Am I the first comment? Hope so.

All I can say is that it's ABOUT TIME. I haven't looked at them yet, but it's still nice to see some people working on the problem. Now if they can only fix Sonic Misadventures...

Kudos to all those great people! Saints in my opinion!

Read the news item I posted right before this one. They did, but it doesn't work on AMS v2.03 yet.

--BlueCalx

I didn't read that one till just now. Forgot about it 'cause I was busy writing the comment to the first one! Nice to know. But still, Plusshell doesn't really work on my 92+ either... freezes up on the explorer (is that what it's called?) screen. I'm a DoorOS person myself.

What happened to the "first comment" rule? I had gotten wind somewhere of you guys wanting to dump posts that boasted about them being the first comment. Has everyone been out in full force so you decided to drop the rule?


PS I am not doing this because I want to make a "first comment" post as soon as you make a news item of a TI-92 Plus having an unknown extra 650MB of RAM plugged into the link port (aka a CD-RW Drive)

Great job Scott and Niklas!

Heh I really feel sorry for all HW2 owners, but I'm glad that they'll at least have a "temporary" fix such as this to make grayscale games playable. It's a shame TI made such incompatible calcs under the same name, especially after advertising that you'd never need to buy a new calc because of flash rom upgradability.

Finally, grayscale suppprt. Not fair though: Now hw 2 users get gray and the additional memory of AMS 2.03.
I always got grey on my hw 1, but I want my additional memory.

Um, actually, the fix won't work on AMS v2.03 yet.

But anyways. is it really THAT big a deal? Heck, the extra memory isn't that big a deal on the TI-89 because 500K is a WHOLE LOT! =)

---LS

It's no enough!!! streetfighter takes up more than the full memory.

Most ancient PC's have more than that, like, um... 640k of Conventional Memory, and a 720k floppy disk drive!

Flash ROM vs RAM:
F-ROM
No electricity needed
Won't clear after turning off
RAM
Electricity needed
If not refreshed, random data.

Also, see MY ancient PC

16 kb ram
160 kb floppy
8 mHz 8080

Mmmmm? Where is this source code?

Yes, I would also need the source code, if possible, because Bigdyna is using its own grayscales routines, and it would allow me to fix it quickly...

Can I now run kernel version 0.6 and actually successfully play AMS 2.03 games? I have hardware 2.00
The only problems were the libraries?
Do I still need to do the launch thingy?
launch("phoenix")

from what I've read these don't work with 2.03 yet

This is great, just in time for Christmas. Now I'll have some games to play Christmas morning.

Welp, good news for, you 89 users =)

I am accessing this from school believe it or not, on a crappy iMac :/

We're having a party in biology and we get to do basically whatever we want.

Macs are so slow when connected to an at-ease network. And some idiot believes "Virtual memory takes too much hard disk space, so let's disable it!" I have found that a G3 on an at-ease network is slower than a Macintosh LC on a different network. (And to make matters worse, my school finally realized and fixed the bug that allowed programs to be run from floppys or documents panels!) But iMacs are an abomination, they are not only slow, but have Internet Exploder built in, and are missing the break, printscrn, Insert, Home, End, and even the frequently used Del button! (The school has a hidden supply of gray graphlinks BTW)

A) thats off topic
B) you dont have any idea what you are talking about

I don`t know much about calculators, but is Grayscale possible on the TI-83 PLUS.

If not, Why Not?

From what I understand, Greyscale involves flickering pixels on and off very quickly. So basically, on the 83, you'd put a "picture" on the screen or whatever, and blink it on and off very fast to make it APPEAR to be grey.
The 89's 68K processor can handle this flickering much, much better than the 83's Z80 processor. The most greyscale I've ever seen on the 83 was three or four shades, I'm not sure. There was obvious flickering, 'cause you could see it 'blink' every now and then as it's flickering. Whereas on the 89, some games run on up to eight shades of grey, and don't flicker at all.

-Fil

Ummmm, hehe. The reason the 83 doesnt do greyscale so well is that the 83 has a lcd driver, whereas the 89 has a memory mapped lcd.
- Matthew

Look in the file archives for somthing called gpic83, thats a simple little greyscale image viewer. Flickers a whole lot, tho.

~Jonathan Taylor

GPIC was made by my friend Paul M.
He's also 'coaching' me in assembly.
We go to the same school, but he's one grade higher than me :þ

What is the FTP password for TICALC? I can't submit my file!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

log on anonymously