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!
@@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
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... 👌🔥
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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 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
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 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 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 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.
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.
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 😂
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'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 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 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"
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 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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
remember that thumbnail only having the graphing calculator display Portal then changed to that automatic RUclips thumbnail then chanegd to the one that's used today
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.
FYI, this video has 1.7 thousand likes and 7 dislikes. Only .4% of people that rated this video thought it was bad. That's the sign of a good content creator.
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. 😂
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!
"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.
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
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.
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
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.
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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15:41 AKA "Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out."
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.
That Portal game is basically a calculator version of the Portal flash game I love it
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.
>calc84maniac
Now that's a name I didn't expect to see on this channel
look mom, I'm on the you tubes
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.
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
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.
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.
This video proves that Graphing Calculators were way ahead beyond their years
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.
That's what I used. Screw buying some other useless piece of tech.
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 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
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
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.
@@bluephreakrwhat's a handset?
'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 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
@@gayfemboyuwu ofc you do gayfemboyuwu
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
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 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.
0:02 Raise your hands if you used one of the predecessors like the 83+ (or older even!) 👋👋
Me
cool comment
I'm going to highschool next year and we need these calculators
Thanks bro :)
So cool to see these projects that people have made for these graphing calculators over the years... It's impressive work
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.
Great video! I love seeing large channels cover calculator programming every so often.
It's funny seeing you here Brian
I spent hours upon hours in highschool in the late 90s programing Basic on my TI-85.
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.
Thank goodness for all the portable emulation devices and handheld PCs.
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.
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 😂
Amazing video Michael!
I love that the TI connect screenshots are still windows vista/7 .
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.
When you use it for school until August.
If you just joined chat, TI-Calc is short for TI-Calculator. He's just using slang.
I love these. I had TI83+ back then and installed there Snake and a dozen text files with school notes. It was amazing device :)
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 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
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 love you michael!!!! i wanted to try this for years!!
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 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
I had one of those also (in addition to the 92 that I upgraded with the plus module) the voyage 200 was soooooo good
I recently bought a TI-84 Plus Silver Edition from a Savers and I ❤ it!!!
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"
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.
Well I know what I'm doing with my TI-84 Plus!
Wake up NEW MJD VIDEO
But does it play doom?
Yes
But does it play SM64?
The only question that matters to me
Graphing calculators are one of the only relevant retrocomputers today for non-nostalgia.
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.
Whenever I see a TI-84, I can hear E1M1 playing in my head.
I hear that every time I open my bathroom door.
i just ordered a ti 84 plus ce recently and then saw this video, gonna download tetris
gonna try this on my Ti-84 Plus CE
Hey Mom, can we get Tetris?
But we have Tetris at home
(11:48)
Tetris at Home.
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.
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.
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!
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Mom: We have console at home. Console in question:
I had Mario on my TI83 in 2006. Life was good.
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
Nice! More of such stuff please😀
Monopoly on the ti 83+ was insane
I have my TI-83+ from the 90s!
I had the TI-86; I'm sad that that model was discontinued in favor of the lower models.
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
Teacher: NO PLAYING ON YOUR PHONE
Me: *plays on calculator*
Teacher: *O*
My brother did a side “job” downloading games into calculators and I played one during my free time
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.
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.
remember that thumbnail only having the graphing calculator display Portal then changed to that automatic RUclips thumbnail then chanegd to the one that's used today
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.
fun fact: if you hold on your keyboard 0 in the video it will look like Michael saying R
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.
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.
FYI, this video has 1.7 thousand likes and 7 dislikes. Only .4% of people that rated this video thought it was bad. That's the sign of a good content creator.
I love the elevator in the portal
“What’s 8x96^2?”
“ *PORTAL* ”
I bought one for $4 at GoodWill the other day!
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
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.
My fave was always block dude
I love how he can just do like anything
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.
They were using the flicker on the gameboy to add greyscale / show the pixels.
Make my day by playing Race Drivin on it. 👍
still surprises me that you can game on these calculators
Man I need this for when I'm bored in class
Someone got 3D Minecraft working on a TI-84+ CE. I played it during math class until school ended for summer break
WE PLAYIN PORTAL 2 WITH THIS ONE!!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🗣️🔥🔥🗣️🔥🗣️🔥🗣️🔥🗣️🔥🗣️🗣️🔥🗣️🔥🔥🗣️
I’m pretty sure the cpu in the TI-84 is based on the Zilog Z80, the cpu in the Sega Game Gear