TI-84 Plus C Color-Screen Calculator Discovered

[flyingfisch]

[aeTIos]

We will >
J/k 0x5.

[Lionel Debroux]

At Maker Faire 2012, multiple persons told Kerm that it was a shame he was not some sort of official TI ambassador, as he is very knowledgeable about the TI-Z80 series and does lots of cool things with these calculators. See the recap at http://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8278 .

Since then, have there been some contacts between Kerm and TI ? That seems clear.
There are now more contacts between TI and programmers than there were several years ago, and said contacts are more direct.
After totally shunning the community of users at large, TI still very largely shuns it, and the results (for instance, as far as openness of the Nspire platform goes) are nonexistent - but contacts are not a bad thing in principle

Said contacts between members of the open development community and TI insiders do not even necessarily involve NDAs or suchlike crap. I know from personal experience.
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[elfprince13]

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[LiquidMetal]

This looks fairly interesting... Are they going to lock it down from being programmed, or are they actually making a new useful product? Why would the colored image be in the middle, with the greenish background on the side?

[KermMartian]

[AlexRider38]

[persalteas]

OOooh, I love this idea...

Do you thing it would be possible to port the Celtic libraries to add colour options ? (or maybe Axe)

Of course I'm eager to learn more (yes, like everyone).

But a z80 with color would be a more competitor of the Casio Prizm, isn't it ?

[KermMartian]

If possible, I will absolutely be making Doors CS fully support this new calculator, and I shall do so as early as possible. It will definitely offer color options to Hybrid BASIC programs if ASM can access them. Yes, this would be a more direct Prizm competitor, if it works out to be the sort of calculator we're imagining.

AlexRider: It is. Are you a user, teacher, programmer, or what? Would you Introduce Yourself when you get a chance?
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[LuxenD]

with DCS, any chance you will also touch up the gui a bit, because of the resolution and color change? you wouldnt exactly need the calc to sketch stuff up.
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[KermMartian]

[LuxenD]

not grimy, but with the 96X64 on 84s, its...dull. compared to other things, its fantastic, but after a while, it seems kinda weak.

maybe just including interchangable styles, like windows has, would fix that problem. maybe i just stare at it too long (Laughing my head off)

also, on a completly unrelated topic, would the file extensions go 83p(TI83), 8xp(Ti 83+/83+SE/84+/84+SE), 8cp(???)?
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[LiquidMetal]

[aeTIos]

I have this feeling the price won't be so bad, especially not if this is meant as a prizm competitor. (however I have no clue how much the prizm costs?)

[ElectronicsGeek]

Wow! I have to say, I'm slightly miffed though. I bought my ti-84+ SE a couple of months ago, and TI bring out a new one . Still, having said that, the TI 83+/84+ linage has massive software repositories and a great community. If the calc is reasonably priced, compatible with existing 83+/84+ programs, has ASM access and isn't locked down like the nspire linage.

I hope that TI support the hacking community, if they do, we'll have one awesome piece of hardware with lots of hacking and programming opportunities.

[KermMartian]

[Lionel Debroux]

[aeTIos]

Well, there is an i/o port. So that gives some perspective.

[ElectronicsGeek]

Did Cemetech get this scoop first?