Long time without using my TI89
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My TI-89 and its "$4 parallel cable", still working
First, I wanted to use my 7 years old desktop PC with parallel printer port available ... but it stopped to work after 2 minutes of usage. However heavy washing of CPU fan (yeah, "washing" : I put it in the water, then used my hair dryer to dry it) solved this
I then tried to install TILP program, but I was lost in installing GTK (
), and link related DLLs ... a real nightmare, and it didn't worked too ... (Sorry Lionel and other TILP authors ! Your soft is great, but its installer is a real piece of crap)So I tried even older W32Tran8x, a program made under Win9x era.
Except DlPortIo that needed to be updated to work under Windows7, everything worked fine !!!
The simpler the better
I will try to keep this way of thinking when creating Saturn programs or cartridges
Edit : I successfully installed GTC, an oncalc C compiler. Thank you Pollux (GTC author) for your great work
It's funny to program on a machine where sizeof(int) equals 2.