So a shell that auto-patches the executable. That could be hard to write, but it might be possible. I'd let someone else look into it though.

well, no... It would interpret the ASM by finding specific hex (hex is 8xp asm, right?)

You don't interpret hex. You have to patch it then execute it. It would slow it down a lot and it would be extremely hard to make an interpreter.

pimathbraniac. The whole point of assembler is that it is executed on the processor. We would use an interpreted language like Grammar for what you want.

For ASM, someone will probably just update the TI-82/83/83+ unification FAQ to add 84+ color stuff and porting games will be similar to regular ASM except the screen stuff. That's assuming, of course, that the calc runs a Z80. Also Grammer/Axe would obviously require that someone or their authors rewrite them for the new calc

There are serious theoretical issues with what pimathbrainiac asks, namely the Turing Completeness Theorem. There's no perfect way to tell whether a given byte sequence is code or data until it actually gets executed by the CPU. (In fact, some very clever coders write code that is both code and data (e.g. a sprite whose bitpattern is also a routine), resulting in code that is nearly impossible to change.) You'd probably need to do emulation or very careful dynamic recomplication. Most games are released with source code, so manual porting is the best option. Nevertheless, the set of all Z80 assembly programs ever written is finite, so writing a program to port them is not impossible. That is, it is possible to map a finite number of inputs to a finite number of outputs, but finding the transformation algorithm you need is rather the non-trivial problem.

I thought it was already known that it had a z80?
I remember people were already running test programs on it to find out about it.

Yeah but has anyone actually managed to get a program to work? So far it seems like any attempt at running code caused crashes and stuff.

As for emulation I guess it might be useful for old games if people want to run them exactly how they were in their monochrome form, otherwise porting them is indeed the best solution (and you can release a pixelated version if you want to preserve the original look)

it is so thin and shiny O.o