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In article <32B6EE7E.1D4B@deltanet.com>, veritech@deltanet.com says...
>
>Justin DeBel wrote:
>>
>> It says on ticlac.org that the TI-85 with ZSHELL has sound
>> capabilities....how is this...it's a calculator?
>>
>> Justin
>> debel@jax-inter.net
>
>i think (i'm a lamer.. i'm just a computer nerd.. dunno about
>programming.. assembly or whatever but) i think the link thingy uses
>sound to transfer.. so .. you get a headphone thingy and a converter..
>from headphone to the calc.. (2.5mm) and then you get a zshell game that
>has sound.. and your run it.. and you get sound :)

sorta, but not quite :)

The proper way to make one of those "headphone thingies" is to cut up (!) one
of the link cables and solder a cheap speaker to the end (simply put).  Then
ZShell programs send values to port 7... blah blah... beeps and boops come
out of the speaker... incredible
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