(account deleted) 17 Aug 2020 04:58
Games have been a huge impact on gamers (even calculator ones) for many years. As far as I know, there are more TI gamers than Casio or HP gamers. Amazing games have been manufactured for these graphing calculators, such as the TI-83 and the TI-84 Plus CE. The TI-84 Plus CE is the newest edition to the TI-84 family since 2015. Over time, the operating systems and games have included more useful and exciting features providing more interest in people across the globe. These games include Oriam, Portal Returns, Flow CE, and many others. Most of these games run off a variety of languages of C, ICE, or ez80 assembly. These three languages are more difficult to program than TI-BASIC, a built-in programming language that is easy to learn. Assembly games have been increasingly popular since the last decade, and soon the popularity will die down, The main reason as to why is TI's recent decision, to discontinue assembly support on the TI-84 Plus CE forever. A teacher in the mid-east discovered a bug in the Operating System 5.4 that opens new opertunities for students to cheat on exams, TI took this into account and took the time to decide to prevent future exam issues, to remove assembly altogether. With this in action, many assembly games will no longer continue to function, None of them are executible. They cannot be compiled nor can they be unsquished, The commands Asm(, Asm84CEPrgm, and AsmComp( still exist, but they no longer function. Any attempt to use these commands will result with a INVALID error. Some believe that with this in mind, that instead of 5.6 reducing the risks of exam security issues, that the issues will be a greater problem. TI implemented in 5.6 to prevent downgrades. Once you upgrade, you cannot go back. So before you upgrade, think very carefully before you do so.
What are your thoughts on this? Are you frustrated about this decision or are you glad?
You have control on your calculator, TI does not. You decide on what you should do!
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(account deleted), 17 Aug 2020 04:58