I tried this last night, and I must say I'm impressed. It's really smooth and responsive,

I wrote it like a game, with a main game loop, so the screen is always redrawn completely. It will drain your battery even quicker than the OS, but that's the only issue.

and the run-from-editor function is really useful. One very silly thing that could be improved (in my arrogant and honest opinion) is the mouse pointer; IMO it doesn't really fit in with the rest of the program.

But put that at the bottom of your todo list

What would you change? Behavior, appearance?

Will do, just wait a minute.

Quote from: Vogtinator on November 07, 2014, 12:28:52 pm

Well, two years ago I was happy to get a new shiny piece of technology that could even do math and some friends told me you can play games on,
so I did a quick search "hack nspire" and found this forum here.

And two years later instead of "crappy games" you work on Ndless, Linux, MicroPython, PyWrite, nGL, a 3D textured Minecraft clone. Man that escalated quickly.

You forgot pwmtest Yeah, I wouldn't have expected that I'll find a new hobby here.

That reminds me, my first attempt at a real calc game was "Spaceship games", also known as "god so much shit"

My first was a snake clone. White background and the snake was in rainbow colors.

4 years ago I followed the French Axe tutorial (the biggest Axe tutorial that you can find on the internet) and I saw Omnimaga as a community forum in English. Since I was quite good at English at the time (I was still 12, let's stay realistic), I decided to come here.

How did you get to Axe? How did you get hold of a TI calc at 12?
My english was abysmally bad back then. It improved significantly after I started watching mainly english videos on youtube, most of them Let's plays.

Well, two years ago I was happy to get a new shiny piece of technology that could even do math and some friends told me you can play games on,
so I did a quick search "hack nspire" and found this forum here.
I way curious how it works and I programmed some small crappy games for 3.1, but I didn't join until I found the linux thread.

Can somebody please help me? For some reason, my calculator does not want to register after I launch the downgrade program and the program says that downgrade protection is disabled. I keep resetting the calculator and the computer to no avail. I am using a Ti-nspire cx and ti-nspire computer link to downgrade from the computer.

That's a known problem, it happens sometimes (and some some cals more often than on others, weirdly) and the easiest way to cirumvent this is the following:

• Run downgradefix
• After the message is shown, hold Doc-Enter-EE and reset the calculator while still holding these keys.
• When the menu shows up, uninstall the operating system and it will reboot.
• On the next reboot you can now install 3.6.

At least in theory it should work, haven't tried it myself.

Also what is the OS (including the last  digits) and hardware revision letter on the back of your calculator (in case it's a very new revision would have patched this exploit shortly before it came out)?

There is no update yet, AFAIK.

EDIT  : yep, just as I thought. There's no memory leak guys, you can go and download

Actually, in rare circumstances it can leak and may actually crash the calc. As your code doesn't catch std::bad_alloc and you're using "new" sometimes, the exception doesn't get caught and terminates the program instantly, not freeing any resources. The solution is simple: Use std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr and your code is instantly exception safe. Just a FYI

I asked ExtendeD about this, and said I had to include stdarg.h in my own files as some standards had changed. Now that I added #include <stdarg.h>, everything works fine.

Yeah, it's considered bad code style to depend on other header files to include needed declarations for this reason.

So, this time I posted the update on ti-planet and a cross-post lands here.

pyWrite 0.2:

• Some syntax highlighting
• Selections
• Bugfixes
• Settings
• Better scrolling (also horizontal)

Some screenshots:



Please report any bugs you can find!

Download: here
Concerning inputting characters not accessible via the usual keys, I'll probably implement a sidebar that appears if you press Var.