Games on TI-84 Plus won't load!

Tippmann Fan · Posted: 08 Apr 2013 06:39:15 pm Post subject: Games on TI-84 Plus won't load!

So I tried out getting more games (http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/331/33189.html) on my TI, and now installed all to RAM, which got me an error, but now that I fixed the error problem by archiving all the games, and now when I open up a game,say minesweeper, it just opens up to the title and quickly takes me back to the folders section in MirageOS (I'm on mac, btw). Why is this happening? They're BASIC games, and when opened through DoorsCS7, I just get the error:

X Error #553
BASIX Ex Err: ARC
1. Quit
2. Goto error

That I got when I didn't archive them. I'm so confused! What do i do!

tifreak8x · Guru Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 9061 Location: Sol System

1) You might get rid of MirageOS, DoorsCS runs all those programs and so much more, and Mirage has had a history of random issues.

2) Sounds like the BASIC program has sub-programs that need to be unarchived to run, I'd suggest having all the files you sent to your calculator unarchived from that .zip.

Is the minesweeper game in asm or basic? Sounds like something is crashing or there isn't enough memory to run it.
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Tippmann Fan · Posted: 08 Apr 2013 06:51:28 pm Post subject:

tifreak8x, can you try and help me by trying to download it yourself, telling me what to and what not to have archived, please?

tifreak8x · Guru Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 9061 Location: Sol System

I would get rid of Mirage OS, do a RAM reset, and try just unarchiving the programs and running them. I ran a few games and had little issues.
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Tippmann Fan · Posted: 08 Apr 2013 07:24:10 pm Post subject:

So unarchive everything and do a RAM reset? Sorry, I'm new to program installation and stuff...

tifreak8x · Guru Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 9061 Location: Sol System

Tippmann Fan · Posted: 08 Apr 2013 07:32:05 pm Post subject:

I just deleted all the letter variables like A B C, and D and so on, but the games seem to be working now. Does it matter?

KermMartian · Posted: 08 Apr 2013 07:59:17 pm Post subject:

No, it doesn't matter. The letter variables are sufficiently small that they don't take up that much RAM in the grand scheme of things. TI-BASIC programs will just re-create them when they need them anyway.
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