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mattmanning/drugwars.txt
firesteelrain: 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: 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.
mrhyyyyde: First experiences around programming were on an 83, I'll never forget those choose your own adventure games I let friends play in class.
jckahn: 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! :)
fragmede: 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!
zeckalpha: coincidentally, a SilverLink cable arrived here today so I can program my 85 and 83 Plus.
EvanAnderson: 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.
al_borland: Same. I didn’t know the cables existed I until college. Though typing it all in was its own form of distracting entertainment.
no-name-here: For those unfamiliar, the game started in 1984 on DOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Wars_(video_game)
_0xdd: I spent a lot of time in math class playing this...
mikestorrent: I loved this game. I played this game instead of learning math, unfortunately. It was only by the grace of other apps on my TI-83+ that I was able to pass my exams...I feel vindicated by the rise of AI. Soon nobody else will know how to do anything without a small computer either.
BeetleB: Interesting. I always knew it as Dopewars.
zoba: For TI-89, I recently updated the FAT engine to have height mappings. You can read more about it here: https://github.com/dzoba/ti-89-raycasting-with-z
