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« on: March 12, 2013, 10:30:06 am »
This version isn't 100% complete, but only the in-game menu still needs to be translated so it should be fully playable by non-English-speaking people anyway.
Very nice! The project resurfaced last Summer when Chickendude offered his help. I posted the French text and he posted a French version of the game. ...
Cough cough.., Excuse me, isn't Chikendude a she-wolf? Apparently she doesn't seem that bothered? Oh well... 
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« on: March 08, 2013, 09:03:23 am »
How does it sound? I could use a sound sample  Very funny GIF. Good sense of humour!
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« on: February 25, 2013, 06:46:10 pm »
Come on, for me it's obvious. They're just trying to increase their emulators sales ($$$) to protect their investment. That's all!
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« on: February 23, 2013, 08:33:11 am »
... Can't we be like apple and take their OS, modify it and say it's not theirs anymore?
It seems like "Yes, we can!" 
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« on: February 22, 2013, 09:29:49 am »
I think that these Math/Science sellers are getting a bit scared that their profit margins will somehow be at risk with the advent of powerful community emulators that challenge theirs. My guess is that, if anything, this will only contribute to foster the appearance of even better community emulators in order to get rid of this sort of ridiculous dictator-like behaviour. After all, we all know that many (if not all) of the Maths's algorithms they include in their OSes belong to the Universe, to whom they don't pay a single dime. They are are just a (small) TI company, doing the same thing for decades and decades, how do they dare to threaten the world in general? It's just pathetic, but OTOH somewhat typical too. 
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« on: February 14, 2013, 06:19:18 pm »
Wow that Doom port seems pretty cool. ALso the colors reminds me of PRIZM 3 bit colors 
Yeah, i recall playing ZX Spectrum games with my girlfriend at the time. BTW, if you really want to play those games nowadays, you still can. Here you can find some ZX Sinclair Spectrum emulators: executables for several machines: windows/ubuntu/etc and more executables + emulator source code. In general, things did improve quite a bit l, i mean: +speed +video/sound quality -price, BUT the rationale behind the games didn't change that much. Well, navigating back into the past can also bring nice memories and food for thought too.  I'M really shocked that the Z80 in the ZX Spectrum can support such complex music, yet on the Z80 TI-84+Silver all we get is beeps  Doing Maths and dancing at the same time could make the exercises a bit harder to solve. 
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« on: February 12, 2013, 04:16:00 pm »
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The issue is that back in the 1930-40's, education was terrible and most people didn't have to take science or stopped school early to start working due to terrible school conditions (teachers hitting students with rules, for example). There are also probably people who forgot that stuff over the time.
Well, you'll never forget when you get hit with one of those nasty rules. I can assure you. Also, in some countries that has lasted until the late sixties maybe early seventies.
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« on: February 12, 2013, 06:52:27 am »
I know what fpga's are, but those are quite expensive compared to a $3 atmega328 microcontroller and you need a PROM to store the hardware configuration in.
Yeah good point, but sometimes students have friends at universities working on FPGAs where you can get them almost for free. Keep looking for 'professional' relationships. Mind you, FPGAs are getting cheaper and cheaper, so, IMO, you should consider that an option when some more complicated project comes about.
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« on: February 12, 2013, 03:14:55 am »
Sweet! I want to hack my trusty 84+ as well, but it will involve some pretty technical stuff. I want to embed my soundchip in it for example. The prototype is rather large, so I need to do some redesigning and use smaller parts. ....
Have you ever thought about using an FPGA to (try) put most of your hardware inside a smaller footprint? I'm afraid you would need to learn yet another language (hardware) VHDL/VERILOG ( Hardware description language). But then again, dutch people normally speak at least a half-dozen languages , so it may be a worthwhile effort for guys that like hardware modding... Here is an example: . Special attention to (in description) : "It is noteworthy that inside the FPGA there is no soft core micro or CPU, just hardware implemented in VHDL. The hardware consists of a RS232 UART for rx/tx, a SID chip, a 16KB FIFO buffer and some glue logic / state machines to make it all tick along."
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« on: February 09, 2013, 09:27:12 am »
If too many opcodes are put into a processor, it becomes expensive. But sometimes there are commands that we Z80 programmers use so often, we wonder why they don't exist in the Z80 hardware by default...we wonder why we have to code the routines ourselves.
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Well, it all depends on what time frame you're talking about. Z80 was born around 1976 (just about 37 years old!). So, its no wonder that the price of the silicon chip area has changed a LOT since then. Actually, today it would be easily possible to produce a Z80 pin-compatible device with a much improved instruction set and probably much cheaper also. You would need to unsolder (unplug) the original grandpa and replace it with a much brighter grandchild. It can be a hobby or a hard/software student thesis for some of you. Just firing up into the stars...
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« on: February 08, 2013, 09:05:54 am »
What about some 'samba from the gods' to relax after a good meal, in good company of course.
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Hope you like it?
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« on: February 07, 2013, 03:07:54 pm »
... i would like to help making it for iOS.
Well, I guess the idea (iPad port) is somewhat attractive at first, but there are some difficulties along the way that would need to be tackled first: 1. We need to keep in mind that iPad and most of the Android devices are based on the ARM cpu and not on the x86 cpu for which nspire_emu is coded. Much of the nspire_emu memory access code is implemented in x86 assembly. So that, at least, would have to be re-written by someone with deep knowledge of both architectures. This fact poses not minor difficulties, as already mentioned by Goplat here: http://ourl.ca/9360/333346 and elsewhere on the net, e.g.: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732394/differences-between-arm-assembly-and-x86-assembly . Google <sometimes> is your friend. 2. Probably a first step towards that solution would consist on porting nspire_emu to an ARM cpu. I guess some 'windows8' implementations already run on top of ARM cpus but personally I'm not familiar with it. 3. So, I would suggest someone finds a window8 machine that runs on an ARM cpu and fiddles with the open-source nspire_emu code to try to port it. This step requires quite some assembly language expertise as said above. 4. Porting the GUI should not be much of a problem although it requires some time. 5. Last but not least, the AppleStore/GoogleStore stuff really sucks, IMO, but i guess we'll have to learn to live with it for a while… Good Luck!
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« on: January 31, 2013, 12:45:18 am »
I told you it was a monster. Lion was, but not as much.
Added support for unaligned memory accesses. You should be able to run the console emulator gpSP inside nSpiKx emulator. Yeah, a lot of emulation. Oh well, 'Mountain Lion' is said to be a strong beast. Have some fun and please report any issues you would like to see fixed. Cheers. Edit: Here is a little gpSP video demo 1m32s (.mov): nSpiKx_v4_gpSP-Demo
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« on: January 28, 2013, 11:06:22 pm »
Oh of course, then I'm going to have to look at this TNS2XML thing.
You may as well have a look here: XML2TXT, XML2LUA, TXT2XML, LUA2XML and 2TNS Something I did some months ago (12Sep12).
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