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ERR:SYNTAX (TI-84+ SE)
« on: September 26, 2010, 01:19:38 pm »
I'm very new to all this graphing calc stuff so this is probably a noobish question... D:

Some games give me an error "ERR:SYNTAX" when I attempt to run them. This happens with quite a lot of games so I think I'm trying to run them in an incorrect way or something like that. Do I need to do something else than selecting the program, pressing Enter, and then Enter again? From what I've read, I need a shell for some games, but some of the games that have the "ERR:SYNTAX" error were described as games that did not require a shell...

Help, please? D:
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Re: ERR:SYNTAX (TI-84+ SE)
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2010, 01:23:56 pm »
Chances are they're ASM programs, which can't be run the normal way. If it's ASM, it either needs a shell (like the applications DoorsCS or MirageOS) or it doesn't. But even if it doesn't need a shell, you can't just run it normally. You have to go into 2ND+[CATALOG], find the Asm( token, and put the name of the program after that to run it. For example, use
Asm(prgmNAME)
instead of
prgmNAME
and it should work.

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Re: ERR:SYNTAX (TI-84+ SE)
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2010, 01:24:48 pm »
Those are assembly games. They must be run differently so that the calculator knows that they are different. Some games are literally a whole bunch of calculator commands all just run right after another, these are called basic and are run with "prgmGAME"

The other half of games are assembly games. These games are written in the native language of the calculator. These must be run with "Asm(prgmGAME" or from a shell like Mirage or DCS.

The way assembly games work is this: all games can be run from DCS (though there are few that are written specifically for it), MirageOS can run about 98% of them, and about 50% of them can be run with "Asm(prgmGame"

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Re: ERR:SYNTAX (TI-84+ SE)
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2010, 01:25:10 pm »
You, good sir, are probably trying to run an ASM program from the homescreen without a shell.
Download a shell off the internet and then, try it again.
Both from inside the shell and from the homescreen.

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Re: ERR:SYNTAX (TI-84+ SE)
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2010, 01:25:49 pm »
Heya and welcome here. Some games requires you to install a calculator shell like Ion, MirageOs, Doors CS7, CalcUtil or Noshell to run them. Otherwise, they can be ran with the Asm(prgmNAME syntax.

With Doors CS7, CalcUtil and Noshell, you just launch DCS7 APP from the APPS menu, exit, then you can run those games using the regular prgmNAME syntax.

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Re: ERR:SYNTAX (TI-84+ SE)
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2010, 01:27:59 pm »
Yeah, to make things easier for you, I'd recommend downloading DoorsCS7. It's kinda like a Windows Explorer for the calculator, and you can just run it from there. Really easy to use ;)

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Re: ERR:SYNTAX (TI-84+ SE)
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2010, 01:30:28 pm »
Thanks, all of you.
(I've never seen someone been ninja'd this much before :s)
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Re: ERR:SYNTAX (TI-84+ SE)
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2010, 01:33:18 pm »
You'll see a lot of that here ;)
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Re: ERR:SYNTAX (TI-84+ SE)
« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2010, 01:42:18 pm »
Yeah sometimes the site gets extremly high activity so when you post, you may get notices about new replies  quite often when posting (and have to click reply again). Sometimes it's nearly dead, though, like yesterday from 5 to 10 PM :P
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Re: ERR:SYNTAX (TI-84+ SE)
« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2010, 01:43:19 pm »
And sometimes you get ninja'd again when editing your post to account for the first ninja :P
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Re: ERR:SYNTAX (TI-84+ SE)
« Reply #10 on: September 26, 2010, 01:45:44 pm »
And would that be counted as a double ninja (when two people post before you do) or something else? o.O
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Re: ERR:SYNTAX (TI-84+ SE)
« Reply #11 on: September 26, 2010, 02:07:16 pm »
Dunno. Just add 'em all together...

Heh, reminds me of that time when I was ninja'd by five people simultaneously. I was posting a new topic, then switched to a different tab and forgot about it. When I finally clicked Post, my post was pretty irrelevant :P

<<<< EDIT: 850!
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Re: ERR:SYNTAX (TI-84+ SE)
« Reply #12 on: September 26, 2010, 02:29:55 pm »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on September 26, 2010, 01:25:49 pm
EDIT: Triple ninja'd
lol :P

Welcome here.  I'm glad you got it to work. :)
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Re: ERR:SYNTAX (TI-84+ SE)
« Reply #13 on: September 26, 2010, 02:47:36 pm »
Quote from: Deep Thought on September 26, 2010, 02:07:16 pm
Dunno. Just add 'em all together...

Heh, reminds me of that time when I was ninja'd by five people simultaneously. I was posting a new topic, then switched to a different tab and forgot about it. When I finally clicked Post, my post was pretty irrelevant :P

<<<< EDIT: 850!
I wonder what it would have been on the old board if we had this feature during New Year 2007 and someone opened the Last Post Of The year thread for the two hours it lasted. I wonder if after 256 posts it would have looped back to 0? There were about 600 in two hours ;D

Btw, back on the topic of running ASM games, does Noshell allows the execution of archived programs?
« Last Edit: September 26, 2010, 02:48:11 pm by DJ Omnimaga »
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Re: ERR:SYNTAX (TI-84+ SE)
« Reply #14 on: September 26, 2010, 02:50:26 pm »
Indeed it does :)
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