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Re: TI-84+SE discontinued?
« Reply #255 on: October 07, 2010, 05:20:32 pm »
Quote from: critor on October 06, 2010, 06:24:39 am
Quote from: Deep Thought on October 05, 2010, 06:19:35 pm
Why'd you ask, though? The ROM isn't available for download now either, anyway, because it's illegal. Except for the OS, which TI will almost definitely take off their website.

The ROM includes the following things:
- OS pages
- archive pages (160Kb on the TI-83+, 128 to 192Kb on the TI-73, 480Kb on the TI-84+, 1.5Mb on the TI-83+SE/84+SE)
- certificate page (16Kb)
- boot code page (16Kb)

* We can easily rebuild the OS pages from a 73u/8xu update file, which are freely distributed.
* We don't need the archive pages and may let them blank. They'll just have to be remormatted by doing a reset.

So the only thing that is preventing us from distributing "working" ROMs, is a little 32Kb (certificate and boot).
Ridiculous, isn't it ? ;)
We could reverse engineer that part.
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Re: TI-84+SE discontinued?
« Reply #256 on: October 07, 2010, 06:01:38 pm »
Quote from: Galandros on October 07, 2010, 05:19:48 pm
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Very sad news.  :'(

I hope an 3rd party emulator on Nspire will keep the TI-84+SE development alive for new calculator users.
And we have accurate emulators and roms to all z80 calculators, so they can live almost forever.
Well fortunately now it is still in production in certain countries. Just not in a few (like Swiss/Germany).
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Re: TI-84+SE discontinued?
« Reply #257 on: October 07, 2010, 06:03:30 pm »
has anyone received exact confirmation from TI yet?
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Re: TI-84+SE discontinued?
« Reply #258 on: October 07, 2010, 06:13:16 pm »
Quote from: yunhua98 on October 07, 2010, 06:03:30 pm
has anyone received exact confirmation from TI yet?
Yes.  Mine's a few pages back. :)

Quote from: qazz42 on October 07, 2010, 03:27:31 pm
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on October 07, 2010, 09:38:11 am
Sadly, companies think they will lose billions of dollars due to emulation or they think $100-200 less in their pocket will ruin them. :P
well, if one manages to get a very small computer... that might help with using in class
There's a version of wabbit for the DS... ;D
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Re: TI-84+SE discontinued?
« Reply #259 on: October 07, 2010, 06:55:54 pm »
Quote from: ztrumpet on October 07, 2010, 06:13:16 pm
Quote from: yunhua98 on October 07, 2010, 06:03:30 pm
has anyone received exact confirmation from TI yet?
Yes.  Mine's a few pages back. :)

Quote from: qazz42 on October 07, 2010, 03:27:31 pm
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on October 07, 2010, 09:38:11 am
Sadly, companies think they will lose billions of dollars due to emulation or they think $100-200 less in their pocket will ruin them. :P
well, if one manages to get a very small computer... that might help with using in class
There's a version of wabbit for the DS... ;D

Lol, I could use that if tests banned calcs but not DSs ;)
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Re: TI-84+SE discontinued?
« Reply #260 on: October 07, 2010, 07:07:25 pm »
Right now the best hope for keeping the 84 SE alive is to make an accurate emulator for the nspire.
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Re: TI-84+SE discontinued?
« Reply #261 on: October 07, 2010, 07:44:00 pm »
I think the DS version of Wabbitemu is far from finished, though. if I remember, it still had a lot of problems.
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Re: TI-84+SE discontinued?
« Reply #262 on: October 07, 2010, 09:38:41 pm »
plus, not many know how to use homebrew,

if I get an edge card, perhaps SirC can help me >.>
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Re: TI-84+SE discontinued?
« Reply #263 on: October 08, 2010, 08:18:06 pm »
On a side note: I actually dump'd my 83+ rom.. :p
Also, I have a super card ds.. but....
* Snake X JUST sold his ds on ebay.. like 3 hrs ago maybe :(. Bad for this case, but yet I needed it to be sold for meh laptop :)
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Re: TI-84+SE discontinued?
« Reply #264 on: October 08, 2010, 10:03:45 pm »
Well I exchanged my DS against my bro's calc myself 2 years ago after all ;D. I did not use it much because I'm not much a console gamer anymore.
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Re: TI-84+SE discontinued?
« Reply #265 on: October 08, 2010, 11:12:28 pm »
I just checked TI's site (US) and it's back on the pricelist.
Hmm...
*darl181 hopes it's being continued not being discontinued
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Re: TI-84+SE discontinued?
« Reply #266 on: October 09, 2010, 01:03:51 am »
I really don't see the SE, or the Z80 line for that matter, being discontinued anytime soon.  On many tests they are the only graphing calculators allowed.  In many classes they're required due to the large library of educational software and programs written for them.  The reason TI can sell them at the price they do is because of this monopoly.
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Re: TI-84+SE discontinued?
« Reply #267 on: November 16, 2010, 08:47:54 pm »
I am the webmaster of Tech Powered Math. I just got an email today from the marketing manager of mathematics at Texas Instruments. He had read the article on my site referencing this thread and the rumors that the TI-84+ SE was being discontinued. He offered assurances that Texas Instruments will not be discontinuing the TI-84+ SE in North America.

My brief update here:

TI-84+ SE not being discontinued
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Re: TI-84+SE discontinued?
« Reply #268 on: November 16, 2010, 08:52:38 pm »
As Kerm said on Cemetech, thank you for reassuring us. :)
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Re: TI-84+SE discontinued?
« Reply #269 on: November 16, 2010, 08:53:05 pm »
Oh, goody.  Now we won't all be forced to buy Nspires.
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