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

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There was this one kid at my school who kept wanting wolfenstein for their calculator. He kept annoying me, so I said I would make it. I made a title screen for the game but, I wrote a bunch of crap ASM, it didn't make sense, and I used TI-83 equates with a TI-83+. I gave it to him said it was wolfenstein. He believed me, ran it, and it fried his ram. That is how you make a virus in ASM, crap commands with equates from another calculator. Say it's a cool game, and watch them freak out.

THat's a trojan horse. they are MUCh easier to make, but they only last as long as your credibility. :)
PS: Did it erase the ram, or really fry it (blue smoke)?

It erased the ram and messed up the program list. Until they took out the batteries.

It erased the ram and messed up the program list. Until they took out the batteries, twice and waited like an hour.

There was this one kid at my school - And there was this one time at band camp....

Sorry actually I take that back - it doesn't bear thinking about.

I thougt it was odd when I brought my 83+ to band camp, let alonme two people...

I brought my 86 to band camp, but just because we were going on a field trip at a school an hour away. This kid looked over and saw me playing mario and just started laughing.

Well? did you do the 'just never'-done thing with your calc.

First post of the day! YAY!
PARADE for breaking others' calcs!

w00t!

PARADE!

PARADE!

Hi,
im in grade 5 and i have a ti-83+, and i know how to program it. my friend has one too. We know alot already because my older brother is a ti-83+ genius who taught us (and he's a programmer). It's sure easier to learn when you have a brother to help. I really don't have any good reason to mess up or destroy my brother's or friend's calc

One sec. - he's your brother.
Christ! that's reason enough isn't it.

You don't need to be a genius to program in BASIC. :) (I could in 5th grade and look how stupid I am! lol)

Yea! i'm stupider and i've been programming in BASIC [Beginner's Allpurpose Symbolic Instruction Code] on an Apple //C since I was FIVE years old!

A easy way to crash someone's calc is to make the following prog:
PROGRAM:????????
:Asmprog
:

then run it using Asm(prgm????????)

Also to really mess up a calculator, sa a "School" calc, press down really hard on the LCD screen. It leaves a blueish haze, forever.

leaving it in the ram test when you get ready to leave is fun too ;)

How do you start the ram selftest?

On an 83, 83+, or an 86:
Press [MODE], then [ALPHA] S. Then press Enter. Then sit back and watch the numbers increase. :)

It works on all Z80 calcs, except for the 73 I think...

How long does it take?

I haven't figured out yet. Me and Charlemagne tried to do it on the school 83s during our math exams, and we got up to 256, but by that time we had to leave for our next class. So for both of us, the question is yet to be answered...w00t!

I got it to 1000 once

It would be funny if it ran until an overflow error :)

Remember: normal things stop being funny quickly...

i started it last night, and i stoped it at like 35,000 which says that its not (only) a ram test. did you know that you can get to a grafix test and a key test by pressing on?

Yeah, there's like three diff ones.

it tests the ram and rom more than once. search the assembly 83 mailing list archives for more info

I once left a school calc doing it in a drawer for winter vacation. The batteries died.

I got it to 35,000

I think to do it on a 73, you need to use MEM alpha 1 or something like that, I can't really remember

If only it were a purple haze.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

If you wanna kiss the sky, ya better learn how to kneel (on your knees boy).-U2