I for one am of the opinion that TI shouldn't ignore people making games for their calculator. While they get their majority of users for math use, one of the main reasons I spent more money is that it COULD do better games than any other, and is still allowed on most major tests. I think it would be cool if the TI calculators morphed into HPC's, with great math capabilities. I doubt it will go that far, but I think they should encourage games, I personally have 5 friends that bought the TI-89 SOLELY based on the cool games I brought to school. I am probably in a less than 1% category, but who knows.
Mark E. Scott Jr.
mscott@mail.dbcity.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan C Johnson [mailto:benjamin99@juno.com]
Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 9:32 PM
To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: A89: Re: Basically the entire digest
All of you complain and complain about the HW2 problem, but what do you
think TI is going to do? They didn't design the calculators so you could
pplay games with cool-looking grey-scale graphics, their objective is to
make the 89 the best calculator it can be for the math users. If its
about the games, go buy a new calculator. Besides, I don't think its
that bad of a problem. People will just have to put in the extra 2
nanoseconds of effort to make a new header file and recompile their
programs for bothe HW versions. After all, none of the original 89
programmers would have bought it in the first place if the HPs kicked
TI's ass in basic math functions.
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