I wanted to create a video player for the TI-84 Plus CE.

Uncompressed was too slow to read from the USB. This meant I needed compression. Someone suggested LZSS (what's used in PNG).

I then remembered QOI exists and I thought I could adapt that. Now I have a modified QOI format that handles the same number of colors, is about 30x faster to encode, while being 87% of the file size.

This is why I don't get any sleep.

I did not expect to be making an video format for the TI-84 Plus CE

Oh god what have I done…

Now you can play Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on a TI-84 Plus CE graphing calcultor

A basic calculator is a tool for quickly performing quick arithmetic functions. But graphing calculators are basically programmable computers. While they’re designed as math aids for students, engineers, and others… hackers have been porting games like DOOM to run on graphing calculators for decades.
Now someone has ported a full Sonic […]

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