Lover of calculators developing new Zelda game for TI-83

Hah! Finally! I don't have the patience or motivation to do this, much less the skill, but I always hoped someone else would! Thank you Sir!

Now if only this guy put the same amount of effort into his math...........


I'm just waiting for the C&D on this one....maybe even from Bizarre. ;)

Calculator harvest moon would be REALLLLYY boring. But Zelda- I used to have a good one, but it was never finished, so you couldnt beat it.

So maybe this one WILL be finished!

Can I get a HUZZAH!!!?

Brilliant! I had one of these calculators at school! Trouble is, 3 of the lines went after i dropped it - wonder if i'll still be able to play?!?!

Whatever, the PS3 is better!

I always wondered what those kids in High School did that obsessed over those damn graphing calculators and flaunted them like they were devices to control the cosmos. "OMG I can play SNAKE on my calculator!"

In their free time they program Zelda... That's glutton for punishment +1 right there.

Thanks for trolling, socrated. :)


Hmm... too bad TI-86 (what I have) isn't compatable with 83 games and apps. :/

I prefer to use an emulator with my phone to play S/NES games in class.

3 hour lectures are fun as hell.

You know, I'd be really worried about Sony if the PS3 wasn't better than a 10-year old graphic calculator.

Ha! That looks so great!! :D

I'm really glad you guys featured this, it's turning out to be a great project. Spencer is a really talented programmer, and the whole TI programming community is surprisingly one of the biggest around for homebrew applications. I really hope he's able to complete this before some disaster befalls the project, as has been the fate of the past two or three attempts to bring Zelda to the TI-83. :(

Also, I really hope Joe P. finishes Metroid 83 some day :P

Damn you Joystiq. You've got me interested in this stuff again.

Don't people realize the TI-86 is where it's at? I mean, it's WAAAYS more powerful for crying out loud!

:)

Anyways that was the big thing at my high school. However, while my TI-86 (which I actually found off the street 0_0) is slightly more capable, it was much less common. :(

Oh ye of multiple footsteps - If only those 13 stars came with a better joke detector =)

I don't know, I detect funny jokes just fine.

actually the 86 is not more powerful than the 83+... the 86 runs at 6mhz while the 83+ runs at a blazing fast 8mhz. True the 86 has more ram topping at 96kb but the 83+ has something called flash rom which elimates the need for so much ram...
also... www.ticalc.org theres more than just zelda people! Mario,pac-man,space invaders... these calcs have a big freeware section to them... True the calcs are a bit expensive but if you can get one cheap or for free from school/friend then you've got yourself a very nice portable gaming device with a better homebrew scene than the n-gage and gizmondo combined!

Oh SNAP. Hey, I never said it was a good one!

But it doesn't make sense to see what is clearly a bad joke, scratch your chin, and then type a response that is both obvious and literal. Unless you were just in a mood to hear yourself talk/type.

"Actually, Geeves, I don't see a chicken crossing this road at all. Mmm. Yes. Quite."

I'm sure I played a perfectly functional Zelda clone with LA-ripped graphics on the TI-83 when the thing came out nearly ten years ago. Time travel, woo. :D

All joking aside, I'm sure this is much more advanced than the one I played back then (don't remember much of it). I do remember the smearing/ghosting of the TI-83, which was much worse even than the original Gameboy, made it nearly unplayable.

But does it work for the TI-89 Tituanium?

I spent a good portion of my college classtime programming number guessing games into my old TI. Pretty simple stuff... input a number and it tells you if you're too high or too low. It did, however, provide stats at the end such as number of guesses and a ranking.

And now I'm at work posting on Joystiq.

Some things never change.

wow. come on guys.ti-83 and ti-83 Plus are by far the most successful, most capable, and easiest to use calculator made by TI. I've been using TI graphing calculators since seventh grade. I had an 86 first, then an 83 plus (which 7 years later I still have and enjoy), an 89, and an 89 Titanium. I've written several games for them, mostly for 83 plus.

86 is NOT where it's at. 83 plus has Flash ROM, making it much better than the 83 or the 86. 89 takes calc gaming to another level, with awesome 3d engines being created to make ports of Duke Nukem, Doom, etc. The graphics are amazing on it.

TI gaming is addictive and fun. You should definitely try it.

"But does it work for the TI-89 Tituanium?"

You cannot transfer games between differently numbered TI calcs (82,83,85,86,89,92). What you might do is retype in all the commands into the other calculator. Unless it's in assembly language. Your best bet is to download games from websites.

I'm not sure about those new-fangled 84s.

I played his version of Harvest Moon... it was probably the most polished and most worthwhile calculator game I've ever played.