Survey posted 2001-05-24 00:23 by Andy Selle.

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I would use an emulator but i cant find one that will work on the 83plus

I have an 83+ rom that works fine on VTI.

VTI won't work with EOS (TI-os real name) version 1.13
Fournately version 1.12 (originally on my calc) works perfectly. I'd be pleased to send you a ROM for the 83+ if you mail me.

Click above -- thats all I have to say about ti83 plus rom v1.12.

I don't know what I would do without VTI. My graphlink is only about .3m long (it broke and I fixed it with 1/2 a calc-calc) so it is a real pain to send stuff to my real calculator. Plus the revert to saved state feature really speeds up developement time.

Yup. I like the "Reset calculator" menu option too :)

I use my emulated calcs when I'm too lazy to get the real thing out of my schoolbag.

lol

I am often the opposite. I often have my TI-86 sat next to my computer, sometimes wired up with TI-Graph Link!

I use it when I need to do complicated calculations for the PC such as marking bad sectors on the hard drive by yourself by using Norton Disk Editor. This is because that running ScanDisk and similar programs will take forever at least 3 minutes to register 1 out of 1000 bad sectors!

Jack Lau

I even programmed the calculator hotkey on my keyboard to load VTI.

Well I have the Virtual TI icon on my Windows Desktop and the Windows Calculator icon in Scientific Mode in my Quick Lanuch Bar!

Now that school's out, I probably won't even touch either the calculator or the emulator for a few months.

Twenty-ninth comment!

I voted no for this, even though I'm an assembly programmer. I just don't like it. I trust my calculator more than I do the emulator because I can pick up my calculator and hold it and see how fast something is running or how badly it's crashing, and I think that's better. I do, however, have Virtual TI installed and the ROMs for all of my calculators are on it.

And a word to other people...it's not exactly *legal* to distribute these ROMs, even if you intend to buy the calculator, etc. So this would not be a good place to discuss trading and downloading them. :)

I always test on a real calc _also_
But it is really annoying to have to reload everything to the calc every time it crashes, if your program uses external files and such.
If you use a shell it is even worse, you have to reinstall the shell every time. With VTI you just revert to a saves state, and the calc is ready for testing within seconds.
Then, when I know the prog at least runs, then I load it to the calc too see performance, and appearance.

Yep, always test it on a real calc...
The following problem I had with Ti8xcc; the delay routine was perfectly, it ran good on a VTI. But when I ran it on my real Ti83 it shutdown the calc. It seemed that the programmer who made the routine did an output to a port which made the calc switch off...
And that 200 times after each other (for example), because it was in a loop, so it too me *some* time to see that the problem was in the delay routine...

I use VTI quite often... It is simply impossible (well, at least very cumbersome) to make assembler programs without an emulator. As I don't have my own link cable, I have to use the emulator all the time.

I have been having some very annoying problems with Virtual TI for the TI-83+ (ROM v1.12). The Mem Mgmt/Del menu doesn't work, and GarbageCollect hangs it. Also, VTI refuses to run ROM v1.13: I get a blank screen! Until someone posts another emulator that works better, I am stuck with TI's rattletrap Flash Simulator (which can't even load files!) Anyhow, if you use Virtual TI for too long, some of its most annoying idiosyncracies will likely surface.

Flash Support is not yet implemented for VTI v2.5b5, as stated in the read-me. There is support for the next version for 1.13 as well as support for mirage OS. All that was discussed on the author's home page, if you would go there.

I also have a problem with it because I had upgraded to an AMD Duron 800 from an Intel Pentium 166 MMX. Now when I play Mario on it, the screen frequently freezes for a few seconds!

I can't download the ROm image from my TI-86.

I have tried many things and none work.

:-((

I tried to load my ROM image from my 83+ with VTI, but it just doesn't work. I tried everything, if it worked, I would have voted "yes".

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I am sure there are somewhere. (If not, make your own, go to www.ezboard.com) :)

Click on the URL! I've started my own!

now you just need a redirection from maybe fly.to or namezero or cjb.net :-)

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