Looks interesting.

Cool. Now, I can take a chance at corrupting my system!!! And I get more memory. GAMES!!!

Is there any TI89T equiv?

the "problem" that xpand fixes does not exist on any other calculator, so there is no need.

so u are saying that TI89 titanium, allows the use of archive memory as the v200 patched with xpand??, i didnt know that, some good news if it is true!!

Yes, TI seems to have corrected for the Titanium the hardware bug which required to lock a part of the archive memory.

-- Olivier Armand

That's good... I made the right choice...i think...you see, for christmas i was debating on whether to get a V200 or an 89 Titanium and I chose the titanium...

With Xpand you cannot base your choice on this anymore. I would personally have chosen the big screen :)

The big screen you say sire, along with the big case and the big hassle of carrying it around?

Besides, the 89T has a USB port, and if you know how to hack it properly, it also has 256 grey scales. ;)

yeah, ok. You can pretend that you can make 256 greys work on an 89. Do you think you could actually tell the difference between 256 and, say 7? The flicker would be horrible, and think of the memory space you'd need to store that many planes. No way that could ever work, it would take a very long time to even finish flicking through a single frame of color. Keep dreaming...

I agree. This "256 grayscales" claim sounds like either BS or a flickery mess to me. I'm not aware of any hidden hardware support for that many grayscales in the Titanium, and plain software plane-switching with 8 planes is definitely not going to give any sort of useful results.

Yeah, but if you pretend REALLY REALLY hard, it can come true in your mind. And in the end, aren't you the only one that matters?

-W-

Two years ago, I bought my v200. I wanted the big screen, and the large archive was lagniappe.

Why would you need an 89Ti equivalent? I mean that's like Bill Gates applying for food stamps.

LOL, that's a really funny analogy. ;-)

This is interesting - people are acting like Xpand is a new thing. It has only been updated. My v200 was Xpanded for the longest time, but I simply don't need it any more. (I still downloaded the file after upgrading to 3.01, just in case I do need it.)

The title of the article is "Xpand v0.2a Released". This IS a new thing. It was just released.

Look at the version history. It says "02/21/2005: v0.2a Support for AMS 3.01 added." The other stuff is simply indicative of a constant upgrade process. It is quite obvious that v0.2a was released SOLELY to placate the new 3.01 OS. I've had my v200's archive Xpanded since, oh, say *AMS 2.07*. In fact, it was probably Xpanded immediately before loading 3.01. It no longer is, but only because I simply don't need it any longer, as I have ceased playing calculator games.

You don't play calc games? *passes out and hits the floor*

So like when is Ticalc.org going to update the rest of the files? It's been since the 11th since you've made a decent update.... I can't survive on this pety updating.....I need software.....I am software hungry. I eat sleep and breath Ticalc.org, I need more!!!

As soon as they hire someone. *crosses fingers really hard*

Whoever gets picked is going to have a fun little present waiting for him/her when they first login to start archiving files...

I know, I looked right before I posted that. Fun is exactly what I would call it.

-W-

Lol, I like your optimistic way of thinking. :-)

It sure beats the way the rest of this article has almost become hostile in a way.

Just a little hostile...but it's all okay because it could be worse :)

Yeah, really. An outsider reading this would think we were about to break out in civil war.

Associated Press reporting: "A bomb just exploded in Sollentuna, Sweden earlier today. Expert detectives from Interpol, the Swedish Flygvapnet, and the US FBI agree that it was probably a thermite bomb ignited by a strip of magnesium. The blast configuration shows that it exploded in the server room at a small corporation that wished to remain anonymous, as well as that the thermite appeared to be packed in a small, square rectangular area approximately the size of the battery compartment on a TI-81. Various ticalc.org community members have been blamed for this horrible attack as a part of the z80-68k war, in which Motorola, Hitachi, and ZiLOG appear to refuse to take sides. 'This war has gone on far too long,' states Magnus Hagander, CEO of Texas Instruments' calculator division, 'We must have reconciliation before the death toll has goes too high. I appeal to Patrick Davidson, beloved programmer on both platforms, to arbitrate a peace. Too long have we been kneeling to the terrorists that have brutally killed the beloved Kevin Kofler, Spencer Wohlers, no_one_2000, ExtendeD and others. Too long have we had to move the servers around for their protection. TOO LONG have we allowed the forces of Al-Qaeda, hpcalc.org, and casiocalc.org to interfere and kill yet more. I will stand here. I WILL NOT MOVE!! THIS WAR MUST END!!!' Most will remember the tragic death of most of the upper echelons of Tesas Instruments several years ago, and the rising of prominent user-community members, including Magnus, to fill the empty niches. More on the bombing tomorrow, as well as more on the whole civil war, or as it has become known, TI-666. This is the Associated Press reporting, and I am John Walmers."

That's supposed to be "Texas Instruments" after Magnus's "speech."

And "has gone", not "has goes". Oops.

Disclaimer: THIS IS NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! While not necessarily funny, it is meant to be humourous. To those named in the story: you were the first people I thought of.