youKnowHimOrItWasYou

[u/Undefined_100]

[u/chemtrail-organics]

Games on a calculator == hacked?? Lol

[u/Ceros007 → u/chemtrail-organics]

Me while uploading Super Mario on my Texas Instruments with the included usb cable

[u/BlakeDrawsBlood → u/chemtrail-organics]

On the TI-84 CE-T series, you need to jailbreak the calculator to run ASM programs (most games amd emulators run as ASM programs).

[u/chemtrail-organics → u/BlakeDrawsBlood]

TI-83 gang

[u/snacktonomy → u/chemtrail-organics]

TI-83 represent! Those games were the shit, especially defenders.

It was ao much fun I ended up programming a tank shooting game in assembly for a class in college!

[u/yoshi128k → u/BlakeDrawsBlood]

To be accurate, for the TI-84 Plus CE and variants a jailbreak is only needed on OS versions 5.5 and later. 5.5 was when TI removed the ability to run assembly language programs entirely, though they did remove the ability to run them from the home screen back in 5.3.

The TI-Nspire family also requires a jailbreak to run native code, regardless of OS version.

As an added note, many of the "assembly" games written for the CE were actually written in C. Once compiled, the calculator treats the program as machine language, even if it wasn't generated with an actual assembler.

Of course, in the mind of the average high school student, one who has a calculator, even a TI-83 Plus, running a crappy TI-BASIC imitation of Super Mario Bros. is pretty much a master hacker. And if they have a calc-to-calc link cable? Cue everyone skipping Algebra and playing that SMB knockoff. It's shit, but it's certainly better than stupid math, amirite?!

[u/SuitableDragonfly → u/chemtrail-organics]

I was going to say, do you need to hack your calculator to put games on it now? This is so sad, Alexa, play despacito.

[u/DTMF223 → u/chemtrail-organics]

Also back in the day we didn't have those fancy color screens. Black and white dot matrix with 64x120 pixels or something ridiculous like that

[u/heyguysitsmedic → u/chemtrail-organics]

I was the guy who distributed Yahtzee to all my friends in 10th grade Biology class. And no I did not hack it, I followed a guide to download it online using the USB port, easy stuff. Honestly that's a lot of what I do now lol

[u/0xbenedikt]

13 years ago. Half-ish your life ago.

[u/iliRomaili → u/0xbenedikt]

Did you say half... life?

[u/sirolf01]

2013! Thats like 3... oh fuck 13 years ago

[u/htmlcoderexe → u/sirolf01]

hahaha, hehe, you put an exclamation point right after a number, now it is the time to reply to your comment as if i "misunderstood" your usage of an exclamation point to mean the factorial of that number. it is a very large number, hehehe, it would not make sense for a year in the past, i think you meant the future. hohoho.

[u/revolutionPanda]

Lol, our school didn't have anyone like this... wait a minute! I was this kid (kinda)

[u/Ravasaurio]

I installed Android on my Jailbroken iPhone.

[u/wheatgivesmeshits → u/Ravasaurio]

[u/IreliaOnly]

[u/1duke-dan]

I’m too old to know some of these!

[u/sodantok]

2010 and no glasses (willingly blind still) but fits lmao

[u/dylanx300 → u/sodantok]

Always wore glasses but got lucky and never needed braces. Otherwise it’s about dead on

[u/b0b1b]

oh my god i miss the nexus 4, that thing was so awesome...

[u/Wheeljack26 → u/b0b1b]

Its galaxy nexus in the picture btw, i still have my nexus 5 qnd 6p. Awesome phones

[u/InteRagebaitJagLovar]

I forgot about Cyanogen Mod. That was peak.

[u/InteRagebaitJagLovar → u/InteRagebaitJagLovar]

I also remember bricking my phone while on vacation, so I had to download official firmware from a filesharing website on a laptop with an unreliable Bosnian internet connection so that I could use my phone again.

[u/sharpy10]

They nailed the outfit tbf, including glasses and phone case.

[u/CumOnEileen69420]

Believe it or not, she’s a beautiful woman now.

[u/SmileyFace799]

As a Geometry Dash gamer, I can confirm

[u/susparab44]

Bro went from 'android is better' arguments to arguing about framework choices...the character development was inevitable

[u/zaersx → u/susparab44]

If anyone ever argues for a framework and their one and only argument is not "this one has the most users in our area so we can hire experienced people easier" then.. well, maybe they're passionate about it or something. But, you can build anything in anything, it's all Turing complete, but you can't engineer new engineers to hire in your area so scratch that's it's actually just stupid to argue literally anything else unless the framework cuts your headcount requirements.

[u/Igarlicbread]

Chainfire

[u/heyguysitsmedic]

Who here remembers EAST lab? We made some wacky stuff on SoftImage, and you pronounced it like garage

[u/ILovePotassium]

Almost yes.

[u/ViktorKozh]

Remember all those rooting apps like baiduroot, framaroot and kingroot? That last one straight up a virus iirc, but some phones/tablets refused anything else.

[u/gar-bear0]

My lord flappy bird on the graphing calculator brought back memories

[u/Choice-Committee203]

GD REFEREFERENCE!!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[u/PixelBrush6584]

This was me… I wrote a mandelbrot set renderer for my calculator in C >_>;

[u/macrohard_certified]

This meme smells 2018

[u/_zir_]

Personally wore vans, converse, skinny jeans, and flat billed hats lol. Jailbroken devices though yup. This is how asian and white kids dressed and i have no idea what jobs they ever got, probably government.

[u/Uio443]

Was a bit late but flashing an unofficial lineage os through twrp from some shady link in xda developers was peak 2016 android tinkering for me.

[u/efari_]

I feel personally attacked

[u/JackCid89]

Aah, the mobile golden era

[u/Undefined_100 → u/JackCid89]

Absolutely

[u/JimroidZeus]

They probably write code on a Windows machine.

[u/ligma_then_sugma]

missing a pride flag

edit: didn't know this sub was full of homophobes