Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators

https://gist.github.com/mattmanning/1002653/b7a1e88479a10eaae3bd5298b8b2c86e16fb4404

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BewareTheYiga•49m ago

The amount of classroom time I wasted playing this game…

firesteelrain•49m ago

I wish I had a cable to download these games or even a unit to unit cable. I hand typed them into my TI-82.

jonhohle•42m ago

I did, as well. It was neat learning about programming using those listings.

I also remember being concerned about teachers finding “Drug Wars” on my calculator.

al_borland•4m ago

Same. I didn’t know the cables existed I until college. Though typing it all in was its own form of distracting entertainment.

jasonjayr•2m ago

I LOVED the TI calc forums. I got my hands on enough parts (and went to radio shack to get the rest) to make my own cable from the parallel port to the 2.5mm jack they had back then.

I'm still amazed they cost as much now, as they did 30 years ago, but if you just realize you're buying a license for decent computer algebra system (CAS), at least in the ti-85/89/etc models, it kinda makes sense.

fragmede•44m ago

Damn, that takes me back. I built a cable with my dad's help to download games from the Internet to graphing calculators. Ticalc.org!

jckahn•44m ago

This game is a really big deal for me! I was addicted to it in high school and it left a lasting impression. Drugwars directly inspired my passion project, Farmhand: https://www.farmhand.life/

I'm so happy to see this pop up here! :)

mrhyyyyde•43m ago

First experiences around programming were on an 83, I'll never forget those choose your own adventure games I let friends play in class.

apatheticonion•41m ago

Can someone please compile this to wasm? I'd love to play this again

zeckalpha•37m ago

coincidentally, a SilverLink cable arrived here today so I can program my 85 and 83 Plus.

gurkin•32m ago

Jesus. Based.

dietrichepp•30m ago

I remember playing this, but also a puzzle game called “dstar”, which I ported to the web: https://www.moria.us/games/dstar/play

_0xdd•8m ago

I spent a lot of time in math class playing this...

no-name-here•6m ago

For those unfamiliar, the game started in 1984 on DOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Wars_(video_game)

EvanAnderson•4m ago

I'm a little older so I missed these models of TI calculator.

I loved programming my TI-81 my freshman year of high school. Having a programmable computer on my person-- even one as weak as the '81-- was so cool. I made a bunch of crappy games and graphical "demos", but being that the '81 didn't have a link cable I couldn't pass them around.

I got my '85 my freshman year of college but, by that time, I had a laptop and was much less interested in programming a calculator. I ended up misplacing my '85 in a move. Now that my daughter is old enough to appreciate it I wish I still had it.

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