Jacobly on the forums has just released a demo of what is going to be an Axe emulator to run your Axe programs on the PC!

Currently, it uses the same approach as TI-Boy SE where the Axe source code gets packaged inside the emulator executable, but hopefully in the future there will be a launcher like other emulators. So far it seems to emulate Axe language and grayscale almost perfectly. Basically this means that in the future, it will be possible to emulate Axe Parser games without the need of an actual calculator emulator (and a ROM). However, could this possibly be expanded in the future so that it accepts extra commands for multiple resolution and color depth support, allowing one to create computer games using almost only Axe code and not have to learn a new language to port their calc games to the computer?

On the TI-Nspire side, Jimbauwens is working on a similar project, this time with Lua! It will be compatible with Linux, possibly Windows and with your browser.


YouTube video by Adriweb showing an Nspire Lua script (CubeField) running on an iPad :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLtfsV6zjHI


The discussion topic can be found here. Hopefully it comes to fruition!

Also something very nice: http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=123113&sid=908abe877410032af582a58723441e76#p123113
A 92+ emulator in JavaScript!
It's a bit slow in firefox but works perfect in google chrome!

Added a video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLtfsV6zjHI


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These look awesome... are they only for Linux?
Anyway, nice job!!!!!!

I dont know what to think of the axe source packed in the executable. I think I rather like it especially when color and more computer functions could be added.

I don't mind it, although I worried that once I have like 40 Axe games packaged that way my computer gets cluttered with plenty of small executables. Also it takes more space due to having 40 copies of the emulator

Anyway that stuff is awesome

TheNightenedOne the Axe one works on Windows too, while the Nspire Lua one can be ran in your browser if you don't have Linux.

Oh ok I wasn't sure if it had Windows compatibility yet.

Porting from linux is much easier in most cases than porting from windows. It looks like the Axe emu is using SDL, which makes it no exception. SDL ports to windows very easily.

Why not just make your own sensors? An Arduino could easily use a low-rate serial connection with the calc's link port, and sensors with that can be quite complex and very low-cost, while still being quite small. (Imagine arduino mini, not arduino uno)