The TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition is the first color-screen TI-83/TI-84-series calculator produced by Texas Instruments. It was first discovered in November 2012 by a Cemetech forum member, 0rac343. This calculator will be available in Spring 2013, with a 320x240-pixel color screen, a z80 CPU, and a rechargeable battery. The operating system will be based on the existing TI-84 Plus OSes, meaning that existing textbooks and tutorials will apply to the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition (also called the TI-84+CSE).

Breaking: A full hands-on review of the math and programming features of the TI-84+CSE.

1. Specifications

2. Using the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition

Existing documentation for using the TI-84 Plus, replicated here, applies to the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition.

• Using the TI-83 Plus/TI-84 Plus print book. Learn to use your graphing calculator for math, including everything from simple arithmetic to calculus, statistics, and advanced graphing.
• Downloading programs and games
  • TI-BASIC games and Assembly games
  • Cemetech archives of TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition programs including math and science programs, shells, and more
• Linking and transferring files/programs
  • How do I put games on my TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition?
  • How do I link my TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition to my computer with TI-Connect?
• Popular tools
  • Online graphing calculator emulator (and how to dump your TI-84+CSE's ROM image)
  • Online TI-BASIC IDE (SourceCoder)
  • Offline TI-BASIC IDE (TokenIDE)

3. Programming the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition

The TI-84+CSE supports both TI-BASIC and ASM. All ASM programs and some TI-BASIC programs will not be compatible from previous versions.
(More to come. Existing documentation for programming the TI-84 Plus Silver Edition will likely apply to the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition.)

4. History of the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition

The TI-84 Plus C news was revealed by Cemetech user 0rac343 in a forum post on Cemetech on November 8, 2012 when his class received a beta-testing set of TI-84 Plus C calculators. Cemetech codified the information he discovered in a Cemetech news article about the TI-84 Plus C that received hundreds of thousands of visitors from Slashdot and other tech news sites. Four days later, with the help of Cemetech member Vijfhoek, Cemetech revealed further details about the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition, including its 21KB of RAM and 3.5MB of user-accessible Flash ROM. On December 12, 2012, an official source from Texas Instruments contacted Cemetech to reveal the first official details from TI about the new calculator, and also mentioned that a press release would be available in early January 2013.

The official press release arrived on January 18, 2013, but did not add any information that was not already common knowledge in the community. In late January, Pat Milheron, one of the engineers who created the original TI-83 operating system, shared screenshots of the first TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition game with Cemetech, an ASM port of his TI-86 game "Pede".

5. References and More Information

• Cemetech news articles
  • TI-84 Plus C Color-Screen Calculator Discovered (November 8, 2012)
  • Official Updates About TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition Software (November 12, 2013)
  • Official TI-84+CSE Updates: Specs, FAQs, More (December 12, 2012)
  • Update on TI 84+CSE Interface & Programming Capabilities (January 9, 2013)
  • TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition: Official Press Release (January 18, 2013)
  • TI-84 Plus C SE Seminar Reveals More Math Features (February 6, 2013)
  • KermM and critor Run First 3rd Party Code on TI-84+CSE (February 19. 2013)
  • Hands-On with the TI-84 Plus C Silver Edition: Full Review (February 19. 2013)
• External references
  • TI's official page.
  • A hat-tip to TI-Planet's TI-84+C page for its history of the calculator