It's not really that the place looks ugly now, but that it was taken on an overcast November day and all the grass was replaced by grapevines.

Wow, compared to you guys, I'm still a n00b. I got my nspire just over two years ago. I decided on an nspire because I looked at the hardware specs and thought "oh cool, I can run Linux on it" , not knowing how far away that was from happening. With ndless, though, Linux is now much closer. I remember messing around with TI-BASIC on the 84+ emulator, before ndless was around, and getting frustrated by the limited capabilities of nspire basic. Then, I came across the nspire hacking thread on United-TI, and followed it for a while, and then I must've clicked a link that took me here

I hope you can still stick around for a while DJ, and knowing you it will happen. With things like Axe, Ndless, and Lua to carry us into the next decade, you can feel reassured that the community isn't going to die out.

So would the example of a little girl singing a lady gaga song be a derivative work?

I can see how this would be a tricky thing to decide for lawmakers, courts, etc. On one hand, it's your computer that is generating the graphics, on the other, it uses the copyrighted assets of the video game to do so. If this was passed, though, I could see many video game companies giving their customers the right to make lets plays automatically, probably through the EULAs.

Omnimaga needs a like button.

Quote from: Happybobjr on June 25, 2011, 12:33:07 pm

ya it is.  Just depends on what type.
Mode 7 3d has been done several times.

That's a bit different than what would be needed for 3D mine craft on calc what would be needed would be an engine for drawing textures polygons in 3 spatial dimensions.

Or raycasting, but it would have to be for every pixel of the screen, instead of every column which is unfeasible even on a nspire (it can't cast 76800 rays even @ 150mhz). Though on a computer, raycasting could be used to make minecraft playable for computers with fast processors but integrated graphics, by raycasting all of the solid blocks, while generating a z buffer, then transferring that to the graphics chip and letting it use the z buffer to draw the mobs and non cubic blocks with polygons.

FOOD!!!
The newest Pokemon game I played that I actually enjoyed was Emerald, I stuck with it enough to get a full party of lvl100 Pokemon, and complete the Hoenn Pokedex. However, I think the newer games have lost the original vision of Pokemon, and now there are way too many kinds of them. That, along with the TV shows and "junior novels" making it a "little kid" thing, and the fact that they have been licensed and are in things like happy meals is an insult to the original spirit of Pokemon. Pokemon used to be fun, and the older games still are, but I think this is a tired franchise now. I still go back and play the older games (hurrah for gbc4nspire and visual boy advance!), but apart from playing Pearl, or Platinum, (I don't remember which), for a little bit, and getting bored, I have never touched a game past the third generation. Red and Blue was an original idea that caught on, Gold, Silver, and Crystal improved on it, Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald was a fresh new spin on it without the past baggage of previous regions, and Fire Red and Leaf Green paid respect to what started it all, but after that, it only goes downhill.