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> "it's not much different from a math instructor having you clear the memory on your graphing calculator before an exam" This sort of behavior by teachers is
by hermitdev 10y ago
> "it's not much different from a math instructor having you clear the memory on your graphing calculator before an exam"
This sort of behavior by teachers is exactly what got me to write my first serious z80 assembly program to mimic all of the menus on the TI-83 circa 1996. Teachers had already caught on to the fact that there were programs that would display the "Mem Cleared" message on the calculators, so mandated they had to do it manually. I never used my program to cheat, I just didn't want to lose my games (had a really good zelda clone & penguins).
- SilasX 10y agoI can assure you that, for the vast majority of the population, it has the intended effect of keeping the calculator from storing digital cheat sheets. I admire your tenacity too.
- hermitdev 10y agoI do not disagree with your assessment, but it was a great motivator for me to learn z80 assembly. I just wish I knew how to use the stack. Modern me shudders at how horrible that code was - it worked, but god damn was it ugly. I still have the Z80 assembly reference manual on my bookshelf. It just hasn't been opened in close to 20 years. I've never had a physical x86(_64) reference manual, but I usually keep PDFs handy - just in case while debugging. I think I still have Atmel AVR & Motorola 68k docs physically somewhere...
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoI know Z80, more or less, but it's hard to get your hands on the link cable for a TI-83+ where I live. I'll probably have to order one off Amazon at some point.
- tokenizerrr 10y agoOn the TI-84 (not sure about earlier models) you could archive programs which made them stick around past a memory wipe.