i was told by a friend that all he would have to do is change the name and mabey move the space around and change the peices

just change its name from monopoly to Kirk's Financial Game........hehe :)

How about TI-Opoly, with spaces for each calc and the jail could be changed to "error!" and "just fixing..hehehe

I love it!!!!!!!!!!

Why in the hell would he want to distribute it for free and wreck his chances of getting PAID to develop it and still run this risk of getting sued? Think about it!!!

I think that it is terrible that there is going to be no more monopoly for calculators. Why, can't PB give up their MONOPOLY on monopoly. I think that all loyal calculator gamers, ect. should boycott Hasbro products.

great idea. only problem is that if all 24 of us stop buying hasbro products, it only makes them lose $0.39 a year............... :)

Who the hell doesn't already have the game anyway?
Don't get me wrong I think PB is right to stop Kirk although I wish they didn't.

OK, i'm sorry, but I just have to mention this. There already TWO, count them, TWO versions of monopoly out for the TI-86 calculator and I think for the 85 also that could easily be ported to teh 83 and 82. One is a very, very graphical BASIC version that takes up about 23K and runs great, only slightly slow because the prog itself is huge at 11k. It shows sections of the board and your see an arrow indicate where your peice has moved. The other is written in ASM, runs fast as all, and shows teh board from a top down view. It is only about 5K and is identical to the real game. So I don't know why everyone is so upset about not having monoploly, when its there already.

Well a copyright law is a copyright law, you can't just go and do what you please. It's not wrong of PB to protect something that they own, it's legal and it's their right and responsibility to do so. It may be disappointing, but come on folks, its a far cry from 'not fair'.

This sucks big time Fuq Hasbro i hope they goto hell the game is like a thousand years old they should give up the copyright or at least let him make the game and release it

I will not make any promises just yet, but I plan on inventing a newer, dynamic board game. Since it is electronic, its components will be able to be dynamic according to the game play. Please post any suggestions you have as responses to this thread. Please limit your comments about this to this thread only so that I can find them. Thank you.

How about some sort of thing where the board size/shape re-configues according to the gameplay? Maybe some funky shapes, so it's not all squares and rectangles.

BTW, please post the PB letter to satisfy everyone's curiosity. And if they're throwing money at you, I'd go for it.

I'm just starting to program some games and just thought I'd let you know that I really enjoy the games I have. I have an older version of Monopoly that I got from here. Its pretty good.

Anyways, Kirk, I'd jump at the chance to make a game for a big company. Take the money and I can't wait for your new game.

I think this is just bad omens. Even though it seems that TI's are a real big thing, large corporations don't even know that there are calculators with games on them. I bet Bill Gates would be shocked and panic if he found this out. This is just the first instance of a big company acknowledging our existence. Eventually if they think there is a big enough market for calculator games eventually they will sell caculator games in the store and ticalc.org will be a thing of the past. Of course this is not the worst case scenario. If big companies start making games that would rock! Imagine like Activision and Interplay making calculator games. Yeah!

Of course you'd have to pay for them... (most likely anyway)

Not when it costs zero cents and a certain quantity of electrons to transfer string code from one calc to another.

Actually, the electrons need not be supplied. There are plenty out there. It's a matter of paying the molocules in your batteries to force the electrons to move, but they work for cheap. However, my buds *name removed* and *name removed* have leaked some information to me. It seems the electrons have been talking among themselves. They plan to form a union, or at least band together just this once to strike. They have been forced to move for millennia, and they are not happy. They want their share, and they're going to get it. So, in closing, transfer all the programs you'll need for a long while now, because the cost of moving electrons is going UP. Don't tell the electrons I told you.

BTW: You have fallen victim to the psycho-babble of Killbat. Have a nice day. :-)

This is IMO why they have designed apps that are going to be SOLD on the 89. That way they're gonna be able to gouge us $50 for starcraft89 and diablo 89 and the like. Maybe it is a good idea, maybe not. I dunno. And supposedly you can't pirate them though i havent tried

Just a couple of things:

a) You can pirate ANY program.
b) No one in his right mind would pay $50 for a calculator game.
c) Any program sold for the calculators will likely be really awesome, as the companies creating the software will be aware of the vast amount of quality calculator freeware.

Just wondering, are you gonna make the GB Color Monopoly? I think you should.