PuzzPack is a Flash Application created by Detached Solutions for the TI-83 Plus and TI-83 Plus Silver Edition graphing calculators, which are products of Texas Instruments Incorporated. PuzzPack is a collection of four puzzle games entitled Dino Puzzle, Block Dude, Puzzle Frenzy, and Pegs, each having their own fun and challenging gameplay that will keep users entertained and playing for months.

These games were initially developed by Brandon Sterner and Fred Coughlin of the TI-Calculator Programming Alliance, as individual programs that were released for the Z80 Processor series of graphing calculators such as the TI-82, TI-83, TI-85, and TI-86. In December of 1999, Jason Kovacs of the TCPA combined the programs into a Flash Application for the TI-83 Plus, and PuzzPack v1.0 was released to the public. This first version of the application was a huge success, and in that same month PuzzPack won the 'Program of the Month' award from www.ticalc.org.

PuzzPack caught the attention of Texas Instruments Incorporated in the fall of 2000, and they approached the staff members of Detached Solutions to develop a second version of the application that would be featured on their upcoming model of TI calculators, the TI-83 Plus Silver Edition. Our organization gained the privilege of having PuzzPack v2.0 packaged with all new Silver Editions, so we decided to recode many things in the application to make them better. The titles, graphics, and level sets of certain games have been changed, and the appearance, gameplay, and usage of PuzzPack was optimized as well. We hope that this new and improved version of the Puzzle Pack is enjoyable for all TI-83 Plus and TI-83 Plus Silver Edition users!

ENTER/2ND:

Use these keys to proceed through most sections of the application, such as continuing past the Title screen and selecting an item from the games list. They will also process a menu item from the main menus in each of the games.

ARROW KEYS:

The Up, Down, Left, and Right arrow keys are most often used for movement of a cursor throughout the program. They allow you to move the big, square cursor on the games list to choose a program, and you can also move back and forth through the items of the text menus (e.g., "Play Help Exit") to select a menu choice for that program.

CLEAR KEY:

This key is used to Back Out of any part in any of the programs, to a previous screen or menu of the application. For instance, pressing Clear on the main menus of each of the games will bring you back to the games list, as well as exit out from any part of a game back to its title screen. In addition, Clear will serve to quit the application by backing out to the title screen, and finally to the TI-OS.

DEL KEY:

The Delete key serves to exit immediately from PuzzPack, straight to the TI-OS homescreen from any part of the application. This will allow you to quit from the app in one step as opposed to using the Clear key to back out from every screen. Del is known as the "Teacher Key" or "Boss Key" that a person would use to quickly exit from playing a game when they shouldn't be, if a teacher or boss comes around to observe them working. ;)

NOTE: Be sure to look at the individual documentation files for each of the programs in PuzzPack to find more information about the keys and controls for that specific program.

The Application file that should be sent to your calculator.

The Documentation file that you are reading at the moment.

The Documentation file for Dino Puzzle.

The Documentation file for Block Dude.

The Documentation file for Puzzle Frenzy.

The Documentation file for Pegs.

The Application file in Intel Hex format that can be used on

the TI-83+ Flash Debugger by Texas Instruments Incorporated.