Although ARM9 assembly and C language files are still not possible on them, the new TI-Nspire OS'es definitively have support for an extra programming language with more possibilities than the crippled TI-Nspire BASIC. As reported in our previous news, it seemed that OS 3.0 also included Lua interpreted language or a similar form of it. Now Goplat has made the following Wacky Fun Ran... er... I mean 15 Puzzle clone:



http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=7770.0;attach=7305
A better quality preview of it is also available in AVI format. The game can be downloaded here.

Although this is not Crysis nor nDoom, once Goplat or somebody else will make it possible for other people to develop documents written in this language, it will be possible for them to develop TI-Nspire OS 3.0 games written in Lua, featuring support for interactive key input like we have on Z80 and 68K TI-BASIC languages and as you can see, it doesn't seem very slow like the display commands on the Casio Prizm OS.

UPDATE (15:48): This is how Goplat created the document!

Here's how I made the .tns file:

• Create a blank document
• Create a Problem1.xml file, containing the following (without any line breaks, except in the script itself):
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><prob xmlns="urn:TI.Problem" ver="1.0" pbname=""><sym></sym><card clay="0" h1="10000" h2="10000" w1="10000" w2="10000"><isDummyCard>0</isDummyCard><flag>0</flag><wdgt xmlns:sc="urn:TI.ScriptApp" type="TI.ScriptApp" ver="1.0"><sc:mFlags>0</sc:mFlags><sc:value>-1</sc:value><sc:script>Lua script goes here (with appropriate character entities replacing the four characters < > " ')</sc:script></wdgt></card></prob>
• Use 7-zip to create a zip file containing Problem1.xml
• Concatenate the beginning of the blank document, up to the end of Document.xml (at offset 0x170), with the zip file. (OS 3.0 requires Document.xml to be encrypted, but thankfully Problem*.xml can still be unencrypted.)

Source: this post

This looks very nice, but I can't get, by reading the article, what language was used to do this, Lua?

Its Ti-Lua !

Does this mean that Ti is adding more programming capabilities to their nSpires?
Wow, never expected that!

Edit:
100st post!

I hope that Lua isn't a hard programming language

Don't worry, it's a step down from Axe in difficulty

Quote from: Stefan Bauwens on April 13, 2011, 05:52:48 am

I hope that Lua isn't a hard programming language

Don't worry, it's a step down from Axe in difficulty

I like Lua, it's code is sexy, but not as sexy as Python.

When I learnt it a few months ago though, I had no idea that there would ever be a TI-Lua.

w00t! finally a getkey on nspire
Now all it need is downgrade support

If they sell it, i'm sure somebody will probably make a better one for free.

WOW!

So seeing as Goplat has to make this "available," will it be easier than hacking the Nspire from the beginning?

It seems it's just extracting some file So yeah, it looks easier.

I'm afraid TI won't make a SDK, since we have behaved badly, we hacked their new calculator in just a few hours and are already making games (I give critor and all the other guys the merit for this though, while saying 'we').