My parents were so proud when I asked for a calculator for my b-day. I had a lot of fun playing drug wars in class. Thanks mom!

@justhereforjokesdave1004

3 жыл бұрын

Goat 🐐!

@cnmpscy34

3 жыл бұрын

lmao

@mechacode8527

3 жыл бұрын

Respect

@TheOfficialTTGMedia

3 жыл бұрын

Hey son I'm your mom I wondered why you wanted that lmao! Joke I'm actually a male lmao

@pogkakuna3429

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheOfficialTTGMedia The Tech Mom

"Dad, can I have a Gameboy for Christmas?" -No, it will take you away from your studies." "So... What about a calculator?" -Sure, why not?

@rishigaming9708

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@HoloScope

3 жыл бұрын

hehe boi

@randominternetguy3537

3 жыл бұрын

Good luck getting them to pay 200+ for a calculator.

@thepioneer1525

2 жыл бұрын

@Meproi Studios *facepalm*

@he-man4076

2 жыл бұрын

@Meproi Studios the nspire calculators do not have built-in speakers

On my TI Voyage 200, I wrote a program in Basic which I had to learn by googling. It calculated molecule stuff for Chemistry class. Before one exam, I showed it to my teacher and explained to him how I did it. I was then officially allowed to use the program in the exam, which is quite unbelievable. But I argued that in order to write the program, I obviously had to have understood the topic and math behind it - which could easily be demonstrated by going through the source code. And he agreed. Those memories I will never forget.

@SyphistPrime

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, sounds like a good teacher. Not all of them understand what you need to know to write a program. Even if they didn't allow it, programming the concepts into a tool is a great way to study that concept.

@owenevilmakings5433

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t get it; he was allowed to use the program on the exam, so what was he/she arguing for after?

@b1g_c0ck

2 жыл бұрын

@@owenevilmakings5433 I think that was the argument, that granted him the use. I used to code a little program which calculates every formula around linear algebra we knew back then I never asked for permission, but I sold it to my classmates for 0,50€. I thought it was like cheating, so I stopped doing it afterwards. But I see your point because it was my best math test ever.

@moltengears7483

Жыл бұрын

“Molecule stuff” is too vague. So your either lying to sound smart or are just being vague

@Nitidus

Жыл бұрын

@@moltengears7483 Maybe there exist non-native English speakers in the world who cannot be bothered to look into a dictionary each time they're unsure of a certain terminology. Guess I can take it as a compliment that you didn't think of this as a possibility... because you're surely not just being an ignorant dick

And this is why "Doom on a Calculator" is such a long running meme

@truechillboi2967

2 жыл бұрын

it is possible tho. u can play gba games, and doom Is on the gba

@TheXtremeBoltGuy

2 жыл бұрын

@@truechillboi2967 exactly

@dsnein

2 жыл бұрын

Doom and legend of Zelda ran on the TI83+ . GBA versions are overkill and require the nspire line. Surprised this info didn’t make the video.

@bonkmaster8792

Жыл бұрын

Doom rpg on a calculator is the best

Her: "Oh you're a gamer? What's your favorite console?" Me: "...calculator"

@gamertygonl

4 жыл бұрын

I think a calculator is a handheld

@insanewarden6739

4 жыл бұрын

I think it should be reversed

@allencarlo6798

4 жыл бұрын

kodoku nai I like your profile pic

@lhersh5256

4 жыл бұрын

This is lol

@ramengamer1389

4 жыл бұрын

dang stronger than my gba

I used to charge a dollar each to write Drug Wars to everyone's calculator back in school. Good memories.

@sentigosedge8510

2 жыл бұрын

is that true can i write could on a sharp calaulator

@a.k.aorangepenguin5032

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds interesting, care to show a bit of gameplay?

@maul_360

2 жыл бұрын

Youngin

@nicemr.ketchup7783

2 жыл бұрын

You were technically selling drugs, in game form

@osdreadlord3205

2 жыл бұрын

Same. 🤣🤣

I remember I really struggled with matrix operations in my Algebra II class, long ago, and ended up writing dozens of programs in TI-basic to solve the most common (and less common) problems. I had a late crisis of conscience, and just before taking my final, I revealed to my teacher what I'd done and asked if it would be okay. To his credit, he let me walk him through those programs- and then with a funny grin on his face, said that was just fine and I could use my tools for the test. I realize, now, that my writing those programs was all the demonstration he needed that I had learned what I needed to learn.

@BSingh-on4qr

5 күн бұрын

Wholesome story

The cx II works now! I recommend buying this one, it's a bit more expensive, but its improved cpu is able to run games at a faster speed, so snes and gba games are perfectly playable

@SoundSpeeding

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the update!

@miamc4602

2 жыл бұрын

picodrive and quake run great too

@wyatt1019

2 жыл бұрын

How does a ti84 plus ce compare to the cx II?

@BavarianM

2 жыл бұрын

@@wyatt1019 The ti84 CE is obsolete for gaming it's basically a 90s calculator on a new shell with a new screen I'd avoid and get the Nspire CX II or buy a TI89 Titanium/ Voyage 200 used for far less

@Myst3YT

2 жыл бұрын

@@wyatt1019 Why bother with a non CAS calculator at this point? Either get a Ti-36X Pro or a Nspire/HP Prime. No real reason to pay CAS calculator prices for a non-CAS calculator when you can get a 36X Pro that has even more functionality than the 84 in some use cases.

This guy just downloaded a computer onto his calculator just to open the calculator app 😂

@UnitSe7en

4 жыл бұрын

No, no he didn't. He downloaded an _operating system_ to run on his computer that poses as a calculator. The computer is hardware. You can't download hardware. The more you know...

@memes_gbc674

4 жыл бұрын

@Huy Hang r/iamverysmart*

@novacle8614

4 жыл бұрын

@@memes_gbc674 lol

@SimilakChild

4 жыл бұрын

@@UnitSe7en There was no point of correcting his sentence.

@Lordecai

4 жыл бұрын

r/ihatewhenpplexpressthemselvesincomments

Imagine sitting behind someone in math and they whip out Tetris on a 1.5" long screen

@meh5812

4 жыл бұрын

would sit and watch

@werr3222werrr

4 жыл бұрын

*long*

@joepoelmans5910

4 жыл бұрын

So long as the teacher doesnt catch them and decide their grade based on if they beat tetris or not. No pressure or anything lol

@notjacob53

4 жыл бұрын

I actually played tetris in algebra-I a while ago

@tuliphours

4 жыл бұрын

this happened to me today so thats why i came to this video to find out how he was playing on a calculator

How did you skip the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition successfully running Pokemon Blue/Red/Green/Yellow on some models? What an achievement. They were entirely playable but only on certain models that had more ram than others.

@DisneyParkers

Жыл бұрын

Definitely did this!

@VinnytotheK

Жыл бұрын

Yeah idk why he skipped over the TI-84 series... I had Fruit Ninja on my base TI-84!

@TankEngine75

10 ай бұрын

The TI-Nspire can run GBA games so you can run Gen 3 in the TI-nspire

The first time I ever held a graphing calculator, It felt just right in my hands, and I understood immediately why the game boy was so beloved. Now i’m thinking about trying to find a good graphing calculator (relatively cheaply, oof) so I can play games on it. Also for math class, so it’s doubly important! :)

@katherinelorenzo4359

2 жыл бұрын

I do own 1 nspire CX ? Leave me a message for your thoughts about having again ? I'm also thinking about selling my own 1. Thanks ☺️

I remember when I installed Tetris on my TI-84 Plus CE, my teacher saw me using it while she was lecturing and said "put down your calculator, I know you're playing that fun game haha"

@juaquiqui-kun4333

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@GraineagGaming

2 жыл бұрын

This puts memories for me too, especially after i switched schools where the fellow students only had a CASIO graphic calculator. I felt like a god among others for what my TI-83 could do and play when the others could just, well, calculate graphs. A calculator i still own and use to this day. Not just for gaming.

@conze3029

2 жыл бұрын

I had a similar situation, except with my teacher helping me install games on my calculator

@yeety1208

2 жыл бұрын

lol i have a classic nspire and once the maths teacher walked past and said 'thats a cool calculator' (most people in my class have casio fx83 or 85 or 991) and the person beside me told the teacher that i could play games on it and the teacher was like 'oh thats cool'

@C_Yo

2 жыл бұрын

​@@ChristianPlushVideos L + ratio + didn't ask + no u + touch grass + not everyone has the same religion

Introducing Skyrim Calculator Edition "It just works"

@talentlessasian330

4 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/i4SCktOhg9y9qZs.html

@Kromiball

4 жыл бұрын

Is that a Jojo refference?

@Kromiball

4 жыл бұрын

Is that a Jojo refference?

@Magestig

4 жыл бұрын

@@Kromiball *sigh* _Can you not._

@reddytoplay9188

4 жыл бұрын

@@Kromiball is this repeat a jojo reference?(diavolo repeating).

PC in 2021: I'm the strongest Calculator in 2050: laughs at RTX

The first time I saw a graphing calculator and saw it draw a curve, I thought that maybe it was possible to make an animation on it. I did not know people programmed full on GAMES on it. And I appreciate the persistence of those people to keep trying to overcome the resistance the company kept throwing their way.

@casedistorted

11 ай бұрын

I remember seeing my friends in high school (early 2000's) playing games on their TI calculators. I set to figuring out how to do it, did exactly like in this video, and used that ZShell website. It was such a fun time with Newgrounds and pre-youtube before Google ruled the world.

@Rotwold

9 ай бұрын

Most likely used a computer for a full fledged game but pong wouldn't be too hard to write out and compiled on the calc. I'm thinking about purchasing a graphical calculator, partly to finish math courses for higher education and do some programming on it!

Teacher sees me typing and making a lot of noise on my calculator Me: Sorry, I was just doing some INTENSE calculations. :)

@uhhhhhh6919

4 жыл бұрын

The Advocate you tried with the pfp

@micahconnor8954

4 жыл бұрын

@@uhhhhhh6919 dude get back to making heaven or something

@uhhhhhh6919

4 жыл бұрын

Micah Connor nah I got bored, I reserved a place in hell for you, though.

@sebastianw.6637

4 жыл бұрын

@@uhhhhhh6919 I'm so sorry but I don't believe in you, I believe in the force

@Sp_ark.

4 жыл бұрын

Your thumbnail made me think there was a hair on my screen

Calculator hackers be like: yo dawg, i heard you like calculators so we put calculator inside a calculator so you can calculate while you calculate

@kataokasaga

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha!

@ralphb446

3 жыл бұрын

Pleassssse Pijen! Pimp my Calculator!!! Can’t wait to see what Mad Mike will do with it 😆

@zherean42069

3 жыл бұрын

Lemme download a calculator in to a calculator in to a calculator in to a calculator in to a calculator in to a calculator in to a calculator in to a calculator in to a calculator into my calculator

@Laurabeck329

3 жыл бұрын

This feels like something Matt Parker would do

@1samc

3 жыл бұрын

🤯🤯

Very cool man, glad you unlocked some high school memories. Keep making great content!

This brings me back to high school days. I loved playing mini-games on my TI-83 at the end of physics class junior year!

Mojang should make an official Minecraft calculator edition Y'all wanted me to remove the edit so here u go

@LunarEclypse

4 жыл бұрын

There is a game called crafti on the to nspire cx

@overfoxed

4 жыл бұрын

there is a 2d Minecraft for calculators, but it sucks... first of all 2d minecraft is bad as it is. the cursor is hard to get used to. the mobs can glitch through walls and kill you. creative mode is the only cool part, because you can basically draw things using Minecraft blocks. it takes up way too much space as well, but honestly the person who worked on it clearly spent a lot of time, so ill give em credit.

@LunarEclypse

4 жыл бұрын

@@overfoxed too much space on a calculator with 100mb of soace???

@Sqaaakoi

4 жыл бұрын

@@LunarEclypse its shown in the video

@dec5847

4 жыл бұрын

@@LunarEclypse Are you implying that 100mb is a lot of space?

10:26 "No doubt, at least a few who got their start writing simple games to play during class were inspired to become professional software developers". Whew, that hit me in the feels...literally my story.

@nessessary2591

Жыл бұрын

Damn, I hope your travels go well

@-Teague-

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome! Good job!

@MadCowMusic

11 ай бұрын

LOL! Same! I also have a friend that discovered his natural talents for programming on a TI-83. He was trying to clone Halo 2 and ended up creating a really cool map that generated unique mountain ranges.

8:49 A calculator inside a Calculator! (I guess it's not that weird)

Never thought I'd find a 11 minute video of calculators properly interesting. Great video

They’ve banned phones completely from my school, so I guess this a loophole. Those teachers will never see it coming.

@truthbetold89

3 жыл бұрын

Why don't you just study instead

@acatthatmakeseclairs5416

3 жыл бұрын

*human* I don’t think I’ve made it clear enough- they’ve banned phones _completely_ , meaning we aren’t even able to use them during breaks. Also just because we’re at school doesn’t mean we work and study 100% of the time- heck after we’ve done our yearly examinations most students _and teachers_ don’t do any focused studying for the rest of the year. I’m not even mentioning that it’s not just phones that are banned, but every electronic device- no smart watches, laptops, iPads, Nintendo switches, not even old gaming devices such as gamboys are allowed. There are _way_ more rules but I think you get it.

@acatthatmakeseclairs5416

3 жыл бұрын

@@TechXTech91 I’m sorry but I live under a rock, so what exactly is a calculator emulator?

@TechXTech91

3 жыл бұрын

@@acatthatmakeseclairs5416 Exactly as it sounds. Its an emulator, much like a game boy emulator or N64 emulator on PC, but for TI calculators, on phones or PC.

@acatthatmakeseclairs5416

3 жыл бұрын

@@TechXTech91 honestly I had no idea what an _emulator_ was, I know now so that’s fine, but yeah that’s way easier than doing all the stuff in the video.

they are so expensive because instructors are groomed to make them required, just like specific books.

@huejass8932

5 жыл бұрын

They broke into the market by offering the software for Schools for free then forcing the cost onto students when they were required to purchase the calculators. This is how Casio and HP were locked out and almost non existent in the school calculator market. There's an in-depth video on it.

@EdgeRatedR007

5 жыл бұрын

Paul Bondarev Yep. I’ve seen it too. Very sneaky considering that Casio had a superior calculator.

@marianoaldogaston

5 жыл бұрын

@@huejass8932 in some country HP was the standard and you can´t even get a TI

@Mattchu.the.Pikachu

5 жыл бұрын

I'm 25 and the t-83 is what got me into programming. my first game was given to all my classmates to such success the school ordered everyone delete off their calculators. it was a simple platformer that generated random levels using the same code from a probability calculator app to generate the random levels. it was simple but got us thru math class.

@JoeyJoeJoeJoeJoe

5 жыл бұрын

@@huejass8932 Can you hook me up with the video please?

Ah, I remember the fun I had with my nspire when I was in school. I was the only one in my class with one, and I feel like that wouldn't have been the case if my classmates knew just how capable it was. It was fun being able to take my test using my calculator, then play pokemon on it immediately afterwards. Even had a dual-boot system on it that could boot it in CAS or non-CAS mode, although I mostly had that simply because I could, and because I found the thought of being able to upgrade my calculator just like that funny.

Been a while since I've watched your videos, and the perfect video popped up in my recommended, thanks man!

@alvallac2171

2 ай бұрын

*recommendations

9:00 *Thanos: I used the calculator to download the calculator*

@talentlessasian330

4 жыл бұрын

What did it cost?

@aaronjoosepsepp

4 жыл бұрын

Neal [NWL] a calculator for a calculator

@redget240

4 жыл бұрын

Heh

@petermin7567

4 жыл бұрын

Thanos: They called me a mad man

@aaronking2020

4 жыл бұрын

@@talentlessasian330 and overpriced calculator

FACT: TI-82 is stronger than the computer that calculated the exact course to the Moon.

@RamathRS

Жыл бұрын

And that doesn't raise some questions?...

@yeahuh4128

Жыл бұрын

​@@RamathRS at that time, the best supercomputers were worse than a TI-82.

@mrsmoothbrain9589

Жыл бұрын

@@yeahuh4128 crazy how tecchnology has advanced

@Rickandmorty_com

Жыл бұрын

cz nobody went to the moon lol

@mrsmoothbrain9589

Жыл бұрын

@@Rickandmorty_com good one

I had a TI-84 Pulse SE in high school. Boy I loved that thing. A bunch of us collaborated to make a program with all our physics formulas and we shared with with anyone who had a TI-83 and above. Made that class much easier. I put so many games on it as well, including a "port" of fruit ninja. In collage I had the Nspire-CX. Doom and the PDF viewer saved my sanity and my grades.

This video was awe-inspiring. I did not know people were capable of coding at this level back then. I did not even know what coding was during that time.

This is the type of super specific niche type of video that nobody else is doing on youtube that made me subscribe in the first place. Great video

@SCARRIOR

5 жыл бұрын

Niche is the ultimate word to make your nanna cringe

@fandangobrandango7864

5 жыл бұрын

SCARRIOR “cringe” isn’t much better.

@vishp47

5 жыл бұрын

Low spec gamer has a vid on this that's pretty good. He shows a couple of games like Tetris and Wolfenstein

@sophie-144p7

4 жыл бұрын

In my school these calculators are mandatory and it didn't take long until most people had games on them

@guiwald

4 жыл бұрын

Programming on calculator is not niche for kids of the 80s :p

-Downloads a PC OS on a Calculator. -Opens Calculator app.

@STANKYCHEEZEMAYNE

4 жыл бұрын

- Type BOOBS

@_bit_

3 жыл бұрын

Mac os

@cherrypepsi2815

3 жыл бұрын

Some guy put windows 10 iot on an HP calculator lol

@michealpersicko9531

3 жыл бұрын

@@_bit_ still a personal computer though. Calling it Mac os doesn't negate that fact lol. Mac OS is nothing special so why not make PC OS the generic term for computer operating systems.

@charliekahn4205

2 жыл бұрын

@@michealpersicko9531 Mac OS runs on a custom kernel and graphics system based on BSD. Windows runs on its own libraries built from the ground up. They're completely different software, targeted to the same architecture.

Yep I had a Ti82 in school and would write basic games and other programs. I wish I had some of the slightly more powerful models now but this model was enough to get me fully interested in programming. Great video.

Oh. My gosh. This is amazing! 😲 I didn't even think it was possible

I spent the majority of my HS time (and math classes) programing these. I started with Basic and quickly moved to ASM. I wish I still had the source for some of the games I wrote. Mostly RPG's and ways to manage memory. I built and wrote a memory extender using a serial//ttl driven flash chip, and even built a 2400 baud modem I could plug in to the serial port. I would sit in the back of my math class near the exposed patch panel on wall, Aligator clip to the panel and surf Local BBS's on my TI-85 during the class. Nothing says nerd like playing TradeWars or L.O.R.D on a T-85.

@imoscared

4 жыл бұрын

what a true gamer

@ZedaZ80

4 жыл бұрын

I'm also curious ^. I saw the outlines of some pretty cool projects like that, but never actually "met" someone who did; that's snazzy as heck (to give an idea of how far it has come, last night someone had a webserver on their TI-84+CE. Kids these days.)

@Ibhenriksen

4 жыл бұрын

9th nerdiest post in the history of KZread.

@jhowardsupporter

4 жыл бұрын

I use to sell these in school. $150 - $200 per unit. We could pick any lock. 2 man job. First my friends goes and picks all the locks then I go take all the calculators. In high school everybody knew if you want a calculator come see me and I'll do you a good price.

@bruhmoment4378

3 жыл бұрын

Please tell me how you did this. I’d like to try dialing in to a bbs on a calculator

Basically the cost comes from.... 1. 1990s Calculater war. 2. TI gets contract with government to write standards for calculator operation for the classroom. 3. TI proceeds to make a product that fits that standard exactly. 4. PATENTS the design made accordance to their recommendations. 5. PROFIT.

@tibfulv

4 жыл бұрын

So basically the setup for part of Demolition Man? :D

@Adamsnadler214

4 жыл бұрын

The calculator war was in the 70s

Next to playing games, I wrote programs on my TI-89 to help with equations & various other things in Calculus...was pretty cool what you could do with these calculators

Mom can I have a phone Mom: we have a phone at home Phone at home:

@someone6101

4 жыл бұрын

That doesnt make sense lol

@Sqvce

4 жыл бұрын

@@someone6101 wdym the phone at home is the calculator thats the whole joke r/woooooosh

@brodyfiorito5685

4 жыл бұрын

romelian or Me:

@kateonkeys1414

4 жыл бұрын

@@someone6101 the phone at home is the calculator and that is the joke lol

@someone6101

4 жыл бұрын

@@Sqvce Oh thanks xD i didnt understand that, and I still dont!

Wish the more affordable casio calculators had a community

@s8wc3

5 жыл бұрын

There were plenty of games for the Casio's we had at school, but yeah not as many as a TI would have. Likely because afaik TI's are the standard in schools in the USA, whereas here in Aus we use whatever.

@0ia

5 жыл бұрын

They do.

@skatcat743

5 жыл бұрын

@@0ia I guess I should have said as large as the TI community

@medz3398

5 жыл бұрын

s8wc3 in Melbourne all our text books referenced the ti calculators. I graduated in 2006.

@jettturbo1496

4 жыл бұрын

@@medz3398 Dam your old as &*+t

I watched this video somewhere 1 or 2 years ago, this inspired me to get a graphing calculator. I now have 2, 1 more powerful, with a ROMhack of Mario, called Oiram, and a less powerful one to be borrowed mostly. Thank you man for making me inspired.

@SomeoneOnTheInternet855

9 ай бұрын

The TI-84 Plus CE Python I used, has Mario.

Appreciate your Ndless video 😄 thumb up for you, as you just recalled some Golden memories.

Finally a video that actually talks about the community and its relationahip with TI, instead of just saying "oooo look, mario on my CE". Props to the creator for actually doing his research.

@ZedaZ80

4 жыл бұрын

ö womp womp

9:00 , a calculator inside a calculator CALCULATORSCEPTION

@booboo699254

4 жыл бұрын

And displays BOOBS (58008)

@rosettasupremacy4232

4 жыл бұрын

That is recursion.

@snakeysilvestregamer7736

4 жыл бұрын

But then you could copy the calculator in that’s cauclator

@friendlysurveillancecamera6507

4 жыл бұрын

🤑🤑

@johnlucas463

4 жыл бұрын

Calculator inside Minecraft inside Minecraft inside a calculator

When I was student at University, I learnt to code on Matlab. I quickly managed to try these code on my then old TI 89. I realised then how powerful and deep was the code language of this calculator !

When I was growing up in high school playing video games on the calculator was an amazing experience. I once was given a TI calculator and I had a game running on it once but it wasn't always a great experience given it's limitations.

Introducing: GTA V Calculator Edition “Expanded and Enhanced”.

@batman_2004

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao.

@triobros98

2 жыл бұрын

Hmmm

1,900s: By the early 2,000s, we will have flying cars. Early 2,000s: Calculator that opens a calculator app.

@TFD500Official

4 жыл бұрын

It's genius

@toone1562

4 жыл бұрын

Doont put commas

@johnlucas463

4 жыл бұрын

@@toone1562 i think in Europe . = ,

@crackulus

3 жыл бұрын

We have now flying cars

@NiffirgkcaJ

3 жыл бұрын

@@johnlucas463 he meant that when you write in years, there's no comma~

The 83 brings back so many memories. I remember programming in a useless program from the manual which drew sierpinski's triangle or whatever it was called.

I still have my old TI-83 plus.. I actually came across it the other day and it still worked and still had some of my old games and programs on there.. haha.. good times

Opens calculator on a calculator The snow is snowier then before.

@JustJaidenism

3 жыл бұрын

The KPBS Is Also WPBS, Which Is Also PBS.

zshell. That brings back memories. A guy in my pre-calculus class had a nervous breakdown during a midterm when he realized that the modifications he put in place so that he could play games was returning incorrect results for trigonometric functions. Luckily our prof was old school and insisted that we all be able to do the work without the use of calculators and he didn't end up failing the class.

@ephesus

Жыл бұрын

I would be really interested to see what modifications he made, since zshell only overwrote one address in the ROM to add a jump directly to RAM where zshell was stored as a string variable. It shouldn't affect other ROM routines like built in math functions.

I played countless hours of Tetris in high school on my TI-83 Plus. Great memories!

That was very informative and well articulated. Great job, This Does Not Compute!

Thank you TI for making my math and chemistry lessons less boring....and for giving me the passion for programming :)

Him: Opens Calculator on MacOS on a calculator Me: *trying not to have a seizure*

This brings back memories. I programmed a number of simple games in Basic on my TI-86 which I'd waste time in class with. I still have it, but I have no doubts that the battery backup has died, taking the games with it.

I was born too late for the Commodores or Apple IIs, but my trusty old TI-83+ taught me the joys of BASIC and foundational programming skills that I still use today. All during other more boring classes, of course!

My Ti-83 is to thank for my passion of programing. I nerded out for years on that thing.

@magreger

4 жыл бұрын

@@StrawberryKitten ok

I never thought I would be so interested in a calculator 😂lol

@xsvmyx7595

4 жыл бұрын

Its a graphic calculator programmable.... It is very fun At classroom😅but the price of this machine is very very high (could be 180 $) for just a calculator

@hamdanahmed8751

4 жыл бұрын

Tbh, me too

@natureportal9285

4 жыл бұрын

Ikr

Do you remember synthetic programming on a HP41, where you can create whole new machine code out of text strings by deleting the string marker code at the beginning of a string? They had an extra rare module to do that.

Very informative video. You did a great job in presenting those information.

I like mini documentaries on subjects like this. It's an original concept on KZread, where you always see the same topics over and over. Especially when it comes to gaming.

@-Teague-

Жыл бұрын

We need more niche minidocs!

"The TI-83 Model was Launched in 1996" Woah, my school needs to upgrade their technology

This is such a healthy community I love coders for this ❤️

Ndless now supports also the newest models (CX II and CX II-T) with 5.2 and 5.3 OS. It runs very well 😁

Wow, what a great video! You did a great job capturing the roughly five-year period between 1995 and 2000 where the TI calculator landscape was the cutting edge of hacking for high school students! I remember many nights staying up way too late on ICQ chatting with others in the TI community about some new upcoming game or shell!

Excellent video! Programming TI-BASIC and Z80 assembly on the early TI calculators was fun. These machines were slow and underpowered, but much like the early days of home computing, the limitations of the hardware fostered remarkable creativity in budding programmers.

@Tehblood

5 жыл бұрын

Some of the first coding I ever did.

@charliekahn4205

2 жыл бұрын

I wish it came with string-based differentiation by default. Would have been way faster.

I had a Casio. Made a real time fighting game on it without any knowledge of how to code or else. Those class where teachers were just reading a book was where I did that. It was fun and eventually made me want to learn more about code and stuff

@-Teague-

Жыл бұрын

That's awesome! Do you still code?

Subsequent models made it progressively easier to write software in assembly though TI never made much available in terms of documentation. Enthusiasts still had to pull a lot together on their own but the time period of the late 90’s still managed to become a bit of a golden era in calculator gaming. Some were re-creations of well known titles like Tetris while others were original to the platform.

I have a TI-84 that I’ve used for classes since high school, knew some games were stored in memory, but as a computer and game console enthusiast, I’m absolutely blown away by the support of a device that I thought to be primitive. Really impressed, wondering what I can do with mine now!

I am a developer full time, I caught the big of coding from my ti83 back in 1996 for pre-calculus. I owe my awesome life to Texas Instruments.

I was an intern in the TI calculator group in the mid-1990s. One of the things that I worked on was a proof-of-concept of getting GCC to cross-compile to the 68K-based TI-89/TI-92. TI still had the mentality of a hardware company selling consumer electronics, rather than a software company building a platform for third-party developers, though, and as the video says, never followed through with delivering an SDK.

I had a ti89 and the ecosystem was huge. There was a dedicated launcher for asm apps that acted as a kind of basic os gui layer, and all it took was running an internal program to jailbreak the calc. You also could do greyscales which the calc couldn't natively. I even made a diamonds clone in C and a music partition editor that could play music through the serial port. That was a lot of fun.

@valdir7426

Жыл бұрын

Crazy thing is some people even developed an entire alternative OS for it. It was experimental but could run most programs.

God this is nostalgic. I used to write games for my TI-83+ all the time back in high school ...

You forgot to mention the most important fact, some models are accepted at exams... so obviously students found ways to use them to cheat. I loved to use my 89 to help me remember formulas and stuff. The most extreme trick I remember was to put an 89 board into an 83 case, because the 83 was accepted but the 89 wasn’t, as it had a lot more memory.

I remember a couple of years ago while solving an engineering exam, everyone in the class had a TI nspire CX CAS, wheter their own or borrowed from another student...I was the only one using a CASIO fx570...and as you can imagine I failed myserably due to time restrictions, I had to calculate all the matrix on paper and obsviously many students just saved pdf files with the notes in those calculators...

I loved programming on my TI-85 device, it was pretty much like all basic language. Recently i found my calculator in the storage and i thought it would be a breeze to install software but didn't work well with my modern laptops. I was glad to find a DOS transfer program that worked with my Compag LTE laptop and i was back installing my zshell games.

This brings back memories of me and my friend spending HOURS in class recreating tetris on the TI-83.

Calculator: *open calculator in a jailbroken os* Calculator: am I joke to you?

@oreo5892

4 жыл бұрын

Confusion 100

@manaswini6733

3 жыл бұрын

Wht

@PKSuperStar256

3 жыл бұрын

I never thought I would see a user with a Neptune profile picture in this comment section. Yes, you "Atomiz".

When I was in highschool and moved on to classes that needed a graphing calculator, my mom couldn’t afford a TI-83 or TI-84, so my first ever graphing calculator was a TI-82. That calculator got me through algebra 2 and physics, but ended up dying, and I was able to borrow my neighbor’s TI-85, which I remember being significantly different software-wise from the 82 and even the 83 and 84 variants.

Damn this brought me back.. 35 now and player a Mario game on the ti that had a level builder with it so you could make levels for the Mario game. Literally was all I did for some classes for years

I've been a programmer my whole career and it all started for me on my TI-83 Plus in middle school. I used to make games in TI-Basic and shared them with my friends and even carried around the reference manual for the calculator like a real nerd. I even tried to get into programming assembly for the z80 but it was a bit over my head as a kid. I didn't realize at the time you could write C and target for z80. I wouldn't be where I am today if I hadn't started on that TI-83 Plus though!

No Drug Wars? How can you have a history of TI gaming without Drug Wars?

@CommodoreFan64

5 жыл бұрын

Very well said, I think that was one of the most important games back in the day.

@brucebutkus1251

5 жыл бұрын

He kinda glossed over that early 2000s era

@sorenkair

4 жыл бұрын

dwarf fortress

@CommodoreFan64

4 жыл бұрын

@@brucebutkus1251 more like the mid - late 90's era.

@sparkylc2gaming176

4 жыл бұрын

idk

It may sound corny but, i like this! Great Intro it bring us into your page smoothly. Gigantic show. View generating your series! Keep up and up. I'll leave the door on the latch if you ever comeback?

I used to code extensively for the 83 over two decades ago. Learned about assembly and efficient code on that thing. Also the "Send(9prgmPROGRAMNAME" command will launch assembly directly. No shell needed. Good video. It was truly a golden age for calculators. At my school, the gifted math students were given 92+ models. Those ran doom lol.

@armyofninjas9055

Жыл бұрын

Never had an 84. Or an 83+. I wanted one of those so bad. I had an 85. Eventually got an 86. These days I just emulate one on my phone lol.

9:00 Ok, someone really needs to get an OS running on one of these that's capable of running a TI calculator emulator.

@namansoood

5 жыл бұрын

TInception.

@xmg_redux

5 жыл бұрын

Firebird for iOS but you have to install it manually (not using the app store)

@agriden_arts

4 жыл бұрын

Woah

@ZedaZ80

4 жыл бұрын

For a brief time, TI-83+SE and TI-84+ calculators were actually manufactured with 128KB RAM instead of 32KB/48KB. A programmer found out and added a way to emulate some of the older calcs. I guess TI switched manufacturing plants though, and they (correctly) switched to 48KB RAM :(

@charliekahn4205

2 жыл бұрын

TI System is basically an emulator. It runs an interpreted shell by default.

When I was in school I was given a CASIO graphing calculator. It didn't have anywhere near the software support of the TI calculators, but it had programming capabilities so I got to work. I didn't make anything incredible, but after making some basic math programs (like a fibonacci sequence program) I managed to make a basic program where you were an asterisk and you could move around the screen. Looking back, it wasn't mind-blowing, but at the time I was very proud of what I could accomplish if I got distracted in my precalc class.

I had a ton of games on my TI83 and later TI83+ Silver edition. Seriously, the 1.5 MB Hard drive inside the silver edition felt like endless space. So many good times playing video games during lunch, after school, and other times it was safe to do so. I wish I still had it.

I had seen a few of these fancy ones back in middle school and high school and I've always thought they were so cool. I wish I had one so I could play some emulated games during boring math class. That would be pretty dope.

Alright class please take out your calculators me: OK I WILL GLADY DO THAT

@PKSuperStar256

3 жыл бұрын

Top 10 Ways to Get Away with Playing Games in Class

I have worked as a software engineer since 2007. Some of my first programming was on my TI-83 Plus so I could do my algebra homework quicker. My teacher was really supportive and said if I understood it enough to make a program for it, I could do it. I bet my life would be pretty different he said it was cheating instead.

I remember playing a skiing game on one of these. Back in the 90’s.

I really love your channel man... so interesting!!!

1:33 this calculator : "math is boring" me: that explains everything.......

Imagine texting in exams on this calculator

@michealpersicko9531

3 жыл бұрын

Impossible for 3 reasons 1. thhe only way to do it is to spend 3 grand for the TI Nspire Navigator system which is a wifi module that plugs into the top and allows wifi capabilities on the Nspire but you can only buy in bulk because it's meant for classrooms only and costs about 3000 bucks 2. There probably would be a lot of lag since the calculator's cpu probably can't handle texting as well as your smartphone can because it was never designed to in the first place. 3. the keyboard is alphabetically laid out not QWERTY so have fun trying to send a text hunting and pecking on a keyboard with keys about the size of half a tic tac

@Wertyhappy27

3 жыл бұрын

@@michealpersicko9531 texting requires very little power, most modern calculators have more than enough ram

@Narinjas

3 жыл бұрын

@@Wertyhappy27 he is talking about how you can get the text you type to somebody without a physical connections ... you have no SIM, No Wi-Fi (unless you pay over $3000 for it) , no radio , or any means to transfer data ... unless someone could offer a hacked walkie talkie like module that can be stealthy hidden inside the device, to receive and transmit data to an other module linked to a mobile phone or laptop.

Man seeing that TI-85 brought back SOOO many memories. I had one when I was in middle school (around 1994). Not for school use but I got it at a garage sale because it looked cool and when I got home I learned that you could write your own programs. I would go online and type games in line by line. The best one I had was tetris. I wanted the TI-83 really bad when it came out but it was like $150. I eventually got to use the 83 in high school and was the class "game guy" that would distribute games to everyone via my cable. I had made it so bad for the teacher that he would make us wipe out devices if caught playing games. This was in 1999/2000...

I used to be that programmer back in the late 90's and early 2000's for Ti83 plus. I used to make games that were hybrid between ASM and Basic and most of my games were RPG and it took up all memory. I believe I was the only one who made story and cutscenes with the calculator back in the day.

This brings back some memories, played through A Link to the Past, Pokemon TCG and Pokemon Crystal during classes on this calculator