Hello there.
Today I want to announce the release of another piece of software from emu-genius Marat Fayzullin called “Almost Ti85” (ATi85). It emulates full-functional Texas Instruments Ti85 and Ti86 calculators. Marat has asked me if I can help with image faceplates and… well, you know :)
It was very interesting to try to make skins that will be familiar to Ti owners, fit 16:10 screen of the tablets and usable same time.So here are the results:
Hope you’ll like it, cause as more calculators will be supported – more skins will come.
Thanks for reading.
February 10, 2009
Almost Ti85 Emulator Released
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This is TOTALLY AWESOME. I haven’t had a decent calculator since my ti-86 was crushed under a couch in 2000. I don’t suppose it can run ASM games?
Also, support for keyboard input would be nice, perhaps including rotating the arrow keys to match the screen orientation.
Comment by Owen Williams — February 10, 2009 @ 06:58
And unfortunately, like most software by Marat, it doesn’t use a FOSS license.
Comment by Anonymous — February 10, 2009 @ 08:33
>This is TOTALLY AWESOME. I haven’t had a decent calculator since
> my ti-86 was crushed under a couch in 2000. I don’t suppose it
> can run ASM games?
It should, but not in the current version I am afraid. Have to add a proper file loader.
>Also, support for keyboard input would be nice, perhaps including
> rotating the arrow keys to match the screen orientation.
The original thing is …hmmm… vertical :) You will have to
wait for a TI92 emulator to get horizontal layout.
>And unfortunately, like most software by Marat, it doesn’t use a
> FOSS license.
I do plan on releasing the source code for ATI85, as it has no
immediate commercial value. As for my source code not being “FOSS”,
well, bummer :)
Comment by Marat Fayzullin — February 10, 2009 @ 17:03
Hi,
great app!
But how do I can switch into the TI86 mode?
thx
Steffen
Comment by Steffen — February 10, 2009 @ 20:57
Very cool. Only on my n800, I couldn’t switch it off easily (had to hold down the home button and kill it by tapping the X, then it didn’t clear the screen cleanly)
I would have thought 2nd->OFF would exit the application.
Comment by Chris — February 11, 2009 @ 04:15
>But how do I can switch into the TI86 mode?
Once you install the latest version from extras, there will be a second icon in the desktop menu named “ATI86”.
>Only on my n800, I couldn’t switch it off easily (had to hold down the
> home button and kill it by tapping the X, then it didn’t clear the
> screen cleanly)
Just press the ESCAPE button (the one with the arrow).
>I would have thought 2nd->OFF would exit the application.
So would I, but this feature has proven to be elusive.
Comment by Marat Fayzullin — February 11, 2009 @ 13:11
Hey,
Thanks for making these, they look very cool, however, they are hard to use with fingers (not impossible, just a bit hard). Could it be possible to make a new ‘skin’ and use some of the empty space to make the keys bigger?
Thanks!
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