Very nice! But when will I be able to run 89 games on my 83?!

Never, I don't think the 83 has the hardwear specs needed to run the cool games, and the others, are already availible in ti-83

I know, I know. But I can dream, can't I? :D

Acculy it might not be that far off, there are a few programmers working on windows utilities that can recompile 68k to z80 and to binary and to Hex, so soon any program might be able to run on any ti devise

Um, no. Just because a piece of 68k assembly can be translated to Z80 assembly doesn't mean 89 programs will be able to run on the 83+. For one thing, the memory map, peripherals, etc. are COMPLETELY different. Even if that didn't matter, however, the Z80 is much less powerful than the 68000, the 83+'s processor is run at a lower speed than the 89's processor IIRC, and translated code will most likely run like crap anyways (because the processor architectures are so different) so anything written for the 89 would be unusable on the 83+.

Most programs (at least trivial ones) probably wouldn't need that much CPU. The real problem is that the Z80 is 8/16-bit and the 68K is pure 32-bit, and it's much easier to emulate a lower-bit machine on a higher-bit one. Sorry.

Not even mentioning the difference in screen resolution...

And all the other hardware. It's not easy to translate an output-to-port instruction from the 89 to an 83+ and have it do the same thing, especially since the memory's layed out differently.

I think the ticalc staff held back the recent news to post them all at once :D

Yeah, I noticed this a bunch of days ago.

Cool, I'm downloading this right now

Beautiful, I'm downloading it right now. :) I wonder if grayscale ASM programs are supported (with grayscale).

- Alex

No, I believe they all use interrupts, which are not yet supported.

Well, the app itself does work on my TI-89 Titanium, but the jar application doesn't seem to work. (But, that may just be my machine.) It seems to fail saying:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: convert/jar

Ok. Nevermind. I got the Java app to work. Works nicely! Though support is low, it is a first release after all. Works nice on my Titanium. ZTetris almost works but is filled with squares (I've seen these squares sometimes on a normal 83+ so, it probably isn't too far from working.)

This is impressive, I'm surprised it can actually run stuff at full speed.

The're are rom routines re-written in 68k asm for text display so that should be a source of significant speed increase.

Text display is probably not the bottleneck in most programs. The speed is from dynamic translation, as explained in the README.

*sigh*

Its a pet peeve when people argue specifics but not the concepts. You're right text display is probably not a bottle neck. But there are other functions written in 68k asm like ion put sprite and ion fast copy. These sound like bottle necks.

Anyways I think its incorrect to give all performance credit to dynamic translation when the emulator uses native versions of key functions

thats an amazing project! i hope they finish it.
good work

I tried it, but I couldn't get Super Mario to work on my calculator. On the other hand I have a titanium, and that probably has something to do with it.

I'm not aware of anything that would make it not work on the Titanium. Super Mario is probably just too advanced. I'll look into it.

Assuming it was compiled with the latest version of TIGCC, it should work on the titanium just as well as HW2.