Re: TI-H: Don't be held back...
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I don't know about everyone else in the group but I own more than one TI
calculator and none of them are TI-85's I think that any link that is
created should be able to work with any kind of calculator not just the
TI-85 and possibly TI-83.
Your Cohort,
Adam Kavan
May The PI always smile apon your endevors.
At 05:24 PM 11/5/96 +0000, you wrote:
>Look at the average PC (I'm talking IBM-compatible). Inside it has
>the old 8/16 bit bus standard (ISA; yeech :). The reason the
>computer is impeded by that is because everyone wants to remain
>compatible with previous technologies. We are going to do the same
>thing now with the RF/IR links. Why hold back the possiblilities
>(and cost effectiveness), just to be able to play the "legacy" link
>games. When ZShell was made, they didn't worry about making it
>compatible with TI-Basic. The RAM extender/expander will not be
>instantly utilizable (sp?) by all software. But because it is an
>improvement in capabilities/convenience, we use it anyway. The RF/IR
>should be the same way. We could make a bigger, more complicated
>one, but it would be much more useful to have a simple, cheap, and
>space-efficient design. Sure, a lot of the link games are great, but
>I would suppose that ZPong, for instance, will be updated if
>necessary. And the primary point of all this seems to be to, ahhh...
>*aquire* the answers to test questions :), a chat program can and will
>be the first program written for it no matter what the design is.
>And a smaller design will be better for this purpose, too. :)
>
>Anyway, I hope you guys realize that if this design is limited to the
>dual-transmission-wire TI-protocol, just to be able to play some
>existing games, the popularity and useability of it will be severely
>limited in the future.
>
>Sorry for rambling. :)
>
>shakal@ns.net
>
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