Helloo and need help!

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ti-89 owner,Engineering student

Helloo and need help!

CloudExile 02 Nov 2017 02:40

Hello everyone! I am here trying to get setup to program on my computer and send those programs to my ti-89. I am familiar with programming and a little bit of ti-basic's syntax. The problem I am having is the links(on this website and others) to setup my computer to program my ti-89 are outdated, or don't work. Forums everywhere don't really have any recent information on downloading a virtual ti-89 to test programs, or how to get those programs to your ti-89. ti-connect doesn't work for me for some reason and I have tried TIEmu and tlp and a few other programs that just don't seem to work on my computer, wont open, wont install, or I cant figure out anywhere explaining how to properly use these programs. I was wondering who out there has windows 10 and a ti-89 that could get me hooked up with programming. I really want to create programs to solve engineering problems on my calculator that are specific to what I want, and it will really also help in understanding how the problems work. Its a good study and problem solving technique I like to use with math problems. I would like to avoid programming on my calculator exclusively since it is really really slow and tedious. Any help would be appreciated

Re: Helloo and need help!

Battlesquid 02 Nov 2017 05:07

Hello there CloudExile! Nice to see you here. Fortunately for you, my school computer has Windows 10, and I use it for TI-89 programming! :)

• Emulators

You don't have too many options for emulators. My favorite to use is Virtual TI (VTI); I haven't experienced any bugs with it, and its pretty great! TiEmu also has the ability to emulate a TI-89, but I haven't used that one (I'm pretty satisfied with VTI). VTI also has the ability to have programs sent from [TIGCC or GCC4TI (so if you ever get intersted in Assembly or C for 68k calculators, you have that there).

• IDE's

As mentioned before, you have GCC4TI (or its predecessor TIGCC) for Assembly or C. For TI-Basic, you don't have many options. The IDE's I've seen so far are Egypt TI Program Editor and TI++ Editor. I haven't tested either of these though (they require administrative permissions and I do not have them), so you'll have to see if they suit your needs. I am building an IDE for 68k Basic, but this has been delayed to schoolwork and other things. If you were able to find a tokenizer (which might be near possible), you could write the code in a notepad (or in the IDE I'm building, as it provides syntax highlighting for easier readability) and then follow the tokenizer instructions to convert the .txt file to a usable format.

• Linking

TI Connect should work fine. From the FAQ section:

The transferring program, TI Connect, does not work for me. How do I fix it?
A: TI Connectivity issues can be a problem on both the Mac and Windows platforms. Here are some listed solutions for the Windows and Mac platforms.

Mac:
Uninstall and reinstall TI Connect
Kill the process "TI Connect Manager X".
This can be done using Activity Monitor. Start Activity Monitor in /Applications/Utilities, then find "TI Connect Manager X" in the list of processes (if you can't find it, just type "ti" on your keyboard). Select it, then click the X icon in the top left corner of Activity Monitor. Click Force Quit. Then you can restart the device manager, and it should detect your calculator. In some cases, disconnecting your calculator or turning it off will always cause TI Connect Manager X to crash, and you will need to kill it every time you need to connect it to your computer.
To make this process easier, there is a script here that you can use to automate this process.
Use a different USB port.
Windows:
Reinstallation should fix most problems.
Check to make sure the plug (on both ends) are firmly in the port.

Note that TiLP should also work, but it's not a common choice for transferring.

Hope this helps a bit! Please let us know if you have any more problems :)

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