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Many people have been pestering me with
"games that don't work". I'm afraid to say that I'm not the problem
here, this is:
TI-Connect has been a major problem for
me. The old TI software, GraphLink, worked and indeed still does work
with my calculator. TI-Connect now refuses to open certain programs,
mainly those created with the z80 Assembly tool "bin2var". There is a
solution, however.
FastLink, available for
download from ticalc.org, works
beautifully on WindowsXP with the serial cables (home made and official)
and if run with the
PortTalk drivers can also use the
parallel port. I'm not sure of its USB support (not owning a USB link
cable myself) but it does have the option.

One problem that FastLink does have is its
occasional 'hiccup' when connecting - it refuses to get access to the
serial port and complains that there is no cable attached. This is an
easy one to get around - start up a simple part of the TI-Connect
software, (such as the screen capture), do some calculator-PC
communication and then try again in FastLink - closing down TI-Connect
should free up the serial port.
Ignore this message in the FastLink readme:
FastLink 1.4 will not run on
Windows NT, 2000 or XP.
I've been using FastLink on Windows
2000 professional (and now XP) for about 2 years now - I'll say it works
beatifully! I think that the message refers to the parallel port
problem...

...Which can be fixed with
PortTalk.
I hope that this page has helped, but if you still have problems you can
still
email me. |