The TI-89 Titanium seems extremely incompatible with ASM programs. It may just be my bad skills, but every time I load an ASM program requiring an application variable to run (e.g. tetris, chess, assorted math programs), it freezes up. The programs that stand alone work fine, but its starting to get a little annoying. Every program i download for my titanium has to be checked.

Same here-TSRs too. Its a difference in the memory map in RAM in HW3-so anything that uses RAM crashes.

If they could somehow work it out...I've tried quite a few math, science and game programs, and it always gives me a black bar across the top of the screen, either completely black or with the words "Line 1111 Emulator", and each time I have to push [2nd] + [<] + [>] + [ON]. And wach time I have no idea if it will begin installing itself. One of the reasons I got the Titanium was because of the large amount of files that could be stored on it...and now I find that most of them don't even work. It's depressing.

You got a Titianium too? Looks like we both need to update our profiles. I'll do that now.

btw, yeah, alot of the programs don't work on mine either. I got ExciteBike to work and some SubHunt game, but not much more than that. I'm don't even bother trying to dowload games to it now until they release an OS or something that fixes the bugs.

Yeah, I got my Titanium three days ago...it seems very few programs that require a .ppg file will work...I was able to get slimeball, excitebike, and some other miscellaneous games to work. All of patrick davidson's 89 programs are compatible with the titanuium (go pat d.!), so i have mercury, phoenix, etc. on my calc. It seems like most nostub programs will work; however, some will still give you an "Illegal Instruction", "Wrong Data Type", or some other error message.

Hello. I just got my TI-89T today and I love it! I love the added Flash ROM memory, new OS system, and all that. It's too bad that it won't be playable on ASM games (or the like), but I normally play basic-like stuff since it won't crash or anything like that.

What was Patrick D.'s website for downloading stuff to the TI-89/T? J/w. Anything else I've been missing out on the TI-89T?

See link for Pat D.'s page...just go to the "89" link.
Right now on my calculator I have several math functions I programmed myself and about 15 or so games that i have tested to work correctly on the TI-89 Titanium; the main ones are:

-Excite Bike
-Mercury
-Monster
-Othello II
-Phoenix
-TI Slimeball
-Tetrics (Yes, it was spelled that way)
-misc. games (snake, mine sweeper, corridors, etc.)

and yes. the 2.7 megs of flash ROM are a welcome relief from the 180k on the TI-83+.

You guys should try the games I have on my Titanium. They are:
Phoenix (platimum)
Mercury
Oblivion (excellent game)
Arena 3D (also great)
Excitebike
Ice Hockey 68k v2.71 (excellent)
Gran Turismo (ditto)
These are all great games and function easily on the Titanium.

Ok I am really mad I had GTA Sim City on my calc... and it worked fine but then all of a sudden when i accedently uninstalled it then reinstalled it it starts sayin illegal address error or something along those lines. Excitebike is givin me an address error

I just got my 89Ti today too, I tried to load up an assembly program and got an "Illegal Instruction" message... not sure why but now I can't get out of it. Pressing the On button - which I thought would break the program execution - doesn't help. Neither does taking out the batteries :/ it always comes back up to the same screen, same error. Can anyone tell me how to make it stop?

I have the SAME EXACT PROBLEM! I tried installing one program, and it said "Divide by Zero" and locked up. Then I beat the tar out of the batteries and smacked it around some, and it did some download thing and worked again. Then I tried a different program and it did the "Illegal Instruction" message. I took the batteries out all night and it wouldn't take it off. I couldn't even pull out the backup battery because theres little plastic corners that won't let the battery pop out. I just got this thing yesterday, and I'll be really PO'ed if it's already screwed up. At least some of you are having the same problem, maybe TI will fix the dang things for us all.

http://www.ocf.berkeley. (SPACE) edu/~pad/faq/ti89.html#18

Go there. Fix these dang problems. Push "2nd, Left, Right, then On" and hold each button down as you press them. Don't push them all at the same time, or it doesn't work. Resets your calculator and the clock, but those are the only two real problems I've seen so far.

I thought my calculator was bricked
Thanks A Lot

i got the "illegal instruction" notice om my ti-89t and it wont go away. anyone know how?? its just stuck there and it wont let me to anything.

im having the "LINE 1111 EMULATOR" problem and the code that you mentioned to type in didnt work. every time i try to type anything after the 2nd key, the 2nd key function no longer works. someone please help me get rid of this problem.

I own one!

I own one, too! I love the fact that it has 3x more FLASH ROM than the original TI-89, however, I still own it; I also own the TI-86, as well. I'm glad I didn't buy the TI-85 due to a loophole I heard and read from the 'net, and the 86 has more RAM than the 85.

Anyway.. go, TI-86, TI-89, and TI-89 Titanium!!! (TI-83/TI-83+/TI-84+ Family? Bleh...)

Voyage 200s are probably cool,but they're basically no better than the ti89 titanium except for the wider screen and the QWERTY. The Voyage 200 also costs a lot more money than the ti89 titanium, and is biggger. I got a ti89 titanium, and it's extremely nice. I'll probably just by a keyboard for it, and it will basically be a Voyage 200 except for the wide screen.