Originally posted by Swanny BTW There is an emulator for the TI89 that runs on the pc. I wonder if?
a) the source is avail
b) where on the pain in the butt scale porting it might be.
Virtual-TI is a great windows utility; emulates all TIs if you load the correct ROM (all are available and actually legal if you own the calculator.) I don't know if the source code is available, but it might very well be.
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The demo version is only the various tutorials, but the app definitely has a huge potential. I'll probably buy the full version later today.
Only "problem" so far is that SpaceTime uses its own virtual keyboard : you can't use Transcriber (would have been great to write down an equation and see it drawn), or alternative text entry softwares like Fitaly or MessageEase (personal favorite).
I bought the full version and played a little bit with it... So far so good, except there is no RPN mode for the calculator (it seems they considered it for some time, and dropped this feature for the final release). The graphical mode is very fast and very beautiful... Now, where did I put those fancy graphs equations so I can have some fun... :)
Originally posted by Saxfiend Virtual-TI is a great windows utility; emulates all TIs if you load the correct ROM (all are available and actually legal if you own the calculator.) I don't know if the source code is available, but it might very well be.
I just found this thread again. Looks like someone got "moderated". Anywho, I kinda forgot that you actually need to own a TI calc to use it. I've got an 89 but haven't used it seriously since uni, which is a shame b/c it's a great calc - I even have microcontroller code setup to talk "TI serial". I digress.... I didn't know that the original poster didn't have one, then again if they had they wouldn't need one to run on the ax <- me.
Originally posted by Saxfiend Virtual-TI is a great windows utility; emulates all TIs if you load the correct ROM (all are available and actually legal if you own the calculator.) I don't know if the source code is available, but it might very well be.
Alright, as far as I can tell from various readings, it is illegal to distribute/download a TI-calculator ROM image. So please do not post links to the actual ROM images, although you may freely speak about and link to the emulators.
From reading around, it seems that you can legally download the ROM image from your own calculator to use with these emulators. This seems a little "if-fy" to me, and I consider it to be very gray-area in terms of legality. So to keep it simple, lets just speak of the emulators on Aximsite, and say that any talk about the ROMs will be deleted.
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Hopefully you won't delete this...I'm just trying to clarify...
Downloading ROMs IS illegal, unless you own the calculator you are downloading the ROMs for. Most people use emulators to test programs they've written, and that's perfectly legal.
Having an emulator on a PPC would be nice, because then you have less to carry around, and $150 less in equipment to worry about being stolen, or broken. The problem is that once you have less to carry around, what do you do with your calculator? It becomes useless, and people sell it, and use the emulator instead, although they are no longer entitled to use the ROM. That means Texas Instruments woudn't being selling as many new calculators, because people are buying old ones, which results in profit loss, which is not a good thing for many reasons.
I think one of Texas Instrument's biggest fears with the ROMs would probably be an emulator on a PDA. If you have one on a computer, that's one thing, cause even laptops aren't as portable as a calculator, and most instructors aren't going let you have a laptop during a test, anyway.
On a somewhat side note, I think it'd be rad if TI made and gave out calculator emulators, so you could test out their calculators on the computer before buying them. I'm sure they'd still make more than enough money. Heck, they might make MORE money. I know I wish I could have used a TI-89 emulator before I bought it. I didn't even use half of the functions. I ended up selling it to my best friend, who has a use for it, and buying myself a TI-86, which is still more powerful than I will probably ever need.
Actually, I spent awhile researching this just to be certain I was not making a mistake. It is illegal to distribute them, or download a TI-calculator ROM from the Internet.
The only way to "legally" (I still say this is gray-area) get a TI-calculator ROM is to download it from your calculator. It even says so right on TIcalc.org, where you download the emulator from.
This is why I said not to discuss where/how to obtain TI-calculator ROMs from the Internet.
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Things get even more complicated if you take into account different laws for different countries. For example, in Europe downloading a ROM if you own the original product is not illegal (unless the law changed recently), as it falls under "fair use", but on the other hand the same thing is illegal in the US (it could be attacked by the DMCA as an illegal workaround).
The actual distribution is illegal about everywhere, though.
I think I remember downloading the rom image from my calculator, even worked using my non-official cable (lets not even start to go there).
I tried it an it worked really well on the pc, but as was mentioned it's all fine to have it on your pc but it's not as portable as a calculator. A great tool for testing software written for the calc. Heck there's even a version of gcc, called tigcc for ti calcs!
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