Has Parker Brothers stopped Monopoly 92 as well?

No, we hadn't heard of it. Who wrote it?

Daniel Plaisted
Head programmer, Hasbro Corp.

Can I help you sir? What about the TI-80 version? (To the TI community: hehe)

Kirk, this game was beginning to rock. Relase the source code with the names switched around "for our information only" so that you will trust us not to change the names back and not to compile it...
chris

Hasbro really has no case. Ti programs are outside of any copyright or any other law pertaining to software. The only thing they can say is he used the name Monopoly. But other than that, ti programs are outside the law.

Nope. TI calculator programs are programs just like for a Pentium, except they're for the Z80. They do fall under copyright law, as does most everything a person can write. In fact, my programs in the PRIME series are all copyrighted by me. :-D TI programs of any form are under copyright law.

With all this talk of Kirk going to Color Gameboy, I think TI can make a color display which would totally rock! Turbo Graphix 16 utilized a 256 color display in it's Turbo Express hand-held. Lynx and Game Gear also used multiple colors. Now Gameboy, with it's familiar puke-green and black display (similar to ti-calcs), is jumping onto to the color bandwagon. I'd be willing to shell out 100 extra bucks for some color diodes stuck onto a ti-screen. The TI-87 and TI-88 have not been developed yet, so I think there's potentiality. Also, that would make unix-account web browsing on the calc more enjoyable. Come on TI! Let's see some more wavelengths. The technology is out there! Use it!

Just QUITE what would it use colour for? =)

Games?...yep, of course. Math?!...nope. Haha, but imagine...doing math on my calculator!

Hehe, don't take offense, I just don't see the point...although I'd love it too, but TI won't do it I don't think.

The TI 87 and 88 have already been developed. They were some of TI's first programmable calculators built in the 1970's.

i met this guy who used to map terrain with a ti-95 or something...

If there was a color display, you would go through batteries very quick. You would also need a faster processor to handle Displaying different colors and stuff. You would need more memory for video because it would have to be a different type of screen. TI doesn't make these calculators for games,( even though they do add stuff that realy only serves a purpose for a game) they make them for math. Doing all of this would make the price go up more than $100.

doesnt one of the casios have color?

I don't think the problem is so much the color of the screen as it is the resolution of the screen. No matter how ya slice it, gameboy has a much higher resolution screen than any of the TI-8x series, and to my knowledge, it's also at a higher resolution thatn the 89 and the 92. (I could be wrong on that.)

I for one would like to see the letter becuase it sounds like someone is really yanking your chain. I have my doubts that PB would stoop so low as to pick on a calculator version of the game when hundreds of pentium versions are running free out there. You never know, they may be starting to crack down on it. I would definitely like to see the letter and I would email them back if I was you.
Jimmy

You're right...this letter has to be a load of crap. And that thing about offering him a job? That's ridiculous to think that they don't have programmers capable of writing such a program at Parker Brothers or whatever company would make the game. I'd like to see this letter, if it exists.

I HAVE THE SOLUTION, It would be very easy to just cooperate and make the monopoly for the gameboy and make them allow you to release the TI monopoly for free. That is totally legal. They would only have to pay you umm $0.001 an hour. and it would be legal, actually not even thay. They could just allow you to do so.

Uhmm, I don;t think this helped, but who cares. I do!!! because I think it is just mean. Let's start a petition and mail them all the comments in a separate emails. Let's just go spam them with as many email as possible.

P.S. A port to the gameboy is VERY easy. I ported them the other way around in about 1 hr.

This isn't real, has anyone seen a letter. PB would not find this guy making a game and say "Stop making it. If you do, we will pay you to make it on GameBoy." PB would ask a company with a known name to program the game for them or that company would ask for permision to reproduce it. I have a copy of Monopoly on CD-ROM for my computer. It is made by Westwood Studios. But it says all over it "corner, cards, money, blah, blah, blah... are a property of Hasbro." I think everyone should just drop it.

Why don't we all donate a few dollars each and buy rights to monopoly! We all could donate an $X of dollars and buy limited rights (I may be wrong) but I think we can do that. Sorry to be so late... this probably won't be checked...

does anyone know where i can find a monopoly-like game (or better
yet, a monopoly game) for the ti-85? please drop me an
email if do.