As reported on Cemetech and TI-Planet, TI has finally published screenshots of the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition showing how the interface looks like, in native resolution, via their Classroom activities page. Until now, only camera pictures of the calculator screen showing the interface were available.

As you will see, you can change the color of graphs and stat plots, meaning that there is at least a minimum of colors possible in TI-BASIC (some games use graphs and plots for graphics)! We do not know yet if there will be any proper color commands for Output(), Disp, Text(), Pxl-On/Off/Change() and other graphical commands, though.



Also, the screen appears to show 26x10 text characters at once, as seen below in the Window options, so here is a fake mockup to the right showing what Illusiat 11 might look like on a 84 Plus C Silver Edition calculator:


On the home screen, between each line of text, there is a 6 pixels gap, except the line below what you input, which has a 7 pixels space. A dotted line separates new entries, though, so what is displayed with home screen commands might be different than what is seen in the Illusiat 11 mockup above (showing the game intro). If, for example, with Output() there is a 2 pixels gap between each line of text, then between 12 and 13 lines of text could be displayed, depending of the screen margin, or it could be done on the graph screen via the Text(-1 command, if still available. Also note that in the fake Illusiat 11 screenshot, the "G" letter was made-up, because it was not available in any of the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition screenshots on their Classroom activities pages and Doc/PDF files, so it is subject to be way different on the real device.

Also, it seems that the graphics resolution is limited to a 265x165 pixels area of the screen:


The background color around the graph/image area appears to be changeable, though (as you can notice in the older picture to the right). Hopefully it is possible to change graphing to full screen via the MODE menu or using this area via ASM libraries.

Hopefully there are more news and discoveries soon!

The color graphs is a huge improvement. I remember using those 5 different settings like full line, thick line etc, but those were really disturbing at times.
Also it's strange how the graph screen isn't full screen, that looks kinda waste of pixels

In early OSes the Nspires graph screen didn't fill up the entire screen as well, so this might be just an early version which can change.
The color graphing sure is a nice addition, I borrowed a friends TI84SE once, but sometimes found it hard to distinguish different graphs

since this calc shares the same resolution as the nSpire, is it easier  to port the ti-84PSEC to nspire?

It's nice to see some more new pictures. As far as pricing goes, I'd wager it'll be priced similarly to the Nspire CX. Hopefully we won't have to wait too much longer to find out the MSRP since they plan on releasing the calculator this spring.

it's rumored to be between $150 and $10000, the former being more likely but the latter 1% possible, knowing TI.

since this calc shares the same resolution as the nSpire, is it easier  to port the ti-84PSEC to nspire?

Maybe from a graphical standpoint (sprites won't need to be redone for size), but nothing else.

Wow, that are some cool new insights, that makes you to want to have it now.

I think it is a z80

By flickering do you mean for example if you move a pixel around the screen just constantly flashes? It would be pretty bad >.<. According to early tests, though, TI-BASIC commands display seemed to be at the same speed as the older models and everything else was about 1.5x faster than the regular 83+. I sure hope that in ASM display isn't so slow that it's barely useable for any real-time game, though...