Survey posted 2004-03-02 09:50 by Morgan.

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Yeah, for 83+. You get that Piano83 or whatever you can find then jam to Mario tunes during your algebra test.... if you can play piano....... or if you have a silver then just find that other program where it like saves songs or whatever.... and throw lots of 'em on your calc and let 'er rip!

I dont think its worth it becuase all it mainly is, is just beeping noise!

That's what I think! If you want quality sounds, use a computer or listen to the radio. The calculators were designed for graphing and other mathematics purposes. Not to play a bunch of noise. When your bored in class, then you can play some games. Except in the band class, music isn't allowed in school.

Who CARES if it's allowed or not. You can still do it, and that's cool. I think experimenting with sound on the calcs is fun.

What's the point? Yeah, it would be cool for games, but it wouldn't sound very good. Using it for portable music? Not enough memory to make it worthwhile, not to mention you wouldn't be able to store any other programs or data on the calc.

If the calc was meant to make noise it would have a speaker!

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Yeah, if the calc was supposed to make noise it would have a speaker, or at least competent RadioShack workers who can find you the correct adapter to get headphones into the link port!!

It depends which RadioShack.

I know a store that is lousy and has ripped me off a few times and there is one that has everything but the employees don't help much and (my favorite) there is one just up the road from me that isn't stocked well but the employees are very nice and help you find anything you want if it is possible and (because they usually don't have it in stock) call the other stores and have the part "reserved".

My brother's Nokia microphone/earbud combo think for his phone works in the link port...it's a microplug, so there is no adaptor necessary...

I use a cordless phone headset.

The only sound I've ever added to a game was in Iceclimb.

When i got that game years ago on my 83 it said that it had sound. But i couldnt hear anything! Then i realized that the calc didnt have a speaker. But when i finally got sound for my 89 a few months ago, i remembered Ice Climb and went back to my 83 and installed it, and then played it constantly just to hear the little beeps...

that was great, I will have to loan out my speaker and tell my calculator using friends about that game, it was truly great. I wish there was an 89 version...

Is there sound in the Iceclimb that comes with Bubble Bobble?

I have a question for all you electronics people out there: what do I need to do so that my calculator doesn't get really slow after I use my headphones in the program?

Yea...i noticed that too. When you plug headphones in, your calculator gets really slow. THe only way to solve this is to only plug in the headphones when the sound program starts. :)

take the headphones out.

anyway, I never managed to get the headphones to work. I use a guitar amp...

Yeah, but I made an assembly program that used sound for Ion and when I took out the headphones it still stayed slow. I think that the _getkey call is made slow somehow, because in my program I used _getkey and _getcsc but _getkey was slowed.

That's because B_CALL GetKey (on the TI83+, at least), checks for silent linking, which headphones screw up.

For some reason, adapters connected to guitar amps dont have any problems...

Put a resistor in series with (in between, for dummies) the speaker and link, so that the circuit created does not short the data lines.... or, just use an amplified speaker system.

I heard it was just beeps or something like MIDI format music. Is this right?

Try it