Texas Instruments makes it harder to run programs on its calculators

guest · May 25, 2020

Texas Instruments makes it harder to run programs on its calculators
It's meant to prevent cheating, but hobbyists are furious
May 25, 2020
https://www.engadget.com/ti-bans-assembly-programs-on-calculators-002335088.html

Texas Instruments’ graphing calculators have a reputation as hobbyist devices given their program support, but they just lost some of their appeal. Cemetech has learned (via Linus Tech Tips) that Texas Instruments is pulling support for assembly- and C-based programs on the TI-84 Plus CE and its French counterpart, the TI-83 Premium CE. Install the latest firmware for both (OS 5.6 and OS 5.5 respectively) and you’ll not only lose access to those apps, but won’t have a way to roll back.

The company explained the move as an effort to “prioritize learning and minimize any security risks.” It’s to reduce cheating, to put it another way.
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While this could please teachers worried that students will use apps to cheat during exams, enthusiasts are unsurprisingly mad. This reduces the amount of control programmers have over their calculator apps.
For now, fans will have to either cling to older TI software or accept that their calculators aren’t as flexible.
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