

say you want to time a function...


startTmr()->x
<main function code here>
checkTmr()-x->y

y will contain the amount of time it took to run the function...

in whole seconds...

which is pretty much useless to programmers since most of the optimization we'll want to do is on the sub-second scale.

For AutoClBr, get the current version at the URL above.
For Auto Alpha-Lock Off, it will be released this week.

By the way, be warned that AMS 2.08 for the TI-89 (and this affects ONLY the TI-89 version) takes 100 bytes too much to fit in the portion of FlashROM it is supposed to use, and therefore lets you use one less sector of FlashROM (64 KB less) for archive memory and/or FlashApps than AMS 2.05.

I am sorry to have this message stray off topic but I really need to find some answers...

While solving a problem I came upon a new discovery, and as luck may have it, it actually works for all things that I can think of. THis is basically a theorem or a postulate per say that is relevant to the concept of infinite series. Does anyone know where to go from here? I mean should I submit to some journal or something, should I copyright it first to make sure that no one steals it?

IF you are wondering what this does is it takes some series (probably more applicable to infinite series) and you plug it in to this long expression and out pops another infinite series. Why do you do this, Well let me tell you. The second infinite series that was popped out from the large expression converge much more rapidly than the first. For example the infinite series 1/n^2 converges to pi^2/6 but if you plug 1/n^2 to the expression it converges more rapidly to 1/n^2 and you can iterate it infinitely so that it will converge automatically to pi^2/6. Hope it makes sense... enjoy!

well, i don't know many people who actually write out converging sequences...

First, check google to see if anyone else found it first.
Second, copyright a paper on it, describing it, etc. Publish the paper. If you know a friendly mathematician, talk to them about it.

How come when I go onto TI-Connect, click on "GraphLinks", click on "TI-83+", it just opens the old TI-GraphLink software? I can't use the olde software! I have a USB cable (the new silver one)! TI-GraphLink doesn't support USB cables! What do I do? Did TI make a major mistake or just not make things clear?

Hey people,newbie question, I just recently bought my 89,like 3 months or so ago, i do not know what hw1 or 2 is but i know i have hw2, whats the difference?

HW2 is the newer one, it has a little bit more trouble with grayscale, but it is faster and can take advantage of all of the Flash memory (that I know of (without hacking anything (I have HW1))), and it can take advantage of the clock. Long ago, it would have been better to have HW1, but I think HW2 is the way to go now.

I haven't used TI-Connect in a long time, but it comes with a TI-Explorer program or something like that, that lets you browse the calculator...I believe you can use that to send stuff to it. It also puts an entry in the Send To menu, that would work, too, right-click a file and choose that to send it to the calculator.

Yes, you can use TI Device Explorer to send files... just click and drag a file to that window for it to be sent.

For the TI89, TI92, and TI92+ (the calcs w/ folders), if you click and drag a file into the blank white space around the file list, it will go into the 'main' folder. If you drag it to a specific folder, it will go in that folder.

im still unsing tigl, and it sux. I'm too lazy to upgrade.

TIGL doesn't suck, it just needs to be updated to a Win98 32-bit app with USB support (which probably won't happen).

And as far as I know, its the only program that lets you edit a BASIC program on a computer.

TIGL is a 16-bit app and was written for Win 3.1, before USB! JESUS!

Mr. Gearhart, calm down. Why do you seem to get so annoyed when people ask questions that seem obvious to you?

Because i'm impatient! I was on a computer at age two on DOS! at age three, Windows 3.1. Age 9, Win 95/98. Age 13... XP. There is a big difference between a 16 bit & 32 bit app. For instance... the open/save dialog box... Compare TIGL's Save window to TI Connect's.

Just because you know more (well, maybe not, given the fact that you made the statement "Dells are faster",) doesn't mean you have to yell at other people and redicule them..

Ya, get off everybodies backs, its not like your smarter, you make as many stupid comments as anyone else.

Everyone makes stupid comments. I just like to say stupid stuff sometimes. And get off of my back about my site being ugly. It loads quickly and has content. That's all I care about right now.

Dell's are faster. End of story.

Ok, I'm going to say this, and this is all I'm going to say, as I don't want to pollute these boards too much. You are taking one case and turning into an illogical general statement. If what you are saying is true, then the cheapest Dell you can buy is faster than the most powerful Sun (or whatever, doesn't matter) server you can purchase. Think before you make statements like that, please.

You comparing by clock speed? If you are, that is not the correct way to compare computer speed. It deals with many different factors. Pentium 4 SUCKS! Long live MAC!

It gets annoying to say the same stuff over and over. But ignorance of computers and old operating systems just tops it off.

hey guys, check out my two-comment post on the "Kirk Meyer Releases Fast 3D Grapher for TI-83+" news page... I talked all about this and a few other things I think we should all do to improve the board environment... you can click the link above to get there... search the page for "OK people, enough".

you used DOS at 2? I hope your just exagerating. DOS Sucks.

DOS didnt suck...
My first words were
cd, dir, and format
Also, it crashed a hell of a lot less (almost never) than windows... and also, you didnt have as many pure idiots using computers, you had to know how to use a computer to use dos.

DOS sucked because it was so unintuitive and crappy, and it did crash, granted not as much as windows, but nothing crashes more than windows. And yes, there are more "pure idiots" using computers, but that doesn't affect the stability, and if you were insinuating that I am a pure idiot, then you can go blow yourself. If you weren't insinuating it, then never mind.

Of course the number of pure idiots doesn't affect stability ... but it increases the chances that something will go wrong. Also, from my understanding of DOS and Windows, the reason why DOS would crash less than Windows was because DOS would let you run only one program at a time while Windows lets you run several at a time, which can lead to resource conflicts and eventually a crash.

I still use DOS from time to time because you can do a lot with it without tons of notifications and crap.

I use it too, especially when I download a program in ansi C source code form. My only c compiler other than TIGCC is Turbo C from Borland, which I got for FREE at their museum (see the link above). You can get the ENTIRE set of disks for their DOS C compiler, as well as the Pascal compiler, etc. for free! (of course, this is pre 1990 stuff)

I also use DOS when I have to bulk copy, move, delete, modify files because it is 500% faster. Same for formatting stacks of diskettes and rooting out bad sectors.

DOS only sucks to those who don't know how to use it.

bah... dos...
I learned to program BASIC on a Mac :-p
back in the days when you typed in every line one-at-a-time, all of them had to have numbers, and to find a specific line you had to run through them all up to that point... all linear editing, none of this QBASIC shiznit you have now... you kids get it so easy these days! dag nabbit :-p

Even the 89 version?

ALL OF THEM!

Okay, my website may not be some great work of art, but your website is so freaking god awfully ugly, it has to be the ugliest site ever, change it please, you've got a lot of good content, but its so ugly.

Bite me. I don't do the site anymore. Esweecoo does it.