I have made myself a parallel link cable to send stuff to my 89 with, and I was wondering if it was possible to use it to flash my ROM. I allready tried to send the .tib file included in the TI89Base.exe file, and I have tried to convert it using VTI, by selecting send product code in the emulator. It then asked me where I would like to save it to (on my Hdd), but it kind of froze after it had sent 29K. I tried to send this with Wtran8X, and it worked for like 5 seconds, but it just stopped at the 1.05 ROM bootup screen on my 89, and said "waiting to recieve". Any help is appreciated!

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Yes. Download the file "archive utility 2.00" -- I'm not sure where it is in the archives, but it should be there somewhere. It includes, anoung other things, a utility to send flash updates using a paralell cable. Note that the Archive Utility itself (probably) won't work with ROM 1.05, but you can install the rom.

This program is quite hard to find, it is not available on ticalc or ti-files anymore. You can get it at the url above.

You're right, they have version 1, but not version 2. If whoever handles the arcives these days is reading this, why not? Add it -- it's a very nice little package. If you need the zip
I can email it to you...

I hear it is a very dangerous program. Allows programs to access your Flash ROM.
Allows for viri to invade your calc.

Is there a program that will patch the non flash rom of the TI-92 rom to a rom of v2.1 since I dearly need to get Fargo II to work instead of Fargo I.

THere propably is one somewhere since there is program to patch the non flash rom of the Ti-85.

I am sorry to inform you that you cannot patch the rom of the TI-932, the TI-92 (without the Plus module), the TI-80, TI-81, TI-82, TI-83, TI-85, and TI-86. These calc do not have flashable roms, and unless you are a beta tester for TI, you will not get a version of some of these calcs which have flashable roms.

What is your rom version ? Fargo II is supposed to work with every rom version. It's odd that it doesn't work on yours...

V1.12, the real problem now seems to be that TI's graphlink software keeps me from sending the patched backup and always tells me it's an illegal file format for a backup...

Then you should try a preinstalled backup, you can find one in the ticalc archives.

TI's Graphlink doesn't like those either. I think they've put a block in their graphlink software so you can't upload Fargo. Maybe the only way to get fargo is to use an illegal link cord, and home made software.

Hi, i have a problem with userlib, killbill and doors explorer.
Killbill works fine with the userlib provided with ROM patcher but don't work with the version that comes with doors 2b.
Doorsexplorer refuses to run with the lib that is provided with rom patcher...

i got the same problem but i fixed it.

i use userlib from doors and util.lib from rompatcher. when i run doors explorer, it occasionally gives me "break", but most the time it works.

I've also had the same problem; I onl use the userlib provided with the latest version of Doors (final ver. beta 2). Has anyone else had problems with the APD resetting itself to 0 seconds? It's extremely annoying. Also, (I'm on a roll) occasionly the words "Memory Violation" pop up after I try to get back into Doors with the shell bolt active. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!

Does anyone have a link to the old version of the rom (V1.00). I want to put it back.

I have one, just email me and I will reply with the rom 1.00. You could also try to download it from my web page listed above.

BTW does anyone know how to get rid of the xoom ads?!

add in the _XOOM like in the URL above

AMS 1.00 is available on Techno-Plaza. Click on the Web page link above cause I can't use "words" longer than 25 character for some reason. It's in the downloads section.

Hey guys--isn't there some sort of vector table in memory that points to the ROM functions, so they're uniformly usable over ROM versions?

I haven't gotten into it too much. But from what I've seen, there is such a table. I think that the development of shells was not really good for the 89, because it creates ROM-dependence and also introduces libraries. From my experience, all libraries do is cause headaches without saving any reasonable space.

The ROM links aren't the problem. It's the keyboard variable addresses. The ROM lookup table is at $200 (I think. It's on TI's site). But the keyboard address shifted some 4 or 5 bytes to the right, which means that only programs that didn't use the TI-OS keyboard handlers work. There are some other changes which technically don't affect the workings of the calculator, because TI doesn't support user-created assembly programs.