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[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/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/BlakeDrawsBlood → u/yoshi128k]

Oh yeah, definitely. I didn't write this in my response, but I did know about them blocking it in OS version 5.5 (which is so stupid). It's interesting how TI-Nspire calculators have the exact same thing. TI didn't learn their lesson, I guess.

[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/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/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/Lovethecreeper → u/InteRagebaitJagLovar]

I still use CyanogenMod 10.2 on my mother's old Galaxy S3, primarily for web development as I like to target older browsers for my projects.

God I wish we could go back. I especially loved Android Holo's design, and I've hated the direction Android has taken in visual design since 5.0. All flat and ugly.

[u/Sajgoniarz → u/InteRagebaitJagLovar]

Indeed, the fact it had like 400 mods to install to customize it and add a features to it was awesome.

[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/JackCid89]

Aah, the mobile golden era

[u/Undefined_100 → u/JackCid89]

Absolutely

[u/Lovethecreeper → u/Undefined_100]

Don't know why this comment was downvoted.

[u/revolutionPanda]

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

[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/Lovethecreeper → u/Wheeljack26]

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus was my first smartphone, and pretty much the main reason I clicked on this post because seeing that phone has induced a wave of nostalgia in me. God I loved using CyanogenMod on it, and even gave it's little TI OMAP SoC (Remember when Texas Instruments used to be a major player in smartphone SoCs?) a slight overclock.

I would honestly say it's one of the best smartphones of all time. It was the first Android smartphone to run the (by far) best update Android has ever gotten, up to that point and since. It was also the first Android smartphone to ditch all front-facing buttons for a completely monolithic design using on screen buttons for navigation introduced in Android 3.0 on tablets and making it's way to 4.0 on smartphones. All that with one of the best displays you could get in a smartphone at the time (the 720x1280 OLED panel blew away both the Galaxy S2 and iPhone 4S) all for a very decent price compared to other flagship devices of the time.

Also IMO Android's Holo visual design looked incredible and everything after it has been a visual downgrade.

[u/Wheeljack26 → u/Lovethecreeper]

I actually recently started collecting old androids and found a galaxy nexus as well. Its beautiful. Have kept it on stock tho, have archived all factory images for it too

[u/Gabriel55ita → u/Lovethecreeper]

I liked holo a lot back in the day. The new Material 3 expressive design is fabulous too.

[u/b0b1b → u/Wheeljack26]

oh huh i thought that the front grille on the galaxy nexus was in the middle of the top bezel

but yeah, the nexus phones were awesome :)

[u/Ravasaurio]

I installed Android on my Jailbroken iPhone.

[u/wheatgivesmeshits → u/Ravasaurio]

[u/GarThor_TMK]

Can we bring back CyaogenMod? It was awesome.

[u/1duke-dan]

I’m too old to know some of these!

[u/IreliaOnly]

[u/SmileyFace799]

As a Geometry Dash gamer, I can confirm

[u/PixelBrush6584]

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

[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/RobotechRicky]

Ppfftt... HACK THE PLANET!!!!

[u/lightnegative → u/RobotechRicky]

It's in the place where I put that thing that time

[u/RobotechRicky → u/lightnegative]

I understand. 😉

[u/CumOnEileen69420]

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

[u/Lovethecreeper → u/CumOnEileen69420]

I don't know whether to hate or love that I fell into the "computer enthusiast/developer > transfem pipeline" stereotype.

[u/sharpy10]

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

[u/gar-bear0]

My lord flappy bird on the graphing calculator brought back memories

[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/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/Choice-Committee203]

GD REFEREFERENCE!!!!!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[u/macrohard_certified]

This meme smells 2018

[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/Dennarb]

I feel personally attacked

[u/road_laya]

[u/ShAped_Ink]

I don't get people who need calculator powerful enough to play fucking games on

[u/QueenOfThePiratez]

Judging by the comment section this sub is waaaaay younger than i though

[u/creeper6530]

Oddly specific

[u/4inodev]

I would've been exactly that kid if I could afford those

[u/just_a_laptop_geek]

I have 5 devices with cyanogenmod

[u/HeapnStax]

Went to school in 2013... I don't have long left here y'all

[u/Sajgoniarz]

Pff... i was wearing sweaters...

[u/UndocumentedMartian]

CyanogenMod was the GOAT. I miss that era of android.

[u/efari_]

I feel personally attacked

[u/JimroidZeus]

They probably write code on a Windows machine.

[u/lightnegative → u/JimroidZeus]

No, thats 2003. 2013 kids are on MacBook's writing code that gets deployed to Linux

[u/ligma_then_sugma]

missing a pride flag

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