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Ok so I was in class today and I was using a borrowed calculator. This thing was legit. It had a better resolution than my phone and all the bells and whistles. When I saw the micro USB charging port (yes you had to charge it like a phone) I wondered if I plugged the calculator into my computer could I somehow hack into it? I'm here to ask two questions. Can I hack into the calculator and change the way it works and can a high end calculator run retro games like snake centipede or mario

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Probably something like a texas instruments one, you could get a pretty bulky one I guess and stick something like a raspberry pi inside it along with a screen. 

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.....ok......

 

well they usually only have a few kb of ram sooo.... i think no

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Depends. Is this one of those mad-kwazy calculators that has a colour display? If so, then... Probably.

Most graphing calculators are programmable.

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I assume you mean the TI84 Plus C? It's the one I use and the answer would be possibly, but you wouldn't want to. They did not upgrade the cpu when they changed to the LCD screen so it is slow as it is without throwing at it anything mildly graphic intensive. 

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Ok so I was in class today and I was using a borrowed calculator. This thing was legit. It had a better resolution than my phone and all the bells and whistles. When I saw the micro USB charging port (yes you had to charge it like a phone) I wondered if I plugged the calculator into my computer could I somehow hack into it? I'm here to ask two questions. Can I hack into the calculator and change the way it works and can a high end calculator run retro games like snake centipede or mario

With those big Texas Instruments calculators you can put some games on it. do you know hwat model you have?

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Well I know my school loaned Ti 83 was able to run really simple block based games. So I guess it would depend on how "retro" the game is. 

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My old one could do Snake, until someone borrowed it for an exam and deleted it.

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I remember Portal 2D on a calculator.

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With those big Texas Instruments calculators you can put some games on it. do you know hwat model you have?

It was a Texas instruments TI- something
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.....ok......

well they usually only have a few kb of ram sooo.... i think no

I played snake on mine back in 1999-2002. A Ti 83 plus.

And I made a dragon ball text rpg based on random encounters and traveling. Took me a while to do it...

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Yes, you can. I own a TI-84+CE and run games like Tetris, Puzzle Frenzy, and Snake on it easily. As long as you have the software to access the calculator via computer and have the proper files, you can put games on it.

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Yes. i have 8 gameboy color games on my TI nspire CAS. Like super mario and pokemon gold + crystal

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TI-Nsipire has many games and programs created for it. I have a TI-Nsipire Touchpad.

It is the one with Mini-USB

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You can put a gameboy emulator on a ti nspire cx cas. I have quite a bit of games in mine and they run great

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You can put a gameboy emulator on a ti nspire cx cas. I have quite a bit of games in mine and they run great

I would never get any math homework done with all those games on my calculator. 

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You can put a gameboy emulator on a ti nspire cx cas. I have quite a bit of games in mine and they run great

help, How the heck do I do that for mine? I can't seem to find any help for that

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Ok so I was in class today and I was using a borrowed calculator. This thing was legit. It had a better resolution than my phone and all the bells and whistles. When I saw the micro USB charging port (yes you had to charge it like a phone) I wondered if I plugged the calculator into my computer could I somehow hack into it? I'm here to ask two questions. Can I hack into the calculator and change the way it works and can a high end calculator run retro games like snake centipede or mario

I can play flappy bird at 15 fps on my TI-84. There are websites where you can download calculator games

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help, How the heck do I do that for mine? I can't seem to find any help for that

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Ok so I was in class today and I was using a borrowed calculator. This thing was legit. It had a better resolution than my phone and all the bells and whistles. When I saw the micro USB charging port (yes you had to charge it like a phone) I wondered if I plugged the calculator into my computer could I somehow hack into it? I'm here to ask two questions. Can I hack into the calculator and change the way it works and can a high end calculator run retro games like snake centipede or mario

It was probabaly a Ti nspire cx. Yes, you can run games on them and there are a few websites dediated to them.

http://www.ticalc.org/pub/nspire/lua/games/

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This is all really cool stuff but ... can you hack an older calculator so that the answer is always 8008135 ??

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theirs a lot of stuff you can do on Texas instruments, you can program you own game/program. Other have pointed out games that have been programmed, if you can get the files you can install it. There was a couple well loved forum sites dedicated to TI programming a couple years back, I would imagine they still exist in some form. Their was a pretty famous program where some guy made a super smash bros clone on his Ti calculator. 

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Ok so I was in class today and I was using a borrowed calculator. This thing was legit. It had a better resolution than my phone and all the bells and whistles. When I saw the micro USB charging port (yes you had to charge it like a phone) I wondered if I plugged the calculator into my computer could I somehow hack into it? I'm here to ask two questions. Can I hack into the calculator and change the way it works and can a high end calculator run retro games like snake centipede or mario

yes i used to have games on my calculator

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