idk guys... WE may know that the casio prizm is a million times better than the nspire. but if you're a student and your requirement when getting a grapher is "it can graph equations and my teacher accepts it", the calculator that's still flourishing is the ti 83 series. our teachers still request students get ti 83/84+'s. i have yet to see an nSpire at my school. the marketshare is still firmly in Ti's hands, and a new calculator will not change that. the only way casio's prizm gets attention is if the teacher's bother to learn how to use it, realize its potential, and then start mentioning them in class. then a student buys one.. his friends see it, and hopefully the product sells itself from that point. it is a great starting point though, that casio has released this (:

I didn't say TI was dead... I just said TI-Nspire were dead.

Just compare things which are sold at similar prices.

You may hesitate between a TI-83+/84+ and a Casio fx-9860G/GII for example...
You may choose the TI-83+/84+ for some good reasons: more widely used, much more programs and applications available, more programmable, more assembly support...
And you may choose the Casio fx-9860G/GII for other good reasons: SD card reader, bigger high contrast screen with a greater resolution, TI-85/86-like menus, a much more recent and faster CPU, more than 32Kb RAM, home screen menu with icons...

But now, let's compare the TI-Nspire and the Casio Prizm... What good things can you say about the TI-Nspire?
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Casio will not become the best graphic calculator seller... But Casio may become the best formal/symbolic graphic calculator seller.

That might not be a good thing. We probably still feel pretty attached to TI now...

But TI doesn't  feel attached to us...

In the 90s, Casio graphic calculators used to be just crap...
A limited programming language that could not even use the calc applications fully... exactly like on the TI-Nspire!!! You could do less things with the programming language, than with the OS... And on TI graphic calculators, you could then do more things with the programming language than with the OS...

But, since 2000, Casio graphic calculators have completly changed and become much better.
Casio has even released emulators and SDK for their best calculators (fx-9860G/GII family, ClassPad 3XX). Where is the SDK for the TI-Nspire ? . . .

Things are changing. Casio is TI, and TI is Casio.

It is perfectly possible for the Casio Prizm to be more programmable than the TI-Nspire, and to support assembly apps through a SDK.


TI has just released the TI-Nspire TouchPad, with allmost nothing new... A rechargeable 100hours battery that isn't even included in the box, and a touchpad... What's so impressive about a touchpad? A touchscreen would have been better...

The Casio Prizm use standard betteries, and has a 140 hours autonomy!

TI has had big problems with TI-Nspire TouchPad stocks ...

Also the color has been included in the TI-Nspire 2.x softwares, I'm pretty sure TI just cannot release another calculator in the next months.

Soon, thanks to Ndless 1.7, we're going to have ASM support on the TI-Nspire with an OS which is also usable to work/study!
You won't have to choose any more...
You won't have to constantly upgrade/downgrade any more each time your needs vary...

Wonderfull,isn't it?

 
Well... There's another major big problem, and I would like it to be discussed here, and solved if possible.

We've got many games on the TI-Nspire (NES games, Game Boy games, Game Boy Color games...) but a large majority of them is unplayable without catching a headache!


Here is THE problem:

(all images in this post come from datamath.org)

Yes, the screen!
Because of its high remanence delay, we just can't play any game which updates the screen widely.

An you just can't hope for a better screen from TI... They perfectly know it's the last thing that is preventing us from playing fully with the Nspire.

Does that mean we are condemned to play classic board games like chess or checkers?...
Does that mean we are condemned to play games which will have lower graphics than TI-89/92/V200 games?


Then... we have to solve the problem.

The screen has a standard resolution of 320x240.
That's a good thing if we need to replace it!


The screen comes on a separate PCB.
That could have been a good thing, but those PCBs aren't just dedicated to the screen.
They take care of the exam LED, of the mini-usb plug, and of the rechargeable battery.
So it seems we'll have to keep those PCB, and cannot easily replace them...

Let's look at those PCBs:

non-CAS ClickPad:


CAS ClickPad:


non-CAS TouchPad:


CAS TouchPad:



ClickPad CAS and non-CAS PCBs are identical, except that the exam LED is not soldered on the CAS PCB. They're identified by a string: "P1R2/P3_LB_MP_2440".
They have a 34pins connector, identified by the string "Ph3_EVT1_FPC_1413".

TouchPad CAS and non-CAS PCBs seems identical. They're identified by a string: "TG2995-C-LB-2410".
They have a 38pins connector, identified by the string "Nspire2.0_FPC_130".


The LCD is controlled by 3 display drivers:
- 1 Novatek NT7702 chip caring of the 240 rows
- 2 unidentified identical chips care of 160 columns each


Now, we have to find out who's guilty.
The screen? One or severall of the display drivers? Both?

If a display driver is guilty, could we find (with Ndless) a way to configure it?

Can the drivers and/or the screen be "easily" replaced? Is the screen just attached to those wire-ribbons, or is there something else?


Any information/idea will be appreciated. Please post your experiences and photos.

Anyone know how to make a batch file that lets me create the .tns just by dragging the .nes over said batch file?

Which OS? Windows or Linux ?

The Windows batch has been available for a week on TI-Bank.
http://ti.bank.free.fr/index.php?mod=archives&ac=voir&id=1964

There's an english ReadMe, don't worry

ok, hold on, lets not try to jump at TI'S throat yet
I think they are being truthful, for once

they are OPENLY admitting to cutting production in europe >.'>

Production is centralised: P-factory in China.

What they may do, is not selling the calculator any more in Europe.

We haven't bought enough TI-Nspire in Europe...
They want to force us...


Edit: TI has answered me on FaceBook:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Texas-Instruments-France/132142133466165#!/pages/Texas-Instruments-France/132142133466165?v=wall&story_fbid=165278456819199
In Swiss/Germany/Austria, the TI-84+SE is going to be discontinued.
Then did their webmaster write "production stopped" instead of "discontinued" by mistake ? . . .

Copy of the cached Swiss pages (in french):
http://xandrean.free.fr/ti84pse-discontinued/graph-suisse-fr.html
http://xandrean.free.fr/ti84pse-discontinued/ti84pse-suisse-fr.html

Copy of the cached german pages (in german):
http://xandrean.free.fr/ti84pse-discontinued/graph-allemagne.html
http://xandrean.free.fr/ti84pse-discontinued/ti84pse-allemagne.html

Still working to get the other pages.

Hmm, someone should copy the HTML/CSS from the cached version, in case Google updates it.

Here is a copy of the cached Swiss french pages:
http://xandrean.free.fr/ti84pse-discontinued/graph-suisse-fr.html
http://xandrean.free.fr/ti84pse-discontinued/ti84pse-suisse-fr.html

I'm trying to get the other pages too.

O_o perhaps their decision to discontinue it caused an outrage and now they take it back?

Yeah, we did it!
You were all great!