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

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I've only pulled the AM-radio maneuver with my 83 (not plus). Interesting quirk, but not worth the effort, not to mention the static. Gets annoying, too. Plus, it's not worth it trying to find a correct adapter (or just mashing a 3.5mm down to 2.5mm or splicing wires together or whatever you do for a home-made adapter) just to get sound out of a device completely uninteded for such usage.

Yeah, that's what I did for my TI-82 and TI-89. I've done it accidentally a few times too.

Question: How can you control the pitch of the tones that you can create (especially when running a program) in BASIC? I've tried using For A,1,50:End and changing the length of the for loop, as it had been suggested to me, but that never actually changed the pitch. Any ideas?

It's quite simple to solder the wires protruding from half the mini-cable that comes with the black-link onto a 3.5mm female stereo plug... 3 drops of solder after stripping the wires, maybe tightly wrapping some tape around the contraption so it stays together... and there you go! just plug it into the calc, plug some headphones into that and sound!

If the files could be compressed more, and gave decent-quality sound, I would store music on my calc, but since they can't, and don't, I don't.

Most people think that the only way to get sound is by splicing wires or buying an adapter, because no headphones or speakers use that size plug. THIS IS WRONG! I found a headset that i can plug into my calc! You can buy headsets with earphones and a microphone designed for a cordless telephone, and those have the right size plug for the link already, with no messing around! It works great and is easy to use. Another interesting idea i got from this is a sound recording program to make use of the microphone...

Yea...i used the headphones for the cordless phone in my kitchen and it rox! It's almost like it was built for the ti-calculators. "The TI-Headphones"....

Hmm, I'll have to remember that... if I ever come across one.

Have you ever tried hooking up your calc directly to the phone? The port commands from menues don't do anything (as i figured) and i haven't tried it with ASM. Maby you could dial out or something, if you have a phone that would allow that.

I actually wrote an APP to compose sound. So of course I've listened. The best method is using a 3.5->2.5mm converter jack, I've found.

i heard about a way to listen to sound from a nice person (i only tested it on a 83+ though... but you take your little calc to calc link... connect one of the jacks to the calc, then press the other one with the one of a headphone (the regular ones)... then you listen on your headphones, you should hear a clicking noice, (make sure that the two copper ((or sumthing ;p)) things touch) and try to listen to some songs...

Or you could buy a $2 converter from RadioShack and it works just like headphones, you don't have to hold it or anything. My problem is that my link port is very touchy, so I have to apply pressure upwards while listening.

I had the same problem with my RadioShack adaptor and my TI-86. The problem is *not* the link port. All I had to do was cut a little notch out of the adaptor (the plastic just below the metal) so it would go all the way into the port. You could try that too if you don't mind "altering" your adaptor.

I was going to make a long link cord from a gold connector and I learned that the hard way.

metal + file = a bunch of metal splinters and a mangled piece of metal

When I had my 83 Plus I loved the Piano 83 program more than any other program I have ever owned. Now that I have my 89 I have tried to run all the keyboard programs but to no avail... Who wants to port Piano 83 to the 89 for me ? :) hahaha

Oh geez, I need to document this... a while ago with an ADC and from simple circuitry I made a unit that allows you to play and record WAV quality sound to and from your calculator using some specialized software. There's no compression, so you acn only record like 10 seconds before your RAM runs out, but it's a pretty cool little idea. I really should post some documentation.

do that and I might even make a speaker for my calculator (another $20 wasted at RadioShack)

I voted 'yes' due to the fact that I built a sound card, wrote a driver, and played some simple notes. I didn't use PlayLib or anything like that-it might not count, but hey, it's sound (reel-to-reel quality, not CD quality, certainly).

Someone's got some free time.

i like to see some documentation on that stuff

Why are there tons of people who still don't think that sound on a TI is not possible?!?!
Oh, and, by the way, there are about 7 ways to get sound out of the TI (you don't even have to make modifications to anything, just make a phone call to yourself). Check it out on the link on top! ^^^

Someone needs to make somthing so you can use a cordless phone headset and play AND record to the calculator. Somthing that's like "Sound Recorder" in Windows.

I just found out about sound so if there is already a way to record into the calculator, I'd like to know...although maybe there's a reason why we can't do that...anyway, can someone do that.

If someone makes somthing to do that, it just might be worth it for me to build an adapter to plug into the calculator so you can plug in a reagular microphone, regular headphones or a headset with both. I have some good ideas of how to if there is ever a program to do this.