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Calculator Community => TI Calculators => Axe => Topic started by: Happybobjr on January 17, 2011, 08:40:48 pm

Title: linking issues
Post by: Happybobjr on January 17, 2011, 08:40:48 pm

Ok, so i was playing one of my two player games at school.  Worked great.
Came home. played again. FULL OF ERRORS ??? ?? (linking)

I garbage collected and reset ram with no avail.
Is the cable going bad after 2 months?

Never mind.  My batteries were very old (5 days) and the calc didn't tell me yet

Title: Re: linking issues
Post by: SirCmpwn on January 17, 2011, 09:04:22 pm

Now, I use my calculator quite a bit, but 5 days seems a bit outrageous.  I get 4 or 5 hours of use a day for several months.

Title: Re: linking issues
Post by: Binder News on January 17, 2011, 09:38:29 pm

Yikes. 5 days = old? That's WAY to much time on your calc. Or really crappy batteries. What batteries do you use?

Title: Re: linking issues
Post by: Happybobjr on January 17, 2011, 10:33:06 pm

Kodak
Zinc Chloride Battery AAA 1.5V
Extra Heavy Duty  :P


A couple of notes:
* Since linking hasn't worked for me yes, I use full speed mode in my progs. (and turn it to normal during send( and Get)
* Every day for an hour, kids in health class play calc of duty on my calc.    (Calc's make kids popular)
* I probably could of gotten many more days out of the batteries.  They were just low enough to really mess up linking.
* Linking probably takes a little more power too, but i wouldn't know.

Title: Re: linking issues
Post by: Broseph Radson on January 17, 2011, 11:14:58 pm

wait whats calc of duty?

Title: Re: linking issues
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 18, 2011, 01:04:13 am

Woah 5 days? O.O Even with the worst batteries ever, despite coding 10 hours a day every day in 2002, it still took me at least 10 days before I start getting low battery messages, and that was with a garbage collect every 5 minute or so.

Title: Re: linking issues
Post by: Builderboy on January 18, 2011, 01:16:45 am

Wow thats crazy battery time O.O how long to do spend doing calc a day? And what is calc of duty?  I found a flash game by the same name but nothing else o.O

Title: Re: linking issues
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on January 18, 2011, 01:26:37 am

I think i read about it elsewhere. I guess it's a 2D game based on Call of Duty story.

Title: Re: linking issues
Post by: Binder News on January 18, 2011, 08:23:56 am

Wow. Scary. I would never trust anybody with my calc for that long (except my friend Steven, maybe).

Title: Re: linking issues
Post by: Happybobjr on January 18, 2011, 12:46:34 pm

I got the batteries were from the Doller store.  They wern't good by any standards :P.

Calc of duty  is two player shooter by me.  Its moddified for collision detection.  I am adding a map now.

Title: Re: linking issues
Post by: Quigibo on January 18, 2011, 02:01:04 pm

Yeah, I feel that the current linking routine is a little too sensitive.  I've heard other reports that the linking doesn't work well between different calc models either.  If anyone else can design a better routine, that would be really nice.  I don't have any other calculators to test it on, so I really can't design a fast routine myself without the hardware.

Title: Re: linking issues
Post by: Happybobjr on January 18, 2011, 03:40:47 pm

I am always open for testing between a ti-nspire and an 84+SE.
During school days I can also test with an 84+ and 83+.

Title: Re: linking issues
Post by: FinaleTI on January 18, 2011, 07:16:14 pm

Since I've found my 83+, and I own 3 cables, I could test between an 83+ and 84+ SE.