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Re: How you started programming
« Reply #45 on: June 06, 2009, 09:02:23 pm »
no, 83+ SE is faster then a 84+/SE because it has no clock
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Re: How you started programming
« Reply #46 on: June 06, 2009, 09:05:38 pm »
I rate the addition of the date/time over the slight increase in speed
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Re: How you started programming
« Reply #47 on: June 06, 2009, 09:15:46 pm »
but why do you need a clock on your calculator, it's hardly ever used...
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Re: How you started programming
« Reply #48 on: June 06, 2009, 09:27:55 pm »
i agree with Eeems, altough it can be useful in games that has time limit or RPGs showing amount of gameplay. However, this cause these games to no longer run on 83+.

My only gripe with the TI-83+ Silver Edition is that it seems to break faster
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Re: How you started programming
« Reply #49 on: June 06, 2009, 09:34:49 pm »
I guess that's because they stopped producing them, so they didn't really do much to make it a really good calc....I still consider it the best of them...I want to get my hands on one so bad, but that probably wont happen because of how rare they are
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Re: How you started programming
« Reply #50 on: June 06, 2009, 09:41:11 pm »
Well, actually, most calc breaking reports I heard were from calc from 2001-2002 (2001 being the year they started being produced). Iambian is one of the person who got a SE calc to break (the LCD started displaying garbage). Someone else who had a calc that old had the same thing happening to him. I did heard other people saying their calc stopped working after like 3 years and they had SEs and I myself went through 2 SE calcs, one that lasted about 3 weeks until it died completly with only the os reinstall screen (even reinstalling the OS didn't fix fix the problem) and another one that lasted 6 years. I did heard a few people say their 84+SE broke, but much less often, plus a lot of the problems were fixable problems (OS reinstalling or ALCDFix).

For my current SE, what happens is that when the tr1p1ea batteries are inside, their power is drained even when the calc is turned OFF, after OS reinstall and with a brand new lithium battery tried as well. For some reasons, the batteries power is drained several times faster when the calc is turned off than when it's turned ON. If I was coding on the calc for entire days or playing games, the calc would last several days, but if I didn't use it for 2 days, the batteries were completly dead, dead enough to not even let it turn ON. This is a calculator bought around March 2002 in exchange of the other SE I got trouble with. Both were manufacturated in March 2001, though. They came with a black serial TI-Graph Link cable and with the TI-Graph Link software, before USB and TI-Connect even existed. They didn't have a Ticalc.org CD with them, though, like some calcs released in 2001
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Re: How you started programming
« Reply #51 on: June 06, 2009, 09:46:58 pm »
ah, well that's too bad... did anybody complain to TI about the breaks?
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Re: How you started programming
« Reply #52 on: June 06, 2009, 09:48:23 pm »
I wouldn't be surprised. Back then they would happily send you a new calc if you tried hard enough, from what I heard, but I don't know if it's the case anymore.
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Re: How you started programming
« Reply #53 on: June 06, 2009, 09:56:16 pm »
ah, well I hope that the one I get (if I get one) doesn't break for a long time
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Re: How you started programming
« Reply #54 on: June 06, 2009, 11:29:36 pm »
I don't own any z80-based calculator, so... don't feel bad.
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Re: How you started programming
« Reply #55 on: June 07, 2009, 12:05:38 am »
Quote from: Eeems on June 06, 2009, 09:02:23 pm
no, 83+ SE is faster then a 84+/SE because it has no clock
Has this ever been confirmed? I find it doubtful, because the clock is independent of the CPU.
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Re: How you started programming
« Reply #56 on: June 07, 2009, 12:24:29 am »
Tifreak8x confirmed it many times before. The first time was when he e-mailed me about The Reign Of Legends 3 v0.70 in May 2004. He tried the game on a TI-83+SE and on a TI-84+SE and it ran slightly faster on the 83+SE. He also re-stated that many times afterward, altough showed no screenshots proving it. The speed change must not be very great, though, maybe like 4%
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Re: How you started programming
« Reply #57 on: June 07, 2009, 11:56:31 am »
Wel.. *sorry Eeems but i actually use the Clock on my calculator*
I like my watch alot.. so i don'tbring it to school XDD and sometimes some classes i go to don't have clocks.. so i use theclock on my calculator..
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Re: How you started programming
« Reply #58 on: June 07, 2009, 03:18:05 pm »
Well I always have ram resets so my clock is never right.
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Re: How you started programming
« Reply #59 on: June 07, 2009, 06:03:59 pm »
Quote from: noahbaby94 on June 07, 2009, 03:18:05 pm
Well I always have ram resets so my clock is never right.
me too.
And I only set when I connect to pc. (TI-COnnect and Tilp have a nice utility to synch to pc)

It is strange though. Putting the clock off in TI-OS make the calc faster? <.<

Oh, why this entire page is offtopic? Better why I am contributing to it? xD
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