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Re: OS 2.55MP released
« Reply #75 on: January 12, 2011, 02:28:13 pm »
Or just destroy ti-os and replace everything with KOS. ;)
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Re: OS 2.55MP released
« Reply #76 on: January 12, 2011, 07:23:45 pm »
With new OS's from TI come the old well documented errors. I don't know why TI doesn't feel like fixing these. Err:Version was fixed by NOPing some bytes in one area and shifting some bytes in another. Err:Bad Address was fixed by shifting some bytes to fix a beginner asm mistake. But they're fixed.

Also, this patches PTT. Both of the resets require STAT to be pressed as well. So 8+2+STAT and 8+5+STAT. It also patches Press-To-Test to not delete all your precious groups and now UP+DOWN+ON disables PTT.

I'll update this again later to make the RAM clear screen look like the classic ones. But I think I'm done for today.

If you want to make your own changes, or just to see my awesome new patcher :D, check out the source. (just remove all those z's)

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Re: OS 2.55MP released
« Reply #77 on: January 12, 2011, 07:59:25 pm »
:D Great, the patches are out already!

And I wonder why TI still didn't fix those... Has anyone actually asked them directly about those bugs?

EDIT: So basically, either TI doesn't have a spy on the forums, or TI knows and just wants to piss us off :P
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Re: OS 2.55MP released
« Reply #78 on: January 12, 2011, 08:25:03 pm »
Or perhaps the coders at TI don't have the time/don't have support from higher-ups to work on fixing bugs?
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Re: OS 2.55MP released
« Reply #79 on: January 12, 2011, 08:27:18 pm »
Maybe they don't know about the bugs?

I mean anyone who cares enough about calcs don't usually email ti
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Re: OS 2.55MP released
« Reply #80 on: January 12, 2011, 08:41:03 pm »
I'm going to try to see if I can get through Ti-Cares to the developers. (No one's ever successfully done this done this right?)

Here is what I sent:
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OS bug fixes
Please pass this on to the developers. I'm part of the developer community for these calculators and we have always wanted to make contact with the creators to help them make the calculators run better.

Occasionally, when trying to ungroup a variable, the user will be greeted with an Err:Version. I have found the culprit of this error and I have even patched it in OS's 1.19, 2.43, 2.53, and 2.55. I was never going to email you guys because I thought these calculators were done, but with the release of 2.55 I can see that that is not true. I would post the code to fix it here, but I'm not sure if this email will even get to the right place. If you reply, I can give you a lot better explanation via email. But the gist is that most of the problems come from when the archive header spans a page boundary. There are two problem spots, the first causes the group to span three pages, which makes it unrecoverable, the second just errors when you try to ungroup it.

Also, sometimes when you go to unarchive a variable, it will give an Err:Bad Address. I have fixed this one in 2.43, 2.53, and 2.55. It is triggered when the data for a variable is on a separate page than the header. It can be remedied by a garbage collect, but your average user doesn't know that.

Like I said earlier, if I can get a response from a developer to this, you will have made the entire Ti community happy. I can also show you the specifics on how to fix these so it will be as simple as copy and paste.

Thanks,
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Re: OS 2.55MP released
« Reply #81 on: January 12, 2011, 08:44:57 pm »
Interesting typo you got there :P
But no, I don't think anyone's gotten through to the devs anytime recently.
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Re: OS 2.55MP released
« Reply #82 on: January 12, 2011, 09:28:52 pm »
Good luck! Hopefully we can finally get through to them, but who knows...
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Re: OS 2.55MP released
« Reply #83 on: January 12, 2011, 09:31:04 pm »
Hey, if you get an email address from one of the devs, do me a favor and give it to me. I'd love to get some more info about that.  I just hope that they would be happy someone can fix their code and would send it on. Please, do post the reply. I'm waiting anxiously. ;-)
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Re: OS 2.55MP released
« Reply #84 on: January 13, 2011, 12:05:08 am »
Hey nice stuff ThePenguin! Also I hope TI-Cares reply with something decent. I hope they don't use the excuse that you damaged your calc with ASM stuff. <_<
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Re: OS 2.55MP released
« Reply #85 on: January 13, 2011, 08:51:06 am »
* Art_of_camelot crosses fingers
Well, I don't expect much from TI, but here's hoping.
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Re: OS 2.55MP released
« Reply #86 on: January 13, 2011, 09:40:15 am »
Thepenguin, just hope that works somehow ;D
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Re: OS 2.55MP released
« Reply #87 on: January 13, 2011, 03:00:18 pm »
This could be promising.
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Brian,

Thank you for your reply,

I understand you would like to be put in direct contact with the development team. I do apologize I have no way to put you in direct contact with the development team.

I will however pass along your contact information to my superiors; I cannot however guarantee you will receive a response back.

I hope that you find this information helpful. If you have further questions or comments, please feel free to send me an email.

Warmest Regards,

Aldo Granados
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Re: OS 2.55MP released
« Reply #88 on: January 13, 2011, 03:07:50 pm »
Wow... They're actually listening to us! Let's hope we'll got another reply, from the developers.
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Re: OS 2.55MP released
« Reply #89 on: January 13, 2011, 03:41:55 pm »
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James,

Thank you for contacting Texas Instruments.

These are all very good questions you have about the TI-84 Plus and TI-83 Plus family calculators. Let me check with the calculator developers and I will let you know what I find out.

The developers have up to (48) hours to respond so as soon as I hear back from them, I will let you know.

Please reply to this e-mail so I can follow up with you.

Warmest Regards,

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