Who would buy an updated 83 when you can get a 83+?? What's the point, TI?

Well, it's probably cheaper, especially with the blue screen, like the TI-82 had all along.
Wouldn't it make more sense to have the link port on top, though? After all, that's where the teacher editions have the connector to the overhead.

When a Ti 89 version will be available?

I assume you mean Phantom Star (as opposed to Ion), and phantom star can't be nearly as good as Phoenix is.

I had written another version of ion 1.6 called Unoffical Ion 1.6 that had a fixed version of the fastcopy routine, this version is much worse, it just disables fastcopy rather than adding the 3 necessary nops to the inner loop of fastcopy.

The problem pretty much is that the TI83 (style 2, the kind with round buttons that looks kinda like a TI83+, not the newest crap kind) has a slower LCD driver and needs more time between LCD writes.

I just double checked, and yes, that is a REALLY BAD version of Ion 1.6 to use because it disables fastcopy.

Suggestion to author: Next time don't just disable fastcopy, add the 3 nops instead, so it works quickly and properly.

Yes, you two are totally right. The disabling of IonFastCopy was the idea of Joe himself, as I contacted him. The 'nop' solution is better, so I adapted it directly. As for the long queue of pending files, it will be available in about 3 weeks. Thanks for the comment!

You two? That was dwedit talking to himself.. =P

I noticed too late... *shame* ;)

which one is better, MirageOS or Ion??

MirageOS, if you can spare the memory on your TI-83+.
Ion should only be used if you do not have more than 16384 bites of Archive memory free. It is good to have MirageOS because...
1. When an asm game fails and clears your RAM, the MirageOS shell will not be erased.
2. The MirageOS shell supports Ion, MirageOS, CrASH, ASH, and BASIC programs
3. It has more features than Ion, and is more stable*.

If you cannot have MirageOS, use Ion because...
1. It is a smaller shell
2. It has more "direct" support than MirageOS (there are more Ion programs than MirageOS programs. That is why MirageOS was designed to be compatable with so many different programs)
3. It has more add-on modules

You make the choice, but if you can, use MirageOS.

*Do not use MirageOS on TI-83+ SE's because it IS unstable on their slightly different OS. I tell you this from my first-hand experience. My SE does not use Ion, however. It uses Plasma 1.4.

MirageOS, if you can spare the memory on your TI-83+.
Ion should only be used if you do not have more than 16384 bites of Archive memory free. It is good to have MirageOS because...
1. When an asm game fails and clears your RAM, the MirageOS shell will not be erased.
2. The MirageOS shell supports Ion, MirageOS, CrASH, ASH, and BASIC programs
3. It has more features than Ion, and is more stable*.

If you cannot have MirageOS, use Ion because...
1. It is a smaller shell
2. It has more "direct" support than MirageOS (there are more Ion programs than MirageOS programs. That is why MirageOS was designed to be compatable with so many different programs)
3. It has more add-on modules

You make the choice, but if you can, use MirageOS.

*Do not use MirageOS on TI-83+ SE's because it IS unstable on their slightly different OS. I tell you this from my first-hand experience. My SE does not use Ion, however. It uses Plasma 1.4.

Not to be mean bu that not all true
if you download Mirage 1.2 your RAM will be fine