Well some idiot over here by the name of pimath has been slacking at his (former) job, so it's time for a (non-project) community news roundup!

First on the list is the TI-Nspire CX/TI-Nspire CX CAS OS 4.2, which is the second major Nspire OS TI has released since they dropped support for monochrome Nspires (the last supported OS for the monochrome Nspires is 3.9). It added some new features, such as inequality graphing, sliders on graphs, and new context menus.

As with every Nspire OS update, 4.2 blocked Ndless, but after an extremely short amount of time, Ndless 4.2 has been released. For those who don't know, Ndless is a TI-Nspire "jailbreak" that allows for the execution of assembly and C programs (which are not supported on the OS), including some awesome games and tools.

Also news from TI: mISSion imaginaTIon, a new series of TI-Nspire activities, made in conjunction with NASA, to inspire students to participate in STEM fields. In addition to the first TI-Nspire activity, Fuel for the Fire, there is an engineering design challenge in which the winners get to talk with a NASA expert and win a set of TI-Nspires!

There has also been lots of activity in the community recently. Long time News Editor for ticalc.org Ryan Boyd has retired from his position. We will miss you, our dear friend Ryan. To take his place, Xavier "critor" Andreani has stepped up. We look forward to more exciting news on the ticalc.org front page in the future!

There have also been two major contests! First up we have Cemetech Contest #15: Crypto Golfing. In this contest, participants were issued a series of cryptography challenges. Scores were determined by expedience and source size. The smaller the program and the faster it was turned in, the more points accumulated. The winners were Hooloovoo, PT_, and lirtosiast. Well done guys!

Over on CodeWalrus, there was CodeWalrus Contest II: A Game About Walruses, in which participants were asked to include the CodeWalrus mascott, Walrii, in their games. Winners were determined by a hybrid judging/community vote. The winners were c4ooo and Unicorn. Congratulations!

As for project releases, there have been quite a few. One of the most notable was CEmu, a TI-84+CE (and equivalent) emulator, made by a team lead by MateoConLechuga. It is open source and anyone can contribute. Take a look if you haven't already! Technically, there is no official "release" yet and is very much in alpha, but it is very much worth mentioning.

Also made by a team lead by Mateo, we have A CE C SDK, LibLoad, and Libraries. These projects allow for easier C programming on the CE series, as well as the use of dynamically linked libraries on the CE.

Finally we have KermMartian's Graph3DC for the TI-84+CSE (and equivalents). Graph3DC is a 3D grapher for the CSE series that has full color support and OS integration.


And with that, there is the major news roundup of the last few months. Thanks for reading!

Well, we used to have a rather large Nspire community.

Here's my two cents:
We could change the focus of the site to things that are just general tech/programming. We could hire some new news editors, under the condition that the news not be exclusively calculator-related. In other words, we make news about general tech stuff not necessarily related to Omni or calculators in general.
In addition, we clean up the general tech forums and maybe divide them into some sub-categories based on what news is popular.

buuuuutttt, that's just me

That's the thing though, it's not that difficult to change the way the camera moves I just need to create a plan for the engine this week, anyways.

Edited first post to include links to the current planning documents.

Hello! This semester, one of my classes is a directed study. In other words, I get to do something I want to do, and there are gradable checkpoints every week or two. As the title of this post suggests, I'm making a JRPG. I have a story concept, but I don't have a name atm Below I'm going to put what the assignments are and when they are due-ish (since it's okay if they are a day or so late, according to the teacher).

• Stats Outline – A plan for what stats characters may have, how they affect battles, and how stat growth occurs when leveling up (1/22) complete
• Character Outline – A plan for a cast of characters, both party members and NPCs, and certain character attributes about them unrelated to state | In addition, create classes and plan how they affect stats (1/29) complete
• Movement Engine Outline – A plan for the mechanics of the movement engine (2/5)
• Event Engine Outline – A plan for the mechanics of the event engine (2/11)
• Battle Engine Outline – A plan for the mechanics of the battle engine (2/19)
• World Map – A map that includes the entire explorable area of the game, as well as the placement of events and NPCs (2/26)
• Midterm – Present the entire plan for the game (3/4)
• Story – A written version of what the story will be in the game (3/18)
• Create movement engine (3/25)
• Create tile map – A computerized version of the world map, including events and NPCs (4/1)
• Create event engine (4/15)
• Create battle engine (4/22)
• Implement Story through events and dialogue (4/29)
• Write and implement music “loops” – 60-120 second pieces that repeat and set the mood for various areas (5/13)
• Final – Present the finished game (5/20)

I'll update this post with the assignments as they happen (later today for the first two). The full story will be view-able, so I'll put it in layered spoilers. I won't give the story concept until then, so when I release the characters, you won't have any background

All things considered, I didn't have time to put art in my schedule so either
A) I'll have to get art off Open Game Art (And make the game open source)
or
B) If one of you guys is willing to do art I'd be willing to credit you (and give you a share of the profits if I decide to sell the game instead of just open-sourcing it. That is tbd).

So, scientists found possibly a ninth planet in our solar system, Planet X.
This planet is "only" theorized due to anomalies in Neptunes orbit. Apparently Neptune was discovered similarily, due to anormalies in Uranus' orbit.

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/20/10801824/ninth-planet-x-discovered-evidence

What do you guys think?

This was also how Pluto was discovered (because Neptune's orbit was itself suggested another planet)... and it was called "Planet X" originally.

I got some win32 nightly builds up and running on my server: http://pimathbrainiac.me/CEmu/

https://soundcloud.com/pimathbrainiac/shattered-glass

New (Complete, not WIP) piece!