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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. 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?