Game Boy Games (and "Portal") on a Graphing Calculator!

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Today we're diving a bit into the TI calculator programming scene! There's been a whole lot of games developed for these things over the past couple decades, so I gathered a few together to showcase.
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TI-Connect: education.ti.com/en/products/...
TI-Boy SE (0.2.04): www.ticalc.org/archives/files...
TI-Boy SE (0.2.05): github.com/calc84maniac/tiboyse
TI-Boy CE: calc84maniac.github.io/tiboyce/
Portal Prelude: www.ticalc.org/archives/files...
Mario Party: www.ticalc.org/archives/files...
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:01 - Getting games on your calculator
09:15 - Game Boy Games
13:29 - Portal
16:55 - Mario Party
22:31 - Outro
Corrections
12:29 - It actually DOES support saving! It makes use of the regular cartridge save built into games like Pokémon. Save states in the emulator itself are not supported though.
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@calc84maniac Ай бұрын

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.

@MichaelMJD Ай бұрын

Hey! Thanks so much for clarifying that! I'm pinning this so that people can see

@karmakrew60 Ай бұрын

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.

@wpet86 Ай бұрын

my entire class has been using your software for years you are a legend

@itisliamhfjone22 Ай бұрын

good job man!!

@qactustick Ай бұрын

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!

@chadyways8750 Ай бұрын

"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

@NutkeyDoesMinecraft Ай бұрын

Did u figure out why lol

@UndergroundLookingUp Ай бұрын

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!!!

@juanignacioaschura9437 Ай бұрын

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.

@cs8712 Ай бұрын

@@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

@UndergroundLookingUp Ай бұрын

@@cs8712 Nice deal! When one knows how to fix the simple things that go wrong, there is a bounty of treasure to be had.

@JonSnyderfudge Ай бұрын

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.

@DJSkunkieButt Ай бұрын

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... 👌🔥

@LandonEmma Ай бұрын

Epic

@islandsland Ай бұрын

your comment says "10 hours ago" when the video was released 6 hours ago

@timtechtube Ай бұрын

These calcualtors were also my first entry into programming. I completely remade the old drugwars game from scratch with different features.

@lostguy362 Ай бұрын

@@islandslandbro hacked the matrix

@toshineon Ай бұрын

It's pretty incredible to see Game Boy emulation on something that's barely faster than a Game Boy to begin with.

@NathanJJG Ай бұрын

It's not even faster 😂

@toshineon Ай бұрын

@@NathanJJG 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.

@calc84maniac Ай бұрын

@@NathanJJG 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.

@clebbington Ай бұрын

@@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

@calc84maniac Ай бұрын

@@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.

@KingNikolai Ай бұрын

I got solitaire on my graphing calculator and played it when waiting for time to be up on the SATs

@nathanpatty6020 Ай бұрын

14 hours ago? wtf?

@KingNikolai Ай бұрын

@@nathanpatty6020 channel member

@christianguthcz Ай бұрын

@@nathanpatty6020Channel members have early access

@onnigamer16 Ай бұрын

@@nathanpatty6020 If you are a channel member you get early access to videos

@DanTDMJace Ай бұрын

@@nathanpatty6020channel member

@CheesecakeMilitia Ай бұрын

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).

@DsiPro1000 Ай бұрын

That is such an interesting control scheme!

@hipjoeroflmto4764 27 күн бұрын

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

@Homeminboss Ай бұрын

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

@wojciechsura 20 күн бұрын

You played anyway, didn't you?

@OperatingSystems1999 Ай бұрын

2007: Can it run Doom? 2024: GameBoy and Portal games on a Graphing Calculator

@OperatingSystems1999 Ай бұрын

11:50 Pixelated sound

@suicidalbanananana 20 күн бұрын

It can run doom btw, there have been multiple ports ^^

@pseudotasuki Ай бұрын

15:41 AKA "Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out."

@MarcusTheDorkus Ай бұрын

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

@hunterchichester5720 26 күн бұрын

Someone should make gen one on a calculator.

@bubbles581 Ай бұрын

I got the TI-86 the day it came out and used to sit in math class typing z80 opcode programs into the asm() function. And frequently locking up my calc and having to reset it. It was glorious. I had an -85 bebefore that - but the official support for assembly on the 86 was mindblowing.

@AdmiralSym Ай бұрын

That Portal game is basically a calculator version of the Portal flash game I love it

@apollolux Ай бұрын

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.

@joemck85 2 күн бұрын

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.

@apollolux 2 күн бұрын

@@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.

@joemck85 2 күн бұрын

@@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.

@apollolux Күн бұрын

@@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.

@perpetualcollapse Ай бұрын

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…

@qwertykeyboard5901 Ай бұрын

Lol. Sorry, but just... Lol.

@myithspa25 27 күн бұрын

How did you hack it? What did it change?

@xXCaZaManXx 15 күн бұрын

@@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

@xXCaZaManXx 15 күн бұрын

@@myithspa25 I also read E-Books on it

@Davixxa Ай бұрын

>calc84maniac Now that's a name I didn't expect to see on this channel

@calc84maniac Ай бұрын

look mom, I'm on the you tubes

@piratebear3126 Ай бұрын

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.

@IntegerOfDoom Ай бұрын

That's what I used. Screw buying some other useless piece of tech.

@PuggleLive Ай бұрын

Amazing video Michael!

@steelsofliquid Ай бұрын

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.

@theeblueguy__ Ай бұрын

the real nanami madobe is here

@LandonEmma Ай бұрын

You could run Python on that thing?!

@LandonEmma Ай бұрын

@@theeblueguy__FR

@qwertykeyboard5901 Ай бұрын

@@LandonEmmaI'm guessing their late gen z or older gen alpha as only the newer calculators do python.

@steelsofliquid Ай бұрын

@@qwertykeyboard5901 I'm from late Gen Z

@j.w.techchannel Ай бұрын

So cool to see these projects that people have made for these graphing calculators over the years... It's impressive work

@TheLastMillennial Ай бұрын

Great video! I love seeing large channels cover calculator programming every so often.

@𰻝 22 күн бұрын

It's funny seeing you here Brian

@Elogt35 Ай бұрын

i love you michael!!!! i wanted to try this for years!!

@zafilerusse Ай бұрын

Nice! More of such stuff please😀

@defaultui9625 22 күн бұрын

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.

@hugosimoes5119 Ай бұрын

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.

@adampope5107 Ай бұрын

50 cents worth of compute being sold for over a hundred dollars. It totally makes sense.

@bluephreakr Ай бұрын

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.

@d.sadster5684 23 күн бұрын

@@bluephreakrwhat's a handset?

@suicidalbanananana 20 күн бұрын

'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.

@pilatus421 Ай бұрын

I spent hours upon hours in highschool in the late 90s programing Basic on my TI-85.

@KoopaKid660 Ай бұрын

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.

@T3hBeowulf 27 күн бұрын

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.

@agy234 Ай бұрын

I love that the TI connect screenshots are still windows vista/7 .

@wpet86 Ай бұрын

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.

@MuseumStandard Ай бұрын

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.

@KRtekTM 27 күн бұрын

I love these. I had TI83+ back then and installed there Snake and a dozen text files with school notes. It was amazing device :)

@rymuios Ай бұрын

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 ❤❤

@arubberroomwithrats Ай бұрын

ofc u ran linux on a calculator gayfemboyuwu, i bet it was arch linux gayfemboyuwu

@rymuios Ай бұрын

@@arubberroomwithrats it was not arch 😭 just the kernel

@rymuios Ай бұрын

@@arubberroomwithrats i run arch on my pc tho uwu

@arubberroomwithrats Ай бұрын

@@rymuios ofc you do gayfemboyuwu

@arubberroomwithrats Ай бұрын

@@rymuios you should run arch on a calculator next time gayfemboyuwu

@dyter424 Ай бұрын

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.

@Markimark151 Ай бұрын

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.

@hugosimoes5119 Ай бұрын

I wonder if these all games also work with TI-Nspire with TI-84 keyboard. The TI-nspire with ti-84 keyboard turns the first gen ti-nspire into a bit giant ti-84 plus silver but it doesn't have for example the mode alpha s diagnostics.

@calc84maniac Ай бұрын

Some games don't work in TI-Nspire with TI-84 keyboard because TI's emulation of the system was a bit lackluster. For example, they didn't implement any undocumented Z80 opcodes because their OS didn't use them, so it would cause a RAM clear if one of them executed. TI-BASIC games like that Mario Party game would have no issues, though.

@myleft9397 Ай бұрын

My school dictated we had to use Casio 991 fx non programmable calculator but great too see this regardless.

@N____er 29 күн бұрын

Still wondering if there's ANY way to do programming or just anything remotely cool like if statements, loops etc on it

@Ameen2028back2 Ай бұрын

Wake up NEW MJD VIDEO

@JordantheDWandNBCfan5982 Ай бұрын

When you use it for school until August.

@toferj7441 24 күн бұрын

A buddy of mine in high school back in the early 90s wrote a game of Battleship on his TI-84.

@BrainDamageIV Ай бұрын

gonna try this on my Ti-84 Plus CE

@calebpickett6302 Ай бұрын

Cool project

@hugosimoes5119 Ай бұрын

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.

@coryingram2189 Ай бұрын

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.

@itsshuler 21 күн бұрын

I have a ti color screen one. I've always wanted one. Someone gave me one. Had to make a charger for it but yea. Could it do color gba games ?

@GGGuest11 Ай бұрын

Now I want one of those fancy calculators

@Nici1188 Ай бұрын

I love how he can just do like anything

@valoroushell Ай бұрын

Please we need more videos about graphic calculator

@JohnZombi88 Ай бұрын

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.

@kuromiLayfe 27 күн бұрын

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.

@JackOfAllTradez_ Ай бұрын

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.

@user-oi8xm1on2m Ай бұрын

I love mjd videos ❤🎉

@user-oi8xm1on2m Ай бұрын

I have bad time 😢 but I’m from Australia

@juniourst3ven596 12 күн бұрын

This video proves that Graphing Calculators were way ahead beyond their years

@mariandecker3942 12 күн бұрын

Monopoly on the ti 83+ was insane

@JasonJensenA 25 күн бұрын

I was doing this in 1996-2000 with a Ti-83 and Ti-92.. it used to be more complex to do too

@Angelocomposer 23 күн бұрын

I think we had the TI-89 Titanium here in Switzerland.

@rasbpilol7893 Ай бұрын

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

@singeslayer8367 Ай бұрын

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

@bubbles581 Ай бұрын

I had one of those also (in addition to the 92 that I upgraded with the plus module) the voyage 200 was soooooo good

@NightmareRex6 18 күн бұрын

wish my DS diddent break which there is a TI 85 emulator for it that can even be updated with the official updates.

@randomgreekhuman Ай бұрын

Man I need this for when I'm bored in class

@MotownBatman Ай бұрын

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

@JJschannel255 Ай бұрын

You are correct about the TI-81 not having a serial port, or any ports

@philtkaswahl2124 Ай бұрын

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.

@MrDavyhopkins 22 күн бұрын

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.

@nosarcasm1 19 күн бұрын

Have a ti 92 plus. Does this count also?

@TheUltimateYouTuberyay Ай бұрын

Whenever I see a TI-84, I can hear E1M1 playing in my head.

@IntegerOfDoom Ай бұрын

I hear that every time I open my bathroom door.

@just-yellow Ай бұрын

Wait, how can the gameboy emulator have sound support?? I have that exact TI-84 and any other old school TI, that I know of, have no speakers or anything. How can it output audio?

@MichaelMJD Ай бұрын

You have to use the 2.5mm jack on the top to plug headphones into.

@calc84maniac Ай бұрын

@@MichaelMJD And since that jack was designed for data transfer, it has no DAC so it's only capable of outputting 1-bit (stereo) signals. That's why even outputting 4 channels at all is kind of complicated and requires some extra CPU usage, which combined with the already slow emulation gives some not-so-appealing results.

@erebostd 25 күн бұрын

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 😁👍

@tylernaturalist6437 Ай бұрын

I’m pretty sure the cpu in the TI-84 is based on the Zilog Z80, the cpu in the Sega Game Gear

@thermite23 Ай бұрын

Hey, I have a video idea for you just like you installed iOS 15 beta now can you install iOS 18 beta on your iPhone 11?

@MichaelMJD Ай бұрын

I don't have my iPhone 11 anymore, but I have been thinking of doing a video on the developer beta!

@thermite23 Ай бұрын

@@MichaelMJD Oh right I remember you traded that

@nugzmedallion8929 Ай бұрын

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.

@T3hBeowulf 27 күн бұрын

Ugh, yes... the TI-89 I had was serial-based with one of those graphlink cables.

@birdtarmac 21 күн бұрын

If you just joined chat, TI-Calc is short for TI-Calculator. He's just using slang.

@BollingHolt Ай бұрын

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.

@clebbington Ай бұрын

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 😂

@NudlArm Ай бұрын

The mini USB cable needs to be able to transfer data btw, some only charge devices

@michaelsucksatstuff6422 Ай бұрын

I recently bought a TI-84 Plus Silver Edition from a Savers and I ❤ it!!!

@NoReverse77 26 күн бұрын

My fave was always block dude

@zZiL341yRj736 27 күн бұрын

Thank goodness for all the portable emulation devices and handheld PCs.

@AnCapGamer 23 күн бұрын

I have my TI-83+ from the 90s!

@SmilyTheMare Ай бұрын

i have a ti 84 plus silver edition to this day i got it after high school (graduated in 2015)

@mayabogdanova9506 Ай бұрын

How do i get ti connect on linux

@rubykaylaandogie3334 23 күн бұрын

Does it run portal for the gameboy?

@Caffin8tor 20 күн бұрын

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"

@TylerFurrison Ай бұрын

I have vague memories of playing Pokemon Blue on my personal TI-84 (fun story, I got it for 2 bucks!) while in geometry

@RandomnesssE 26 күн бұрын

i just ordered a ti 84 plus ce recently and then saw this video, gonna download tetris

@Bored_Barbarian Ай бұрын

I had Mario on my TI83 in 2006. Life was good.

@andrew_stamps 27 күн бұрын

how does it handle the two extra GB colors?

@calc84maniac 11 күн бұрын

The calculator screen has a pretty high pixel response time, so it's possible to make a grayscale effect by flickering pixels. TI-Boy SE has several color modes, three of which reduce the image to 2 colors via clamping, and the last simulating 4 colors directly with flickering. In the 2-color modes, it also uses flickering to reduce loss of detail from down-scaling.

@andrew_stamps 11 күн бұрын

I figured flicker was happening but you didn't mention it and its hard to tell in the video.

@TheSpeedrunnerGuy 25 күн бұрын

How do you have a Linux directory ?

@retromobilephonesandotherfans Ай бұрын

remember that thumbnail only having the graphing calculator display Portal then changed to that automatic KZfaq thumbnail then chanegd to the one that's used today

@maritoguionyo Ай бұрын

Should probably do this in mine

@Stuntmonkey4U 24 күн бұрын

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. 😂

@MiiGameplaysHD Ай бұрын

Someone got 3D Minecraft working on a TI-84+ CE. I played it during math class until school ended for summer break

@chronossage Ай бұрын

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.

@ewanhausman8726 Ай бұрын

This is cool.

@arnox4554 Ай бұрын

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.

@ryanmartie1244 22 күн бұрын

Had a ti83 plus back in HS and had to games on it the hard way though. Solder wires to one end of the link cable, plug individual tiny wires into the parallel port of a PC and that's how you'd transfer games. How the hell someone figured that out idk...but damn if everyone in math class didn't want my calc lol.

@autisticivy Ай бұрын

Nice!

@joedatuknow 24 күн бұрын

Thanks for the memorys lol

@savagesarethebest7251 Ай бұрын

I had a TI 82 stats in school, and they offered me to buy it afterwards but I didn't want to buy it because it was too expensive for like 20 years old tech, and that was 15 years ago.. 🙄