The fish of many languages won't translate from french to english for me-anybody else have this problem or does it just not like me?

Maybe you're not selecting the right translation. When you first arrive it's set to translate English to French. You'll have to change it to Translate French to English.

Holy mother would ya' look at that calculator. Sweeeet! I do have doubts too. Like the comments before me, this seems more like a palmpilot or nino rather than a simple calculator. But hey, if I find out it's allowed in schools, hey I'll buy it. But wait, we'd better have people programming for these things fast! It wouldn't have any games!

Alf

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Has anyone heard the rumor about the TI-96, although i doubt it's true, TI might come up with somehing to compete with this new calculator that beats almost every other calculator.

What would be better would be a color TFT or LCD display, instead of one that only shows gray, and for you music fanatics out there, I still think that a standard MP3 player is better.

Id rather spend my money on a laptop, because it is much better than this calc in many ways.

I want an IBM microdrive hardwired into my calculator. I want the linkport to be a full-sized headphone jack. Gold plug. Big, DJ style.

I would pay the extra money. If TI (or even - God Help Us(TM) - HP) made it good enough, I would easily pay $350.

That's a *lot*, especially considering how stingy I normally am.

--BlueCalx

What would be really great is if ti calcs can read off cdrom drives so we could store all our games on a cdrom and nothave to woryy about memory. Ofcourse it wouldprobably have to be a Minidisc player but still.

Too big and bulky for a calculator. Just buy a Discman.

--BlueCalx

TI anounced USB graphlink. Then we will not have hardware barrier for it. We "just" have to write software.

Unless it's another one, the USB graphlink is only for MACS. And the Black cable is for Windows. Grey is for both

I always thought it would be neat to have a CF-II slot in the back of my 89 (where the ViewScreen connector would be), but not many other people know what CompactFlash is. I think CF is an awesome standard, and it would be really (read: REALLY) cool if HP or TI's newest had a CF expansion slot.

-bK

Color on a TI-calculator? Think about how complex the code would have to be. It would go slow (unless they had a fast processor) which would cost more money anyway.

Can we say "color gameboy"?

This device also happens to run on a Z80.

Well, a modified version of a z80. But, will be soon obsolete with the GBA using an ARM7TDMI. But, it seems that Nintendo doesn't push there hardware as far as it can go. Take a look at http://www.gp32.com uses near the same hardware. Uses the same RISC processor but, don't recall the rest. I remember that you don't buy cartridges, you download the games off the internet (using a mobile phone?).

Glenn Murphy (A.K.A. - Eric Greening)

Casio 9850 already has colors. In fact, 16 colors were available even on 2 MHz old 8 bit computers.

My 1 Mhz Commodore 64 (that's 64K of memory, not 64 bits :)) that's over 15 years old has 16 colors.

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Colour and MP3s would be great, but for a calculator meant to do sums in exams, what would be the point? Having MP3 playing ability would instantly get it banned from exams (and all other classes), and colour would just increase the battery consumption and wouldn't be that useful anyway on a small screen.

You've got to think about what a calculator is used for. Games on the PC are way better than on the calculator (funny me saying that, being a games programmer...), and I really should be doing work in classes instead of playing games on my calculator.

anyone having trouble getting the picture to load?
I can't get it

What about data storage? OS? Languages? Links/Carts?

That calcs processor is only 33Mhz behind my computer. I would never buy it. It seems like such a waste of money. Why don't you just buy a laptop and run Mathematica on it? If teachers had a hard time letting students use a TI-92, then there's no way teachers are gonna let students use this. Sure, it's fascinating to think of a calc with that much power but who really needs it? It's just gonna end up as a crutch and when SAT's come around, and they can't use their calc (computer?) most of those kids are gonna do terrible.

I got these infos directly from Jean-Yves Avenard (the HP engineer who made the HP49G and who is working on the Xpander) several weeks ago...
- 32-bit RISC processor (133Mhz Hitashi), downclocked to 66Mhz for power consumption.
- 320x200 tactile screen with 256-level grayscale
- mem: 16Mb RAM, 8Mb FLASH rom (as far as I remember)
- os: WinCE (and *maybe* Linux PocketPC)
- programming: C++ and Java
- cost: about $400
- USA release: september 2000 (Europe: later)
This machine is a "learning device", when released it won't be near as good as the HP49G for math. But it's a "hardware platform", and many software "extensions" will be available (hence the name "Xpander" I guess), and you will be able to use this machine as a calculator (a port of MuPAD is even planned for symbolic manipulation), PDA, MP3 player, Internet browser, and much more...
Now if something is wrong in that, don't blame me, I'm just writing what I have understood from him :p

$400? WinCE? ::sigh:: And it sounded so good before...

WinCE? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

What's wrong with wince? It runs great on my Sega Dreamcast....
But then again, it does take forever for some things to start (10 seconds on a 128-bit 200MHz chip and incredibly fast GD-ROM reader?!?!). Maybe microsloth and Sega didn't bum the windows ce/directx suite as much as the could/should have.

The Hitachi SH4 is still only a 32bit chip, and the only thing that's blazingly fast about it is the FPU, which stomps on Intel.

I don't like WinCE because they charge $200+ for the SDK (which requires you buy MSVC++ and then another charge for the WinCE compilers *puke*).

That and the dreamcast tools come with a massive pricetag, and are only sold to *professional* game developers (royalties you know, it's how sega makes their money).

Not that I have anything against WinCE (I own a HPC equipped with WinCE 1.0), but I feel Linux would be the better choice for this *cough* calculator. WinCE is nice, but like any Microsoft product, writing programs for it is very costly (WinCE Dev Kit = $200.00 or more, plus you need Visual C++). While we are on the subject of SDKs, HP has released (Beta) versions of the SDKs for their calcs, and you can download them for free. TI on the other hand, you must pay. $99.00 for three signings for the TI-83+. I have heard that the TI-89 version will be more expensive (since I own a TI-89, this would be the one that would affect me the most). I am seriously considdering buying the SDK (I know, I am crazy). Perhaps the TI community could crack the headers and such, and make out own SDK. Anyone up for it?

cajunman4life@juno.com

i'm not trying to encourage anything here, but DON'T BUY IT, CRACK IT!!! unless you are some really paranoid, or insanely honest person.

Good plan. Unfortunately, to crack it someone needs to own it. That and my Hex editor has gone ballistic on me. Other than that, no problem.

We have a few (10?) people download it outside the US, preferably in a secure location in a war-torn/anarchic country so there is no way to prosecute for copyright infringement, they each decompile/reverse engineer it, rebuild it from scratch, and release it as an open-source program, similar to decss, with likely repercussions of a similar nature. Be sure to print the source on both t-shirts and books, so its covered by freedom of the press.

hey, i am more of a mathematician than of a programmer and stuff like that as you will see in what i have to tell you. i think that (as a calculator) TI89 (or 92+, but i have the 89) is much much better than HP49 and probably the best calcualtor in the world right now. TI89 does not take as much time as the HP49 to do calculations and you all know, the format of the expressions is nicer etc etc..
89 plus a certain knowledge of mathematics (special integral, sums, and stuff like that) is as effective as Mathematica, Derive, etc,...
I must admit that as far as pure and "hard" mathematics are concerned calculators are no longer useful, they won´t make your life easier.

WinCE? *wince*