Published: Jan. 26, 2025

Last Updated: Mar. 17, 2025

Calculator programming has been an unexpectedly big part of my life over the past few years. Something about the blend of limited hardware while still having just enough leeway to make some really impressive stuff is very appealing to me. I've made a few programs over the past 3 years or so (and abandoned dozens more), and while I lost interest after losing my physical TI-84 and discovering I didn't have the cable needed to transfer programs to the TI-83 I bought to replace it (coding on the thing itself is too much of a hassle for anything complex, even for me); I've been getting back into it recently. I'm currently making a Hangman program to get back into the groove of TI-BASIC, and my ultimate goal is to make a proper RPG, since I've found there's a severe lack of good ones on the "console". I'm mainly using the Sourcecoder 3 IDE on Cemetech, but I'm hoping to get another TI-84 both for math and to test my games on real metal in the near future.