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Development => Calculators => Calculator News, Coding, Help & Talk => Topic started by: Dream of Omnimaga on July 30, 2020, 04:30:26 PM

Title: Play TI-83/84 Plus ASM games without a ROM
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on July 30, 2020, 04:30:26 PM
Tari from Cemetech has begun working on this TI-83+/84+ game emulator https://taricorp.gitlab.io/tihle/

Currently, Phoenix is supported, but it's still in early stages so I bet many more games will work in the future.

Basically, this is a project by Tari from Cemetech, which allows you to play TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus games in your browser without requiring a ROM image or a copy of the TI-OS. This is very interesting, as this could allow the release of calculator games outside the TI community (itch.io, Steam?) without requiring the player to first dump a ROM from their calculator or illegally download one online.

Source: Cemetech https://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16818&highlight=
Title: Re: Play TI-83/84 Plus ASM games without a ROM
Post by: Jean-Baptiste Boric on August 12, 2020, 05:38:27 PM
I wonder if that could be ported to calculators (specifically the NumWorks calculator, but also Casio). Games like Acelgoyobis don't actually need a full TI calculator keypad, so with some keybindings and enough processing power it should more or less work.
Title: Re: Play TI-83/84 Plus ASM games without a ROM
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on August 12, 2020, 05:50:11 PM
I bet this could definitively be ported to other calculators. While the goal seems to be to run calc games on the computer without a ROM, there are a lot of classics to play that could benefit newer calculator models.