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TI-84 Plus OS
« on: August 04, 2010, 07:10:08 pm »
Currently I have the 2.40 OS. I didn't get 2.53MP because of the issues with it, but I am considering upgrading to 2.43. Are there any good/bad things to upgrading to 2.43?

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Re: TI-84 Plus OS
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2010, 07:28:33 pm »
Not really, I don't think. But I'm pretty sure all the issues with 2.53 that we know about have been fixed in one way or another.
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Re: TI-84 Plus OS
« Reply #2 on: August 04, 2010, 07:32:04 pm »
2.43 is probably the best 84 OS, with good compatibility.  ;)

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Re: TI-84 Plus OS
« Reply #3 on: August 04, 2010, 08:38:00 pm »
/\agreed/\
none of the pretty-print and all that(which you can get elsewhere if you really want it and avoid the terrible-terrible speed decreases)

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Re: TI-84 Plus OS
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2010, 05:53:57 am »
I'm not a TI-Z80 guy, but I've always heard about 2.43 as a good choice.
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Re: TI-84 Plus OS
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2010, 09:55:39 am »
Good things about 2.43: compatible, fast, no(t that many) bugs.

Bad things: yeah, there's no prettyprint, as schmibs said, but it made 2.53 slow down (a lot).

Agreed: 2.43 is the best so far.

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Re: TI-84 Plus OS
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2010, 10:00:55 am »
Yup, OS 2.43 is the best, well except for OS 0.46. ;D

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Re: TI-84 Plus OS
« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2010, 10:02:09 am »
I have it now, and I applied the patches also  :D
Now I won't have to worry about ERR:VERSION!  :)

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Re: TI-84 Plus OS
« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2010, 10:03:30 am »
Wait, what? TI still has it on their website? I knew it was available from Web Archive, but I would have thought they would have gotten rid of it elsewhere.

I'm going to download it now, so if/when I get an 84+ I don't need to resort to other means if TI has gotten rid of it by then.

EDIT: What was OS 0.46? Was it the one that had experimental printing capabilities?
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Re: TI-84 Plus OS
« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2010, 10:05:39 am »
EDIT: What was OS 0.46? Was it the one that had experimental printing capabilities?
Yup.  I think we got it because when TI updated to one of the OSes on their site they accidentally uploaded .46 for about a day.  We were lucky and got it. ;D

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Re: TI-84 Plus OS
« Reply #10 on: August 08, 2010, 05:07:25 pm »
Didn't it only half-work or something, tho? If I remember, a lot of stuff were broken :P. I would be scared of installing this on a 84+ if I had one.

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Re: TI-84 Plus OS
« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2010, 11:50:31 am »
Slight bump.

I actually still use TI OS 2.22. For the simple reason that every OS since 2.30 had that "feature" of not connecting the dots on the graph screen when there is an asymptote at the cost of a 300% longer drawing time :P

Did that ever get "fixed" by anyone? I remember reading about why it was so slow and I saw suggestions to somewhat fix it, like changing Xres to 2 instead of 1. But that results in my sine functions having a slight dent into them =P
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Re: TI-84 Plus OS
« Reply #12 on: August 31, 2010, 04:20:26 pm »
I forgot. I think Xres was the solution but I don't remember if someone wrote a patch for that.

The slower drawing is an issue in many cases. Some people even use graphing functions in games.
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Re: TI-84 Plus OS
« Reply #13 on: September 11, 2010, 04:36:30 am »
Basically, the major differences between the OSes are:

2.21/2.22 Old OSes. Lack major USB support, but are fast with graphing, and (apparently not) stable.

2.30/2.40-2.43 Latest normal OSes. They all have USB support(ignoring the nspire versions of 2.42 and 2.45). They have the slowdown with graphing, but they're still really stable, and have the most compatibility with the most things. They also introduced push-to-test, a way for teachers to lock the calculator down for tests. You might want to keep this in mind, though I've yet to hear an actual example of a teacher using it.

2.53/2.54 These have mathprint, which in the few minutes I've used it, was the slowest glitchiest crappiest thing ever.

I'm personally running 2.41 on my 84+, but I see no reason to go for 2.43. I can't stand mathprint, though.
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Re: TI-84 Plus OS
« Reply #14 on: September 11, 2010, 04:39:44 am »
2.21 and 2.22 are far from stable. You shouldn't use them, ever. They have sequence graphing bugs (patched with http://brandonw.net/calcstuff/seqfix.zip if memory serves).