Recently, and perhaps a bit impulsively, I decided that I'd like to piddle about with assembler on my TI-86 calculator. To do so I'll need to be mount my calculator like a device so I can write out the compiled assembler binaries.

I can't, for the life of me, find useful information on how to do so. My link cable is not a homemade thing, instead it's a purchased cable from the TI people, the so called Black Link. I know that in the 2.6.8.1 kernel ( the one I currently run ) there's a compilable module for the, I presume, homemade parallel link to the TI-86 but that doesn't help me much. I'd prefer to use my Black Link.

My question is then, how to I go about connecting my TI-86 to my linux box?

On another note, is anyone aware of a Linux centric TI calculator enthusiast group? I know of ticalc.org, but they're very Windows centric. ( Not that that's a bad thing, I'd just like to be able to ask other Linux people questions. )

Also, if anyone has had experience programming the TI-86, links to how I can emulate the 86 on my box for debugging purposes would be very handy.

I've always been interested in tinkering with my TI89 and Linux but have been too busy to get to it.

Have you checked the unix utilities at ticalc?
http://www.ticalc.org/pub/unix/
There seems to be a tar lib for several types of cables and a tar of Kernel drivers.

The only other possible thing I could say to you is to do lots of searching with google and see if you can find anything else. =/

Good luck.