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#1 2004-12-16 2:30:42 pm

thac0nfus3done
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TI 8x Games

Recently I realized the lack of good TI games. The best game on my calculator is Bubble Bobble, followed by Harvest Moon. So I decided maybe we should make a list of good TI games followed by a link to where you can download them. Each one in this list has either been tested by me and verified that it is a game that you will actually want to play. I'll start. ** Please post calculator version so that people don't waste time.

TI-83+
Bubble Bobble http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fi … 23536.html
Harvest Moon http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fi … 35197.html
Fire Track 2 http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fi … 32413.html
Acelgoybis (Pinball) http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fi … 35586.html
Paper Plane http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fi … 34139.html
Gemini http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fi … 32517.html
Wolfenstein http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fi … 27767.html
Phoenix 3.1 http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fi … 25959.html
Super Mario V 1. 2 http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fi … 19225.html

TI-89
Kirby's TI land http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fi … 31905.html
Bomberdude http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fi … 35795.html

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#2 2004-12-16 9:07:54 pm

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Re: TI 8x Games

The best I have is Tetris, but I don't have any wire to connect to the computer, so I've just been living off of what my friends have.


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#3 2004-12-17 10:12:52 pm

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Re: TI 8x Games

I like ... pinball and gemini (and there is a CrunchyOs version, as well.)


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#4 2004-12-27 12:42:48 pm

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Re: TI 8x Games

Phoenix is just great, i'm addicted now  :D http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fi … 25959.html

Mario is already a classic, great cuz you can download and create custom levels:
http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fi … 19225.html

Check out maxcoderz.net for some cool games, some that are in development too (OMFG metroid! that's just so... übermalto lol)

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#5 2004-12-28 12:24:15 pm

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Re: TI 8x Games

Ich bin doch nicht blod?
Phoenix is kinda lame.... after playing it for 5 hours in total!
Prittyprint rocks!


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#6 2004-12-29 4:39:06 am

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Re: TI 8x Games

<shameless plug>
I'm making a cool game too, check out the forums of www.unitedti.org and www.maxcoderz.net! (it's called Destiny Realm)
</shameless plug>

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#7 2004-12-29 7:48:43 am

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Re: TI 8x Games

leofox wrote:

<shameless plug>
I'm making a cool game too, check out the forums of www.unitedti.org and www.maxcoderz.net! (it's called Destiny Realm)
</shameless plug>

Try to add some cameos!
Mario, Zelda, FF...............


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#8 2004-12-31 3:31:07 am

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Re: TI 8x Games

the $$600.000.000 man wrote:
leofox wrote:

<shameless plug>
I'm making a cool game too, check out the forums of www.unitedti.org and www.maxcoderz.net! (it's called Destiny Realm)
</shameless>

Try to add some cameos!
Mario, Zelda, FF...............

...Colin Mochrie... :P

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#9 2004-12-31 10:48:21 pm

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Re: TI 8x Games

...Jamez Bond...


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#10 2005-01-01 12:01:01 am

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Re: TI 8x Games

Alright... let's try not to stray so much from the topic...


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#11 2005-01-01 7:42:59 pm

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Re: TI 8x Games

Dammit, my calculator just froze and I lost all my games when I took out the batteries to turn it off.  Is there a way to unfreeze it without taking out the batteries?


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#12 2005-01-02 7:51:56 pm

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Re: TI 8x Games

Very doubtful, I'd suggest just to archive all your stuff and just use a FLASH os so you never have to worry about crashing.


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#13 2005-01-03 1:45:53 am

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Re: TI 8x Games

MirageOS has some function that let's you stop the program safely. Try the options menu, there is a function 'interrupt' or something. If you do on+clear the program should stop. It doesn't always work though.

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#14 2005-01-03 4:11:24 pm

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Re: TI 8x Games

I wasn't in a game when it froze, and I do archive all of my games, but some of them somehow Unarchive themselves.  Has this ever happened to you?


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#15 2005-01-04 4:53:32 am

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Re: TI 8x Games

if you run an archive program, it gets unarchived. The 83+ can't run archived program's that  are not apps.

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#16 2005-01-04 8:22:02 pm

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Re: TI 8x Games

I run them on MirageOS


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#17 2005-01-06 6:15:12 am

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Re: TI 8x Games

MirageOS unarchives them too, for writeback. It then archives it again.

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#18 2005-01-06 8:53:53 pm

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never rearchived for me.  hmm.  Also, what does it mean when it asks you to "collect garbage?"


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#19 2005-01-07 1:20:10 am

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Re: TI 8x Games

Heh, I feel like I'm living in the stone age - my current TI calculator is an eight year old TI-85 (ROM version 10.0), still working as well as the day I got it.


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#20 2005-01-07 6:30:58 am

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Re: TI 8x Games

Luckily, I still write programs that work on a TI85.


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#21 2005-01-08 4:07:43 am

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Re: TI 8x Games

Vash The Stampede wrote:

never rearchived for me.  hmm.  Also, what does it mean when it asks you to "collect garbage?"

Well, that requires some understanding of how the flash memory works. Ram memory works very simple: you can change any bit that you want. Flash memory works a bit different. You can change any 0 to a 1, but to change it back to 0, you need to erase an entire sector. When you unarchive something, the OS copies the program from the archive to the ram, and sets a bit in the archived program that indicates that it's deleted. When you archive it again, the data from RAM gets copied to an empty space of archive, and the program gets deleted in the RAM. When you do that a few times, the whole archive is full with deleted programs which still have data there. Garbage collecting moves all the un-deleted programs in a section to a temporary section of the archive, then clears the section, and copies the programs back. Then it does that for all the other sections.

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#22 2005-01-08 9:11:56 pm

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Re: TI 8x Games

ah, its all so clear now


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#23 2005-01-09 1:35:41 am

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Re: TI 8x Games

I'm not really that good at explaining it, but that is essentially what garbage collecting does.
Other useless info about garbage collecting:
-You can't garbage collect if your batteries are low
-the flash memory can 'only' garbage collect about 1000 times.

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#24 2005-01-09 8:59:02 am

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and then what?  It explodes?


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#25 2005-01-09 11:43:39 am

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Re: TI 8x Games

your calc'll probably say ERROR:Memory whenever you try to archive something. I don't know really, no-one has reached that state yet. It'll probably take about 10 years of extreme use (25 years of normal use according to TI). The 83+ only exist 7 years...

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#26 2005-01-09 12:51:41 pm

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Re: TI 8x Games

Flash memory has a limited number of erase/write cycles - garbage collect too many times and it will wear out and become unreliable and/or nonfunctional.


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#27 2005-01-09 10:11:29 pm

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Re: TI 8x Games

Does 45 minute math classes 5 days a week count as "normal usage"


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#28 2005-01-10 12:25:03 am

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Re: TI 8x Games

depends on how much you garbage collect. If you do that every ten minutes (like i did when my memory was almost full) it's extreme usage, but once every day should be okay. The time it takes before a new garbage collect comes depends on your free memory too, so you should always have about 40K empty memory, or you'll see a garbage collect every 10 minutes.

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#29 2005-01-11 8:21:36 pm

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Re: TI 8x Games

So then it's not really a big deal if you garbage collect often, because what I've gathered tells me by the time your calc cant archive anymore you should dump it an get a new one anyways.


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#30 2005-01-13 4:27:52 am

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Re: TI 8x Games

Somebody can tell me how play in 2 players in Bubble Bobble for Ti82
I hope your answer ! Merci ;-) oups Thank

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