5581: When you realize that Sor's addiction to Omni is becoming increasingly unhealthy
5582: When Omni takes Facebook down as the new homepage for all your doings

You do make sense, my friend.
*sigh* I'll wait patiently for you people to be less busy

I have a very engaging, involved series of big and difficult to answer questions aimed at programming and cubing veterans, or anybody else who feels qualified to help out. (This may turn into an in-depth discussion holding multiple streams of conversation at once, beware! If you tl;dr often, this isn't the place for you.)

What would it take to write a Rubik's cube solving application/program for the Ti-83-84 series? I'm betting that the best platform to write it for is the Ti-84+CSE, mostly becuase that's what everybody is interested in right now and it has the newest operating system and a color screen in case there is a graphical component to this program.

Also, I'd like to challenge Omnimaga with the task of writing a program that can solve any cube state with an optimal solution path withing the course of a reasonable amount of time. It should probably take no longer than 4 hours to solve any one state.
I want to hear your thoughts on it, like what a cube-state culd look like in memory, algorithms or sequences stored as data, or how to maybe come up with a tiny, compressed structure for representing any cube state with a maximum of, say, 8 bytes. Who's up for it?

I'm going to be a real jerk, here, and be that noob who..well, you'll get the idea when you read this.

How viable would it be to write a Rubik's Cube sim with a free-flying camera for this color screen 8x series calculator?

warez...?
Yeah my home-made was the collection of parts pieced together painstakingly in the span of 3 minutes time from many other devices which were all compatible with the OS for Nokia 6350... It has a story behind it.
my phone in a nutshell:
I was on the phone with my ex on what I didn't know would be our last phone call spent while we were together. She dumped me and we talked it over when she did and I said I didn't want to stop talking until we were both sure and my phone was on it's last leg. I told her I'd build a new one if I had to if it meant 3 more minutes with her. I got 2 and a half with her after having built it. Haven't heard her voice since.
*sobs uncontrollably*
Nah, I'm over it.

Anyway, yeah I would love to have moneys to fuel my hobby further but 15 is still too young for a job. i applied at a piano selling store but they were afraid all I'd do was play their pianos, even after having been in and out of that store for 4 years of my life. That's like my home, man. Lane music changed my life and won't even give me a job. BLARGH RAGING ON THIS FORUM
So for nows I can't really do much on in the way of projects. but I can play minecraft. and cube. don't ever forget cubing.

I say netham55 because of an IRC joke from a while back, me and Sor were saying 55 to tick him off, the mighty blue one...
Yeah, I don't take credit for wisdom. Coffee is the wiser portion of my writings.
I couldn't stay gone. and thanks for subbing! I'm going to do more vids, pimath. piano and cubing.
dem atari peanuts...
I'm thinking of writing a 3D free flying camera Rubik's cube sim for CSE or CX CAS. just a considerable project...

I totally did not expect the peanuts. But it made for a very warm welcome!

DJ_O, life really took over. I realized I had a lot of work to do in the piano and in simply growing up as a person. Reclusing(word?) in my room alone all the time away from people was not the way to do so. i also got extremely addicted to speedcubing. First video is up, today, by the way!



Anyways, I also think I suffered calculator overload.

WALL OF TEXT!

Basically, once I got an Nspire CX CAS, I had no need for any other scientific calculator for math purposes. One of the very important things about calc programming was that I had to use it often at the time, therefore, it was always around when I needed it because I needed it. Once I turned it on, however, I almost always got distracted and wanted to play games, write stuff, or hack/beta test for people/mess with glitches. I would finish school in the morning just to mess with my calculator all day long. Plus, it was the only platform on which I could play video games when I was grounded and Pokemon on the calculator was where I spent my days. Sersiouly, hundreds of hours. I don't know where I'd be without TI-Boy SE! Thanks, calc84maniac! helped me get through some dark days...
Then I suddenly got my Nspire. I never had a reason to pick up my old calc again because I was spoiled with GBA emulators and amazing math functions and polar graphing (the most fun thing about the Nspre, IMHO).
So, my other 4 calcs (all of the 8x line, one of them I wanted so badly I went to unjust means to get it!) simply sat there and collected dust. I don't even know where one of them is now, and I was even considering selling an 84+SE with 128k RAM on it to a friend so  I could buy more cubes and puzzles.
Sad day for the community (even if I don't really contribute lol)!
Then, I tried fooling with Nspire Linux. I was so into it and sure that if I could get minecraft working on the Wii via WiiLinux (which I did. I so frickin' did.), I could get xpdf running on Nspire. I got Linux working, but it wasn't configured right and for a while I didn't know what to do. I got discouraged, as I couldn't load an FS from a USB even after I spent a buttload on a powered USB hub. (I know what the problem was, just not interested anymore)
I finally just decided to quit with it. I was so upset about my failure (which I wasted many hours trying to not fail) that I actually stopped calcs altogether for a while. I blamed it on it being a childish pursuit. I also threw away most things I had built out of spare electronics, including the cell phone I had built.
Oh, what a fool I was!

I got a DS, a palm, and many other devices. I got my computer freedom back (and I don't abuse it, either! Learned my lesson; no prnoo [you get what that word is]!) and I became interested again. I still have many more powerful and better hackable and bigger userbase homebrew community devices, but I wasn't spoiled any longer. I had a taste of everything I needed that the world had to offer and I picked up my calc and wrote an extremely optimal PONG game in Ti Basic. It all started from there and I was once again addicted to calcs.

Then I remembered the great commmunities like Omni and Cemetech!

So, here I am! Lesson learned? Don't get spoiled by newer calcs.
I'mma go buy a CSE for cheap from my best friend now. I've used one once and the OS is disappointing, but hopefully the community progs will be good quality. Hopefully I can help you guys learn about optimal screen interaction routines...
REAL MORAL OF THE STORY?!

Netham55 is a lobster.

Yeah, I get to the last two stes of Heise (I get all but the part with corner commutators and L5Edges) almost instantly, usually less than 20 seconds. Then, I get to that and I slow so far down. That's kinda insane
yeah, but Link, have you ever gone to the website (calcuberider.uk I believe) where ZZ is taught and notced that he has a basic gudie to solving EO? It's very easy to do it no algorithms whatsoever. I just plan it during inspection.