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Ti-83 and Ti-84 Assembly Programming

Getting Started
     1.1: About This Tutorial
     1.2: About TI-ASM
     1.3: Writing Your First Program
     1.4: Compiling
     1.5: Debugging
ASM Basics
     2.1: Calls and Jumps
     2.2: Registers
     2.3: Displaying Text
System Controls and Calls
     3.1: Data
     3.2: Register Stack
     3.3: If Statements (Comparing)
     3.4: GetKey and GetCSC
     3.5: System Flags
     3.6: Menus
     3.7: Displaying Pictures
     3.8: For Loops (djnz)
     3.9: White Loops
     3.10: OP Registers
Applications
     4.1: Apps vs ASM
     4.5: KeyHooks

About TI-ASM

Assembly is the lowest level of programming. It is the processors native language. What does this mean? It means it may be complicated and sometimes long to write, but it gives you the highest level of control and accuracy. This also makes it faster than any other language you write. The Ti Calc has two types of languages that are quite opposite each other. Ti-BASIC, which is interpreted by the Ti-OS, and Z80-ASM, which is the calculator's native language. ASM gives you much more control and runs many times faster than BASIC.

There are several ways to compile an ASM program. In this tutorial, we will use TASM, DevPac8x, and ZDS

You can download the whole Kit'n Kaboodle (TASM, DevPac8x, Ti 83 Plus Flash Debugger, ZDS, and ti83plus.inc) Here but it is HIGHLY recommended you download these programs from the original websites, as these do not include documentation and may be out of date. However, we provide them as a service to you if you want quick downloads.

The text in this tutorial is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.