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Other Calculators / Re: NSpire, or Prizm?
« on: March 22, 2013, 09:23:08 am »
As the boot1 isn't writeable, an exploit in it to run any boot2 would give us almost everything that a custom boot1 could.

Doesn't Lua support some aspects of OOP?
We don't need an exploit but actually factoring the boot2 RSA keys. Once done => FREEDOM. But that would piss TI off very badly. :P
We could even write a custom OS that lets us do what we want (actually tangrs Linux port would be perfect with a GUI adapted to a calc/low resources). ;)

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So it updates the whole screen four times each time I call dispgraphrr ? Anyways I tried to calibrate it and now it looks a lot less blurry when scrolling and less flickery when standing still. ;)

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Or maybe I'm just scrolling too fast. :P Syncing scrolling to LCD updates with While and Stop actually makes it looks a lot better. But also incredibly slow. :S

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That's how my 84+ behaves, but let's avoid derailing this topic. ;)

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Necropost. :P

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!If T++^10
Why don't you just do DS(T,10) ?

Anyway this method is awesome, but smooth scrolling a tilemap with 4 level gray looks crappy. I'll stick with three.

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The problem is that both calcs use different token sets and prog formats so you'd still have to convert them with a comp.

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Well, I use the same batteries in my 84+ and they last months.

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TI Z80 / Re: GLIB a graphics axe 3d librairy
« on: March 18, 2013, 02:10:21 pm »
-0/1->°GBW
-0/1->°G3GreyLVL
-0/1->°G4GreyLVL     one of these three command must be on, and only one : choose the mode of display
Why isn't it simply 2/3/4->°Grays ? That would prevent one from making a mistake and be easier to read. ;)
Other than that, this thingy looks very nice. Keep up the good work. :thumbsup:
Good luck with textures. You'll probably have a hard time with them, as you'll have to work on a sprite deformation routine and this might affect performance greatly.

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TI-84 Plus (non SE), rev G, TA3 chip (confirmed by actual inscription on hardware).
First test : 69/128
Second (chickendude's 8xp) : Garbage on the left then argh.
Second (pasted the code in your last post in SourceCoder) : same.

When I fix my 83+ SE I'll tell you what it gives. ;)

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Half Life 2 + Portal = HL2 Episode 3 ?
« on: March 18, 2013, 01:27:47 pm »
Well, maybe HL2E3 and Portal 3 could be the first step towards storyline convergence, and then another game would come out mixing up everything.
I remember that light bridges are the same in both games too (see HL2E1 and P2).

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Other Calculators / Re: NSpire, or Prizm?
« on: March 17, 2013, 01:49:02 pm »
Hayleia : true, but it's probably a long and winding process.
Lionel : I wasn't aware of this one.

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Other Calculators / Re: NSpire, or Prizm?
« on: March 17, 2013, 01:26:29 pm »
Here's my opinion on different models. Note that I don't own all of them.

Math : Definitely the TI-68k series and CAS HP calcs. They have a very friendly UI for this purpose. The Nspire CAS has Ndless menus so it's not very handy. The TI-z80 series has only a floating point math engine which is not interesting at my school level. It's great for physics though.

Programming : The TI-z80 series (especially 83+/84+) are very programmable since they have BASIC (slow but nice for heavy math), and support native execution with ASM and Axe. There are also third party interpreted languages such as Grammer and BBC BASIC, and BASIC expansions such as XLib/Celtic/Omnicalc/BatLib.
The TI-68k series has ASM, C, BASIC and NewProg (like Axe for this series of calcs). Only the last two are on calc though.
The HP-50G looks awesome for that purpose too, especially since it has equivalent on-calc programming possibilities to the TI-z80s.
Casio calcs have native prog and BASIC too even though the editor is even worse than on TI-z80s. There is LuaZM for Lua, too. On calc native programming is not here yet though.
The Nspire requires a PC to program it in ASM/C and Lua so don't think about it.

Power : Definitely the Nspire CX. It's currently the most powerful calc out there. Then come the PRIZM and HP-50G, the TI-68k and last but not least the TI-z80s.

Hacking : TI calcs are 100% proprietary and officially undocumented calcs, a lot of research is being done on them. We already found a lot about the z80s though, but the Nspire is fairly recent and we have yet to factor it's RSA keys. ;)

Hope this can help you choose !

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I think the only instance where people feel it's right to charge money for calculator programs is if at school everyone begs you to send them programs via link cable and you charge them $0.25-$1 per person for wasting your time sending everyone a bunch of games then explaining them what's the archive memory.
Agreed. I myself have to transfer formula programs to all of my class mates before every exam. And I have to explain them how it works, one after the other. <_< The thing is I'm the only calc addict in my school (the only nerd actually), although a couple of my friends do program their calcs (they learned Axe before BASIC, thanks kindermoumoute :P).

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I was actually speaking of the calc. My 83+SE and DJ_O's drain batteries in like a week without even using them. <_<

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Other Calculators / Re: NSpire, or Prizm?
« on: March 17, 2013, 12:33:03 pm »
HP calculators are wayyyy different from any device I am used to o.0 It seems to have lots and lots of functionality/programmability. Perhaps there is an HPcalc.org? :P
That was the goal of HP : teach students programming. Unlike TI who makes their calcs less and less programmer friendly. <_<

TI panders to tests. I hate that. I mostly used Symbloic, Omnicalc, and other math apps for my tests last week.
Yeah that's true. I myself use a patched 2.43 OS with a bunch of apps.

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