So I've been looking into possibly learning Z80 assembly on my TI-84+SE. I have a little experience with ARMv6-M so it should mostly be fine.
There's just one problem: a few resources I've looked at claim that it's possible to brick it beyond repair in some way. The "Learn TI-83 Plus Assembly In 28 Days" Crashes page scared me out of it. I need my calculator for school, too. Can someone please explain how I can avoid such a situation?
It's hard to do unless you're trying, so don't worry about it. It would be more dangerous if you're specifically trying to do things like write to flash yourself (which is normally blocked by hardware and the OS), but otherwise about the worst you can do is need to pull the batteries.
You will also want to be careful with LCD test mode, but from memory the parts of 83pa28d mentioning that have their own cautions as well.
Tari wrote:
It's hard to do unless you're trying, so don't worry about it. It would be more dangerous if you're specifically trying to do things like write to flash yourself (which is normally blocked by hardware and the OS), but otherwise about the worst you can do is need to pull the batteries.
You will also want to be careful with LCD test mode, but from memory the parts of 83pa28d mentioning that have their own cautions as well.
I see. So as long as I don't touch the flash with custom operations that the OS doesn't provide, then I'm safe?
(P.S. I know about LCD test mode, and that I should pull the batteries out ASAP whenever that happens. It's never happened to me yet though.)
It's always possible you'll manage to bump into some OS bug that would clobber flash in a nasty way, but I've never heard of anybody managing to do that by accident. If you're doing something that could damage the calculator, you'll probably know.
Tari wrote:
It's always possible you'll manage to bump into some OS bug that would clobber flash in a nasty way, but I've never heard of anybody managing to do that by accident. If you're doing something that could damage the calculator, you'll probably know.
Alright, thanks. I do have the instinct of knowing if something is going to go wack lol.
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