Sounds like a cool program.

I was just wondering...
Instead of emulating GB on a calc... Why not emulate a calc on a GB?
I realize the problems with not enough buttons, but wouldn't you say that most kids going into highschool (colledge?)nowadays have some sort of portable gaming device (or an old one they don't use), and instead of paying so much for a calulator, just buy a new gaming chip (but its a calculator emulator?)?

See link above. (http://www.ticalc.org/ archives/news/articles/ 12/127/127159.html)

Wow, this is PATHETIC. You're two and a half weeks late. See link above. (http://www.calcgames.org/ cgi-bin/threaded.cgi?id=548)

Yeah, but I only uploaded to ticalc a few days ago. So actually they were pretty fast. I wanted to have a smaller group of people test before I unleased it to the masses =)

True, but still. We beat them by quite a long time. :) Good thing I actually frequent sites, hehe. :)

Well, if he said it's because he only uploaded it a few days ago, it's not ticalc.org's fault for being "slow".

Ok this bragging needs to stop, as a community TI sites shouldn't be competing with each other...

Quit bragging. At www.tigen.org, we had the newsitem the same day as you: http://tinyurl.com/7p9bk . And other sites had it that day as well. ticalc.org opted to wait for a version appearing in their archives rather than a beta posted on a forum, and it's their right to do so.

Right, I would much rather be told later about a program that works fully rather than earlier about an unfinished version that won't work fully until some time in the future.

I have a problem. I run a PC w/ Win XP Professional, and the .exe file that supposed to process and compress GB ROM's opens and then closes. I guess it's not compatible with this particular version of the OS, or maybe my system's corrupt.

Anywho, could someone help a brother out and send me some converted ROM's for the TI-89 to artraid@gmail.com ? Thanks a lot! This looks like an awesome program, and I am sad that I'm missing out on it :(

Click Start-Run, and enter "cmd". Now, use the CD command to browse to where the .exe file you want to use is. Consult the manual for exact details on how to run the compressor/converter. It's a command line app, so you need to run it from the Windows console.

read the readme...it a command prompt program

i got the converted link's awakening and final fnatasy legends if you want them...

You can't do that. It's just as illegal as sending someone a calculator ROM. Let them dump the ROMs from the carts themselves... At the very least, don't use public places to talk about that.

alrighy then...sorry for that!

I don't want to start a fight, but how is it any worse than remaking games for the calc that are protected by copyrights: Mario, Astrosmash, Pacman, exc? It's not like he's mass producing and selling. ;)

Sidenote: *wistles* Man, my Pacman review sure got edited the heck out of (see link). Nearly a page's worth cut down to three paragraphs, and that "Pacma"n error, tsk tsk. Oh well, life goes on. }:P> At least it was posted quickly.

P.S. Don't answer that "how is it any worse" question. It's rhetorical. }:|>

The fair use clause of something somewhere says you can creat similar things to a copyrighted work or something. Therefore, Super Mario renamed to 5up3r M@r10 would be perfectly legal...

Ah, yes, but my point is that usually isn't the case. There are many games here that that make no changes to the games (including titles) beyond what is necesary to make them run on calcs. Ticalc just falls bellow the radar of anyone who wants to sue. There are too many other worse infringements for them to bother with the very minor "shady" incidents here... usually.

Suppose I have the game but don't even know what the heck you mean by "Let them dump the ROMs from the carts themselves" means?

> Let them dump the ROMs from the carts themselves...
- Dumping the ROM isn't the only legal way to get hold of one. I think you're allowed to download a ROM off the internet if you have the actual cartridge yourself.

You are correct! Indubidably!

ndubidably is an AWESOME word. so is momentum ;)

It's a console program, not a gui program. You need to run this from the command prompt. Also, it doesn't compress the roms, only converts them.

Thanks, problem solved. Too bad that the SQRXZ rom doesn't work. :(