ok, i can think of one definate thing that would be great if this guy who is making this, could hack it so that you can open text files and view the contents from an asm program, or possibly just be able to call the text files in the program from a help menu or what not. if anyone talks, maybe throw that idea out there.

Um, the "guy" who's making this is Texas Instruments. It's an official upgrade.

Looks pretty sweet. I hope they improve the interactive solver (cause right now it suxbad). Will it be relatively easy to patch the ROM 1.00 and 1.05 programs to 2.00 with the use of a program such as the ROM Patcher (available on this site) or would the structure of calls, etc. be so different that the programs would have to be rewritten?

At present, I've no idea. There will apparently be a lot of internal changes in AMS 2.00, but whether these will involve the relocation of system routines used by ASM programs remains to be seem. As soon as the new ROM version is released, I'll look into the possibility of updating the ROM patcher so it can convert programs to v2.00 format.

Anybody notice the October 31, 99 date in the lower-right corner of the page? That could signify it is a hoax. Or the author may have planned to release the info on Halloween, but decided against it.

I also noticed the October 31 date on the bottom. That doesn't mean that it is or isn't a hoax, though.

Yep, I think this is a sure hoax. Just look at the "RECOVER MEMORY" picture. Any idiot could have drawn that with a paint program in 2 minutes. And the geometery program looks a tad fake, the TIOS can do that.

umm, he probably meant 21 and its just a typo

Quoted from page:
The IMAGES COME From a DOCUMENTATION distributed TO the TEACHERS. In France,
all the teachers have a documentation on the v2.00, and it is for that ... that I
present this version. <END QUOTE>

The pictures on the page look like 1 bit GIF's, not scanned jpegs. But documentation doesn't have to be on paper...

I think this is fake. Somebody prove me wrong.

To confirm, those are in fact 1-bit GIFs.

Would it be possible to scan in those images and convert them to 1-bit GIFs with that quality? I really don't know. I guess it would be possible.

It's possible to scan an image, drop the color depth to two colors, and save it as a gif image in Paint Shop Pro.

As for the Pamphlet. Before the Ti-92 came out, one of my science teachers went to a technology conference and had a pamphlet that had a ton of data on the Ti-92 before it was released. Im guessing that the same thing happened with the pamphlet that was supposedly scanned for CAS 2.00. It would be more believeable if he showed the entire pamphlet pages instead of just the screenshots, but Most of the features that are shown on his site seem to make a lot of sense. If it's fake, then he did a good job of faking it.

let me take the pamphlet thing back. his site now has a PDF fier of the pamphlet instead of just the screenshots.

Sure its possible to do that, but would you get that good of quality? I have a scanner myself, and I'm not sure. I guess I would have to try it.

And yes I agree with you, even if they are fake - he sure put a LOT of time into doing that.

I'm going to have to say that I don't think that it's real...It just doesn't seem like it's going to be done...I'm sure it could be done...Look at the HP's they have a restore mem function...but I don't think that anyone's going to take the time to do tat kind of stuff. Well...I guess we'll se what's going to happen.

I saw on a TI.com message board that the ams v2.00 will upgrade your calc to hardware revision 2 specs. (BTW HWrev2 is a 10 to 12mhz upgrade among other nifty things, check "about" screen to check) He said he got confirmation of this from 2 ti reps. This could be possible but very unlikely. You could have soft-jumpers to multiply the processor up to i higher speed for example. But would TI do it? thats the question.
Please reply if you have heard of this and know if its true or not

Olivier himself e-mailed me with this statement to put on this ticalc.org message board for he couldnt do so because of password reasons. So this is what he had to say on the subject


"There is no trickery in these images. In France, all the teachers have
receive a documentation. It is for that ... that I take freedom to
disseminate such information."

Shoot, if AMS 2.00 brings the 89 to revision 2 specs, then why hasn't sombody already figured out how to do it!?! I have used both revision 1 and 2 calcs, and Tezxas runs twice as fat on a rev. 2 calc. Basic progs are almost 2x faster as well. I'm getting AMS 2.00 as soon as it comes out!!!

I can guarantee you that the screenshots (other than the recovery mem one, which is sorta suspicious) are real, because if you go to
www.ti.com/calc/france
and their TI-89 French page, Olivier Miclo's site is being linked by TI.com! This is good enough evidence that the page has its reputation that being TI links to it as the "unofficial 89 page", therefore, its screenshots has its creditability. Also, the screenshots he showed are also consistent with the TI French brochure.

I know that the screenshot before about AMS 2.00 in its "About" screen in a toal hoax, as easily detected by inconsistent info, but the ones there are 100% consistent with the info released by TI, so if the person IS lying, then I'm sure the person must be done hell lota research in order to make screenshots so real.