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Well, this is not possible neither through Basic nor Lua.In C(++), with Ndless, there might be some things you could find. Try to look at ndlessly and Hackspire.b
TI has always been concerned more about locking the calculator down and making it less useful to users. They're only worsening over time.Depending on what you want to control, embedded ARM-based boards such as the highly popular Raspberry Pi, the Cubieboard, the BeagleBone Black, and others, are all of:* much more powerful;* much more open;* much easier;* much cheaper;than any calculator on the market. Even the newly released HP Prime.
I just wanted a simple way to use it to control things for my 10 year-old son
Yeah the only things I can recommend if you want to stick with calculator programming (I hope you stick around here no matter what, though, since over here there are also people interested in non-calculator related material ) is maybe get a refund explaining it's the wrong calc and you needed the 89Titanium, HP Prime, etc, then instead buy an older TI-Nspire CX used on Ebay or at a pawn shop and make sure that it runs OS 3.1 or below. Or you can of course go with an alternate calc. The most open calculators are the Z80 and 68K series, then comes the FX-9860G/FX-cg10/20 series. The HP Prime is a bit cheaper and more powerful than the Nspire, but it cannot run ASM yet either.TI has done everything to make sure that no hacking occurs on the TI-Nspire line. They're getting even worse than Apple now and they spend more time locking the platform down than fixing bugs.The only alternative besides a boycott is that customers e-mail TI requesting the ability to downgrade back or be able to use Ndless again, but how many people will it take?
The problem is that its their hardware and patents etc so ideally we could spend a lot of time decrypting their algorithms or as we say in EW countermeasures and they will countermeasure our countermeasures etc ad infinitim until one of goes bankrupt or...
True, although to clarify, once you buy a TI-Nspire CX, TI no longer owns it nor its hardware. They still hold the patents and copyrights, but after the calc gets out of the store, they can't dictate what you can do with it anymore, so it's obvious that the TI programming community will attempt to fight for that right. TI might have reasons to block the hardware, but we live in free countries for the most part (or countries where doing what we want with purchased hardware is allowed).
Also, the Internet can get pretty dangerous if people feel that a company goes too far (in some case it can cause damages to both the company and users). Look what happened when Sony tried to sue George Hotz for the PS3 jailbreaks: Anonymous retaliated by launching numerous attacks on Sony's servers, causing PSN to collapse and compromising millions of user accounts.
Regarding programs to bypass the test mode, if you post such file on Omnimaga or Cemetech forums, I doubt it would remain online for long, as moderators would delete it in a heartbeat. I am pretty sure on TI-Planet it would be the same.
Of course you can cheat with nLaunch but that's not the purpose of this software, which is why forum people are relunctant about helping anyone using it and why the documentation isn't very clear.
Also, if Ndless could cause the Nspire to be banned from tests, then why hasn't the TI-83 Plus, 84 Plus and 84 Plus C Silver Edition (which all have native ASM support) been banned already?