can someone help me find software to connect a ti 85 to my pc?
Lionel Debroux wrote:
If you provide more information about your PC and communication cable, certainly.
i have a windows pc. its a hp 2000 running windows 8 and im using a silverlink.
On a modern computer, for a TI-85 or the similar old (non-Stats, non-Advanced) 82, there's a single choice anyway: TILP II, for which you can find a beta-testing topic on Cemetech, with the latest Windows build, which is far better than the 2 years and a half old TILP II 1.17.
Windows limitations and "features" make it unfriendly to install: not only one has to manually use a "filter driver installer" if TI-Connect and TILP must both be in working order on a given computer (*1), as described in the Windows README, but also, for Win 8 and beyond, a signed driver binary is no longer enough: one has to sign the CAT files which are part of the driver package using Zadig (*2) - you can find a tutorial for that on Cemetech.
*1: only to work around the fact that Windows thoroughly hates having more than one driver for a given piece of hardware, but TILP (libticables) and TI-Connect / TINC(L)S cannot use each other's drivers for licensing and functionality reasons;
*2: but self-signing works, so this yields zero additional security in return for the user and programmer hassle...
Windows limitations and "features" make it unfriendly to install: not only one has to manually use a "filter driver installer" if TI-Connect and TILP must both be in working order on a given computer (*1), as described in the Windows README, but also, for Win 8 and beyond, a signed driver binary is no longer enough: one has to sign the CAT files which are part of the driver package using Zadig (*2) - you can find a tutorial for that on Cemetech.
*1: only to work around the fact that Windows thoroughly hates having more than one driver for a given piece of hardware, but TILP (libticables) and TI-Connect / TINC(L)S cannot use each other's drivers for licensing and functionality reasons;
*2: but self-signing works, so this yields zero additional security in return for the user and programmer hassle...
Lionel Debroux wrote:
On a modern computer, for a TI-85 or the similar old (non-Stats, non-Advanced) 82, there's a single choice anyway: TILP II, for which you can find a beta-testing topic on Cemetech, with the latest Windows build, which is far better than the 2 years and a half old TILP II 1.17.
Windows limitations and "features" make it unfriendly to install: not only one has to manually use a "filter driver installer" if TI-Connect and TILP must both be in working order on a given computer (*1), as described in the Windows README, but also, for Win 8 and beyond, a signed driver binary is no longer enough: one has to sign the CAT files which are part of the driver package using Zadig (*2) - you can find a tutorial for that on Cemetech.
*1: only to work around the fact that Windows thoroughly hates having more than one driver for a given piece of hardware, but TILP (libticables) and TI-Connect / TINC(L)S cannot use each other's drivers for licensing and functionality reasons;
*2: but self-signing works, so this yields zero additional security in return for the user and programmer hassle...
Windows limitations and "features" make it unfriendly to install: not only one has to manually use a "filter driver installer" if TI-Connect and TILP must both be in working order on a given computer (*1), as described in the Windows README, but also, for Win 8 and beyond, a signed driver binary is no longer enough: one has to sign the CAT files which are part of the driver package using Zadig (*2) - you can find a tutorial for that on Cemetech.
*1: only to work around the fact that Windows thoroughly hates having more than one driver for a given piece of hardware, but TILP (libticables) and TI-Connect / TINC(L)S cannot use each other's drivers for licensing and functionality reasons;
*2: but self-signing works, so this yields zero additional security in return for the user and programmer hassle...
i think i will keep my ti 85 as a collectors item.
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