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Solitaire games for your TI-68k calculators ? We've got you covered
Posted by Xavier on 30 November 2017, 22:18 GMT
Let's highlight a recent upload for the 89/89T, which reminds of an older piece of work for the same platform. Both are variants of Solitaire... not that calculator owners need to be really lonely to play them, of course ;-)
Another game recently found again by David Randall was rebuilt and has become available: Pyramid Solitaire 89 is a solitaire variant whose goal is to remove values of 13 at a time, either as a pair of cards whose sum of the values is 13, or as a single Kings card. There's a pile of cards to help you with that goal when you can't directly match cards, but beware: you can only rotate it a limited number of times, configurable at the beginning of the game, at most 9. Maybe David will make a 92+/V200 version of the game, like he recently did for Jumpman?
More than five years and a half ago, Andrew Vauter implemented many variants of Solitaire in a single program, publishing it a under the Solitaire Suite name. 4 Klondike, 4 Canfield, 3 Golf (+ custom parameters for each) and 1 Freecell. The rest of the game's operation, including the UI (e.g. spacing between cards), is highly customizable. There are also interesting extra features like saving / restoring the game, a virtual money system that can persist across plays, a timer which increases as you play, full-game undo buffer, etc.
Both games feature grayscale graphics, using slightly different styles. The 89/89T have enough pixels for relatively fine-grained details to be visible.
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Re: Solitaire games for your TI-68k calculators ? We've got you covered
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Stefan Bauwens 
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Great to see more 68k work featured! Congratulations on the features guys :)
We need more 68k developers :P
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1 December 2017, 08:34 GMT
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Solitaire games for your TI-68k calculators ? We've got you covered
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Lionel Debroux
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Hi Sam :)
Good to see your name as well.
People in the French community grew up as well... and the horrible mood on yAronet led people to, at best, flee away to greener pastures (e.g. ExtendeD and geogeo switched to the Nspire platform, but elsewhere), or simply leave the community.
Sadly, starting from this year, the whole TI-68k series is forbidden in the main French standardized test, because the stupid regulators decided to hamper poorer people and make a gift to manufacturers by having people buy new calculators...
Er, sorry, I mean that they decided to mandate the usage of the exam mode, with a built-in flashing LED and access to user programs and documents prevented while in exam mode, which also prevents users from raising the functionality level of cheap(er) models through programs. So much for the "Equality" (égalité) part of the country's motto.
At least, they don't forbid the usage of a CAS - yet. It's just getting hardly useful to use a CAS at all, due to the constant dumbing down of said standardized test, which has been ongoing for decades.
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4 December 2017, 18:34 GMT
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Solitaire games for your TI-68k calculators ? We've got you covered
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Lionel Debroux
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Status update about French standardized tests, nearly a year later (though this comment will probably go unnoticed ^^):
* due to insufficient market penetration of the exam-mode-infected calculators, the regulators ended up not mandating the usage of exam mode for the 2018 session of the main standardized test;
* chances are that the exam mode won't be mandated for the 2019 session of the main standardized test either. At least, that's what a teacher recently reported receiving, in the form of a sheet of paper, in his professional mail, and he asked others whether they had received the same. But while he _could_ have created a fake document, the fallout of such fake news being debunked would burn his good reputation, previously earned by years of good work, to the ground - so chances are that it isn't fake.
I previously wrote "gift to manufacturers", it's getting more accurate as time passes by... even though it helped reduce the proportion of really low-end calculators, such as the TI-76.fr and 82 Stats.fr, which is a good thing for users.
For purely educational purposes, the stupid 82A (crippled 84+ with PTT led, a fixed set of FlashApps built into the OS upgrade and without ASM programs...) is an upgrade over those.
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13 November 2018, 07:25 GMT
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