Well, I switch my keypad a lot.  When in OS 1.1, I removed it a lot because of the Power Management bug.  In OS 2.0, I use the 84 keypad quite a bit.  I don't think it is the keypad that is causing this; I strongly believe this is the actual handheld itself because the same exact problem exists with both the touchpad and clickpad keypads.  It might have something to do with that certain row and column in the keypad mappings, as the column for the on key is not used in 84+ mode, explaining why it turns on immediately using that keypad.  I have e-mailed TI about this.  I hope they have a solution.

Also, the paper trick did not work for me.  Is there any specific spot where you put the piece of paper?  I tried several positions, none of which worked.  Likewise, how big of a piece of paper should I be using?  Also, I wonder what would happen if I removed the two silver spring-like things right by the connector.  They seem to be preventing the keypad from moving too close to the connector (it seems as if the piece of paper allows the keypad to get closer).

Another intresting thing is that this did not occur at all in OS 1.1 (I was always able to hit on, enter to turn it on w/ calc84's program).  I wonder if this could be another power management bug?  I will try downgrading to 1.7 tonight to see if it still exists.

EDIT: I just downgraded to OS 1.7 and this problem does not exist at all any more.  Could this be a problem related to OS 2.0 like the Power Management Bug in OS 1.1?  Sadly, OS 1.7 is of no use to me since all of my math/science documents are written in 2.0 documents.  I wonder if a fix is out there.

EDIT AGAIN: Well, the problem came back after a little while on OS 1.7, so I upgraded again to 2.0.  It is only taking two presses at max to turn on, but I am sure it will get worse.

Glad to hear you found it!

calc84 did not actually make a patch for it, he made a program that resets the calculator, thus making the screen turn on.  To use it, you have to make sure you have the document selected as you turn it off (basically, leave it so pressing enter would activate this document).  Then, press on and then enter to reset the calculator.  If you forget to select this document before turning it off, you can navigate to it without the screen on.  I would suggest placing it in a folder named "a".  Then if you forget to select it you can hit on, home, 6, up a few times to get to the top, left to close the folder if it is open, right to open the folder, and enter to select the document.  It is attached.  Good luck!

Welcome to Omnimaga!

It is nice to see some more 68k programmers coming here.  The 68k community seemed completely dead a month or two ago, but now I have been seeing a few new projects come out.  Hopefully the 68k community will rise again!

Congrats on the feature!

The only other hint I will give you is look though a famous Nspire thread on United TI (sorry if you looked earlier, I said TI-Bank by accident).

Yeah, I have seen several problems with Ndless 1.1.

Right now, it is best to use Ndless 1.0.

If you need Computer Link 1.3, you can get it from TI-Bank.

Good Luck

At this point, it is much easier to port games from the Nspire to 68k calcs than it is to port games from 68k to the Nspire.  The 68k series already has just about everything the Nspire has (I can't think of anything it dosen't), so it really just a matter of making some slight syntax changes. (For example, the sprite function is different for both calcs).  Right now, we don't have all of the functions for the Nspire as we do for the 89.  Hopefully in the future we will have all of the functions the 89 has for the Nspire and the job of porting games to the Nspire should be quite easy!

Quick question--I already have boot 2 1.4.  What is the difference?

Also, this a very nice tool to see!  Great job!