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so will ti-cares care???
« on: July 30, 2010, 08:26:45 pm »
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I have just bought a ti-nspire non-cas click pad and i am very excited. For the past hour i have been doing research on it and was astounded that it could play game boy games on it!!! it looked so cool.
As I like to get all the information i can, i looked a little farther and found that i would be unable to do with this operating system.  Somebody posted that i would need the operating system 1.2 or something to make it work. I though ok, I should be able to get that through ti. I look a little farther and see that this new os prevents downgrading to a lower os.  This confuses me as why this would be done. 
Is their any reason  this was done? or was it an accedent by the coders of ti?

I appriciate the time you will take to respond.  I am anxiously wait for an answer, thank you -james.


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Re: so will ti-cares care???
« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2010, 08:28:52 pm »
no.  they won't care.  they will just give some excuse.  also, it's 1.1 and there is a news article about how to remove downgrade protection.  (new on this site.  hint: click news at the top)

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Re: so will ti-cares care???
« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2010, 08:30:43 pm »
do you really think i would say. haha we can get past that!!!!

i had to act ignorant.

i just want to toy with them :P

and i download 1.1 a long time ago when helping a friend ;)


[EDIT]  how long do they normally take to reply?
« Last Edit: July 30, 2010, 09:24:03 pm by happybobjr »
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Re: so will ti-cares care???
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2010, 10:41:10 pm »
It depends.  sometimes, same day, sometimes you just have to wait overnight.

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Re: so will ti-cares care???
« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2010, 10:48:05 pm »
TI Cares is closed on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.  You will not get a reply until Monday. :(


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Re: so will ti-cares care???
« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2010, 11:32:40 pm »
What the Heck!!
when a place says they're running 24/7 it usually means they run 24 hours 7 says a week, not 24 hours and 7 (5/7) days a week!
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Re: so will ti-cares care???
« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2010, 11:45:23 pm »
Actually, 4/7 days.  But yeah, Monday is probably when you'll get a reply.

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Re: so will ti-cares care???
« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2010, 11:47:58 pm »
opps i was thinking weekend ( i don't coincider friday as weekend, its so strong :P)
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Re: so will ti-cares care???
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Re: so will ti-cares care???
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2010, 04:22:08 am »
They will respond with a "I cant tell you, let me direct you to our technical group, who wont give a straight answer either"

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Re: so will ti-cares care???
« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2010, 06:10:57 am »
They will respond with 'calculators are for math, not games'.

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Re: so will ti-cares care???
« Reply #11 on: July 31, 2010, 09:38:03 am »
Oh, and the first e-mail you get will be no help at all, just reply to it. They are required to try everything they can to solve your technical problems, and so they must send the first e-mail to see if that helps you or not.

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Re: so will ti-cares care???
« Reply #12 on: July 31, 2010, 09:50:28 am »
Quite ironic that TI went so against calc games when their older calcs all got a GetKey functions that is pretty much only useful inside games.

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Re: so will ti-cares care???
« Reply #13 on: July 31, 2010, 02:57:34 pm »
Quite ironic that TI went so against calc games when their older calcs all got a GetKey functions that is pretty much only useful inside games.

lmao so true :P... waiting till' monday....
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Re: so will ti-cares care???
« Reply #14 on: August 02, 2010, 05:22:59 am »
I've found getkey useful many times for non-game programs that need a more advanced UI than just menus and input lines could provide. But it is interesting that the older Z80 calc manuals I have actually suggest video games as being an application for the getkey function.

Another thing I always thought was kind of funny was how the function reference in the back of my TI-89 manuals has an example for the NewFold command (which creates new folders) where it creates a new folder called ‘games’. :)

So TI was definitely aware of the idea of playing games on the calc and knowingly allowed it on all those models. But it seems that the Nspire is the one model that they don't want games and third-party programs to be available on.
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