Absurdly far-fetched idea, I know, but would it be possible to run makecode games on a Ti-84 Plus CE? There are editions that support python and someone has already made a mostly functioning gameboy/gameboy color emulator for the calculator.
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if it runs python, yes. it’ll be laggy as h*ll with some games i know but would probably function fine, although you might need to make bicolor games (hold on ima look it up)
ok, you don’t need bicolor games, but the hardware makecode is designed to run on is cheaper than the calculator, at least off amazon
I’m not very sure but I do know that makecode is built in C and not python
Neat idea.
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i stay up until 12:00 to make python games, but I don’t think makecode ones…
C++, I think? You can actually compile C/C++ on the TI-84 if I recall from that one dude that made a raytracer on it. The hard part is actually figuring out how to get the makecode codebase on the calculator to run properly because it’s not like you can just copy+paste the files over
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because texas instruments are overpriced
Aaaaaaaaaand I’m lost. Like, bro, I think I’m smart for one second, then Mr. @Sarge just talks and reminds me of my place.
What’s a “TI-84”?
its a type of calculator
Texas insturm ent 84
Graphing calculator developed by Texas Instruments (TI). It’s well known for having the ability to load your own programs on it using their proprietary version of the BASIC language but like I said I believe you can actually run C or C++ programs on it. People have made some amazing stuff on it like this one guy that made an isometric minecraft replica (I’ll leave that down below). I think makecode is more than possible but someone would have to put in the work to figure out how exactly to do it.
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i have a ti 84 plus and ti nspire.
i think ti nspire 100% can as people ported stuff like quake to it
makecode only uses around 100kb of ram, so it may be possible