The little icons on Ti-planet are pretty cool, except I can't tell what they are sometimes...

What you'd like to do is to retrieve the Lua source for a TNS, right ?

I have it typed up in a notes file on the calculator, which I can send around as a tns. I just want to get the source out of there.

It's not the most easy thing to do if you don't have the student software. You need TI's code (for now) to unencrypt the document.
This can be in nspire_emu, the student software, or the online document player. If you are on windows/mac, try to see if you can copy your source with the online document player.

The online document player is pretty cool! Except I still can't copy code out of there...

I think he meant from ocLua to a proper .lua file on the computer ?

Then just save the source inside a Notes app for example and grab the .tns from your computer.

Then you have several choices :
- simply use TINCS (which you don't have so I'm not gonna explain)
- load it onto nspire_emu and dump the memory
- post the .tns here so we can extract it for you

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- How would you do that?
- That's a little inconvenient...

if you don't have the ti-software, you can download the trial here:
http://education.ti.com/html/nspire/te.html
as you can see it is the teacher edition, it has 90 days trial, while the student soft has 30 days trial
a plus time to experiment
I hope this can help you

I've already used that for a while, so I can't get trial software back again. I actually have the disk that came with the Nspire, but it's refusing to work.

Whoa. Interesting stuff. 8 minutes...

I only do it for Lua Dev > Tools, Source, Finished. It's nice and organized. I'll try to live without. 

Edit: It's also used with startup programs in ndless like nclock

Well. This is most unfortunate. Today I turned on my Nspire and it decided to reboot. It has done this a few times since I installed ndless, but I thought nothing too much about it. Today it turned out to be different. It got about halfway through when it said it needed to install a new OS. I have no idea where the OS went, but I sent a copy of OS 3.1.0.392 to my calculator through my newly configured TiLP. Then I check the documents, and everything's gone! 

I lost
 *A Pokemon save with 43 hours of play time, I beat the Elite four on the calculator  :'(
 *Completed games of Super Mario Bros DX, Super Mario Land, and Super Mario Land 2
 *The game
 *Save files for Donkey Kong, Legend of Zelda, and Mario's Picross which I had gotten very far along
 *Lots of mini projects in Nspire Lua
 *Bunch of crap I forgot about.

Any ideas about why this happened or if I could recover anything?

Is it just me or does the cursor seem high and to the left?

Maybe a bit.

I've been trying to get TiLP to work on Ubuntu recently. It works fine with my TI 84+, but it doesn't with my Nspire.

In the following terminal output, I have my Nspire plugged in and turned on. TiLP has already detected my Nspire with DirectLink in Port #1. Now I'm just refreshing the dirlist and it doesn't work. 

TiLP2 - Version 1.13, (C) 1999-2008 Romain Lievin
THIS PROGRAM COMES WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
PLEASE READ THE DOCUMENTATION FOR DETAILS
built on Apr 26 2010 05:38:16
tilp-INFO: setlocale: en_US.UTF-8
tilp-INFO: bindtextdomain: /usr/share/locale/
tilp-INFO: textdomain: tilp2
ticables-INFO: ticables library version 1.3.0
ticables-INFO: setlocale: en_US.UTF-8
ticables-INFO: bindtextdomain: /usr/share/locale
ticables-INFO: textdomain: libticables2
ticables-INFO: kernel: 2.6.38-14-generic
tifiles-INFO: tifiles library version 1.1.2
tifiles-INFO: setlocale: en_US.UTF-8
tifiles-INFO: bindtextdomain: /usr/share/locale
tifiles-INFO: textdomain: libtifiles2
ticalcs-INFO: ticalcs library version 1.1.3
ticalcs-INFO: setlocale: en_US.UTF-8
ticalcs-INFO: bindtextdomain: /usr/share/locale
ticalcs-INFO: textdomain: libticalcs2
ticables-INFO: Check for lib-usb support:
ticables-INFO:     usb support: available.
ticables-INFO: Check for lib-usb usability:
ticables-INFO:     usb filesystem (/dev/bus/usb/): mounted
tilp-INFO: Searching for link cables...
ticables-INFO: Link cable probing:
ticables-INFO:  found TI-Nspire(tm) Handheld on #1, version <1.05>
tilp-INFO: Searching for hand-helds on DirectLink...
ticables-INFO: Check for lib-usb support:
ticables-INFO:     usb support: available.
ticables-INFO: Check for lib-usb usability:
ticables-INFO:     usb filesystem (/dev/bus/usb/): mounted
ticables-INFO:  found TI-Nspire(tm) Handheld on #1, version <1.05>
ticables-INFO:  found TI-Nspire(tm) Handheld on #1, version <1.05>
ticables-INFO: Check for lib-usb support:
ticables-INFO:     usb support: available.
ticables-INFO: Check for lib-usb usability:
ticables-INFO:     usb filesystem (/dev/bus/usb/): mounted
ticables-INFO:  found TI-Nspire(tm) Handheld on #1, version <1.05>
ticables-INFO: Check for lib-usb support:
ticables-INFO:     usb support: available.
ticables-INFO: Check for lib-usb usability:
ticables-INFO:     usb filesystem (/dev/bus/usb/): mounted
ticables-INFO:  found TI-Nspire(tm) Handheld on #1, version <1.05>
ticalcs-INFO: Checking hand-held status:

(tilp:5318): ticables-WARNING **: usb_clear_halt (could not clear/halt ep 2: No such file or directory).

ticables-INFO:  found TI-Nspire(tm) Handheld on #1, version <1.05>
ticalcs-INFO:   device address request:
ticalcs-INFO:    0000:4003->0000:4003 AK=00 SQ=01 HC=d5 DC=ec0f (2 bytes)
ticalcs-INFO:     0F EC
ticalcs-INFO:   assigning address 6401:
ticalcs-INFO:    6400:4003->6401:4003 AK=00 SQ=01 HC=00 DC=1343 (4 bytes)
ticalcs-INFO:     64 01 FF 00

(tilp:5318): ticables-WARNING **: usb_bulk_write (error submitting URB: No such file or directory).

Any ideas? Thanks.

Are you sure the resolution is correct? It's about 300*200? Even so, it looks really blurry.  

I recommend that you just try to do a simpler version of RCT. Don't try anything too difficult like isometrics or the complex formulas. Start doing the project yourself and then others will help.

Edit: However, that screenshot does make me want to play RCT2 again.