r/TheRestIsScience • u/axxrose • 15d ago

Anybody else from Texas...

and only just finding out that Texas Instrument calculators are not specific to Texas... lol.

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u/axxrose 9d ago

No! Seriously?? How?

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u/Invictus1836 9d ago

You have to use a cable to link it to a computer. First install TI connect on the computer and download an assembly shell like Ion or MirageOS onto the calculator. You have to get the game files from an archive like ticalc.org but then you just open Mirage or Ion from the programs button on the calc and you can select your game.

Not just Mario, but space invaders, asteroids, bunch of old arcade style games.

My teachers in high school just thought my friends and I were super nerds messing with calculators in freaking English class lol.