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Any know if there's an archive of TI-83 calculator games? (And, ideally, the ability to play them on the computer.)

by symplee 7y ago

MayeulC 7y ago
IIRC, TI-Planet has a lot of those, as well as emulators.
- MayeulC 7y ago
  Mostly in French, unfortunately. Games: https://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_list.php?cat=Jeux+z80 https://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_list.php?cat=Jeux+z80 A lot of emulators there: https://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_list.php?cat=Utilitaires+PC+z80 https://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_list.php?cat=Utilitaires... One of them is web-based: https://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_voir.php?id=1414 https://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_voir.php?id=1414 (also hosted online at brandonmeyer.net/projects/TI8XEmu/TI8XEmu.html but I can't access it now) Coming second as communities are Omnimaga, and ti-calc.org I feel like the only redeeming quality of these calculators is the community around them; and they make kids interested into programming and electronics. The landscape is looking better and better for who wants to hack his calculator. Of course, the most convenient emulator is offered by numworks for their calculator: it's right there, on their website: https://www.numworks.com/simulator/ https://www.numworks.com/simulator/
hermitdev 7y ago
http://ticalc.org http://ticalc.org used be my go-to site in the 90s. Still active, too, a post as recently as yesterday (2019-11-25). Lots of good games there. Also, a lot of Z80 assembly reference and links to emulators. If you like classic Super Mario, definitely checkout Penguins. There's also some Zelda clones, nibbles/snake. There used be a Monopoly clone, but that's gone. Allegedly the trademark owner (Parker Brothers at the time IIRC) went after the developer for trademark infringement and he had to take it down. But, rather than sue them, PB actually hired the dev to make the original Game Boy Monopoly game. No idea about the veracity of this, but just a vague recollection from the 90s. I actually still have my dead-tree Z80 instruct set reference manual sitting on my shelf at home next to my 68K manual. 2 of my oldest and well used programming references.

Any know if there's an archive of TI-83 calculator games? (And, ideally, the ability to play them on the computer.)

MayeulC 7y ago

IIRC, TI-Planet has a lot of those, as well as emulators.

MayeulC 7y ago
Mostly in French, unfortunately. Games: https://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_list.php?cat=Jeux+z80 https://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_list.php?cat=Jeux+z80 A lot of emulators there: https://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_list.php?cat=Utilitaires+PC+z80 https://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_list.php?cat=Utilitaires... One of them is web-based: https://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_voir.php?id=1414 https://tiplanet.org/forum/archives_voir.php?id=1414 (also hosted online at brandonmeyer.net/projects/TI8XEmu/TI8XEmu.html but I can't access it now) Coming second as communities are Omnimaga, and ti-calc.org I feel like the only redeeming quality of these calculators is the community around them; and they make kids interested into programming and electronics. The landscape is looking better and better for who wants to hack his calculator. Of course, the most convenient emulator is offered by numworks for their calculator: it's right there, on their website: https://www.numworks.com/simulator/ https://www.numworks.com/simulator/

hermitdev 7y ago

http://ticalc.org http://ticalc.org used be my go-to site in the 90s. Still active, too, a post as recently as yesterday (2019-11-25). Lots of good games there. Also, a lot of Z80 assembly reference and links to emulators. If you like classic Super Mario, definitely checkout Penguins. There's also some Zelda clones, nibbles/snake. There used be a Monopoly clone, but that's gone. Allegedly the trademark owner (Parker Brothers at the time IIRC) went after the developer for trademark infringement and he had to take it down. But, rather than sue them, PB actually hired the dev to make the original Game Boy Monopoly game. No idea about the veracity of this, but just a vague recollection from the 90s. I actually still have my dead-tree Z80 instruct set reference manual sitting on my shelf at home next to my 68K manual. 2 of my oldest and well used programming references.