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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #15 on: April 02, 2011, 01:11:06 am »
Hehe, I only stopped falling for it when I saw the halt loop :D Until then, I was paranoid enough to believe it :D After that I thought "Wow, this is a cool idea! We should start having hacking/cracking competitions!" I mean, we could take modified OSes and we could be challenged to use them and work around obstacles that way we are prepared >_>

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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #16 on: April 02, 2011, 01:41:45 am »
I actually fell for it. I even told my friend. And my brother.
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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #17 on: April 02, 2011, 05:46:46 am »
Damn you guys! What an april's fools day!

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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #18 on: April 02, 2011, 05:49:03 am »
I freaked out for a minute when I first read it.
Then I realized it was April Fools Day and this is a calc modding site.
I figured it probably was a joke. I never believe news on April 1st
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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #19 on: April 02, 2011, 07:43:27 am »
I fell for it, only later I started doubting...
But it was really well though out. Congratulations!

Great aprils fools prank(the only one that worked for me yesterday).


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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #20 on: April 02, 2011, 08:19:10 am »
This was too damn fucking realistic joke, you even got me O.O and nobody ever gets me.  nice :)
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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #21 on: April 02, 2011, 09:11:20 am »
I just KNEW this was a joke. ROFL 10 times :) Great job!
Actually it was KermM that took me off this joke. he said it was just string editing. (he was right)
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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #22 on: April 02, 2011, 09:50:04 am »
Well played, gentlemen.

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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #23 on: April 02, 2011, 09:55:13 am »
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Actually it was KermM that took me off this joke. he said it was just string editing. (he was right)
It is not just string editing :)
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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #24 on: April 02, 2011, 09:58:14 am »
yeah, i know, it was also deleting some functions :P but you get the point of it.
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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #25 on: April 02, 2011, 10:30:23 am »
@Xeda yeah.  That halt loop did seem a little bit strange, but I was too distracted by the fact that it was implemented in the first place. :P
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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #26 on: April 02, 2011, 01:18:44 pm »
* yunhua98 didn't fall for it, as he knew it ahead of time.  XD

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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #27 on: April 02, 2011, 01:20:51 pm »
I think I'm gonna write OS 2.99 tonight, with no support for BASIC programs :)

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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #28 on: April 02, 2011, 02:41:32 pm »
Lol, but yeah I was kinda sure it would get people easier because of how we actually have a 8xu file for almost all of April 1st GMT-5 available for download and due to TI's recent history. However I expected the hackers to figure out quickly since they know assembly very well and could just disassemble the OS. :P

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Re: April Fools prank... well... for now
« Reply #29 on: April 04, 2011, 10:32:25 am »
I got so desperate and confused that day that I contacted TI Cares(Belgium):
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Dear Stefan Bauwens,

Our latest TI-84 Plus OS is version 2.55MP.
We haven't released any newer versions yet and i can tell you that we have currently
no plans on removing the asm function in future releases.

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---- Original Message ----
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Comments: Hello,
I would like to know if you yesterday or today posted accidentally a new os for the
ti 84+ on the website.
version 2.71 instead of 2.55?
It is now removed. Maybe this information I got was just for an april's fools prank,
I hope so.
Because I also heard that the asm function was taken out of this os. In other words:
TI is locking down the ti 84, limiting his program capabilities.

I so hope this is a joke.
WOuld you please try to find out, and tell me?

Greetings,

Stefan Bauwens
The reply is what I got today.
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