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As someone who widely appreciated being able to have a calculator out in some classes to play Assembly games in classes this is sad news. That said, I can't rec
by gxqoz 6y ago
As someone who widely appreciated being able to have a calculator out in some classes to play Assembly games in classes this is sad news. That said, I can't recall using an Assembly program for any legitimate use. Are there real apps out there a student would use that are written in Assembly?
By the way, my favorite TI-83 Assembly game was Uncle Worm, a fun variant on snake that lets you move in all directions. I even made a Windows port. https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/96/9683.html https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/96/9683.html
- flatiron 6y agoi used my ti-83 in the late 90s for exactly what there were talking about. our teachers would hard reset our calculators before each test but there was a program you could load that would just simulate the menus and pop up the "yeah we reset it" screen and they would hand it back with all my test notes on the calculator intact. so i know why they are doing it. it just won't stop it
- swiley 6y agoIn college I wrote a quick program to plot 3D curves and surfaces, a lot of my classmates used it. I would have written it in assembly if it were possible to put an assembler on the calculator easily because basic was almost too slow.
- non-entity 6y agoThe assembler games were the best, but I managed to hack some sort of game together using TI Basic and the graph. Really sad they're removing it and super lame, but I guess there weren't a ton of "legitmate" assembler programs.