critor, will this menu help in allowing downgrades?

Maybe... I'm testing all items.

Exactly Graphmaster (and TC01) its like the PSP. (analogy time)

You can downgrade the PSP firmware, but until you are running custom firmware you cant run the latest games and enjoy all of the latest features while being able to run your own code. In a sense its the best of both worlds (No Hannah Montana references please)

Actually a custom OS will probably be the only way we can enjoy compatibility with their dock, the ability to run our own code, and .... whatever wonderful updates/features TI packs into their OS  [/SARCASM] It worked out for the PSP crowd, and assuming we can sign our own OS, or modify theirs then we can get to work on an easy, neatly packed piece of software for the whole TI community to enjoy. In short (what this means to the normal Joe Shmoe) if we can get their keys, then eventually kids will be able to Load apps and games on their calculator easily, and download a simple SDK for writing their own apps, and read up on tutorials.

We need to crack the private key still (I've been out the the loop for a while with work so bear with me if I'm utterly wrong) We have the public keys, all we need to do is kind out the private key (Not a trivial thing) 1024 bit RSA encryption So to factor that .... well that'll take a while. The only thing we can do its throw all the computing power we can at it for a few months (To a few years) cross our fingers and clusers and computing power increases will eventually crack it. Who knows, we could get lucky and crack it easily, but we wont know until we try ...

ooh.  UART and SD.  Wait, what?

Je ne parle pas français.  Je ne sais pas comment précise Google Translate est.

DJ, I am afraid so, if it wasnt for the fact you can put Cas on a non-CAS, all legal issues would be easily defeated, and ndless2 would be out.


Something I would like to see is a omnicalc for the nspire, what the nspire has now SUCKS, if this nspire omnicalc could add things like getkey and such.....

True, it's like lawnmowers. Lawnmowers can be used to kill people. Should they make them illegal just because people use them for such purposes? Same goes with a certain type of glue. Some people used it to have effects like illicit drugs. Does that make that kind of glue illegal? No. They still sell it in stores.

If a tool to make third-party OSes or send any third-party code to the Nspire was made, it would not be illegal, thus, TI shouldn't be able to take it down. Their authors are not responsible for people who misuse their tools to pirate their CAS software, IMO. If WE do pirate their software, however, then that's another story.

@Critor btw I think some video games have some sort of maintenance/about menus too. Mystic Quest Legends for the Super Nintendo is an example, providing it's ran on a real Super Nintendo console (press SELECT+START in the menu. Doesn't let you do a lot, though). A bunch of games even have debug rooms, altough sometimes they are only available through cheat codes. I am curious what kind of stuff can be done through the Nspire diagnostic menu... it would be nice if some stuff could be executed, jailbreaking the machine (or opening it to run other programs allowing its jailbreak) through that menu.

I doubt it, but I wouldn't be surprised if the ones that will come soon afterward did. It may depend of the store, though. Over here, it took until 2008 before they offer the first Nspire.

From the IRC logs, it seems that you aren't getting the calc yet, tho? Did they ship it at all or something? I hope you didn't get scammed

That said, if you get your calc, I hope it has an older OS and that it never had 2.1 on it before.