Anyone Else Crazy Excited?

I'm still pretty attached to my firmware-hacked HP-39g -- and it only cost me $30. Then again, a color screen would be cool for graphing.

All that said though, dedicated calculators are becoming kind of pointless since mass-produced phones can accomplish better functionality for similar prices. I wonder if there are any calculator emulators for Android....

EDIT: http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/02/15/nostalgia-ti-89-calculator-emula...

The 84C is probably best for if you are used to the 82/83/84 otherwise the slightly more expensive, but much higher featured TI-Nspire CX(non-CX is non-color with lower features) would be best. The problem with the Nspire though is a little locked down in terms of programming. The clickpad/touchpad versions can run linux though and hook up to external flash drives and wireless adapters. Its a really interesting topic. If you want more information on that you might want to ask the people who work on it who are over on omnimaga.org(I'm sorry if this is advertising I'll remove it if its a problem)

@ruler501 don't worry about advertising; we're pretty laid-back about that here. If it's relevant to the topic, you're welcome to link to it. And of course just about anything goes in the Off-Topic forum, as long as it's age-appropriate.

That's kind of cool, I didn't know TI calcs could do Linux. I suppose I'm not surprised, seeing as Linux runs on just about everything. Cool stuff.

Yeah, I don't need the added features, and I can't use them on some of my tests anyway. And TI-Basic is by far and away my favorite language to write for. It isn't a fraction as powerful as C or Java or anything, but its what I learned on and it has a certain nostalgia to it. That's also why I will always prefer a stand alone calculator above a phone or other multi tasking device. I don't think I will ever tire of the feeling of clicking those buttons as fast as my fingers can go. Touch screens just don't work for me like that.

For the 84 series you can also write in C/Asm/Grammar(Interpreted Language written by a community member)/Axe(Compiled TI-Basic like language). The last three you can write on-calc if you download the programs to do so. For the 84C it will probably be a while before the documentation is there to use low level languages like those.

C on the 84? Could I get a link to a download for that? And I assume there is no object oriented language compatible with the 84?

I haven't worked with it, but I know someone who has. One person even wrote a whole OS for the 84 in C. I'll ask to see if I can find the tutorial for setting it up. The main thing is just knowing where things are and cross-compiling to the z80.

My calculator of choice is Mathematica. I love it so much. Got hooked when I was required to use it for some of my physics classes.

dgoree I found the tutorial for setting it up. http://www.cemetech.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7087&start=0 The one thing about developing for the 84 is that usually you will need to write much lower level code than you usually would for a CBC.

Thanks! I don't mind the lower level code. Sometimes I even prefer to just for the challenge of making complex things work.