====== Texas Instruments TI-83 (1996) ======
===== Features =====
* CPU: ZiLOG Z80 6MHz
* Memory: 27K RAM
* Screen Size: 96 x 64 pixels, 16 x 8 characters
* Known ROM versions: 1.02, 1.03, 1.04, 1.06, 1.07, 1.08, 1.10
===== Usage =====
MESS supports several TI-83 versions. You can switch between them, changing the -bios parameter. At command line,
"-bios 0" or "-bios v102" = V 1.02
"-bios 1" or "-bios v103" = V 1.03
"-bios 2" or "-bios v104" = V 1.04
"-bios 3" or "-bios v106" = V 1.06
"-bios 4" or "-bios v107" = V 1.07
"-bios 5" or "-bios v108" = V 1.08
"-bios 6" or "-bios v110" = V 1.10
===== Known Issues =====
The emulation of this system is still Preliminary.
===== History and Trivia =====
The TI-83 was released as the successor to the TI-82 and featured a newer, more contoured case design that has since been used on all of TI's newer calculators. The TI-83 features backwards compatibility with TI-82 programs and some newer financial functions, but by far the most notable aspect of this calculator is built-in assembly programming capability supported by TI itself. This advance saved curious programmers the trouble of "hacking" the calculator themselves to achieve this functionality, and marked the beginning of TI's embracement of assembly programming. The TI-83 was a popular programming platform, but has now been largely replaced by the TI-83 Plus,
an updated model.
//(info from ticalc.org)//
===== Links =====
* Texas Instruments Homepage -- http://www.ti.com
* ticalc.org -- http://www.ticalc.org
* TI-Files -- http://www.ti-files.org
===== Other Emulators =====
* CalcEm -- http://calcem.sourceforge.net/
* Virtual TI -- http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualti/
Generated on Sun Jul 19 10:17:28 2009