I'm using FastLink, because the original USB-Driver crashed my Computer (Win XP) to Bluescreen (Bad_pool_header) after installing the service pack 2.
Besides, FastLink is imho faster - as its name says :)

Heck, I still use TI-Graph Link. That's pretty fast. Or at least, faster than TI Connect. Unfortunately, if I were to get one of the newer calculators, I wouldn't be able to use TI-Graph Link. (Or would I?)

It's not the calc, it's the cable that decides which software you can use.
I would never buy my usb-cable a second time because most programs require a graph-link cable. The only programs I can use are TI-Connect and FastLink. I can't even create a rom-image.
But when I bought the cable I was absolutely new to this calculator-stuff and thought, USB would be fine.

TiLP works with the silver link, I think.

MWM

It doesn't work at all on my PC. It just happens nothing when I'm trying to run the exe :(
I'll try it on Linux, I think it will work there.

I tried TiLP on two Windows computers a few times in the past, using the Silverlink cable, and all I ever got was a bunch of

Darn, this keyboard sucks! Let's try that again. :)

I tried TiLP on two Windows computers a few times in the past, using the Silverlink cable, and all I ever got was a bunch of BSODs. I hope it will work in Linux, otherwise I may be in trouble.

I hate how I can't get a ROM image, it sucks.

Nothing seems to work with my silverlink...

I often use the 89 version of GRAPH-LINK for my 89ti whenever TI Connect 1.5 Beta poops out on me.

Hm, the beta is working fine for me, well, good enough, you could say. I think I'll download it... later.

And the Mac version is out of beta, and looks great. Unfortunately, the Windows version doesn't like my V200 with a black cable, and only occasionally with the SilverLink.

About time they released a final version. Windows XP doesn't seem to like the beta (blue screen of death...). Maybe now it'll work...

You got the BSOD on WinXP?

Impossible.

I've gotten a blue crash screen on a XP but it wasn't THE blue screen.

I've gotten a BSOD while my computer was just sitting there, doing nothing. I think it had just started up and was waiting for someone to log in. I got the same BSOD a few different times. I couldn't read what it said because Microsoft, for some silly reason, chose to reboot the computer on error by default (I finally changed that setting after it happened a couple times).

I never figured out what exactly caused the BSOD, because the information on it is so cryptic (and people think Linux is cryptic! Unix/Linux at least uses clear and descriptive error messages most of the time). I later installed Slackware Linux 8.1 on that computer, and I never got a BSOD since.

Not impossible at all. Windows NT (of which XP is the latest version) uses a different kind of error handling, in which most errors can be isolated to the program in error without crashing the entire OS.

However, for the most serious memory protection volations, BSODs still occur. They may look a little different than Windows 3.x/9x BSODs (particularly in that they use the 50x80 char text mode) but they can still happen.

The most awful BSOD to receive is the "Corrupted Registry" message. The only thing worse than that is your hardware catching on fire. (I've seen it at least twice with my relatively little exposure to XP).

The sad part is that Microsoft supplies such awful tools (more like toys) for fixing problems like this. It gives you a DOS prompt (shudder) and some little programs which don't try very hard to fix the problem.

Usually a Linux bootable CD is the best tool to fix Windows problems. *nix tools simply are much better than Windows tools. You can even play solitaire or surf the Web while you fix the problem!

I saw a BSOD on a Linux system I was trying out yesterday... but it was a screensaver.

>>Most notably, it appears that using a firewall can in some cases prevent TI Connect from communicating with a calculator.<<

How in the world could this happen? I thought that firewalls were only related to networking.

MWM

It's called very poor program design, I think.

I can understand how a firewall would prevent TI Connect from checking for updated versions of apps, but in no way should it affect the calculator to computer communication.

Maybe TI will realize how silly it looks?

Some firewalls are control freaks.

Sometimes applications use Winsock (the networking interface) for inter-process communication. I believe FireFox does the same thing.

I don't have TI Connect 1.5 yet, but you could use netstat -an on the windows command line to see if this might be the case.

I suppose that would explain it... Not that I care much. I never stay in Windows long enough to do anything anyway. It is hard to believe I put up with it so long!

MWM

I've found that a Tcl/Tk interpreter uses Winsock, and our stupid GuardDog prevents it from running. I'm using it because I downloaded an Ogg Vorbis player which is written in Tcl/Tk.

GuardDog no longer works correctly (I guess because we installed NAV and other "security" stuff; Ha! what an oxymoron -- "Windows security"), so I don't have to worry about it anymore. Actually, I'm in Linux (I've been using Knoppix off CD for awhile now), so I don't have to worry about anything Windows does!

It's so convenient than Winsecurity rhymes with Insecurity, as they go together like a horse and carriage (this I tell you, brother, you can't have one without the other...).

Well in the beta that came with the TI-84s whenever you go to change the firewall settings in Norton it would pop up the TI Connect v1.5 Installer screen..