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TCPA Goes "Open-Source," Flash Article By Dan Englender
Posted by Nick on 30 January 2000, 04:58 GMT
TCPA has recently released the source code to virtually all of their incredibly popular assembly games. You can download them from our archives; check the latest updates list for more information. Yoshi, Block Dude and Tetris Attack are among the programs with their sources now publicly available. Hopefully these will help both new programmers in learning assembly language and current developers in creating faster, better programs.
In related news, Dan Englender has released an assembly tutorial called Programming TI-83+ Flash Applications. Check this out at once - it gives a lot of great information about this new, wacky technology. Update (Nick): Rather than add a whole new news item about these, I'll just post them as an update. TCPA has recently put out two utilities of interesting note.
RemoteCalc v1.0 is a utility that mirrors the screen of another calculator (connected via link of course) on yours. All the buttons you push will be mirrored on that calculator, so you can basically remotely control another calculator from yours. This is similar to some applications for the PC: PCAnywhere or Back Orifice allow remote control of a system from another. Download this for the 83 Plus. It is compatible with Ion. There is currently no 83 version.
NECalc allows you to save programs for other calculators on your 89 or 92+ to transfer back later. For example, if you liked both Sqrxz and ZTetris for the 85, but you lack the room to put both on at once, your 89 can act as an archive, storing one or more of the programs for later use. You cannot run these programs on the 89, but with such a vast amount of RAM, the 89 can act as an extremely effective storage device. This innovative program is available for both the 89 and the 92 Plus.
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Re: TCPA Goes "Open-Source," Flash Article By Dan Englender
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DWedit 
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What's the point of storing Sqrxz and Tetris on an 89, when you could just play SMQ?
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30 January 2000, 19:01 GMT
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Re: TCPA Goes "Open-Source," Flash Article By Dan Englender
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KinkyPimp
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This is all nice and dandy, but when is the updated folder module coming out for the ion shell? (the old one had major problems with games tha use external files)
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30 January 2000, 23:43 GMT
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Re: RemoteCalc 1.0
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rabidcow
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KeyLink does the same thing as RemoteCalc for the ti-86, except i disabled the screen display cuz i couldn't quite get it to work right.
(ahem, yes, shameless plug...)
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31 January 2000, 07:44 GMT
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Re: TCPA Goes "Open-Source," Flash Article By Dan Englender
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Kaven Rousseau
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Anyone ever though about building a qwerty keyboard for the TIs ? It would be cool ! Imagine plugging your computer keyboard on your TI-89 to program or take notes during classes.
Just dreaming...
Kaven
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1 February 2000, 02:03 GMT
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