About a year ago, DS homebrew developer Davr created DS85, an emulator of the Texas Instruments TI-85 graphing calculator. The calculator itself is an interesting piece of work, as it allowed for a degree of programming and custom apps, ie, homebrew games.

Unfortunately, DS85 also had limited DLDI support. This meant that later-gen Flash cards such as R4 DS, M3 Simply, or CycloDS Evolution were unable to run the TI-85 even if there were patching tools available.

That just might change in the near future, as Louis (our tipster) has informed us that he's convinced Davr to hand out a DS85's source codes. Louis himself states he's currently busy working on www.comiccrowd.com, so he's asking other willing and able DS devs to check out the app's source codes, and see what sort of playing around that can do. Here are a couple of extra notes from Davr:

* The code is very ugly
* I started making various changes & optimizations & enhancements, but haven't finished them
* It may not even compile, and if it does, you'll be lucky if it works
* Have fun! :)"

Guys interested in updating DS85 can just head on over to the download proper. Good luck!