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« on: March 02, 2012, 09:36:06 pm »
Hey, this looks rather impressive! Does v0.6 mean you'll develop the concept further? 
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« on: February 29, 2012, 05:33:15 pm »
I guess this finally cements in writing your position as the definitive source of TI-84 knowledge Kerm. :p
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« on: November 09, 2011, 04:39:52 pm »
This looks incredibly promising! The graphics and colored tilesets look wonderful.
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« on: September 21, 2011, 05:07:46 pm »
I'm truly blown away by the innovations such a small but dedicated group of people constantly manage to squeeze out of what the majority of people know only as a four-operation calculator. I love you guys. :')
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« on: July 13, 2011, 07:27:04 pm »
What a huge jump for you Quigibo! Congratulations! If I had a nickel for every deserving project that never even got to 1.0...
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« on: June 28, 2011, 11:16:20 am »
Well, I'm not surprised that Boot code 1.03 is being distributed with the newer calculators, I just didn't expect it so soon. It's not like it *really* matters since we have workarounds though. 
It's going to cause a lot of problems for those who have 1.03 and want to downgrade to 2.43 and don't know about any exploits... The average calculator user doesn't visit any calculator sites. So TI hinders those who didn't want to do anything bad at all, but we can still install third-party OSes if we want to...
Well, true, but that is how many users wind up here or similar sites. They google for solutions to such problems. I don't think many average users will take issue with MP 2.55 (or whatever the current version is) anyway. I mean, for maths it's (more or less)fine right?
He's right. The average calculator user, in my experience, doesn't even think to update their calc's operating system, let alone downgrade. I most commonly find 2.21 and 2.22 on other peoples' 84s.
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« on: June 21, 2011, 05:05:51 pm »
Perhaps if the spam channel isn't intended for actual spam, it should be renamed appropriately? Something along the lines of "offtopic", "misc". "other", "casual" perhaps?
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« on: June 18, 2011, 07:25:14 pm »
Note the footnote at the very bottom of the page: "This article is based in part on the Jargon File, which is in the public domain."
The Jargon file is reaaally old, back when the very large majority of people had no idea what a computer even was (late 70s to early 80s). So it might seem like common knowledge now, but it probably wasn't even common practice back then.
Of course, why they decided to make that into a wikipedia page, I have no idea. I think some editors enjoy actively seek out the most obscure or mundane topics they can think of in order to create pages for them.
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« on: June 18, 2011, 05:26:05 pm »
I ran the majority of those games through Abandonia's oldwarez list (http://www.abandonia.com/en/oldwarez/), which determines whether the games are more or less legal to distribute because of the expired copyright. All the ones that returned came back as Abandonware. So yeah, you're totally fine. It's extremely rare to see a game's copyright last more than 15 years, and these games are, at latest, mid-80's.
From Wikipedia:
"In most cases, software classed as abandonware is not in the public domain, as it has never had its original copyright revoked and some company or individual still owns exclusive rights. Therefore, sharing of such software is usually considered copyright infringement, though in practice copyright holders rarely enforce their abandonware copyrights."
I should probably mention, by the way, I'm thinking about the source code for the Atari 7800 game Commando
Yeah, abandonware in general is a gray area, and I am aware of that. Anything you do with a game in terms of distributing is almost always going to be not-legal unless given express permission or the game is released under a certain license granting you those permissions. It was more to give you peace of mind, which seemed to be more what you were looking for than an actual assurance that what you're doing is given the a-okay by whoever the copyright holders are, because it's pretty obvious that wasn't going to happen. You asked "am I doing anything that atari would be mad at?", and that answer should be fairly evident. :p
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« on: June 18, 2011, 04:08:30 pm »
I ran the majority of those games through Abandonia's oldwarez list ( http://www.abandonia.com/en/oldwarez/), which determines whether the games are more or less legal to distribute because of the expired copyright. All the ones that returned came back as Abandonware. So yeah, you're totally fine. It's extremely rare to see a game's copyright last more than 15 years, and these games are, at latest, mid-80's. Though I shouldn't have to tell you that Atari wouldn't have hunted you down to spam cease and desist letters for making a calculator port of their 20+ year-old games. :p
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« on: June 15, 2011, 12:23:58 pm »
I'm going to start off by saying that I have not played Portal 2 yet.
However, I was reading about it, and when I heard the designers say that each of the 2 campaigns would take 6 hours each, I was hesitant, especially considering how much time the company took to make Portal 2. Furthermore, I read that many players beat the game in far less time.
What do you think? Was there enough gameplay in Portal 2 to make it worth $60?
$60? On steam you can buy it for ~$40 which is worth the money.
It's 49.99USD on Steam atm. It's a fantastic game, (not quite the messiah of games some make it out to be, but quite an experience regardless) but I've become such a cheap tightwad when it comes to Steam that 50 dollars does seem pretty high for the game. If price is really that much of a concern for you, you could do what I did-- wait for a sale. Steam has very attractive prices on sales occasionally, I've picked up every game I have on Steam on a sale: Got Orange Box years ago for 20 (HL2, EP1, EP2, Portal, TF2), Garry's Mod for 5 dollars, Counterstrike: Source for 5 dollars, Left4Dead for around 4.50, Left4Dead2 most recently for 5 dollars. Given due time I have no doubt that you'll find a sales figure much more to your liking. It's just a matter of time. And not having people spoil the story for you. :p To address one other concern of yours, the suggestions that one could complete Portal 2 in astonishingly short lengths of time of anywhere from two to six hours is a rumor generated around launchtime when Steam's ingame time tracking was malfunctioning -- some spent days playing Portal 2, and their playtime was recorded as a couple dozen minutes. Needless to say, the game is satisfyingly long. If I recall correctly, it took me around 2-3 days of mostly fully dedicated time to beat Portal 2's singleplayer campaign. The multiplayer campaign took a friend and I around a day or two, though we took some breaks and have played co-op many times together, so we're comfortable coordinating together. Your experience is likely to vary on this account.
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« on: June 15, 2011, 09:09:46 am »
I'm amazed that TI is so aggressive in their ways... Sony vehemently blocked downgrading of PSP firmware, but that was to prevent software piracy. Here, that isn't the case at all. Are they really losing any money here? I seriously doubt that anyone is not buying a calc out there because of lack of PTT. Especially when the very large majority of the public don't even seem know that they can upgrade their calcs. Even then, they won't be able to completely phase out the older models floating around. Such a shame... will updates ever benefit anymore? 
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« on: June 14, 2011, 06:48:13 am »
My God. Pixel Escape has an amazing title screen.
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« on: June 13, 2011, 11:03:24 pm »
If this was released a couple months ago back when I was still in Calculus, you'd be my personal hero, Aichi.
Might just have to pull out my calculator to try this out anyway. :p
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« on: June 12, 2011, 05:56:22 pm »
Ok, so I assume you are on a 64 bit windows then. Well, there's my input.
Windows 7 - 64 bits. OS 2.0.0.1888 in Calculator TI Nspire...
TI Connect is too hard and complicated :S
and AFAIK, ti-connect doesn't work on windows 7.
TI-Connnect actually works on Windows 7. I have it running on it (64 bit patch). It doesn't work 100% of the time, though.
TI-Connect does work on Windows 7 64-bit, I run it myself, however I did run into a possibly similar problem involving drivers. When installing TI-Connect straight from the disk, then checking for updates, TI-Connect update feature says you have the latest version, 1.6. However, upon further investigation on TI's website, there is actually one newer version (1.6.1) with a single fix-- adding 64-bit support. I had to reinstall TI-Connect manually from the website to get the update. If you haven't done this, it's probably your problem. http://education.ti.com/calculators/downloads/US/Software/Detail?id=183
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