Whoa!

Free apps!! awesome!!

i wonder how long it lasts.

-byron

btw, great effort on the costume; i'm sure it earned a lot of candy, lol

Its been on for a few months now. I think they will be keeping it permanent.

oh, thanks for the info.

i don't visit the official TI site that often, last time i was there, they only had dl's of samples of those apps. i didn't think it'd been that long since i visited their site.

it'll help a lot of ppl (including me) if they keep it free. but maybe they'd have to so that u could upgrade ur software. it depends, i haven't gotten the dl at the moment.

-byron

Hopefully they won't start charging for OS upgrades. Right now the OS is not that efficient, but if they make more stuff free, they will need to increase the price of something. So if they make an optimised OS, I would definately buy it.

Have you ever read the manual. Maintenence upgrades are free but feature upgrades may not be. Optimizations would be under maintenence in my view, but adding new capabilities and stuff wouldn't so I would think they would jack up the price on those and/or make a new product for regular consumers (unlike the V200).

Its been a few years. I was cryptic but I meant "with new feautres...blah...blah...blah...they should charge for it..."

Forever. Once something is free on the net, it's there forever, no there isn't a point really in charging for it again.

That isn't true in my experience. If you download software that's free that's why it's always a good idea to keep a backup copy of the installation file. I've seen all too often programs that were once free suddenly become pay services.

Not on ticalc.org though. :-)

And who buys it? Dumb shoppers (defined as the opposite of 'smart shoppers', people who see something and impulsively buy it without conducting any sort of bid process)? Newbies?

These apps should be useful...I do a lot of electrical work.....now if my 83+ just was in working condition, instead of hung up in the middle of an OS transfer....

lol, u idiot its for ti89

Sorry :-[ I didn't read carefully enough. Now if I just had an 89.....

I love the costume!

-TrumpetMan

How can I listen to the music with pplayer?

Yous must made a adaptator jack 3.5mm to 2.5mm!

lol, sorry for the double posting ;)
hmm but the Voyage200 doenst have an audio out, or?
and I cant put my earphones in there. Are there special earphones for the ti Voyage?

Do what he said. Get an adapter, then you can use some cheap ear buds or ear phones. It does work BTW because I have a V200 too.

Its possible to play WAV data with PolySnd in 1 bit at 8000 Hz. I have write completely documentation, she is in the pack library PolySnd v2.0.

I like the demo player and I can't wait to try that feature out on a file I have at home.

How do you make the 3.5 to 2.5 adapter? Is there a guide somewhere?

Radio Shack! Overpriced but its there.

>Overpriced

You're DEFINITELY right about that-that's why I like surplus....

Only if I knew of a surpluse place nearby... I think there an electronics store about 7 mi from my house might carry it. I can get just about anything there.

Overpriced++

Like 8 bucks for a PIC microcontroller from the 80s

It's three dollars... it's not THAT bad. I had to buy another one recently, as my first one broke whilst using it as a prying tool. :-/

Mine did that to (trying to open a can of model paint with mine) and the tip fell off :(

What possesed either of you too to up a adapter as a prying tool. It may be strong, but it is definately not designed for that. I had to spend 5 I think for mine.

Wha.....?

PIC, not PICK-a centipede shaped object made of ceramic, with protruding metal pins and a chip of etched silicon inside that processes data according to a preset assembly-language program (an "Operating System") with the effect of performing computations.

BTW, the PIC 17000-series is $15.99