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Re: 83+ discontinued in some areas?
« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2012, 01:59:32 pm »
I think the 84+ was supposed to end the 83+ life, but then students and parents still continued to buy them so much that TI was stuck not discontinuing them. if they did, then I'm sure they would have gotten plenty of complains from parents and teachers about even more people not being able to afford the more expensive 84+.

Btw I prefered the 83+/SE design because the ON and ENTER keys were aligned properly with 0.-, the STO> and + keys with 123, the LN and - keys with 456, etc. Now everytime I try doing 2nd+MEM I accidentally do 2nd+ENTRY, because keys are misaligned.
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Re: 83+ discontinued in some areas?
« Reply #16 on: January 04, 2012, 02:05:06 pm »
I highly recommend updating to the most recent version due to compatibility issues introduced in OS 1.16.  From that OS onward there are many new tokens and a few new features that are seldom used by some programmers that I use quite often.  For instance, doing sub(X) or X% is the same as doing .01X, both which were introduced on 1.16.  You may think that no one uses those features, but I actually use sub(#) in Midnight.  Plus, I am pretty sure that most games with Text Sprites of any kind use the additional characters OS 1.16 introduced.
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Re: 83+ discontinued in some areas?
« Reply #17 on: January 04, 2012, 03:58:19 pm »
Yeah true, about 90% of the new BASIC games (and even some ASM ones) will not run on older OSes because of that. Btw it's 1.15 Ztrumpet, not 1.16. However this caused Illusiat 6 final dungeon to break on those OSes. :P
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Re: 83+ discontinued in some areas?
« Reply #18 on: January 04, 2012, 04:02:39 pm »
Quote from: DJ_O on January 04, 2012, 03:58:19 pm
Btw it's 1.15 Ztrumpet, not 1.16. However this caused Illusiat 6 final dungeon to break on those OSes. :P
It looks like I remembered the wrong OS. D:
Thanks for the correction!
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Re: 83+ discontinued in some areas?
« Reply #19 on: January 04, 2012, 04:04:01 pm »
What were the additional characters that were introduced in 1.16?
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Re: 83+ discontinued in some areas?
« Reply #20 on: January 04, 2012, 04:56:49 pm »
Quote from: TBO_Yeong on January 04, 2012, 04:04:01 pm
What were the additional characters that were introduced in 1.16?
Among others, these were introduced in 1.15: @, $, %, &, #, ;, |, and _.
1.16 introduced these, again, among others: ↑, ↓, √, , , and .

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