Connecting Calculators

fen11 · Post by **fen11** » Sun 07 Oct, 2007 2:55 pm

Can anyone tell me how you can make 2player games where the calculators are connected by a cable?

King Harold · Post by **King Harold** » Sun 07 Oct, 2007 4:54 pm

In assembly or in TI BASIC?
In TI BASIC you only have GetCalc and it only works while the other calculator is idle, so it's hard to make 2player games in TI BASIC.
In assembly there are several build-in routines and also direct control of the link port

DJ_O · Post by **DJ_O** » Sun 07 Oct, 2007 5:16 pm

There's a routine called Zcom for BASIC programmers here http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fi ... 36828.html it works even when calculator isnt idle iirc

King Harold · Post by **King Harold** » Sun 07 Oct, 2007 5:54 pm

I thought you had to explicitly put the calc in receive/send mode with zcom..
But that was some time ago, maybe the newer version is more practical

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Mon 08 Oct, 2007 3:05 pm

If in assembly, try Bell

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Also, King Harold rightly pointed out the WikiTi, which should help a lot.

fen11 · Post by **fen11** » Mon 08 Oct, 2007 7:31 pm

Thx a lot

Timendus · Post by **Timendus** » Tue 09 Oct, 2007 8:06 am

Timendus wrote:If in assembly, try Bell
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And if you use it, let me know

I still want to set up that "Applications using Brass"-page, but so far I've only got a few promises from people who just started new projects