Re: A89: THOSE TI BASTARDS!!!
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Re: A89: THOSE TI BASTARDS!!!
One Word: REVOLT
--h4X0r (http://h4X0r.cjb.net)
----- Original Message -----
From: <Cyong0@aol.com>
To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: A89: THOSE TI BASTARDS!!!
>
> Yeah, did you know that HP actually promotes the creation of assembly
> programs and added features for their calcs? HP calcs seem to be meant
for
> programming! TI is just trying to eliminate all the work we've done
hardware
> and software for their calcs. What use is 700k of archive with NOTHING TO
> PUT IN IT?!?!?! I originally thought TI's were better than HP's, but once
I
> saw HW v2.00 come out not supporting grayscale, it got me skeptical. Now
> that this has come out, I will never purchase a TI calc again. Check out
> www.hpcalc.org check out their gaming section, that is HECKA COOL
STUFF!!!!
> Operational Doom! 4 versions of FULLY OPERATIONAL Zelda RPG's!!!! And
> what's more, HP shoved a whopping 1.5 megs of RAM into the new HP 49 (I
> believe that's upgradeable)
>
> Look at what TI has done to us so far, instead of helping, they have:
>
> 1. 86/89 calcs have LCD's arranged differently so it is nearly impossible
to
> install an EL Backlight without breaking one of those delicate ribbonsa
>
> 2. Never bothered to reveal any information about the TI-OS (we had to
crack
> it) while HP has been providing information about theirs for a while
>
> 3. Attempted to sabotage our years of hard work on these programs with
1.05
> (come on, they know all about the stuff we program, they could have easily
> made them work perfectly with 1.05 and still made whatever adjustments
they
> felt necessary)
>
> 4. Discontinued use of grayscale in HW v2.00 (I don't believe changing the
> registers was necessary to achieve the goals they had in mind for HW v2.00
>
> 5. Utterly destroyed all of our previous work in both hardware and
software
> (since most interfacing hardware can't work without software to back it
up)
> with asm v2.01, and I'd bet anybody they knew what this entailed.
>
> Now they're in a very good situation, don't you think? They've already
> sucked most of the game players dry of cash, since we already have
purchased
> our calcs, and once we get really going on the TI-89? They completely
> eliminate the ability to use our original programs on it.
>
> If the rumors about the commercial license for creating large programs is
> true, then they have it off even better. Now they charge us for
programming
> software that enhances THEIR calculators!!!!
>
> I believe that we have been doing THEM a favor all these years making
> improvements on the functionality of TI calculators, and now they stab us
in
> the back.
>
> This just plain sucks...
>
> -Trailblazer
>
>
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