Calculator Gaming: Minecraft

[@gazehound]

i wrote one of the "minecraft" games in this video, i just want the world to know that writing a minecraft clone for a TI-83+ is a fool's errand

[@loopdeloop15]

honestly? writing anything modern-esque for a z80 cpu is insanely impressive

[@doodlememes]

which one?

[@ChristianStout]

What about for the 84 CE (48MHz eZ80)?

[@tyranidtrygon]

That sentence makes it seem really obvious.

[@drum-corps-fan]

​@@ChristianStout you can run game boy color games on those, I would know, I did it on mine.

[@arvilsdead]

As someone who lives near a city, I did not realise how loud kookaburras are, they are CACKLING

[@JamLlama9000]

Even surrounding yourself with floor to ceiling retro video games will not block the CACKLING

[@JamLlama9000]

Yeah, wildlife in the UK is much more subdued :/@@Bobo-ox7fj

[@Compig44]

​@@Bobo-ox7fj look up what Tasmanian Devils sound like

[@eyadtawfik7260]

im not from austrailia,but wtf is a kookaburra

[@arvilsdead]

@@eyadtawfik7260 Its a bird you can hear at around 0:47 native to Australia and New Guinea

[@shiz_txt]

Many people have maybe already said this, but the ERR: ARCHIVED issue is caused by the program being put into flash, not RAM. You can move it on-calculator by (from the top of my head, it's been 13 years) 2nd, +, 6, and navigating to the program and pressing Enter to remove the asterisk in front of it!

[@everypizza]

I think the number is 2 instead of 6.

[@bensmart2829]

Hearing “garbage collecting” followed almost immediately by James saying “pointer” gave me flashbacks to my C programming class

[@James2210]

But C doesn't have garbage collecting...

[@bensmart2829]

@@James2210 i know, that’s what i learned in my C class

[@adorp]

@@James2210 In C, the programmer is the garbage collector.

[@Girvo747]

@@James2210It can, if you want it to. There are plenty of GCs for C

[@ProgressOnly]

The ti83 I bought offline in 2011 for college had a programmed blackjack. That was fun in statistics class

[@HiddenMongoose]

We're you any good? I assume you got a lot of practice. I know I would lol

[@amosnimos]

"Buggy bug bug" is now my default debugging message, thanks

[@delsen]

That archived error is such a throwback to hiding math formulas and constants in non-functional ti-basic programs in school. Teachers would have us reset the ram before tests but didnt seem to know about the flash memory. Core memory unlocked, thank you.

[@Wearyourmaskpls]

The way you talk about ideas is so interesting to me, you've def got me reinterested in learning some hardware maintenance that I felt too intimidated by. Enjoy seeing you share your thought process the most.

[@SYIBOI]

Omg is that actually what Kookaburras sound like!? Suddenly that old Barney song with the line "STOP KOOKABURRA STOP" makes sense

[@Metal_Maxine]

At school we played "Kookaburra lives in the old gum tree. Merry, merry king of the bush is he" it didn't mention them sounding like screaming maniacs.

[@olivercharles2930]

Honestly, it is the sheer volume that surprises me. I knew the sound they make, but I didn't know it could blow your damn ears out.

[@jamsaltifyouwill]

love it when mr channel (first name james) mucks about on calculators! genuinely excited for every upload, keep at it :)

[@Friendly_Neighborhood_Dozer]

So we're doing the "His name is Gaming" thing again?

[@jamsaltifyouwill]

didn't even know that was a thing tbh@@Friendly_Neighborhood_Dozer

[@BringusStudios]

Impressive. Very nice. Now Let's see Paul Allen's gaming calculator.

[@AffectionateCanoe-vc4hj]

lmao

[@Dudewithinstruments]

Sup bringus!!!! #BringusStudios

[@emulsion_]

Underrated bringus content: this comment on another unhinged channel

[@Games_for_James]

Man, I missed this comment! I’m missing the knowledge to land the joke but I’m sure it’s funny 😂 Love your channel(s)! It seems we share a lot of fans too, you get mentioned a lot in my comments.

[@Dudewithinstruments]

@@BringusStudios hi brigle man don't stop bringling

[@JoCaTen]

Technology is truly fascinating. if it's a computer or if it's a device that has a port, a processor and a screen, it's probably programmable. if it doesn't have a port, it will have a port.

[@paceysgameplay]

If it has a screen and can run code, then it can run doom.

[@JoCaTen]

@@paceysgameplay absolutely

[@Yilmaz4]

@@paceysgameplay if the screen can show two different colors, it can show bad apple

[@pancakedev6]

@@Yilmaz4 cant u still show it with 1 color if u turn the pixels not used off

[@k_otey]

​@@pancakedev6the off pixels are also considered as a different color

[@LetsPlayKeldeo]

I got a notification from the youtuber "Up is not jump" right as you said "Up is jump"

[@estrella-v1994]

😂

[@holtf.8306]

ah there's nothing like good old nostalgic "minecraft" for the calculator

[@vindi167]

6:46 this is actually a really good one. it's almost like paper minecraft.

[@droidv1]

Literally Terraria😂

[@nashizumrud2090]

5:17 Mates, I think we have his phone storyline ready to expand!

[@rinyafii]

A lot of these remind me of a game I played when I was young, didnt have access to money, and only had an iPod touch. It was called “The Blockheads”

[@sonny1524]

That was really fun! the music and different crafting stations you unlocked as you progressed was so fun, lots of potential I think for it to keep growing

[@SpidermanArda]

Man that game was very awesome I miss it 😢

[@HuMan-bEing132]

i would be annoyed i was a day late if this day wasn’t already great, this new james video was just the perfect cherry on top to end it off on

[@0mnigeek]

So much nostalgia from Ti calculator games, good start to the weekend

[@corwin.macleod]

I find it Ironic that all the games are titled as Minecraft, but are actually Terraria clones.

[@dannyd4rko400]

And what exactly is Terraria?

[@Frau_Brotchen]

@@dannyd4rko400 👁

[@ebonhawken574]

​@@dannyd4rko400😮😮😮😮

[@DanielFerreira-ez8qd]

​@@dannyd4rko400 don't say it

[@dddunki]

@@dannyd4rko400 Youre lost

[@DystopianOverture]

'Read before wasting your time' Good start XD

[@robopope7584]

1:46 If I remember correctly, in Minecraft PE, back when limited was the only world type, you could jump outside the world if you went high enough. Not really related, just reminiscing.

[@Khardankov]

I wrote a full dragon quest-style jrpg in 11th grade (I lived in the US at the time.) it would have to be one of my life's greatest regrets that it never went further than a couple of other calculators in Mrs Etheridges Trigonometry class, and is long lost. 😭

[@mikethetowns]

Enough buttons on that calculator to run a port of Steel Battalion methinks

[@Evan8506]

its always a great day when james uploads, even when your home sick!

[@grayphox]

Get well sir

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

I would argue that when you're home sick, it's *_especially_* good when James uploads! I mirror the "get well soon" sentiment. Here, some chicken soup to help: 🐔🥣

[@gammaboost]

6:39 I liked this version the most since its very smooth, and you can't die 😅

[@FacialVomitTurtleFights]

"Im a not smiley dude" Me too little calculator buddy.. me too...

[@BetaPotato15]

definitely bringing this math class tomorrow

[@adamweb]

In the mid 90's when laptops were insanely expensive my nerdy friends and I all carried around and wrote games for our TI-85s at school. Dad helped me build my own graph link cable from Radio Shack parts. The OS everyone used to run Z80 code back then was called ZShell. There were some impressive applications for the time but watching this video made me chuckle everything is pretty much the same as it was 30 years ago!

[@Gameboy_1992]

I have a project idea: Put an Famicom inside an NES shell and make the disc system fit in the Cartridge slot.

[@Whocareslol420]

Are you a psychic

[@Gameboy_1992]

@@Whocareslol420 No, Why?

[@G0uda_]

we need to see that thing playing doom. I know it will be hard but it will by worth it

[@chza1181]

Its called Doom 83 and its awesome but as basic as you can imagine.

[@the6ig6adwolf]

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree Merry, merry king of the bushes he Laugh kookaburra, laugh kookaburra That's not a monkey that's me

[@Metal_Maxine]

We were taught the last line was "how gay your life must be" but that might be problematic

[@CodeF53]

I remember seeing a really cool video on someone making isometric minecraft on KZbin

[@mohavealertnation]

6:55 i've played this one, and sometimes in world generation a single block in the bedrock wouldn't spawn, and if you fell down you would crash the game, brick the calculator, and would have to take the battery out to reset the calculator.

[@freestyla101]

Watching this video made me feel nostalgic for the FZERO type port on this calculator back in high school. It was awesome, minus the $200 my parents had to spend to buy new one that I only used to play games.

[@PurpleColonel]

The whole concept of living near a creature called a "kookaburra" that cackles loudly at random sounds like something out of dr seuss

[@galaxybiscuit]

There's more than one.

[@joshuanichols5468]

James Mate, you have the genuine opportunity to do the funniest thing ever. Rebuild/fix up a Zune.

[@GuyPerson-jt9tv]

The TI-83 plus is the best computer ever made.

[@fazejohncenachristogamerfaze]

Fun stuff! There are awsome communities for those calcs. I bought a ti-84 plus ce for 25 CAD at the start of last year and someone made a full gameboy and gbc emulator for it. I probably got around 50h of tetris gameplay during math class. Shout out to the cemetech forums

[@SimonsAstronomy]

I like how delete adds the block

[@GlitchGaming673]

That actually looks enjoyable for when you have nothing to do

[@Dabzillatheminecraftgod]

Im looking to grow my powers of knowledge with ur video

[@Deesnuts1947]

Bruh I didn’t know this was a James channel video when I clicked on it I’m so happy

[@exidy-yt]

These are more like Terraria then Minecraft (which is understandable) and I am impressed with the the zoomed out one and especially the one after it. You could genuinely build underground biomes and do real mining and crafting if one wanted to put enough time into developing it for free on an old graphing calculator!

[@gustavomodoasalto5030]

Sad to see how people work to port Minecraft to everything but not Terraria even though it should be easier and more optimal.

[@64lu]

with terraria though i feel like you’d have to work to port in all the enemies and weapons and stuff since those a bigger part of its identity, as opposed to how you can call anything with physics and placing/breaking blocks a minecraft like i do think it would probably be more interesting to see terraria ports

[@RilGames.]

well the minecraft games here were just terraria, i dont think there would be much of a difference

[@miguelll6214]

Yeah, until you have to port 500 mobs (I'm joking, you got a point)

[@simeonellinger2064]

Terraria without the physics and boss battles would just be lame like Minecraft.

[@bariumselenided5152]

Minecraft at its core is "I place block", as alpha can attest to. Terraria at its core is more like a platformer fighting game. It's a lot easier to fit a glorified spreadsheet into a calculator than Terraria.

[@L1nxdr1nx]

Seeing him casually disregarding the kookaburras is the most Australian thing I’ve ever seen

[@ImagineTone]

Im glad you got straight into it. No skipping around

[@Tippsters-10]

0:10 I honestly thought you were going to say ‘we port doom on it’

[@eisasohail6818]

he is giving me Dank pods vibes

[@dum_potat]

"I'm kinda a little bit into retro video games" said James as the camera panned thru a room full of retro video games, also great video as usual

[@absolutfx]

Drug Wars and Pacman were my jam back in the early 2000s

[@AB0BA_69]

James, when are you going to do an episode about your silver button??? Less than a year and already 150k subs. You doing good, mate!

[@thezombiequeen1908]

These all remind me of early PC games. Even all the hoops you had to jump through just to get them to run is like something from a Commodore 64.

[@TommyFenstermacher5150]

God I remember running MirageOS on my 84 Plus Silver. Had plenty of funny little games in there, even Lotus Turbo Challenge, which was my favorite. Good times.

[@NickWrightDataYT]

Minecraft 84+ really got the short end of the stick in this video being put after one of the best TI-Minecrafts lol

[@iiiii089]

bruh the cat at the end is sooo cute❤

[@Theeveedobetho1324]

“I better not see any of you using your phone during class!” *me in the back of the room on the high seat*

[@huffywanker]

The ‘Now we have…. Minecraft!’ Kills more each and every time

[@rxt1991]

I love all your content mane this is amazing! Much love from the nw usa

[@Games_for_James]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@TarenNauxen]

I wrote lots of stuff for 83+ back in the day (a, but only in Basic. I'm impressed by the ones that were in Basic- memory management and apps slowing down was a huge issue on those things!

[@RyanColgan1125]

1:40 that escalated quickly 😂

[@lawnside82]

Crate challenge. He fell

[@djjohse123]

Pretty cool! I was the weird kid who bought the casio graphinc calculator instead of TI and never could find anything fun for it!

[@RedNoise-hz5nh]

no janky microshaft launcher! thats a win

[@LordofDiamondsMetal]

James' intuition at trying to understand German is great

[@ShehzaibIsALegend]

I was about to start playing Minecraft, and now I'm watching a Minecraft video!

[@TechX1320]

Would love to see your different takes on the Phoenix game series for MirageOS. They were such fun games that I used to challenge myself to not single hit a whole game and all that stuff. My friend and I made a full on drag racing game for the 83 and 84 with engine building and animated racing on the graphing screen. No asm, all basic code

[@otwonderfulactualAccount]

Minecraft shall now be on everything. everything.

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

It's even available for smartwatches so... We're well on the way! Hell, I just tried to come up with another, and it's even been backported to Windows v3.1 _(that came before Win95!)_ 😅

[@Nintendo3D5]

Moral of this video: TI-83 plus is basically a Gameboy that can do maths

[@_Piers_]

It's amazing what people can create when they really don't want to do the think they're supposed to be doing :)

[@der_kluger_gunther8391]

if i had this at school, i wouldn't do sh!t but playing minecraft! i love your chaotic energy so much, and i agree with you, that beta game is the most complete lol. who knows that having such a calculator could be so cool to game around XD

[@TheSkaldenmettrunk]

Funny series with those calculator games. Your german is pretty good and the translation was on point.

[@Games_for_James]

I learned german in primary school for a few years. All I really remember is how to count though lol.

[@TheSkaldenmettrunk]

@@Games_for_James You learn this in primary school? Cool!

[@thornels]

I thought I'd discovered a new channel, and then I realised this is James xD

[@Atomy111]

I also love having a mouse that charges on the bottom :D

[@MrMegaManFan]

I had a TI-83 back in the day and wish I still had one now!

[@Adriethyl]

Funny how Minecraft on a TI just ends up looking like Terraria, with the 5th game actually doing the line-of-sight thing

[@AWalYT]

Gaming on a TI calc was the shizz. I was the nerd with a Graphlink, Falldown and zTetris. I remember we installed the really good app version of the Bubble Bobble port to the teacher's calc with the overhead attachment...Just as blurry on the big screen lol

[@DarkSwordsman]

First time I heard anyone say "Floatplane" in the wild. That's crazy!

[@Loki-]

Kookaburra reminds me of peacocks. "Eeeeeyah! Eeeeeeyah! Eeeeeeeyah!"

[@ryllharu]

The galaga and galaxian clones are the peak of calculator gaming.

[@degariuslozak2169]

Wanna see this with terraria next

[@Frrk]

5:22 The cool thing about this one, it was actually written in BASIC, ie written on the psysical calculator itself using built-in functions

[@Games_for_James]

Man if that was written using the calculator’s keypad that’s quite impressive

[@Frrk]

@@Games_for_James Yeah I mean they could do it on a pc, but then you might as well use a more powerful language. I used to program stuff on my ti84+ in between classes in high school and the stuff you can make looks similar

[@everythingisterrible8862]

@@Games_for_James When you have to spend hundreds of hours of your life in dumb classes that aren't about making video games, you get quite fast and good at it. What else can you do, while you're stuck in child prison? As for myself, I never made anything serious using the graph screen mode. It's slower than the text screen... but is the only way to get any pixels out of TI-Basic. A tiny text screen does not make a very compelling fighting game or shoot'em up, I tell you what.

[@chickenswallow]

You're telling me Australia has giant spiders, snakes, AND demonic sounding birds cackling all the time?!? WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS

[@CantankerousDave]

And the duck billed platypus is venomous.

[@zap_collection6511]

I was a voyage 200 kid. These 83 and 89 videos are so cute

[@Puluga]

Anything with a screen can run doom

[@channelname9843]

Likely the issue you were having was just that you either have to explicitly tell TI connect to put the program in the RAM and not flash memory, or to unarchive it on the calculator in the memory menu. Maybe you didn't need any of that extra software except grammer

[@Games_for_James]

I would have needed AXE too but yeah probably. I have not been able to work out managing where files go using TI connect, it just shows one storage space with no subfolders

[@everypizza]

​@@Games_for_James I think you can press 2nd then +, followed by 2,enter and then find the programs and press enter on the program

[@Games_for_James]

I’ll give it a go next time I make a calculator vid :)

[@LanceThumping]

You should try moving up a few calculator versions, TI-83/84 are the most common but there are newer higher end ones that have backlit color LCDs and higher end brain guts.

[@caltheuntitled8021]

Reminds me of playing ComputerCraft’s Minecraft text adventure while in Minecraft

[@Elijah-d8q]

every time he makes a vid he gets more and more confident

[@hellohaveagoodday]

I don't think I've ever actually heard a kookaburra before, i had NO idea they were that loud oh my god

[@incumbentvinyl9291]

Pretty impressive. Some of those can bona fide be called video games. I think some of those could be more fun than a number of Atari 2600 games.

[@Elite-vh9kg]

This needs to be on the gameboy

[@surrealkit4843]

I remember when I was school, Kids got in trouble for having special programs on their calculators.

[@tophatbowl-l8l]

now i can sneak out video games into school

[@MtlD-fi9ph]

Bro got the newest gaming calculator.

[@smugs7921]

Honestly dwarf fortress would be awesome on these calcs but fairly certain it would bring the little cpu in these to their knees screaming in agony

[@fazejohncenachristogamerfaze]

I guess it would not be possible. Df is closed source, and needs like a full gig of ram to run properly... something like nethack might work?

[@crishMav]

Bro if i knew this was coming i would have published my Minecraft clone. Made it a while ago but it was really cool imo

[@WackyCreator]

BRO I LOVE THIS. FINALLY SOMONE WHOSE FROM MY country

[@NOTequinox]

thought this was dankpods for a hot minute 💀

[@taffingtonboathouse5754]

I forgot he was friends with dankpods for a sec

[@IftiharAbdillah]

Those Kookaburras laughing was so random that I burst out laughing

[@armadilloneister]

this wil make a great addition to my school calculator