Official TI-Boy SE Beta Thread

[Dapianokid]

Actually, I have one of those famed 83SE's from the launch stock at some random store. I bought it from somebody who had one on eBay. It sat under pressure for a while, I crammed it into my drawer with other things without it's case, and it only has a sticky [MATH] key.

[DJ Omnimaga]

Note that apparently, only the 2001-02 83+SE calcs seems affected and it's usually the screen that breaks the most.

[Streetwalrus]

I took care of the screen myself DJ.

[DJ Omnimaga]

What did you do with it? Did you manage to fix it using Kerm's tutorials and help?

[Streetwalrus]

Hmmm, I opened the calc and probably broke the ribbon cable. Trying to replace it I damaged the driver's ribbon so now I can't do anything unless I find another broken one with working LCD.

[DJ Omnimaga]

Oh ok I thought that the LCD broke by itself or a bit of humidity like what happened to various people around 2004-05. Often, just carrying the calc in your backpack to school during a rainy day (not even heavy rain) was enough to make your LCD permanently glitchy. Never heard anything like that with any other calc except maybe the TI-80, which was built really cheap.

[TIfanx1999]

Hey, just want to remind you guys not to drift too far off topic here mkay?

[Dapianokid]

Hey, just want to remind you guys not to drift too far off topic here mkay?

But...bu-bu-bu... My SE has been through some abuse over the years and I haven't had many problems with it. The one thing I had to do was take out some foam fillings from the case because the pressure from them was damaging my LCD somehow.

Anyways, what is the best calculator model to run TI-boy SE anyway? Isn't there a prototype calculator that Kerm was talking about...?

[DJ Omnimaga]

I don't remember about the prototype, but I know that the best calcs to run TI-Boy are the TI-84+SE calcs from 2004 to March 2007.

[epicpenguin1999]

Sorry, but pokemon red doesn't work on my ti-84+se. What maybe the problem? It says it's not compatible...

[Hayleia]

Maybe because of the hardware revision ? It must be written somewhere in that thread the Pokemon games only work on old revisions. Well, with the latest releases, they work on newer revisions too but there was a problem, like "can't save" or something.

[Runer112]

With 84+SE calculators manufactures less than about 6 years ago or so, TI cheaped out and cut the amount of RAM inside them from 128KB to 48KB to probably save a tenth of a cent per calculator. 48KB was never enough for Pokemon, so for a long time, newer 84+SE calculators simply didn't support it.

However, with the latest version, Pokemon has been partially supported for new 84+SE calculators. The reports I've heard say that the game almost entirely works, except for one moderately annoying flaw. Changing PC boxes doesn't work correctly, because each Pokemon has a fairly large amount of data tied to it and the extra RAM used by Pokemon games was to store all the data for Pokemon saved on the PC.

[robberguy189]

Sorry if I'm reposting this or being impatient but,

when is the eta for the 84 C version?

Thanks.

[Hayleia]

There is no ETA.

Even if calc84 was working actively on it, he would have no idea when he would have finished (new code, new hacks, new everything means a lot of work, hard or easy and a lot of unknown, including unknown time).
And calc84 has other projects, so he may be actively working on it, or working on it plus other things, or working only on other things.
calc84 also has a life, so he might actually be working on nothing, who knows ?

[Dapianokid]

he should tell us if he is working on it
Just sayin', this project changed my life.