It’s that time again (and about time) for voting on the Cemetech Projects of the Year™ for 2025! With 15 different projects, the lineup has gotten quite large, and there are plenty of worthy options to choose from.
And thus, this wraps up 2025. Don’t forget to vote for your favorite project!
- January: [84+CE] Fish CE by merthsoft and midiCE: TI-84+ CE as a USB MIDI keyboard by TIny_Hacker: January was a tie between merthsoft’s Fish CE, an aquarium simulator/screensaver with lots of different fish, and TIny_Hacker’s midiCE, a program that allows you to use your CE as a MIDI keyboard, using the keys as a keyboard, and the CE’s screen to display extra controls and options.
- February: A Calculator Flamethrower by TheLastMillennial and TInymon for TI83 by Targz: Another tie, this time between TheLastMilennial’s Calculator Flamethrower, which is, in fact, a real flamethrower that uses a TI-84 Plus CE to to display the barrel temperature using a Vernier probe, and Targz’s TInymon, a creature capturing game in the vein of you-know-what for both the TI-83+/84+ and TI-83.
- March: MIDI Player CE by prime17569: prime17569 has broken the barrier to audio on the TI-84 Plus CE with his USB Midi Player, which uses the speakers of a connected USB-MIDI host to play MIDI files from the CE.
- April: Astro-Calc by linkjt9: In April, linkjt9 released their 2 player space combat PvP game for the TI-84 Plus CE, Astro-Calc, which allows 2 players to duke it out on the same calculator.
- May: 16-bpp Graphics Library for the CE C Toolchain by the dynamic duo of RoccoLox Programs and TIny_Hacker: In May, TIny_Hacker and RoccoLox Programs finally released gfx16, a column-major 16 bpp C graphics library for the TI-84 Plus CE. Gfx16 offers several benefits over graphx, namely the column-major rendering to avoid screen tearing and support for a much wider range of simultaneous colors.
- June: Quickzoom: the best graph zooming utility out there for TI-89/T by twisted_nematic57: twisted_nematic57’s Quickzoom for the TI-89 offers a fantastic quality of life feature: a GUI for zooming in on graphs, removing the trial and error of getting the perfect zoom window on a graph and allowing for easy adjustments.
- July: Liquid Sort for the TI-84 Plus CE by sumde2: sumde2’s Liquid Sort for the TI-84 Plus CE is a port of the game “Liquid Sort” for IOS in C. It features 12 levels, and is very compact at 4.8 Kilobytes.
- August: AsmHook2 with OS 5.8.3 support by RoccoLox Programs and DYNATRIS - a Tetris clone for the HP Prime by komame: Yet another tie, now between RoccoLox’s updated AsmHook2, bringing easy Assembly program to TI-84 Plus CE users on OS 5.8.3, and komame’s DYNATRIS, a detailed Tetris clone for the HP Prime.
- September: BOOMTANK for the TI-84+ by BPierce: September brought forth BPierce’s BOOMTANK, a Scorched Earth type game written in TI-BASIC for the TI-83+/84+. The standout feature here is the addition of a Computer Player mode, giving you a pretty decent singleplayer experience.
- October: WALLHOPR for the TI-84+ by BPierce: BPierce returns for a second POTM win in a row with WALLHOPR, a deceptively tricky ball bouncing puzzle game for the TI-83+/84+ written in TI-BASIC where you must escape various boxes using an exact number of bounces.
- November: Wordscapes for the TI-84 Plus CE by sumde2: For November, sumde2 returns with another mobile game port to the TI-84 Plus CE, this time of Wordscapes, a crossword-adjacent puzzle game.
- December: ScreenSaver CE: APD powered screensaver animations: by merthsoft, RoccoLox Programs, and TIny_Hacker: To round out the batch of projects, we have a collaborative project: ScreenSaver, a collection of screensavers for the TI-84 Plus CE by merthsoft, RoccoLox Programs, and TIny_Hacker. There’s 16 different screensavers/animations to choose from. Unlike older “screensaver” type programs though, this one uses a hook that replaces the Auto Power Down function on the CE with your screensaver of choice, giving you the true screensaver experience!
And thus, this wraps up 2025. Don’t forget to vote for your favorite project!
