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Calculator Community => TI Calculators => General Calculator Help => Topic started by: thecnoNSMB on April 26, 2010, 06:34:09 am

Title: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: thecnoNSMB on April 26, 2010, 06:34:09 am
I need to find a virtual calculator that I can send programs to, since my family can't afford one. Can somebody please help me?
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 26, 2010, 08:19:25 am
Do you mean an emulator to be able to run a calculator on the computer? If so the best one IMHO would be WabbitEmu. It's normally located at Revsoft, but their site has been down for 3 weeks, so you have to download the copy we have http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=downfile&id=488

You need to get a calculator ROM image, though, which we cannot provide link/help finding them, due to legal reason. It is possible to dump one from your calc, however, using Rom8x on ticalc.org: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/373/37341.html

If you absolutely don't want to have to use ROMs, one emulator won't require any, but it's very crappy. The link is http://education.ti.com/educationportal/downloadcenter/SoftwareDetail.do?website=US&appId=177
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: JonimusPrime on April 26, 2010, 10:26:48 am
Do you mean an emulator to be able to run a calculator on the computer? If so the best one IMHO would be WabbitEmu. It's normally located at Revsoft, but their site has been down for 3 weeks, so you have to download the copy we have http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=downfile&id=488

You need to get a calculator ROM image, though, which we cannot provide link/help finding them, due to legal reason. It is possible to dump one from your calc, however, using Rom8x on ticalc.org: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/373/37341.html

If you absolutely don't want to have to use ROMs, one emulator won't require any, but it's very crappy. The link is http://education.ti.com/educationportal/downloadcenter/SoftwareDetail.do?website=US&appId=177
You can also use the .clc file installed with the emulator from Ti's site with wabbit and then you get a good emulator with a free rom.
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 26, 2010, 11:05:17 am
Oh I didn't knew those worked in WabbitEmu. Nice to know next time someone asks for a ROM ^^

I should maybe start a topic about ROM images at one point.
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: willrandship on April 26, 2010, 12:01:17 pm
I personally really like Virtual TI. It's windows only, but it has skin support and can link to calcs directly through the black or parallel link cable. It also, I've heard, has sound support!
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 26, 2010, 12:21:00 pm
Well IMHO WabbitEmu is much better for 83+ emulation, because Virtual TI lacks the archive memory support and only works with old 83+ ROMs, not even the SE/84+. I also had a lot of issues running some 83+ games that didnt even use RAM, like crashes
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: jsj795 on April 26, 2010, 01:35:40 pm
And doesn't WabbitEmu support sound too?
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 26, 2010, 01:42:11 pm
it does, and at least it isn't deafening like VTI. In VTI, you set your volume to minimum and you still hear it from headphones from a different room x.x
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: thecnoNSMB on April 26, 2010, 03:31:46 pm
Do you mean an emulator to be able to run a calculator on the computer? If so the best one IMHO would be WabbitEmu. It's normally located at Revsoft, but their site has been down for 3 weeks, so you have to download the copy we have http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=downfile&id=488

You need to get a calculator ROM image, though, which we cannot provide link/help finding them, due to legal reason. It is possible to dump one from your calc, however, using Rom8x on ticalc.org: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/373/37341.html

If you absolutely don't want to have to use ROMs, one emulator won't require any, but it's very crappy. The link is http://education.ti.com/educationportal/downloadcenter/SoftwareDetail.do?website=US&appId=177
You can also use the .clc file installed with the emulator from Ti's site with wabbit and then you get a good emulator with a free rom.
YES! I got TI's TI emu for my class, and could'nt send stuff to it. Thank you so much!
at least it isn't deafening like VTI. In VTI, you set your volume to minimum and you still hear it from headphones from a different room x.x
And their site is down :P
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 26, 2010, 03:52:32 pm
Altough VTI is still available on ticalc.org
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: ztrumpet on April 26, 2010, 07:19:36 pm
Thanks Jonimus for letting us know on the .clc files!  Neat tip! ;D
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: thecnoNSMB on April 29, 2010, 06:31:51 pm
Apparently I also need a skin with clickable buttons, like the one that came with TI's emu, help? I can't do much programming if I cannot enter any menus.
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 29, 2010, 06:34:00 pm
Doesn't Wabbitemu come with skin support?
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: thecnoNSMB on April 29, 2010, 07:32:05 pm
Yes, I click "show skin" or whatever and there is nothing.
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 29, 2010, 07:38:47 pm
Btw what Windowws version doyou have? I reported this to Buckeye, but it might be nice to know what OS do you use
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: thecnoNSMB on April 30, 2010, 03:22:30 pm
XP
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 30, 2010, 04:41:49 pm
Ok thanks. I reported both your problem and Mieshe91, but I did not know your Windows version. He got XP too. This seems like an XP issue.
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: thecnoNSMB on April 30, 2010, 06:07:33 pm
Ok. I understand.





....oh **** I can't program on this thing.
Is there a Windows program that lets me program- but then I can't use the programs on the calc...
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: _player1537 on April 30, 2010, 06:33:28 pm
program, you mean like c# or ti-basic.  I recommend visual C#/C++/C for the computer (in windows) and for ti-basic: SourceCoder on cemetech.net is kinda good (I don't understand it that well, but I could get used to it), but the upside to SC is you can type out the code.  http://sc.cemetech.net
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on April 30, 2010, 06:41:37 pm
Ok. I understand.





....oh **** I can't program on this thing.
Is there a Windows program that lets me program- but then I can't use the programs on the calc...
thecnoNSMB you can code on it, you can send the files to the computer. It's just hidden very well. Just make sure to backup/save often.

Right click screen, go to Calculator, then click Variables. Drag the stuff you want on the computer desktop or a folder.
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: Deep Toaster on May 30, 2010, 12:18:07 pm
program, you mean like c# or ti-basic.  I recommend visual C#/C++/C for the computer (in windows) and for ti-basic: SourceCoder on cemetech.net is kinda good (I don't understand it that well, but I could get used to it), but the upside to SC is you can type out the code.  http://sc.cemetech.net/

SourceCoder's a nice BASIC programming tool, except that it doesn't support Y-vars. Whenever it takes a Y1, for example, it converts it to Y<span size=6>1</span>, which gets pretty annoying once you export it.
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: Galandros on May 30, 2010, 12:24:55 pm
SourceCoder's a nice BASIC programming tool, except that it doesn't support Y-vars. Whenever it takes a Y1, for example, it converts it to Y<span size=6>1</span>, which gets pretty annoying once you export it.
I don't like that issue, too. Maybe we can submit to Kerm to update SC.
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: Deep Toaster on May 30, 2010, 12:34:35 pm
I discovered that when I was editing OTBP Assembler (since my calculator, for some reason, treated the main program as a null variable). After I got it on my calculator, I had to go through the code and change every r<span size=6>1</span>.

And that reminds me: Has anyone notified OTBP about their assembler bug? I tried to post a report, but their website didn't let me register an account, for some reason.
Title: Re: How to get virtual calculator?
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on May 30, 2010, 02:58:31 pm
I think OTBP forums registrations were disabled because it was being invaded by spambots. In fact, I heard they get more bandwidth than every other website hosted on TI-Freakware webspace, just to tell how many bots they had.