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Calculator Community => TI Calculators => General Calculator Help => Topic started by: 42maelstrom on March 09, 2013, 11:39:26 am

Title: Help with TI-84+SE program uploading on a Mac
Post by: 42maelstrom on March 09, 2013, 11:39:26 am
Hiya all. I need help! I want to upload a program from my Ti-84+SE calculator to my Mac 10.6.8 computer but I don't know what to do! Can somebody help me?
I have a cable/cord to plug my calc in but I don't know what to do. The TI-Connect doesn't work on macs.
Somebody told me TiLP works, and I downloaded that but I don't know what to do with it. I don't have a clue how to install all the stuff to make it work. . .
Help please?   ???
Title: Re: Help with TI-84+SE program uploading on a Mac
Post by: Matrefeytontias on March 09, 2013, 11:41:23 am
TI-Connect does work on Mac :) http://education.ti.com/en/us/software/details/en/D7445DBBA5124FA9B4F3F1B222A8005A/swticonnectsoftwareformacintosh

Then I think you know what to do with it.
Title: Re: Help with TI-84+SE program uploading on a Mac
Post by: 42maelstrom on March 09, 2013, 12:02:32 pm
Thank you!!! It really did work :w00t:

Now I just have to figure out how to get these TI programs saved as .8xp

Or, what's the most conventional file type for submitting a program? Is it .8xp?
Title: Re: Help with TI-84+SE program uploading on a Mac
Post by: Xeda112358 on March 09, 2013, 12:04:54 pm
.8xp is the most conventional type, yes.
Title: Re: Help with TI-84+SE program uploading on a Mac
Post by: 42maelstrom on March 09, 2013, 12:08:16 pm
How do I save it as .8xp?
Title: Re: Help with TI-84+SE program uploading on a Mac
Post by: Xeda112358 on March 09, 2013, 12:16:50 pm
I don't know, that is the format it is in automatically on Windows, maybe Matrefeytontias knows?
Title: Re: Help with TI-84+SE program uploading on a Mac
Post by: 42maelstrom on March 09, 2013, 12:18:36 pm
On mine it says the file type is "TI program" ...
Title: Re: Help with TI-84+SE program uploading on a Mac
Post by: Xeda112358 on March 09, 2013, 12:20:46 pm
Oh, check the properties of it to see what its extension is. .txt files are "Text Document" and likewise, .8xp files are "TI Program"
Title: Re: Help with TI-84+SE program uploading on a Mac
Post by: 42maelstrom on March 09, 2013, 12:24:38 pm
Um, I clicked "more info" and then under "name & extension:" it says "MIND15.TIProgram"
Title: Re: Help with TI-84+SE program uploading on a Mac
Post by: Xeda112358 on March 09, 2013, 12:31:42 pm
I am not sure if there will be a problem with it. I don't think Source Coder will be able to open it. If it could, I would say you could open it with Source Coder and then resave it as .8xp. I don't know if simply changing the extension will work.
Title: Re: Help with TI-84+SE program uploading on a Mac
Post by: 42maelstrom on March 09, 2013, 12:36:27 pm
What's Source Coder?
Title: Re: Help with TI-84+SE program uploading on a Mac
Post by: 42maelstrom on March 09, 2013, 12:37:02 pm
All this is really exposing my blatant computer incompetence isn't it. . .
Title: Re: Help with TI-84+SE program uploading on a Mac
Post by: Xeda112358 on March 09, 2013, 12:40:53 pm
SourceCoder (http://www.cemetech.net/projects/basicelite/sourcecoder2.php) lets you edit programs and whatnot on the computer and then save them as .8xp files, among other things. You don't need to download anything to use it.

Also, we encourage editing posts as opposed to double posting (unless of course it has been a while since the last post).
Title: Re: Help with TI-84+SE program uploading on a Mac
Post by: 42maelstrom on March 09, 2013, 12:55:46 pm
I got it to work!!! It was because I had saved it as a generic Ti program instead of a TI-83 program. THANK YOU!!! And, I'll never double post again, sorry about that.
Title: Re: Help with TI-84+SE program uploading on a Mac
Post by: Xeda112358 on March 09, 2013, 12:59:55 pm
It is fine :P Also, be careful as a TI-83 Program is a little different from a TI-83 Plus program. The former is stored as .83p and the latter as .8xp. If it was programmed on a TI-83, then you want .83p and if it was programmed on a TI-83+ or 84+, you will want it saved as .8xp.
Title: Re: Help with TI-84+SE program uploading on a Mac
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 10, 2013, 12:14:35 am
By the way, avoid grouping your files on Mac. TI-Connect produces 8xo files instead of 8xg and I think only TiLP and SourceCoder can open them on Windows (unless 8xo support hasn't been implemented yet). Not sure if TI-Connect 4.0 fixes that issue.