Why is the shop display slightly off screen in the 89 version?

That's a bug in version 3.5 of the game. It has been fixed in version 3.7, the latest version.

This is by far the best 89 game out there. Just one question: when dollar signs fall is it just random or is there some trick to getting money out of all your kills?

You move your ship over the dollar signs to collect $50 for every dollar sign. That's how you buy stuff. :)

--BlueCalx

Heh thats not what I meant. Hmmm how to say this better... When you kill a guy, money falls out and then you catch it with your ship. this only happens once and a while and I was wondering if there was a way to get money to fall from every guy you kill.
(ex. killing them all really fast or hitting them right in the middle)

I thought it was just raddom...there isn't any really special hits or anything.
Hey, how do you re-flash the ROM on an 89?...and where do I find the flash rom program. I searched almost everywhere on the ti.com webpage, but I coulnd't find it....they sure do like to hide things. Please help!

-Christopher

well you diddnt specify which rom version you wanted but I linked the url above to the 1.05 rom update on the ti page.

Hmm, are you refering to getting 1.00 ROM put back onto the calc? If so there is a way if you have a backup.

-Vejita

If your ti-89 came with ROM v1.00 and you upgraded it to v1.05 then e-mail ti-cares@ti.com for a copy of Flash ROM v1.00.

If your ti-89 came with ROM v1.05 (like mine) the flash ROM v1.00 (that TI will send to you) can not be installed. If I am wrong about this - someone please tell me.

jamin

you are wrong. one way that i know to put theflash version 1.00 on is to find a friend with a ti-89 and go to var-link, from there hit F3 and then go to "recieve product code" option. on your friends calc do th same but hit "send product code." I know this works because i've done it before.

If you want 1.00 because you can't run games on 1.05... see ticalc's PC utilities library... You can find a program there called "ROM 1.05 Patcher" or something similar... Use it on all your programs and libs after you download them, then they will run on 1.05. (I had a 1.00 calc and upgraded it to 1.05, so I searched for this earlier)

I've beaten Phoenix, gotten all the neat weapons, etc. and if you just plow through a screen of guys in under 2 seconds, it doesn't seem to affect the AMOUNT of money you get.

--BlueCalx

I think there is a random chance that an enemy will "contain" money and you will get this money when he is destroyed. The bosses also seem to have a random chance, from having nothing, a $$ sign, or a $D sign.

Hi,

I am new at calculators. I know some programming and I know how to download and run the games.

Now I don`t know anything about porting games, but what I am wondering is what kind of effort is needed to port a game?
In otherwords, Is it something that takes awhile to finish or is it a quick process?

From what to what? 89-->92+ is fairly easy (nearly identical). Porting from the 89->82-86 is *very* hard.

1. Programming. What language do you know? All of the games done for the calculators are in assembly language, a low-level programming language. With the exception of three calculators (the 89, 92, and 92+), all of the programming is in z80 asm (the other 3 are done in m68k asm).

2. Porting. If its a game based in 83 and you want it to run on your 83+ Ion calculator, you must change the original source code to match the memory addresses and ROM calls that are on your calculator. If it's a port from the 86 to the 89, it's almost a complete rewrite of the program. Besides having to know both languages in and out, the ROM calls and memory addresses are different as well. This type of port may take a long time, especially if the game is big.

In other words, it depends on the game, the calculator, and the size, and how much you know assembly programming.

~ferich

How do i port a 92+ game to an 89?

Make sure the screen doesn't go off the screen. Key's. Little things like that.

-KAKE
IP Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

I was wondering how much time and effort is needed to port a game such as Pheonix to the TI-83 PLUS.

If not too much to ask, maybe somebody is willing to port it to the TI-83 PLUS.

Then again, probably not because of all of the flames and somehow people think that the people that own 83 PLUS's are a bunch of immature teenagers.

I`m not demanding or threatening anyone to port Pheonix to the TI-83 PLUS.

So please, nobody take this the wrong way!

Thank You

There is already a program called "Galaxian" out for the 83+ that has nearly identical functionality and gameplay. It is only missing the shop and screen size of the 89/92 versions. In other words, you already have it.

I downloaded phoenix v. 3.7 from pad.calc.org and now whenever I Get a high score It freezes and I have to hit ecs+on to get it to quit. I can live with that but about 20 Min. ago calc froze and then said at the top of the screen "Address Error" and i had to remove the backup battery. can someone please tell me if this a bug or a problem with my calc.

That's cause in v3.7 the calc is so smart that it even gets pissed off at you for beating one of its own high scores so it resets ram to get rid of your dirty fiddling.... blink... okay, somebody delete this post please

-Trailblazer

ROM version?

I have Rom version 1.00 but could get 1.05

I also got a crash, but I didn't even have to get a highscore! It was wait for me to hit enter, but not even the "mem clear" buttons responded.
Rom version 1.05