Real Sound 1.0 rocks tunes from Texas Instruments graphing calcs
We're quite thankful to Texas Instruments
calculators for getting us through more than a few difficult tests (sometimes dishonestly, we must admit), so it's
great to see that a whole community of developers has sprung up to provide kids today with even more anti-academic uses
for their graphing calcs. Besides whiling away boring Calculus and Physics classes with grainy movies and
painstakingly-detailed recreations of such classics as Wolfenstein, Tetris and
Super Mario Brothers, disinterested students can now actually listen to music from their trusty TI's, thanks to James
Montelongo's Real Sound 1.0. Montelongo rather unfortunately chose an almost-unlistenable Green Day song to demo his
work in the linked video, put it definitely gives you a sense of the 32 kHz sound quality possible with the program.
America thanks you, James, for making No Child Left Behind just that much harder to achieve.[Via ticalc.org, thanks Exbzurg]
Filed under: Handhelds, Portable Audio
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
p-diddy @ Mar 21st 2006 7:10AM
Unlistenable?? Man, that song's a classic! Whippersnappers.
-p-
take_it_t @ Mar 21st 2006 7:30AM
He means unlistenable because of the cutting in and out, you can't exactly listen to a song if it keeps stopping and starting and skipping.
Sirius @ Mar 21st 2006 8:09AM
*looks sadly at his monochrome, silent and slow-as casio fx9750g plus..*
John Hinds @ Mar 21st 2006 8:44AM
I think it's only the sound cutting out on the video.
The calculator probably plays it fine.
Josh Wardell @ Mar 21st 2006 8:58AM
That won't mark the first time we've had sound from a TI Calc. Of course all we had was basically the sound of a PC speaker, and that's assuming you hooked one up to the graph-link port. :)
tim @ Mar 21st 2006 9:05AM
Guys, "disinterested" means "without prejudice." I think you meant "uninterested".
CajunLuke @ Mar 21st 2006 9:32AM
Josh (#5): There are several programs that will output sound over the link port to headphones. No computer required.
exbzurg @ Mar 21st 2006 9:39AM
actually he was pulling the cable in and out of to prove the sound was coming out of the speakers which were hooked up to the calc.
Threnody @ Mar 21st 2006 10:34AM
Ah yes, fond memories of being the only person who didn't cheat on calculus tests
Jonathan @ Mar 21st 2006 12:01PM
how exactly do you hook the speakers/headphones up to the calculator, the headphone jack wont fit in the hole?
Phillip @ Mar 21st 2006 12:12PM
I'm sure this has been said at least once, but I'm too lazy to read through the other comments.
UNLISTENABLE?
Really. Come on, guys, that's classic 90s.
Tim is an idiot @ Mar 21st 2006 12:45PM
Since Tim has a hardon for correcting, I figured I might as well correct him.
disinterested ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ds-ntr-std, -nt-rstd)
adj.
Free of bias and self-interest; impartial: disinterested scientific opinion on fluorides in the water supply (Ellen R. Shell).
Not interested; indifferent: supremely disinterested in all efforts to find a peaceful solution (C.L. Sulzberger).
Having lost interest.
CajunLuke @ Mar 21st 2006 1:17PM
How to connect headphones to your calc.:
1. calc.
2. TI-supplied link cable
3. 2.5mm female to 3.5mm male
4. 3.5mm female/female gender changer
5. headphones
6. ears
tim is not an idoiot @ Mar 21st 2006 2:46PM
well, jackass, here's what you neglected to quote in your selective editing:
(http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=disinterested)
Usage Note: In traditional usage, disinterested can only mean having no stake in an outcome, as in Since the judge stands to profit from the sale of the company, she cannot be considered a disinterested party in the dispute. But despite critical disapproval, disinterested has come to be widely used by many educated writers to mean uninterested or having lost interest, as in Since she discovered skiing, she is disinterested in her schoolwork. Oddly enough, not interested is the oldest sense of the word, going back to the 17th century. This sense became outmoded in the 18th century but underwent a revival in the first quarter of the early 20th. Despite its resuscitation, this usage is widely considered an error. In a 1988 survey, 89 percent of the Usage Panel rejected the sentence His unwillingness to give five minutes of his time proves that he is disinterested in finding a solution to the problem. This is not a significantly different proportion from the 93 percent who disapproved of the same usage in 1980.
hate tim @ Mar 21st 2006 3:25PM
Since the English language is exceptional in its ability to adapt to the needs of the populace, it is important that everyone agree that, if they understand what another person is saying -at least in context- then the usage is essentially correct. But, Tim, you brought it up in a forum discussing a calculator, despite the disclaimer above the comment box, which states, "Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry...", and that you did not do. I can only assume that you don't understand the English language very well at all, having broached the topic of usage in the midst of a discussion about calculators; therefore, you ARE an idiot (which you spelled incorrectly), and your critique of another person's usage is invalid, not to mention well beyond your academic pedigree. Kindly remove yourself to a corner far from those who would otherwise wish to discuss how shitty Green Day sounds on this worthless machine.
Saif @ Mar 21st 2006 3:44PM
CajunLuke's setup can be made shorter:
1. calc.
2. 3.5mm female to 2.5mm male adapter
3. headphones
4. ears
That's how I used to do it. The only problem was that some 3.5mm to 2.5mm adapters had a plug shape that didn't *quite* mate to the internal connectors in the 2.5mm jack perfectly, so you had to choose your adapter carefully.
tim is a genius @ Mar 21st 2006 5:24PM
Somebody needs to visit http://www.zoloft.com, and it ain't me.
Ben @ Mar 21st 2006 8:32PM
The part about cheating on graphing calculators I enjoyed the most was when people would ask if we could use calculators on tests that did not require a calculator at all, like in spanish, or literature.
Imaperson @ Mar 21st 2006 9:48PM
Cool this one actually works without killing the calculator. Now to see how the math teacher reacts..
cycomacfan @ Mar 21st 2006 11:39PM
I got butsed for playing minesweeper on my calc in class, buut my teacher likes me so I didnt get in trouble ;-)
Sean @ Mar 22nd 2006 9:03AM
so, anybody have instructions for programming this?
PaulBlake @ Mar 22nd 2006 9:03AM
In fact, the song was most likely chosen to commemorate the first TI-graphing calculator sound hack, done way back in the mid 90's. The same song was used back then. Only difference was the fidelity. I remember buying the headphone plug adapter to listen to a 20 second, ultra-low-fidelity clip that sounded more like "New tuba in dime" rather than "Do you have the time."
Elfprince13 @ Mar 22nd 2006 7:53PM
all I gotta say is that you are great JimE. this ranks right up there with TIMM and TrueGray for finding ways to have multimedia on your calculator
_|[]|-||\| @ Apr 12th 2007 1:08AM
So where can I find the adapter for purchase?