Hey, thanks for featuring my emulator! It definitely shows its limitations on this hardware, but it's kind of crazy that I was able to get it working at all, haha. I also thought I would point out that despite what that review on ticalc says, the emulator does have a save function, but it's only for the cartridge save and not save states like that user was probably expecting.
I was actually about to leave a comment asking why the emulator would make a note about 'not having enough space to save' if saving wasn't possible, but this clears that up. Thanks!
I looked into the reason why the CE hasn't become the standard yet. TL;DR: It's too powerful. They aren't allowed on tests because they can automatically do calculus.
I remember getting in trouble with the teacher so many times for playing games during math class on this thing! These graphing calculators were my first introduction to programming. I am now a senior software engineer.
I'm a senior engineer, as well. Never trust a programmer with a calculator in school. I may or may not have coded a cheatsheet program on my calculator that autocleared the screen on any button press... 👌🔥
My favorite piece of software on that site is Fruit Ninja, which emulates the iPhone game surprisingly well by having you swipe your finger across the mass of calculator buttons. It's also one of the few games that actually plays better on a TI-83 Plus than a TI-84 Plus (since the 84 Plus has concave buttons that are harder to swipe over in an uninterrupted motion).
Sounds like it would be loud and obvious to a teacher ur playing a game then again if a student is pressing buttons on a calculator for a long time there more than likely playing with it anyway lol
@@ExhaustedWaffle Well, the Game Boy has a 4 MHz CPU, the Ti-84 has a 15 MHz CPU. Though the Z80 that's in the Ti-84 is a significantly older design, so that might make the higher clock speed a bit misleading.
@@ExhaustedWaffle Actually, the CPU is about 3-4x as fast as a Game Boy's, but it has no hardware accelerated graphics so that cuts into the processing time for games quite a bit. And as far as the Game Boy emulator goes, the overhead of emulating a different (though similar) CPU does more than cancel out the extra speed. I considered implementing a JIT recompiler, but these older calculators didn't have enough memory to cache the recompiled code. In the successor emulator on the TI-84+CE, I finally had enough memory for a JIT, which is one reason that emulator runs far better.
@@calc84maniacfascinating, thank you for sharing! I've always wondered if this was using emulation for every instruction or if the Z80s were similar enough to only require emulating the graphics
@@clebbington Right, while they are similar, they're different enough that it's not possible to run the code directly (and even if the Game Boy had a real Z80, it still might not be possible due to not being able to intercept its hardware interactions). But the similarities do allow decreasing the emulation overhead by quite a lot.
@@UndergroundLookingUp recently got one of these free - it was discarded because the pins to the battery needed to be bent back slightly at the board which is a common problem with these
Now that I’m fully grown adult, looking back on rules like these really annoys me. Granted I didn’t even want to do any of the things they told me not to do, of which I would face some crazy punishments. Merely the fact that they had such lack of trust and respect for me and my peers and failed to treat us as peers but rather subordinates wildly infuriates me.
This is really weird timing. I had a dream last night that I was playing Pokemon on a calculator. The pixel grid was only tall enough for like 2 or 3 lines of input at once but somehow that was enough space to make Pokemon playable lol
If anyone wants to play with TI software, there is actually a TI-83 emulator called Wabbit. I don’t know how it does recent calculators, but it got me through college on my phone.
Reminds me of when I hacked my TI-Nspire II to cheat during my AP exams, and to play Pokémon Fire Red during the break. The next year I played Doom during the break. I failed both AP exams…
@@myithspa25 I also had a TI-Nspire (first model) and played pokemon during class. The calculator itself had notepad-esk program among several other programs. I imagine the OP entered in all the answers or entire text books into the calculator. The bottom half of the calculator even detaches, so you can equip different faces with other functions and such. These things were amazing! :D
And that's the reason I stick to the Casio FX 82MS. It has all the same functions as a standard Aristo Scholar LL slide rule, but with the added benefit of modern speed, accuracy, and input method. Enough for any science student. I would have picked one of the older HP scientific calculators, but I hate that RPN input method. Figuring out an input mistake is so much simpler on a two line display.
When I was using a TI-85 since 7th grade in 1997, I only learned enough TI BASIC to automate stuff like quadratic equations and the Pythagorean theorem. I was never able to properly connect my calculator to my Windows 95 computer at home to do any transfer of anything to or from it, so I never even bothered learning back then that the flavor of assembly that was used was Z80 and would've eventually made Game Boy emulation possible, even at reduced speed.
The older ones all the way up through the original TI-89 and 92 needed a special cable that connected from a computer serial port to the little headphone-jack-looking link port on the bottom of the calculator. That port could also transfer files between calculators using a 2.5mm aux cable. It wasn't until later that they started adding a USB port for PC communication in addition to the calculator-to-calculator link port.
@@joemck85 Sounds vaguely familiar. I remember having the 2.5mm aux cable because my twin brother also had a TI-85 for his school but I don't remember ever having the serial cable.
@@apollolux I had the official serial cable. Apparently there was a chip in that one. There were also some DIY cables you could make just wiring a 2.5mm connector to a serial or parallel plug, but then you could only use 3rd party software with it that supported those cables. Those were how you would transfer games onto the calculator, as well as save your own programs, pictures, data lists, etc. to the computer. For the 85, original 83 and earlier models, this was particularly important since they only had less than 32 KB RAM and no flash "archive" space. If you ran low on RAM, you had to delete stuff to make room. Also it had a little watch battery under a cover in the battery compartment -- this is how your RAM data didn't get erased when you changed the batteries. Later models added a comparatively vast few MB of flash storage that could hold a very large amount of TI-BASIC program code, but that was still pretty easy to fill up if you started downloading games and apps.
@@joemck85 By the time I had knowledge, actual programming skills, a better computer to program with, and money to do any the things you mention, I unfortunately no longer had the desire to do any of that with the 85. I also didn't have internet at home back then, so finding all of the info and drivers using school internet and taking it home on floppy disks would've been a massive PITA to my impatient 14-year-old self.
We used TI-82s in HS and my favorite program I wrote for my calculator was a simple program that displayed the "memory cleared" screen. The TI-82 only had upper case characters so I had to draw that screen pixel-by-pixel and display that message in lower-case when the program started. Our math teacher had a rule that calculators needed to be reset before quizes/tests and I had all kinds of other things on mine that I didn't want to erase. She knew it would be hard to fake the reset screen because of the letter case (upper/lower) issue but that little program helped me and a few of the friends in my class avoid reseting every time.
I got a Python version before even high school. Unfortunately it doesn't have assembly (and because of complaints from teachers iirc), and I learned the hard way trying to run a port of Bejeweled. But, I did have fun playing BASIC games during Algebra 1, and I do know a fair amount of Python myself, so I could just code some simple Python game if I was bored, or maybe automate some of my work if it's a simple concept for me. TL;DR - As my calculator had Python instead of assembly, it's nice to see what the older models could do.
Out of necessity, I ended up learning how to program my own stuff for my engineering classes. These calcs use a rudimentary form of basic, so you can easily program stuff like vectors, conversions, or whatever. The TI calcs are all a little different between them. So for example, the TI-81's are hard to program for. The TI-83's are a lot more forgiving and the TI-83 plus's have a lot more memory. Ironically, I never tried a game on my calcs. I want to try that Portal game though.
My mom was a math teacher. She would have representatives from TI come to teach them on how to use it with their curriculum. One representative told her that the graphing calculator part of TI's business was so small and such an afterthought that they'd forget to take roll call of that division at TI's conferences 😂
WOW! I got a box with at least 7 calculators bought cheaply from a local online marketplace. People place their stuff their, broken or not. I simply bought calculators with problems, fix them, and they stay with me for nostalgia purposes. It happens I bought a Ti-84 PLUS silver edition. It didn't start with the 4 batteries, So I had to open the Ti-84... much harder than TI-83... and it happens the ground contact was corroded on the board where the metalic piece lands. Fortunately the huge ground contact has ground all around. I just cleaned the corrosion and I also had to clean the rest of corrosion dust. I also soldered a wire from the ground contact on the board to the metallic piece of the negative pole of the battery. Texas instruments had lots of problems with corroded boards but they stupidly continued making them. Ti-nspire has also this problem. The metallic piece reacts with the copper ground/vcc and some calcs simply turn dead and users sell them or throw them to trash/drawer.
I had the TI-83 plus in high school, I really wish the TI-84 came out earlier because I already graduated school when they released those models. But I did download some games like Mario Land to my TI-83 calculator from a peer to peer connector from a friend’s calculator in class! My younger cousin who got the TI-84, she had puzzle games on it. And now there’s color TI-84 CE which are really cool and used for downloading bigger games, but lot of math classes are banning color graphing calculators due to its distractions.
My school has plenty of these. I used to fidget with the apps on these things during Math class. I remember using a coin flip app and trying to cobble together a program of my own on the calculator itself.
i think this is my favorite mjd video! i remember being super into calculator programming / jailbreaking a few years ago, and i actually managed to boot the linux kernel on a ti nspire. great video as always, much love ❤❤
I had Zelda on my Ti 84 Plus like 15 years ago already. This was a super common thing to do back then. Every studend knew how to get those games and how to make them run. We just teached each other how to do it and shared the games from calculator to calculator.
I had a Dark Blue TI-81 I Picked Up at a Garage Sale somewhere in KidRock Country for $5.00, Probably around '95. It didn't have a Serial Port at All if I Remember Correctly. I could Program BlackJack & d0PeWaRs from Memmory. But Nobody cared as they all had Money to show off their Awesome TI-84s, Which had a SMB Clone that worked Really Well in '99
Oh wow Mini USB? What a luxury! 🤣 Who remembers the Graphlink USB and Link Cables? Older TI-83s could ONLY use the headphone-like port at the bottom for data transfer between either 2 calculators or a calculator and the PC. I remember when I was in middle school, we'd all share whatever games we had (or came up with ourselves) with each other via link cables at school.
I grew up in the TI-82 era, transitioning in the the TI-83. I still have my TI-82. My parents must've gotten it for me in 1994, I believe. Certainly no later than 1995.
I've never used graphing calculators at school, only regular scientific ones. However, a few years later I worked there for some time and one day I had the task of testing and replacing batteries on a bunch of Casio fx-CG20s and fx-CG50s. I also took the opportunity to upgrade all of them to the latest firmware. I think those are ARM-based or something 32 bit, while the TI-84 is still stuck on the Z80.
Back in high school (circa 2003) a guy I was friends with had super mario bros on the first model of these. Despite owning a GBA I still thought it was the coolest thing.
I remember using Mirage OS back in the day, but I don't remember a full blown gameboy emulator, it might not have existed yet, that kind of blows my mind though. I did play a Pokemon red and blue port made especially for the calculator, it had really minimal graphics, didn't even have sprites for the pokemon, and you could only attack based on the pokemon type. It was a super simplified version of the game but even so I played it to the end, anything to escape boredom at school lol.
I really used to like a Zelda clone for TI calcs years ago. It had a very good LTTP appearance for a monochrome game. I don't remember the name, but it might have just been "Zelda"
Back in the mid 90's I was in college taking calculus using the TI-85 and spent most of my time making games for it. The 'professor' gave me a low grade for not using the calculator for it's intended purpose since I could do all the math in my head without a calculator.
I already know a kid had this at school and brought it out to recess. Everyone would want to play with it and if there’s that one kid that doesn’t get a turn playing it they’ll tattletale on you
Do not forget to remove the batteries if the calc is not in use for a long time, like a week or 2. Even if it's not in use, the internal clock and the internal stand-by still eats power. I left 4 new batteries inside for a month (1.6v each) they simply gone to 1.4v.
Just fyi, you can actually tell between the portals in portal prelude, the fastest moving portal will disappear first, and to switch between which you're firing you press the 5 key
if any of you want to try this, the TI connect software doesent always work on some computers. You can use TI connect CE (works with non color edition too) and I had no problems with that.
Very nice! I have a TI-84 Plus *C* Silver Edition. The C stands for color. It's basically brand new and I hardly use it (I needed it for one college class then I completely forgot how to use it). I wouldn't mind finding a good home for it for the right person. The battery self-discharges and might be dead, but they are removable and should be replaceable.
remember that thumbnail only having the graphing calculator display Portal then changed to that automatic UA-cam thumbnail then chanegd to the one that's used today
This is interesting. I briefly considered developing games on the TI-84, but I was unfamiliar with it's capability. I will consider making a more investable game on it.
Man, I wished I had one of those. I used my uncle's hand-me-down TI-55 III in college. Luckily my Philippine college didn't require a TI-84 like I've been told certain colleges and universities and high school standardized tests in the US do.
During the ACT test I took, the ti83+ that my Dad still had was not allowed, but most of the students had the ti84+SE. My family could not afford the newer calculators just for a test.
I have a ti nspire, it as a arm processor and so powerfull it emulate Gameboy advance with a full color screen. I literally never used it to do math... And I never used it to play Gameboy advance after the first time I tried it.
It's why if you can swing it, convince your teacher to let you use your handset. It's a graphing calculator in your pocket, and if you can set that up within a day using any computers available to you, then you can save the hundo and show the teacher your handset is perfectly-capable for the task.
'murica f- yeahhhh! _bald eagle sounds_ Them still having these prices today is just a scam, but at the time they got first introduced they were cool af & kinda cheap for what they could do.
I remember playing a lot of Tetris on mine instead of doing work in class. Something kind of neat about these TI-84 calculators is they're actually very similar to 80's microcomputers, as they contain a Z80 CPU and BASIC in ROM, so you can use one of these to make BASIC programs if you want. That's kind of neat considering they're still for sale and very common today.
11:50 it sounds like a broken depressed soul dragging out notes in exhaustion as it begs for death And to be completely honest I want to listen to it more It gives me everything in the end of time vs heartaches vibes
always wanted one of these but could never afford it. do remember that the emulator allowed for rotating the rendered screen 90° , which solved the jitter and cutoff of most GB games. would also adjust the dpad control accordingly.
While the 84+ is a cool calculator and having mini USB is great. It's not nearly as cool at the 83+SE which is the same hardware but it still looks like a 83+. My favorite game was someone made a post of Bubble Bobble with all 100 levels as well as simultanious co-op though the link port. Me and a friends played the whole game in math classes once.
My roommate was learning calculus so I wrote a password program that made him solve a semi-random calculus question when it turned on before it would allow him to use it normally. I would update the program with each chapter he was working on so he had to learn to do the problems the hard way first. 😂
12:30 with pokemon blue depending on what rom you use the save function does in fact work in game, i used the one color adding hack because when it was converted into flash it took up just the right amount of space to fit on my 84 and the saves did in fact work and i got basically every pokemon i could in blue alone
I'm mind blown how much moee development rheres been over the years. A Game Boy emulator? OMG!! Portal? I could only have dreamed of such kind of game back in the day. Flabbergasted!
So who here is gonna date themselves and admit they manually entered code from a printout your buddy gave you to a game on one of these (yes, I did back in 1998). You don’t know pain tho until you manually copy code just to get an error afterwards and have to parse through the code to see what you fat fingered. Then you have absolute torture when you manually input a second game just to find you need to delete the first to have enough ram to run the second game. Then once you delete the first for the second, you find out the second game is total crap and regret all your decisions that day.
Hey, thanks for featuring my emulator! It definitely shows its limitations on this hardware, but it's kind of crazy that I was able to get it working at all, haha.
I also thought I would point out that despite what that review on ticalc says, the emulator does have a save function, but it's only for the cartridge save and not save states like that user was probably expecting.
Hey! Thanks so much for clarifying that! I'm pinning this so that people can see
I just want to let you know that my entire AP Calculus class has your emulator and a handful of roms on our calculators. You're a blessing to us all.
my entire class has been using your software for years you are a legend
good job man!!
I was actually about to leave a comment asking why the emulator would make a note about 'not having enough space to save' if saving wasn't possible, but this clears that up. Thanks!
I looked into the reason why the CE hasn't become the standard yet. TL;DR: It's too powerful. They aren't allowed on tests because they can automatically do calculus.
Really? I only knew that the N-Spire calculators were banned
No the ce cannot do calculus out of the box people are scared of the color display also corporate greed
Oh that's ah ITS OVER 9000 moment
I remember getting in trouble with the teacher so many times for playing games during math class on this thing!
These graphing calculators were my first introduction to programming. I am now a senior software engineer.
I'm a senior engineer, as well. Never trust a programmer with a calculator in school. I may or may not have coded a cheatsheet program on my calculator that autocleared the screen on any button press... 👌🔥
Epic
your comment says "10 hours ago" when the video was released 6 hours ago
These calcualtors were also my first entry into programming. I completely remade the old drugwars game from scratch with different features.
@@islandslandbro hacked the matrix
My favorite piece of software on that site is Fruit Ninja, which emulates the iPhone game surprisingly well by having you swipe your finger across the mass of calculator buttons. It's also one of the few games that actually plays better on a TI-83 Plus than a TI-84 Plus (since the 84 Plus has concave buttons that are harder to swipe over in an uninterrupted motion).
That is such an interesting control scheme!
Sounds like it would be loud and obvious to a teacher ur playing a game then again if a student is pressing buttons on a calculator for a long time there more than likely playing with it anyway lol
I got solitaire on my graphing calculator and played it when waiting for time to be up on the SATs
14 hours ago? wtf?
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It's pretty incredible to see Game Boy emulation on something that's barely faster than a Game Boy to begin with.
It's not even faster 😂
@@ExhaustedWaffle Well, the Game Boy has a 4 MHz CPU, the Ti-84 has a 15 MHz CPU. Though the Z80 that's in the Ti-84 is a significantly older design, so that might make the higher clock speed a bit misleading.
@@ExhaustedWaffle Actually, the CPU is about 3-4x as fast as a Game Boy's, but it has no hardware accelerated graphics so that cuts into the processing time for games quite a bit. And as far as the Game Boy emulator goes, the overhead of emulating a different (though similar) CPU does more than cancel out the extra speed.
I considered implementing a JIT recompiler, but these older calculators didn't have enough memory to cache the recompiled code. In the successor emulator on the TI-84+CE, I finally had enough memory for a JIT, which is one reason that emulator runs far better.
@@calc84maniacfascinating, thank you for sharing! I've always wondered if this was using emulation for every instruction or if the Z80s were similar enough to only require emulating the graphics
@@clebbington Right, while they are similar, they're different enough that it's not possible to run the code directly (and even if the Game Boy had a real Z80, it still might not be possible due to not being able to intercept its hardware interactions). But the similarities do allow decreasing the emulation overhead by quite a lot.
"They are still expensive, but I am not going to go into that today"
Got me all fucked up now, can't believe I have to do my own research
Did u figure out why lol
I was selling one of these calculators at a flea market for $10, many people walked over. picked it up, looked at it very hard, and then left!!!
LGR has a video about it. It's the latter of a two-part episode of "LGR Tech Tales". It has to do with bribing math teachers.
@@UndergroundLookingUp recently got one of these free - it was discarded because the pins to the battery needed to be bent back slightly at the board which is a common problem with these
@@cs8712 Nice deal! When one knows how to fix the simple things that go wrong, there is a bounty of treasure to be had.
back when I was in high school, my math class had some. However, the rule was that if anyone played games on it they would fail the class
You played anyway, didn't you?
Now that I’m fully grown adult, looking back on rules like these really annoys me. Granted I didn’t even want to do any of the things they told me not to do, of which I would face some crazy punishments. Merely the fact that they had such lack of trust and respect for me and my peers and failed to treat us as peers but rather subordinates wildly infuriates me.
15:41 AKA "Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out."
That Portal game is basically a calculator version of the Portal flash game I love it
I couldn’t get it to work. It says it was incompatible.
This is really weird timing. I had a dream last night that I was playing Pokemon on a calculator. The pixel grid was only tall enough for like 2 or 3 lines of input at once but somehow that was enough space to make Pokemon playable lol
Someone should make gen one on a calculator.
If anyone wants to play with TI software, there is actually a TI-83 emulator called Wabbit. I don’t know how it does recent calculators, but it got me through college on my phone.
I had the same TI-84 Silver Edition back in school 20 years ago. Price was about the same too. Crazy to see them still being used.
Reminds me of when I hacked my TI-Nspire II to cheat during my AP exams, and to play Pokémon Fire Red during the break. The next year I played Doom during the break. I failed both AP exams…
Lol. Sorry, but just... Lol.
How did you hack it? What did it change?
@@myithspa25 I also had a TI-Nspire (first model) and played pokemon during class. The calculator itself had notepad-esk program among several other programs. I imagine the OP entered in all the answers or entire text books into the calculator. The bottom half of the calculator even detaches, so you can equip different faces with other functions and such. These things were amazing! :D
@@myithspa25 I also read E-Books on it
And that's the reason I stick to the Casio FX 82MS.
It has all the same functions as a standard Aristo Scholar LL slide rule, but with the added benefit of modern speed, accuracy, and input method. Enough for any science student.
I would have picked one of the older HP scientific calculators, but I hate that RPN input method. Figuring out an input mistake is so much simpler on a two line display.
When I was using a TI-85 since 7th grade in 1997, I only learned enough TI BASIC to automate stuff like quadratic equations and the Pythagorean theorem. I was never able to properly connect my calculator to my Windows 95 computer at home to do any transfer of anything to or from it, so I never even bothered learning back then that the flavor of assembly that was used was Z80 and would've eventually made Game Boy emulation possible, even at reduced speed.
The older ones all the way up through the original TI-89 and 92 needed a special cable that connected from a computer serial port to the little headphone-jack-looking link port on the bottom of the calculator. That port could also transfer files between calculators using a 2.5mm aux cable. It wasn't until later that they started adding a USB port for PC communication in addition to the calculator-to-calculator link port.
@@joemck85 Sounds vaguely familiar. I remember having the 2.5mm aux cable because my twin brother also had a TI-85 for his school but I don't remember ever having the serial cable.
@@apollolux I had the official serial cable. Apparently there was a chip in that one. There were also some DIY cables you could make just wiring a 2.5mm connector to a serial or parallel plug, but then you could only use 3rd party software with it that supported those cables. Those were how you would transfer games onto the calculator, as well as save your own programs, pictures, data lists, etc. to the computer. For the 85, original 83 and earlier models, this was particularly important since they only had less than 32 KB RAM and no flash "archive" space. If you ran low on RAM, you had to delete stuff to make room. Also it had a little watch battery under a cover in the battery compartment -- this is how your RAM data didn't get erased when you changed the batteries.
Later models added a comparatively vast few MB of flash storage that could hold a very large amount of TI-BASIC program code, but that was still pretty easy to fill up if you started downloading games and apps.
@@joemck85 By the time I had knowledge, actual programming skills, a better computer to program with, and money to do any the things you mention, I unfortunately no longer had the desire to do any of that with the 85. I also didn't have internet at home back then, so finding all of the info and drivers using school internet and taking it home on floppy disks would've been a massive PITA to my impatient 14-year-old self.
We used TI-82s in HS and my favorite program I wrote for my calculator was a simple program that displayed the "memory cleared" screen.
The TI-82 only had upper case characters so I had to draw that screen pixel-by-pixel and display that message in lower-case when the program started.
Our math teacher had a rule that calculators needed to be reset before quizes/tests and I had all kinds of other things on mine that I didn't want to erase. She knew it would be hard to fake the reset screen because of the letter case (upper/lower) issue but that little program helped me and a few of the friends in my class avoid reseting every time.
I got a Python version before even high school. Unfortunately it doesn't have assembly (and because of complaints from teachers iirc), and I learned the hard way trying to run a port of Bejeweled.
But, I did have fun playing BASIC games during Algebra 1, and I do know a fair amount of Python myself, so I could just code some simple Python game if I was bored, or maybe automate some of my work if it's a simple concept for me.
TL;DR - As my calculator had Python instead of assembly, it's nice to see what the older models could do.
the real nanami madobe is here
You could run Python on that thing?!
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@@LandonEmmaI'm guessing their late gen z or older gen alpha as only the newer calculators do python.
@@qwertykeyboard5901 I'm from late Gen Z
Out of necessity, I ended up learning how to program my own stuff for my engineering classes. These calcs use a rudimentary form of basic, so you can easily program stuff like vectors, conversions, or whatever. The TI calcs are all a little different between them. So for example, the TI-81's are hard to program for. The TI-83's are a lot more forgiving and the TI-83 plus's have a lot more memory.
Ironically, I never tried a game on my calcs. I want to try that Portal game though.
My mom was a math teacher. She would have representatives from TI come to teach them on how to use it with their curriculum. One representative told her that the graphing calculator part of TI's business was so small and such an afterthought that they'd forget to take roll call of that division at TI's conferences 😂
My school dictated we had to use Casio 991 fx non programmable calculator but great too see this regardless.
Still wondering if there's ANY way to do programming or just anything remotely cool like if statements, loops etc on it
>calc84maniac
Now that's a name I didn't expect to see on this channel
look mom, I'm on the you tubes
WOW!
I got a box with at least 7 calculators bought cheaply from a local online marketplace. People place their stuff their, broken or not.
I simply bought calculators with problems, fix them, and they stay with me for nostalgia purposes.
It happens I bought a Ti-84 PLUS silver edition. It didn't start with the 4 batteries, So I had to open the Ti-84... much harder than TI-83... and it happens the ground contact was corroded on the board where the metalic piece lands.
Fortunately the huge ground contact has ground all around. I just cleaned the corrosion and I also had to clean the rest of corrosion dust.
I also soldered a wire from the ground contact on the board to the metallic piece of the negative pole of the battery.
Texas instruments had lots of problems with corroded boards but they stupidly continued making them. Ti-nspire has also this problem.
The metallic piece reacts with the copper ground/vcc and some calcs simply turn dead and users sell them or throw them to trash/drawer.
I had the TI-83 plus in high school, I really wish the TI-84 came out earlier because I already graduated school when they released those models. But I did download some games like Mario Land to my TI-83 calculator from a peer to peer connector from a friend’s calculator in class! My younger cousin who got the TI-84, she had puzzle games on it. And now there’s color TI-84 CE which are really cool and used for downloading bigger games, but lot of math classes are banning color graphing calculators due to its distractions.
This video proves that Graphing Calculators were way ahead beyond their years
My school has plenty of these. I used to fidget with the apps on these things during Math class. I remember using a coin flip app and trying to cobble together a program of my own on the calculator itself.
i think this is my favorite mjd video! i remember being super into calculator programming / jailbreaking a few years ago, and i actually managed to boot the linux kernel on a ti nspire. great video as always, much love ❤❤
gay. so gay.
ofc u ran linux on a calculator gayfemboyuwu, i bet it was arch linux gayfemboyuwu
@@arubberroomwithrats it was not arch 😭 just the kernel
@@arubberroomwithrats i run arch on my pc tho uwu
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I had Zelda on my Ti 84 Plus like 15 years ago already. This was a super common thing to do back then. Every studend knew how to get those games and how to make them run.
We just teached each other how to do it and shared the games from calculator to calculator.
I had a Dark Blue TI-81 I Picked Up at a Garage Sale somewhere in KidRock Country for $5.00, Probably around '95.
It didn't have a Serial Port at All if I Remember Correctly.
I could Program BlackJack & d0PeWaRs from Memmory.
But Nobody cared as they all had Money to show off their Awesome TI-84s, Which had a SMB Clone that worked Really Well in '99
You are correct about the TI-81 not having a serial port, or any ports
Oh wow Mini USB? What a luxury! 🤣 Who remembers the Graphlink USB and Link Cables? Older TI-83s could ONLY use the headphone-like port at the bottom for data transfer between either 2 calculators or a calculator and the PC. I remember when I was in middle school, we'd all share whatever games we had (or came up with ourselves) with each other via link cables at school.
Ugh, yes... the TI-89 I had was serial-based with one of those graphlink cables.
I grew up in the TI-82 era, transitioning in the the TI-83. I still have my TI-82. My parents must've gotten it for me in 1994, I believe. Certainly no later than 1995.
So cool to see these projects that people have made for these graphing calculators over the years... It's impressive work
I love that the TI connect screenshots are still windows vista/7 .
I spent hours upon hours in highschool in the late 90s programing Basic on my TI-85.
Great video! I love seeing large channels cover calculator programming every so often.
It's funny seeing you here Brian
0:02 Raise your hands if you used one of the predecessors like the 83+ (or older even!) 👋👋
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I had more than 100 games on mine. For some reason, I failed calculus in high school. Did great in college with a TI-34. Funny how that works.
I've never used graphing calculators at school, only regular scientific ones. However, a few years later I worked there for some time and one day I had the task of testing and replacing batteries on a bunch of Casio fx-CG20s and fx-CG50s. I also took the opportunity to upgrade all of them to the latest firmware. I think those are ARM-based or something 32 bit, while the TI-84 is still stuck on the Z80.
I'm going to highschool next year and we need these calculators
Thanks bro :)
I have vague memories of playing Pokemon Blue on my personal TI-84 (fun story, I got it for 2 bucks!) while in geometry
Back in high school (circa 2003) a guy I was friends with had super mario bros on the first model of these. Despite owning a GBA I still thought it was the coolest thing.
Someone got 3D Minecraft working on a TI-84+ CE. I played it during math class until school ended for summer break
Thank goodness for all the portable emulation devices and handheld PCs.
When you use it for school until August.
I still have my TI-84 Plus CE. I don't play games on it, but this was definitely interesting to see.
I was doing this in 1996-2000 with a Ti-83 and Ti-92.. it used to be more complex to do too
Whenever I see a TI-84, I can hear E1M1 playing in my head.
Got an TI nspire for dirt cheap, and use it for work (sometimes a handheld calculator is a nice thing). Oh, and for doom, obviously 😁👍
i just ordered a ti 84 plus ce recently and then saw this video, gonna download tetris
I remember using Mirage OS back in the day, but I don't remember a full blown gameboy emulator, it might not have existed yet, that kind of blows my mind though. I did play a Pokemon red and blue port made especially for the calculator, it had really minimal graphics, didn't even have sprites for the pokemon, and you could only attack based on the pokemon type. It was a super simplified version of the game but even so I played it to the end, anything to escape boredom at school lol.
I love these. I had TI83+ back then and installed there Snake and a dozen text files with school notes. It was amazing device :)
A buddy of mine in high school back in the early 90s wrote a game of Battleship on his TI-84.
I really used to like a Zelda clone for TI calcs years ago. It had a very good LTTP appearance for a monochrome game. I don't remember the name, but it might have just been "Zelda"
Back in the mid 90's I was in college taking calculus using the TI-85 and spent most of my time making games for it. The 'professor' gave me a low grade for not using the calculator for it's intended purpose since I could do all the math in my head without a calculator.
I already know a kid had this at school and brought it out to recess. Everyone would want to play with it and if there’s that one kid that doesn’t get a turn playing it they’ll tattletale on you
Do not forget to remove the batteries if the calc is not in use for a long time, like a week or 2. Even if it's not in use, the internal clock and the internal stand-by still eats power. I left 4 new batteries inside for a month (1.6v each) they simply gone to 1.4v.
Nahnahnahnah you gotta get the 84+ce its the fastest (and most capable imo) to run snything. Some dude has a gameboy and gameboy color emu for it
Just fyi, you can actually tell between the portals in portal prelude, the fastest moving portal will disappear first, and to switch between which you're firing you press the 5 key
if any of you want to try this, the TI connect software doesent always work on some computers. You can use TI connect CE (works with non color edition too) and I had no problems with that.
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I didn't have a TI 84, but we had Voyage 200s (2002 release of the TI 92), which are way better imo. I absolutely loved their form factor
Very nice! I have a TI-84 Plus *C* Silver Edition. The C stands for color.
It's basically brand new and I hardly use it (I needed it for one college class then I completely forgot how to use it).
I wouldn't mind finding a good home for it for the right person. The battery self-discharges and might be dead, but they are removable and should be replaceable.
remember that thumbnail only having the graphing calculator display Portal then changed to that automatic UA-cam thumbnail then chanegd to the one that's used today
Amazing video Michael!
You should check out the HP Prime next! It's a damn beast compared to even the TI-nSpire nonsense. Very good build quality too.
This is interesting. I briefly considered developing games on the TI-84, but I was unfamiliar with it's capability. I will consider making a more investable game on it.
I love how he can just do like anything
gonna try this on my Ti-84 Plus CE
That Tetris theme Is actually sick
Man, I wished I had one of those. I used my uncle's hand-me-down TI-55 III in college.
Luckily my Philippine college didn't require a TI-84 like I've been told certain colleges and universities and high school standardized tests in the US do.
During the ACT test I took, the ti83+ that my Dad still had was not allowed, but most of the students had the ti84+SE. My family could not afford the newer calculators just for a test.
But does it play doom?
Yes
But does it play SM64?
The only question that matters to me
It has a screen of course it does
i love you michael!!!! i wanted to try this for years!!
I had the TI-86; I'm sad that that model was discontinued in favor of the lower models.
I had Mario on my TI83 in 2006. Life was good.
The tetris theme sounds like u just got a copy of it from the homeless man in the back alley and now the demons are in the house
Man I need this for when I'm bored in class
Now I want one of those fancy calculators
Graphing calculators are one of the only relevant retrocomputers today for non-nostalgia.
Monopoly on the ti 83+ was insane
I have a ti nspire, it as a arm processor and so powerfull it emulate Gameboy advance with a full color screen. I literally never used it to do math... And I never used it to play Gameboy advance after the first time I tried it.
50 cents worth of compute being sold for over a hundred dollars. It totally makes sense.
It's why if you can swing it, convince your teacher to let you use your handset. It's a graphing calculator in your pocket, and if you can set that up within a day using any computers available to you, then you can save the hundo and show the teacher your handset is perfectly-capable for the task.
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Them still having these prices today is just a scam, but at the time they got first introduced they were cool af & kinda cheap for what they could do.
You should do a video about "Nextube" a REAL yt Wii channel replacement, it revives the whole app.
I never had a TI-84 but I did have TI-83 and a TI-89. The 89 never grabbed my attention nearly as much as the 83. That 68k seemed a bit intimidating.
Please we need more videos about graphic calculator
My brother did a side “job” downloading games into calculators and I played one during my free time
I remember playing a lot of Tetris on mine instead of doing work in class.
Something kind of neat about these TI-84 calculators is they're actually very similar to 80's microcomputers, as they contain a Z80 CPU and BASIC in ROM, so you can use one of these to make BASIC programs if you want. That's kind of neat considering they're still for sale and very common today.
The new ones also support Python!
Nice! More of such stuff please😀
You should try the TI-84 Plus CE. It can emulate Game Boy Color games, and maybe GBA games. Not sure if there is sound though.
Graphing calculators were not allowed in South Africa at all. Not in school or in university
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I need one of these things HOW DO I NOT HAVE ONE
11:50 it sounds like a broken depressed soul dragging out notes in exhaustion as it begs for death
And to be completely honest I want to listen to it more
It gives me everything in the end of time vs heartaches vibes
always wanted one of these but could never afford it.
do remember that the emulator allowed for rotating the rendered screen 90° , which solved the jitter and cutoff of most GB games.
would also adjust the dpad control accordingly.
While the 84+ is a cool calculator and having mini USB is great. It's not nearly as cool at the 83+SE which is the same hardware but it still looks like a 83+. My favorite game was someone made a post of Bubble Bobble with all 100 levels as well as simultanious co-op though the link port. Me and a friends played the whole game in math classes once.
My roommate was learning calculus so I wrote a password program that made him solve a semi-random calculus question when it turned on before it would allow him to use it normally. I would update the program with each chapter he was working on so he had to learn to do the problems the hard way first. 😂
I think we had the TI-89 Titanium here in Switzerland.
12:30 with pokemon blue depending on what rom you use the save function does in fact work in game, i used the one color adding hack because when it was converted into flash it took up just the right amount of space to fit on my 84 and the saves did in fact work and i got basically every pokemon i could in blue alone
Yep. I've owned a TI-84 Plus Silver Edition for over 20 years.
I'm mind blown how much moee development rheres been over the years. A Game Boy emulator? OMG!! Portal? I could only have dreamed of such kind of game back in the day. Flabbergasted!
So who here is gonna date themselves and admit they manually entered code from a printout your buddy gave you to a game on one of these (yes, I did back in 1998). You don’t know pain tho until you manually copy code just to get an error afterwards and have to parse through the code to see what you fat fingered. Then you have absolute torture when you manually input a second game just to find you need to delete the first to have enough ram to run the second game. Then once you delete the first for the second, you find out the second game is total crap and regret all your decisions that day.
Portal prelude looks like an homage to portal flash
Well I know what I'm doing with my TI-84 Plus!