Survey posted 2002-06-12 19:00 by Magnus.

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Hey Anybody who knows anything about programming.
help me learn how to make viruses and fake viruses.
u see i am a begginer and know hardly anything about the commands.
HELLLLLLLLLLP!

I've broken my friends calculator, my calculators, school calculators, etc. on purpose, but most times they were fixable (except for a couple school calcs...)
I enjoy hacking and I've made a few viruses for different calcs.

I know a guy who is convinced that there is a way to make viruses in Basic for 83+. I tell him, it's impossible, but he's obsessed.
(I just felt like saying that.)

woah, weeeeird

Anyone got an 83 (+(SE))?
Y=
clear
graph
Y=
0 (zero)
2nd
0 (zero)
cos
up x 5
enter
vars
right
enter x 2
, (comma)
vars
7
enter x until calc does something interesting :)

Well, what does it do? Oh wait, I'm going to try that! Does it work on TI-83+ (no SE)?

yes

There is a way to make a small virus for the 83+(i don't know bout se) using only basic:

1. First make a new prgm called prgmA
2. Make the first line of that prgm:
:AsmPrgm
3. Exit that prgm
4. Make another new prgm called prgmB
5. Make the first line of that prgm:
:Asm(prgmA
6. Then run prgmB and your calc should freeze. I don't know if this will work on an os newer than 1.14 cus that is the newest os i have. I also put this code on my site at http://83p.tigalaxy.com/ if u wanna check it out.

Try this on a normal Ti-83:

:""->Str1
:Expr(Str1)

Try this on a ti-83:
prgmA:
Send9(prgmB

prgmB:
C7
End
0000
End

What does it do? I tried it on a TI-83+ and
It cleared Y=
then I didn't get it
are you sure you aren't missing any keys?

Here are some 'mucking up' stuff for a TI-83+
(They do nothing harmful at all).

Not quite a virus, still, this is great fun:

PRGM:COOLGAME
:Lbl A
:Input "",Str0
:Goto A

If you send this to their calc (telling them that it is a 'cool' game) then run it, they (could) be befuddled: nothing does anything! (No Y= editor, sums don't work...). To get out of it, press 'ON' or 2nd+QUIT.

This one is slightly cooler:

PRGM:REALCOOL
:AsmPrgm
:3E60
:D310
:C9

Run this with Asm(prgmREALCOOL

It shifts the screen up about half-way (turn calc off then on again to clear).

Or, quite simply, snatch their calc, turn on to home screen, turn contrast to zero, and ask them why their calc doesn't turn on. This will scare them!

w00t!

The turning the contrast to 0 "happened" to someone in one of my classes. It happened a little after christmas when she said it wouldn't turn on and then 5 months later she said she'd turned the contrast up and it worked. She mentioned she felt stupid.

|
PrgmYODA
AsmPrgm
|
(DELETES RAM)

|
PrgmWEIRD
Lbl 1
Input "",A
Disp A
Goto 1
|
Doesnt let u use:
2nd Mem
All top buttons (Y=....)

no, it executes anything in ram. dumb bogus idiot...

i think by "(deletes ram)" he ment "(insert code that deletes ram)

Try this:

PrgmNULL
AsmPrgm
C9

Hours of fun!

What's it do?

It returns immediately. For hours of fun, continue pressing ENTER on your calculator for hours.

This is a very useful program to annoy those 'give me a game' people:
(Note: write it on your calculator with lowercase text, then send it to their calc...)

PROGRAM:GOODGAME
:ClrHome
:Menu("Garbage Collect?","No",X,"Yes",X)
:Lbl X
:ClrHome
:Output(1,1,"Garbage")
:Output(2,1,"Collecting...")
:Lbl LP
:Goto LP

Send it to their calculator and say that it is a really good version of Doom/Super Mario/Any other game for the calculator.
Get them to run it...
Up comes the GarbageCollect message- tell them that the program uses the archive quite extensively, and that it is a good idea to Garbage Collect first. They will nod their heads, say 'Oh yes' or something similar and start 'Garbage Collecting'.

Run.

also, it is nearly inpossible to use on to break out of a garbagecollect loop, and will be annoying if people are rom concious. tell them that to get out of the loop, on dosn't work, and they have to remove batteries, which can permanently screw up calculator.

lbl A
garbagecollect(
goto A

My stupid ass friend removed all his batteries when the 83 plus was garbage collecting after exiting a game because he wanted a fast way to get out so that i can install a new backup for games...That idiot was so god damn stupid!!!!!! He took out the batteries so fast that i couldn't even stop him....So, his calculator was messed up!!!! At first, i thought that his memory was corrupted :P I felt a little guilty, so searched for a way to fix the god damn calculator by deleting the OS and installing a new one!!!

Installing the god damn OS was a pain in the ass!!!! I had to borrow a bunch of school 83 plus for their OS, but that crap didn't work even after I tried sending the OS like 30 freaking times. All those school 83s had a 1.12 OS! Then I borrowed a friend's 83 plus with 1.13 OS and that worked after like 10 freaking trials and it took like 10 mins for the OS transfer to complete!!!!!!!!


That same stupid ass friend tried to upgrade his god damn OS to 1.14 in school with their graphlink and he screwed his god damn calculator again!!! The stupid moron probably pressed some stupid ass button on the calculator when the OS was being transfered. This time, the memory was corrupted for sure because i couldn't even transfer the 1.12 or 1.13 OS even after sending the OS back to the messed up calc for a hr or so :P

Next time, when you give your friends that own a 83 plus games, tell them that you will not fix their god damn calculator if they mess it up by removing batteries during garbage collect and upgrade of OS!!!!!


By the way, some guy from texas instrument sent me an email stating that it cost like fifty god damn bucks plus shipping and handling to send your 83 plus back to texas instrument for repair!!!

When God damned you for all the times you asked for it, you were already burning in hell for eternity.

I have a question... what is a "stupid ass button"?

That doesn't permanently mess up the calculator, try On+Clear

I think I used the on plus clear thing already and the del OS thing already, but that didn't work....

Clam down!
Clam up?
Clam!

Try this on a ti83 (not +)
FDCB0CE6
C9
End
0000
End

Just download mirage OS on your calc, it will error, and delete your ram if you use one of its many stupid functions. It has done it 5 times on 3 different calculators for me, with defalt settings, half of them while the os wasnt even running.

No.. MirageOS has *never* screwed up- indeed, it has saved me from many a screw up- when a program crashes, I can ON+Clear from withing MOS and it exits back to the shell...

BTW, what OS are you using? I use 1.13 or 1.14 on mine- it works fine with both.

Here's a good one:

:AsmPrgm
:3E00
:F6C0
:D310
:C9

Run that- it sets the contrast to 0!

[2nd]+[quit] gets out of it

I'd have to make sure they didn't see my name scrawled over my 83+...

OK, here we go...
Y= ;take you to the Y= screen
clear ;clears Y1
graph ;goes to the graph screen
Y= ;goes back to Y= screen
0 (zero) ;stores zero to Y1
2nd ;go to the
0 (zero) ;catalog menu
cos ;F
up x 5 ;takes you to Equ>String(
enter ;paste it on the screen
vars ;takes you to the Variable screen
right ;takes you to the graphing variables
enter x 2;takes you to Y= then pastes Y1 on the screen
, (comma);places a comma on the screen
vars ;takes you to the vars screen
7 ;puts Str1 on the screen
enter ;keep pressing enter until something strange happens.

that was wierd...

WOW! It cleared my RAM when I went to go delete all the Y-Vars! That's cool! (It'd be interesting to make that a program and put it on ticalc archives...DelVar Y1:DelVar Y2)

Save yourself all the hassle:
Install OmniCalc over OS1.14
(That *really* screws up the Y Vars- they claim to be 15k in size, then you go to delete them and the calc presents garbled text, then locks up).
Another thing to do with OmniCalc:
Make sure that the Entries menu is ON.
At the home screen type in a lot of 'sin(' things:
sin(cos(tan(sin(cos(tan(sin(cos(tan
Use the clipboard function to copy that and paste loads of copies of it down so that you have a MASSIVE string of them. Then stick a number at the end and hit enter.
The thing will crunch away and eventually come out with an answer.
Go 2nd+Enter. This screwed my calc big style. (I had to take ALL batteries out then force-install the OS again).

Didn't we already discuss this when the TI-PLC news was released? Oh well...

Does anyone know why RAM Recovery doesn't work on OS 1.13???

you are probably on an 83+ rather than SE, and one ram version had a bug where some programs, run in an infinite loop calling themselves, prgmV and prgmU worked well, would not display memory error after 400 or so loops, but instead garble up the screen, load an app, or do any number of weird things. I think I will code a program like:

ei
ld h,r ;random
HALT ;random delay time, untill next interrupt
ld l,r ;random again
jp hl ;random jump

No...I have an 83+ SE...with OS 1.13 and IT STILL DOESN'T WORK!!! AHHHHH!!!

Interesting program...

When you have it enabled, you must turn the calc off/on to have it save the ram. Then, when your ram gets cleared or whatever, you must reinstall omnicalc and quit. then press [prgm] twice and press left (I think) to get to the ram recovery thing. paste it to the screen, and put a number (see below), then press enter

it'll look like:
ramrecover(0)

I know that, I did that, and IT STILL DOESN'T WORK!!! AHHHHH!!!

Anyone know why my 83 plus rom version 1.13 OS doesn't work on virtual ti?

I only see the skin for 83 plus and pressing on doesn't work!!!!!

However, my rom version 1.03 OS for 83 plus works on the virtual ti :P

1.14 won't work either...

Thought you should know.

VTI is only compatible with 1.12 and lower (1.12 was the latest one when it was released)

VTI doesn't work with my ti 89 rom version 2.05. when itcomes on the calc loads then says deleting expired apps and does noting after that.

i e-mailed some guy that designed it or something and he never replied

It does work I have a TI-89 with 2.05 ROM VERSION. I use TI graph link and sometimes ti connect. I have Windows XP home and VTI works perfectly fine.

ya well i have the planets oldest computer with windows 95 :(

Ha! mine's older. I have 3.1.

that isn't exactly someting to be proud of.

anyway, the computer is still a piece of crap

Your still using a 486?????

Yeah, my old computer had 3.1. Then, about a six months ago, my mom gave me hers and she got a new one. now I have windows 98.

Win98 is EVEN WORSE than Win95! It runs really slowly! I use Win2K on my PC- 166MHz, 64M RAM, 40GB HDD- Graphlink doesn't work on it, nor does DEVPAC8X!

Damn! Cuss!

Hey! My Win98 works nice!

LONG LIVE NORTON ANTIVIRUS 2001! IT SAVED US FROM THE EVIL KLEZ VIRUS!

PYRAMID!

I Agree. Win98 Is just awesome, and Norton AntiVirus saved my dad's computer from some weird Bios-deleting
virus that will kill your computer, and display a nasty
message that makes fun of the person using the computer by calling them a P.O.S. It is GREAT with its nice 5000-virus dictionary too.

Uhh. when I typed the last sentence I meant Norton AntiVirus...not the virus or Win98.

WINDOWS 98 SE IS THE BEST THING MICROSOFT EVER MADE
WINDOWS ME WAS MICROSOFTS CLAIM TO SHAME
WINDOWS XP IS TOO WEIRD AND BLOATY
my oldest computer is a 286 wth a beta version of windows 1.0

You're right, Win98 is probably the best system that Microsoft made (I haven't tried out XP yet). I think that Win 3.1 is the most stable, though the oldest.

you can change the scheme of XP to the original Windows look. You're right though, 3.1 was definitely the most stable.

I would have to say Windows 2.1 is the most stable.

Hey, could you e-mail me the beta Windows 1.0? I have never been able to find that! BTW, WinME isn't bad if you use 98lite!

I think your computer barely meets Win98's system requirements.

Uh, no. Win98 requires a 486DX2-66, 16 MB RAM...

Oh yeah, I have an 8008 with DOS 3.0 and Windows 1.01!!

Yes, it does work. I have a TI-89 2.05 and it works great!

ya'll are all wrong!!! vti works with SE only, and works fine with mine. However, does anyone know why switching between the 1st and 2nd calc causes the x coordinate to increase by 1?

Yeah, after I read that post, I found a website that had the same bug. I was just typing yours in wrong. Well, it's really cool! It totally messed up everything. HAHA! That would be really awesome to do that to a friend's (or enemie's) calculator!

It works. It just says ERR:MEMORY after like 10 times (I checked, I have 24k free)

Yeah, but push Y=, or try deleting the Y-vars or stuff like that. FUN!

doesn't work on an old-school 83

try this
make a new program:
FDCB12FE
C9
End
0000
End

start with Send(9prgmNAME and press ALPHA :D

What does it do?

okay, that's not too bad

I've made programs like that, but this one did nothing. A version of Solytaire messed up my 83 pretty badly though.

w00t it even worked on VTI! (RAM CLEAR!)

Who???

If it's Daniel Moore I'm going to give him a piece of my mind and then mess up his 86.

Nice guess, Kiran!
He used to be like that...but now.....???

THEN WHO IS IT??? Oh well...i'll still give Daniel a piece of my mind and mess up his 86. BUT WHO IS IT?

I can't reply, it's against the AUP.

OH YEAH!?
I know where you live...

And what the w00t! is AUP???