critor posted a screenshot on TI-Planet comparing the two and it seems there are quite a few changes, though in the lines visible on-screen most of them are things like "C39417" to "C39717" and "CD983F" to "CDA13F". Maybe they inserted a jump somewhere and had to update the rest of the addresses?

critor posted a screenshot on TI-Planet comparing the two and it seems there are quite a few changes, though in the lines visible on-screen most of them are things like "C39417" to "C39717" and "CD983F" to "CDA13F". Maybe they inserted a jump somewhere and had to update the rest of the addresses?

Could this address change cause some ASM programs to stop working?

You've also got to keep in mind that adding one instruction at the beginning will offset all the other labels that follow it, so every jp and call that points to an address after it will be affected. As you can see, most of the changes are jumps/calls that only change their address by a few bytes. I'm not sure how the OS is set up, maybe they've got a jump table and have added a couple new routines? Anyway, as calc84 said, those jumps all point to the $0000-$3FFF range which is for the OS and won't affect (most) programs. The bcall table is in $4000-$7FFF, but i doubt they would change those addresses around.

I wish that TI did something like this for the TI-Nspire but more secure, in order to detect if your calc has nLaunch/Ndless installed, rather than totally locking down the calc so no ASM/C is possible.

I wish that TI did something like this for the TI-Nspire but more secure, in order to detect if your calc has nLaunch/Ndless installed, rather than totally locking down the calc so no ASM/C is possible.

Well that's basically like saying "Man I wish it were easier to get crakin' on that Ndless 3.6..."
I was really hoping these "new routines" might speed some stuff up on this slow OS. Apparently they just have an error code for color-blind people who go wayyy over the top to cheat on tests.

As our lolwut Art_of_camelot friend pointed out, people don't usually use patches anyway. I've NEVER used an OS patch for cheating (but I have used other methods ) Most of the patches that exist for other calcs are just for convenience and for ease of use by programmers. Just things that make it easier to write the unwashed masses more games. The only patch that could maybe be used for cheating would be an app similar to Omnicalc + Symbolic, but it's not even a patch as it is: It just adds some hooks, which just/must reside only in memory. Lots of my friends have made le swtich to CSE, but most people still use the monochrome beasties. zStart is the holy grail of applications in my opinion, becuase I don't have to run Omnicalc again everytime I get a RAM clear on an unstable OS with low battery. zStart barely counts, anyway. It's mostly hooks, aside from the major boot mod that it can optionally perform. My friends didn't install zStart to mod their OSs because they were too scared about bricking it when I told them what boot-code and certificates were.

So they pretty much did nothing that mattered, anyway. Typical TI. ;P

Besides, most teachers in my experience don't go to that much trouble to check for stuff. My teachers had an assembly line for about 250 students to check the calcs only for the model number. They didn't even open the case. They just labeled a TI Nspire CX (non-cas) as illegal out of their own laziness. That is, until you objected and stood your ground. TI should just write an OS which is much harder to cheat using. Scrap it and redo, bros!

Hmm, I wonder what this means for TI-Boy CSE. It's not like the execution of TI-Boy itself makes any permanent changes to the OS, except it patches an OS glitch with flash page copying which would occasionally corrupt apps. Technically I could leave out that patch and TI-Boy would run fine, but then some apps would occasionally get corrupted when being moved during defragmentation.

i know my CSE quite well. what has changed is this:
if programs you want to group are in the ARC, it won't show in the possible prgms to select to group.
(really handy for me, because i often group alota stuff)
TI-boy 0.03 works.
Doors CSE 8.0 still works.
if you are going to group programs, make sure the ones you wanna group are in the RAM. otherwise, they WON'T show up.
 
that's all i have noticed so far!

What I don't get is after all those years, why can't the 84+ OSes run programs from archive the way Doors CS does yet? It's like if they tried to keep the RAM as low as possible to lure people towards the TI-Nspire CX

agreed. how could they try to make us pay more money? Are they more focused on us students, or their $$$? TI make up your mind, but you better chose the students!