do you have it backed up on your calculator You could send it to your computer from there

Only the executable code is stored there, not the source code...

Okay, thanks. I'll be back here once I'm done.

Ah, I don't think so. What you could do is burn it to a disk, boot in live mode, and use the Mint usb stick creator, which I think has the option for persistence.

Is the Mint USB stick creator something that's built into Mint Linux, or do I have to download it separately? Do you think I can use it on Ubuntu (I already have a Live CD 10.10 available) to create a Mint Linux install on my USB drive?

I tried booting again a minute ago... Turns out the option to boot from USB was there all the time! It was named "HDD: ", which I thought was nothing at all... But when I booted from my USB drive, it (syslinux?) complained about a missing file. When writing to the USB drive, I think there was some kind of 7-Zip error message about missing files... Should I try re-writing everything to the drive?

Have you set the boot flag on the USB's partition?

I don't know what this is.

I used the instructions here to download the DVD ISO of Linux Mint 10 and then I put it on my USB drive using the program that was linked to in the description. I'm now trying to boot from the USB drive (it's 2 GB), but my computer doesn't seem to recognize it... I'm not sure if it can boot from USB at all. Is it possible? The BIOS is  Phoenix TrustedCore 2.70 and my computer is a Toshiba laptop purchased in autumn 2008.

They clearly spent a lot of time integrating it. It takes quite some work to make a full interpreter for any language, and Lua's no exception. TI's interpreter is also decently complete, as seen by all those game possibilities people are throwing around and making real.

What if they just make sure that all documents are properly encrypted instead of removing the interpreter? It seems likely, and it would allow TI to use Lua but not us.

They've already released it to the public. It would be pretty bad for their reputation to take it away -- it always happens when you give someone something good, then take it away suddenly.

It's TI.

This is only the first OS version to support Lua. If TI takes it away after having just one OS support it (and a broken one at that), they would have wasted all their time and resources making this interpreter.
They have used it themselves. The only reason we even found out about Lua functionality was because TI released a dynamic periodic table program that obviously used some scripting language. TI may even be working on more. Taking away Lua support would render all these useless.

Once again: They don't have to completely remove it to make it impossible for us to use it.

It's good for their market. Lua support means the same thing that flash apps did for the TI-83 Plus: it creates functionality that allows you do do more (science, maths included ) that you couldn't do in just the OS. They're extensions, almost. And that opens up a whole world of possibilities, which consumers know.
Games. Even if TI doesn't want to admit it, it's pretty obvious that one thing consumers (specifically students) look for in a calculator is the ability to play games in class. TI wouldn't want to ruin that completely, or risk losing market share to other companies (like Casio's Prizm, on which C and ASM is already possible).

You're right... But as usual, TI is stupid, and that's hard to change.

This is pretty epic. But...



And I would appreciate if you could take a picture without the coin so that the image can be cropped nicely.

All except GBA have an emulator on the nspire even the NES (NESpire)

The 83+SE/84+(SE) have a 15 MHz processor. The Nspire has a 150 MHz processor. That's ten times as much, and even then GBA isn't possible...