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An overview of Minecraft ports for the TI-83 graphing calculator. youtube.com/watch?v=PwtGUDGilX…

Confession: I didn't watch this video, because I don't care, but thought I'd post it here in case it is of interest to you


Calculator Gaming: Minecraft

It's TI-riffic...Minecraft (Beta) for Texas Instruments TI-83/84 Graphing Calculators:https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/460/46048.html-For $1 yo...
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I don't know why I expected a bunch of TI-83s built in Minecraft and not the other way round

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I can however vouch for this YouTuber, as I enjoyed his videos on the Namco Polystation and Samsung Gamboy.
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(You may be wondering about this last comment. It was not a joke, insofar as he does have videos on both those things, and if you're wondering, no, the Namco Polystation is not real. Or rather it is a real object, but it is not an actual legitimate Namco product, it is a real fake thing. The Samsung Gam Boy on the other hand is entirely real. If you want more information on these subjects, I recommend the YouTube videos by James Channel.)
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Gam Boy
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Sounds as fake as a YouTuber named "Jim Channel"

Or maybe I'm one or two layers of irony off, here

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James first showed up as a friend on Dankpods' second channel Garbage Time.

Now he's got his own channel and it's awesome. He's just as chaotic as Wade but oddly chill about it.

When he isn't showing off interestingly weird vintage game consoles he's making horrifying abominations like a portable SNES. It's like Red Green if he were a video game nerd.

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bodacious tah-tahs.

I need to shut off that word-connections reflex someday.

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@Hapbt i dont really like minecraft
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@nazokiyoubinbou In high school there was one kid who had the special device that lets you write assembly and upload it and everyone was SO jealous
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@nazokiyoubinbou I have never had a computer-side numeric analysis package I have liked as much as my TI-89.
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@nazokiyoubinbou Yeah, it's a huge leap forward. Basically a little bitty computer.
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@nazokiyoubinbou All things considered a custom calculator processor is probably more expensive than buying an off-the-shelf commodity processor in bulk. Actually, I'm pretty sure that some of HP's most beloved vintage programmable calculators *did* use custom bespoke CPUs designed just for the calculator, and that's why they had to get discontinued, because when HP no longer wanted to run their own chip fab they couldn't make the calculator at all anymore.
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@nazokiyoubinbou I had a low-80 comparable programmable graphing Casio once. I don't recall it having calculus features, but the basic programming was wonderful on it and it was the size of a standard scientific (screen was maybe 1" tall). Really wonderful little calculator, though the resolution was low on the little dot matrix.
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@JLab8 I also had a Casio at some point that was meant to compete with the Texas Instruments graphing calculators and frankly it was orders of magnitude better. It had color back when such devices didn't (albeit only like four colors I think?) and its BASIC let you just type in text (the TI requires you to enter commands via a menu.) It was even easier to get the text into it.

I traded it for the TI-83 and never stopped regretting it.

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@JLab8 So I got a bit curious after this little trip down memory lane and did some googling. I think I had the Casio CFX-9970G: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_98… Compared to the TI-83 it was 1000x easier to program in since it parsed the basic as text rather than commands and the colors allowed you to differentiate different curves on the graph more easily. Was not a smart trade down.

Can't find any info at all on what CPU it used though.

An image of the CFX-9970G from Wikipedia showing its easier user menu interface.

series of graphical calculators

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@nazokiyoubinbou @JLab8 Hm.

Not that it matters, but I got curious about the "what CPU?" question and went digging. As far as I got was a schematic in a repair manual manualslib.com/manual/1018217/… listing the CPU as "HWD62096A03". Here the trail runs cold, the only thing I find searching that or its variants is a forum thread from 2009 where some MAME devs briefly trying to emulate the Casio calculators list the chips of various versions and state the belief they were manufactured by Hitachi.


Schematic Diagram; Main Pcb - Casio FX-9700GH Service Manual & Parts List [Page 3]

Casio FX-9700GH Manual Online: schematic diagram, Main Pcb. 1-1. Main Pcb — 1 ?...
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@nazokiyoubinbou @JLab8 So these CPUs might have been either small-batch or actually designed custom for the Casio calculators. But as with HP there would have been a cost to this— Casio appears to have been aggressively revving this line in this period, discontinuing new models after one or three years and seemingly using a different Hitachi (?) chip each time. That may have fit Casio's business strategy well, but contrast the boring Z80 TI-83 which kept getting sold near unchanged for decades…
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@nazokiyoubinbou @JLab8 Wikipedia: "Hitachi was a major user of the 6809 and later produced an updated version as the Hitachi 6309…" Huh, maybe you're on to something
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@nazokiyoubinbou @JLab8 My hardware knowledge is rudimentary. But.

Sometimes these weird long part numbers turn out to just be a catalog number for something totally other that's well-known under the "real" part number. But I feel like loopy "we made a variant of ABCD, so we'll just change 'B' to 'F'" naming schemes is something I've also seen.

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@nazokiyoubinbou @JLab8 I guess what I'm saying is free-association by a human brain *might* actually work in this particular scenario.
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As an owner of two TI-83s it certainly does, thank you.
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