Wow, first comment two articles in a row.

Hasn't there already been enough people trying to charge for TI games etc. for programmers to realize that no one will pay for anything to do with a calculator (except the hardware)??

CORRECTION: YOU WON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR THE FINAL VERSION!!!!!
-From the developer of Shermco Studio .5 BETA
-Sherman
-http://www.shermcoti.bored.org
-"Where innovation meets reality"

where did you see that on his page?

if you go to the information page, and scroll waaay down to the bottom, you'll see "the beta version is free." i think nick thought it meant that the full version isn't free.

An upgrade to Shermco Studio .5 will soon be available on ticalc.org and my site. It will fix a few bugs with the compiler, and let you take a peek at some new features that I am working on.
-From the developer of Shermco Studio
-Sherman C.
-http://www.shermcoti.bored.org
-"Where innovation meets reality"

miniscule 23 megabytes... you gotta be kidding.

but i guess it's not a problem for us cable/dsl users... :-)

You cable/dsl users think you're so fly just because you download at almost half a meg a second. I still love my 56k modem, and I'm not switching over until my next computer, which I am going to be building.

<sarcasm style="oblivious">By the way... what was this news item about?</sarcasm>

if you're going to be switching over to cable when you're done building your computer, you seem more like a hypocrite to me...

Not necessarily... The computer I will be building will not be for another 2-3 years. Then I plan to pay for a DSL line, since by then 56k will be so obsolete. Now, 56k is still hanging on by a thread, and I will love it until 56k goes completely obsolete.

have you used a cable modem???
it is sooo much more convient and better then my 56k modem.
no more busy signals for my friends trying to call me.
i have access to tons of information almost instantly
need to get movie times? right there.
directions? got them
and its so much faster the dialing up and using a much slower connection

Buddy, my server runs on a cable modem. It's my friend's computer, it's at his house, and he pays the $40/month. I'm cheap like that, so I don't want to get a cable modem right away. I'm getting DSL, which is faster, but in a few years it will be a LOT less expensive, so :P.

You're going to have to PAY to develop 83 basic programs? This should be interesting...

nevermind... that guy just said it's going to be free (scroll up).

23 meg?? For a BASIC editor??? It better have a #&%% of a lot of features. Why pay for a 25 meg download, when a 1 meg free download will do the same thing?

its that large, i think mainly because it was programmed in visual basic.
you know how with visual basic you get small exe size, but for a simple program, it turns into about 2 meg setup just for all of the dll's that visual basic programs need to run.

akshay

Howda you know it was programmed in Visual Basic? Yes, even for a simple program, it takes up like 20 mbs. The .5.2 version reduced the size from 23 mb to 22.5 mb!! Improvement :)
-Sherman
-Creator of Shermco Studio

He probably looked at the screen shots on your home page and saw that the windows have the standard VB icons or he downloaded and when he tried to run it he got a message like "Connot find msvbvm60.dll" or something like that. That's what always happend to me and I refuse to install these dlls.

umm, no... i have been programming in visual basic since the days of vb3, and i have never encountered making a small program like that thingie up there and have it be 25 megs. first off, visual basic makes the program smaller then other langues because it doesn't incorperate the runtime into the program making them bigger.. and second, just about ever person with windows 95 or higher has the needed files to run a vb program. if i seem a little bit mad/angry, i am not, i just have an agressive personality :o) later

the program is in visual basic (when running it, i got several visual basic runtime errors) (for above post)

i have been programming vb as well (only 5 and 6), and i do know that the exe file size is reduced greatly than if coded in say C++, but where vb reduces exe size, it increases the overall zip size with the required runtime dlls and such. (i had made a 20 kb tic tac toe in vb, but when i made a setup for it, the zip file was about 2-3 megs).

now, i agree that just because it was in vb, doesn't make it that large - it might just be something else. but there have been many occasions, where i have used afriends computer and they didn't have the vb runtimes.

That’s an expensive calculator! I would like to know where they got their starting price. I noticed their TI-89 was at a reasonable price though.

$150? Well.... I got mine for $120 at best buy a while ago (doubt it still is $120)...

I saw an 83+ at Wal-Mart for $95.96!

got mine for 83.50 at target and i know someone who worked there at the time so i got a 10% discount also

And to put in another two cents....
89-$149.99 Meijers as well as Wal-Mart here in MI.

83 $89 something or other @ Dim-TI, including shipping it is about $100... got it in two days...

83+ i got for $94.00 @ Wal-Mart.
not that anyone should care, but hey, why not?
laterness
Steve
http://www.megahelp.org

just to clarify, i was talking about my 89 (i don't have an 83+).

yeah, let me know when you find a ti-89 for 83.50!

My Calc II teacher bought his 89 for about 70 bones

if you mean bones as in the ones you smoke, it makes sense

i got mine for 93.20...used of course.....but it is in PERFECT condition...no scratches or nething.

dream on... but you could get a used one for less

I found an 89 for $60 at Target. I took the deal, and sold it for $100.