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Online Multiplayer Games On TI Calculators?

Posted by Soulskill on from the where-were-you-when-i-was-in-sixth-grade dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A calculator enthusiast has managed to allow TI-83 Plus and TI-84 Plus graphing calculators to connect to the Internet with the help of an Arduino board. It is called Global CALCnet 2.2 and there is already a chat program demonstrating it. Multi-player games for gCn such as a Scorched-Earth clone are currently in the works. Maybe in the near future we will be playing some variant of Ztetris against our friends on the other side of the world?" Somebody also took the time to port Doom to a TI-Nspire calculator. A YouTube video demonstration is available.

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  1. done properly by FuckingNickName · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Alternatively, usinagaz, being a real TCP/IP stack for a real engineer's calculator. IRC, web server, mail client, etc.

    Not sure why you'd need an Arduino board. What simple interface did TI manage to break?

  2. Re:WHY!? by tepples · · Score: 3, Informative

    TI calculators are better for K-12 students because the faculty and staff won't confiscate it from you if you carry it onto school property and bring it out after you have finished your classwork.

  3. More academic integrity headaches... by siwelwerd · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's bad enough that my students want to use the calculator on their phones during an exam. Now they can network their calculators?