Cool stuff! ^^ It looks like it has a decent framerate too!

Quote from: Art_of_camelot on December 21, 2010, 06:03:28 pm

Cool stuff! ^^ It looks like it has a decent framerate too!

It has 40 fps, but the full speed (of unoverclocked calculator) is around 100 fps.

I also tried the audio+video together, but the audio was almost unusable :-(

Not a problem if we have 2 calculators!
And with 3 calculators, we could also have stereo!

Not a problem if we have 2 calculators!
And with 3 calculators, we could also have stereo!

The calculator has 2 serial ports... :-)
But only 1 has an external connector.
BTW: did somebody of you try the audio player ? What do you think about the sound quality ? I think it is terrible :-(

I haven't gotten the chance to try it yet because I lost my headphone adapter

As for sound quality, on the TI-84 Plus, music is generally in 8 bit 22 KHz format, if I remember. You hear the music quite nicely but there's some noise and one minute of music takes over 1 MB. I am curious how it sounds like with your player.

Music is generally not too practical on calculators because people need an adapter to fit headphones in the smaller port, but it's still cool to see it achieved.

For the,

Is a word missing here?

But yeah lack of storage space is an issue.

On the 83+ there was that Guitat Hero ASM clone once, but he had to use 1 bit music quality to keep the game small. The quality was terrible on some headphones.

Ah ok thanks for clarifying.

Now I hope I can find my adapter tomorrow, else The Source by Circuit City sells them for $20 instead of $5 at Radio-Shack (which got replaced by The Source 5 years ago). X.x

@Qwerty.55: The sound quality was not affected by CPU speed (it sounded ~ the same for CPU speeds 2x and 4x). There is probably some non-linearity in the serial port.
@DJ Omnimaga: The TI84 plus has serial port, or 2 bit parallel port (as the TI-92 has?). How is the sound created? My player uses serial port as 1 bit D/A converter.