OSLauncher is under development.
The video is fake.

Well, I knew OSLauncher was being worked on, so I didn't even watch the video (I did note the day you placed the news article, though, that did confuse me) As long as it's not too easy to place CAS on a regular nspire it sounds awesome.

Will it use dumped OS images or will it decrypt them on the fly?

The current development version is "trying" to run allready decrypted OS images, like shown on the video.

Decrypting the OS on the fly would be much harder.

Thats what I guessed. Awesome.

I just watched the video, so whats up with the non-existant product ID on the calc? Did you play a video created with nspire_emu, or was it a string edit? That's a very convincing video!

And somewhat unrelated, I am setting up the C development environment for my nspire, what emulator should I use? nspire_emu_051 or Ncubate?

Quote from: mikehill2003 on April 02, 2011, 05:55:15 pm

I just watched the video, so whats up with the non-existant product ID on the calc? Did you just play a video created with nspire_emu?

Depending upon the OS, the product ID is just printed on the next line.
I've made 2 nspire_emu animated screen captures, and I've concatenated them.

Levak did the rest (mapping the animated screen captures on a Nspire screen), and will probably gladly explain all that.

Very nice!

Apparently they're still not done...in http://www.ticalc.org/pub/ a ton of the categories disappeared...

O.o They're still there, but not linked to...

http://www.ticalc.org/pub/83plus/ for example.

They really should have kept the Quadratic Solver subfolders.

I agree , or at least some of them.

I'm very disappointed at the 2011 April's fool day from ticalc.org.
That's pretty lame...

Their previous April's fool days were great.
Omnimaga has been great too.


And seems nobody noticed OSLauncher on TI-Bank:
http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=1029

Did you all "believe" it?...

Personally I found ticalc.org prank funny, because the ridiculous amount of quadratic solvers included there was always a discussion in the TI community about the lack of originality in and redundant files, so that prank parodied quadratic solvers by making it like they had to be split into even more sub-folders. You have to have been around for several years to get the joke at its fullest, because before 2006, the entire math directory was one single folder listing 3000 files. It was also funny that 3 people uploads fake quadratic solvers for April 1st. I guess it depends of opinions, though. Personally my favorite Ticalc.org april fools joke still remains the Voyage 400.

And personally I believed OSLauncher because of DiagsLauncher and Boot2Launcher recent release, but I wasn't sure if the video was real or not. I kinda expected that on April 2nd it would say it's not ready yet but it will come out soon.

That was a nice one, though.

As for previous April fools jokes here are some examples:

Ticalc.org
1998 - Site shutting down http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/0/0/164.html
1999 - Program Of The Hour award http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/0/9/9917.html
2000 - File archiver seizes ticalc.org http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/3/30/30145.html Fake version of the newsletter: http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/attachments/2000-04-01-apr2000.txt
2001 - Ticalc.org ads http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/4/48/48338.html (this one ironically became real 5.5 years later, to some extent. Because of that and due to the HP ad and TI-81 site ad, it's my 2nd favorite.)
2002 - Micro-payments http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/6/61/61213.html
2003 - Ticalc.org merchandise http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/8/84/84994.html Voyage 400 leaked http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/8/85/85069.html
2004 - Ticalc.org completes IPO http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/10/108/108150.html
2005 - File invitation system http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/12/126/126141.html (This one caused quite a flame war between BASIC and ASM programmers X.x. Back then, there was a lot of hate towards BASIC coders in the TI community, which is one of the reason why Omnimaga got a new forum that year)
2006 - Ticalc got replaced with a parked/squatted domain name page, simulating a shut down. However, the ad links lead to random ticalc.org pages and a lot of them were quite funny. One funny part was the HP calculator ad http://www.ticalc.org/a/index.html
2007 - In-program ads (another BASIC program april fools prank) http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/141/141904.html
2008 - Magnus (ticalc hoster/co-founder/former server owner) death http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/143/143713.html (that one had quite a bad taste, though, since it's faking someone's death)
2009 - Web 2.0 revolution for the handheld graphing calculator http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/144/144892.html
2010 - Every file upload must include a quadratic solver http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/146/146123.html
2011 - Quadratic solver directory split in multiple categories & rainbow colored file/directory pages

United-TI
2004 - none
2005 - Every forum member became admin (some funny things happened to the site, although they obviously had backups, lol)
2006 - Purple forum theme
2007 - (I don't remember, as I had no internet access at home)
2008 - 8-bit forum theme (like a Commodore 64)
2009 - They appended random statements between asterisks in forum posts
2010 - About 60-70 fake logged in users were added to the online list
2011 - A small calculator was added on the site

MaxCoderz
2002 - none
2003 - MaxCoderz staff arrested (I don't remember who)
2004 - none
2005 - Fake cease and desist letter from Nintendo forcing Joe Pemberton to stop working on Metroid 83+
2006 - fake site downtime + smash brothers deletion prior that
2007 - Fake spambot flooding the board with spam, even the staff forum
2008 - none
2009 - none
2010 - none
2011 - none

Omnimaga

2005
Zelda The Minish Cap for the TI-83+SE/84+SE http://www.omnimaga.org/oldsite/news_v3.html


2006
Fake site hacking with deletion of every post and other random stuff like a rainbow theme

2007
Dragon__Lance returns (a former Omnimaga staff. Note that Omni was pretty quiet at the time as I had no internet at home)

2008
Omnimaga.org redirected to http://sscentral.org/ , in reference to what happened to Calc.org in 2006 http://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/140/140165.html
NOTE: Omnimaga shutted down on March 4th 2008 due to TI community problems that caused its demise, and the site was replaced with a directory listing of our music, as Omnimaga was planning to become a music-only website featuring songs made by the former Omnimaga staff, removing any affiliation with calculator programming. However, on April 1st of that year we made an april fools prank where our domain name redirected to what calc.org redirected to when it closed in 2006. As for the Omni ressurection, it was requested by a bunch of former staff in August 2008 and I finally decided to answer their wish, restarting from scratch.

2009
Rickroll on front page. As I was extremly busy, we had no time to prepare a decent April fools prank in 2009.

2010
Fake DMCA notice from TI for usage of Keyfont73 in Omnimaga banner: http://ourl.ca/4495
Nspire z80 emulator video was a rickroll for April 1st, making people believe that Calc84maniac's 83/84+ emu for the TI-Nspire was fake. http://ourl.ca/4502 On April 2nd, we replaced the video and revealed that it was real: http://ourl.ca/4505  . It was some sort of reverse-prank (making people think it's a prank, even though it was real).

2011
OS 2.71MP leaked: http://ourl.ca/10053 (Wow, we've been really making fun of TI on April Fools day lately... 2 years in a row )
Randomness sub-forum renamed to random gibberish. Now it's still something random, but we still haven't decided a new final name.


And for those who don't visit TI-BANK often:

2005 None, but Mic thought the Omnimaga Zelda Minish cap news was real and announced it on TI-BANK. When he discovered it was a hoax, he deleted the article from TI-BANK.
2006 None, I think, but with the site hacking a lot of stuff were lost I think
2007 TI-89 Titanium Solar http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=25
2008 TI-89T disallowed in exams/tests http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=682
2009 Infrared module for TI-Nspire http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=731 and Wi-fi for TI-Nspire http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=732 (the latter became real a while later with the TI-Nspire navigator, tho )
2010 Internet Browser on TI-Nspire http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=801
2011 OSLauncher (although it's kinda real in some ways) http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=1029 and 3 people intoxicated by smoke in Casio Prizm burning ceremony http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=news&ac=commentaires&id=1030 (That one was easy to figure out since the article on ClrHome was a few months old and Deep Thought told us before it was fake when he wrote it .)

Quote from: mikehill2003 on April 02, 2011, 05:46:14 pm

Well, I knew OSLauncher was being worked on, so I didn't even watch the video (I did note the day you placed the news article, though, that did confuse me) As long as it's not too easy to place CAS on a regular nspire it sounds awesome.

It's not April 1st anymore, so go get it... while you can!
http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=archives&ac=voir&id=3223

Nice

Congratulations!

This is an amazing accomplishment!

Now, to go and test...

The OS image can be zipped (to save space), but has to be unencrypted.

So for TI OSes, you'll have to decrypt them on the computer first.
(it's possible...)


Remember an important part of the OS is stored in the file system at installation time.
If you try to run an OS "too different" than the one installed (for exemple 1.6 OS runned from an 1.7 installation), system strings and icons will be all messed up if it does start.