Survey posted 2005-03-08 16:41 by Jon.

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I don't see why when you can use a cheap add-on.

Speaking of which, is there a way to control volume on current 68K calculator sound? I can't find it. I could easily build a sound card from a company schematic but I'd have to write drivers, so I'd like to know how to do it with software.

If you have an adapter to use regular headphones over the link port, certian headphones have volume adjust right on them. That would work on calcs with link port.

How can you do that from a program, though?

This should be a no brainer....Calc's nowa days are not just calcs anymore. If we add built in speakers...it'll be a mini-pc. Now i dont think that is what Texas Instruments was looking for. Besides, if they did consider it a mini-pc(IE the TI-89/89T/92+/V200, since they are so powerful) we could not use it in school or on major tests....SAT and ACT...(NOTE: the previously mentioned calcs are banned from the ACT.) WHAT FUN IS THAT! lol

Mini PC>>Pocket PC

even the 89 it isn't on the SAT or AP exams but V200 and 92+ are

89 isn't banned from the SAT's...besides, you should need more than a scientific calculator on a test anyway. If you need a graphing calculator (and potentially the programming part of it) then you probably don't deserve a good score...I got an 800 on the SAT's math section: I had my 89 with me, and didn't use it for anything but sin, cos, tan, +, -, *, and /...

How about light, portable speakers attached to the link port as you can attach headphones? That sounds cool to me...

Why not just use the Gameboy speakers.. I think a dude in my class had some. All you need is the adapter to plug em in and your good to go.

true, true...

Really? :o

I saw USB speekers somewhere online. I wonder if you could use them on the 89T

You could use them if you rewrote the sound program to use the USB port and if the speakers were OTG, not standard USB.

Sound isn't the point of a calculator. I can tell because it doesn't have a sound card. WOW!!!!! Anyway, if you want something with sound, i suggest a different game device...yeah, it's harder to disguise in school as you play games on it, but then again so is sound...

I currently have a 1000watt Rockford Fosgate power series amp and 2 Punch1 subwoofers attached to my 83!
Did I mention my carkit? I just plug it in and jam to my tunes in 'da car!
Bling-Bling!

I have an AWESOME idea! Would it be possible to have an external IR transmitter?
-Teacher turns on boring video
-TV turns off

I do that with my PDA sometimes. I also turn the TV on when I'm bored.

One calssroom at my school has a TV that turns on at precisely 1:55 PM every day. There are no timer settings, and the school left it unplugged alll last summer. In the spring semester last year, when that was my Computer Science class, it did it, then the subsequent fall it did it in physics. Same classroom, same TV.

Not only that, but some friends and I managed to convince one of my teachers that someone in the class has psychokinetic powers by doing that! 120d

It's possible: you just have to build the IR link hardware first (see link)

I also remember Michael w/ an SE-only IR hardware/routine, but I can't find the link.

Found it.

He only gave receive routines though...

Can anyone out there write or port the asembly code for use on the 83+/84+. It would be helpful