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« on: May 12, 2011, 02:35:51 am »
Does anyone else here have a Model UN aka MUN program at their school. What it is is that you are assigned a country and a UN committee and you must research its policy for that committee's topic(s). Often you will have to write a policy paper ahead of time and submit that to the chairs. The chairs are students who run each committee. An MUN conference will be hosted by a school and many other schools will attend. In committee you debate policy and write resolutions. In the end everyone votes on the resolutions. At the closing ceremonies awards are given to the delegates who showed good skills. The awards from least to greatest are Commendation, Outstanding, and only one Gavel for the best delegate. Now these rules vary from conference to conference, but for the most part is the same. I quite enjoy doing MUN and it can be very rewarding. Next year I will be traveling to the Royal Russel Conference in the UK. A picture of me dressed up for a conference can be found here
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« on: May 12, 2011, 02:25:58 am »
It really is pointless to hide important software and promote paid apps. The user base is students and they will not pay for apps, nor would a teacher force a student to buy an app too. All of what TI is doing is screwing themselves because now they will get thousands of emails from students asking on how to send files to their calculators and they will just hurt their reputation even more than they already have. BTW if TI ever cancels the 84+ my school's math department (school of 1800 students  ) agreed to endorse the Prizm as the primary calculator that students must purchase after I compared the differences between the Prizm, Nspire, and Nspire CX. Because of this I might start labeling my projects with my real name because only 1 person at my school knows of me as z80man.
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« on: May 12, 2011, 01:07:05 am »
OK thanks for the info. I tried to find something that said sound was discontinued, but I gave up around page 8 
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« on: May 12, 2011, 12:31:43 am »
I'm just wondering if sound is supposed to work on this version. I just tried TI-Boy a few nights ago (I know I should of tried it earlier, but I was working on Prizm stuff ) . Unless of course the games I'm playing don't use sound. They are Link's Awakening and Kirby dreamland
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« on: May 12, 2011, 12:11:07 am »
Ah ok. Would it still need a lot of extra cpu ressources, though? I'M wondering because Emu8x ran like 2-3x slower than the real calc, even if you emulated a TI-83 on a 83+SE
Well the Super H has more interrupts available and more triggers for the interrupts so that the emulator does not have to parse all of the code and can just let most of the code run as normal. It should only then be a fraction slower at the same cpu speed.
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« on: May 11, 2011, 11:37:34 pm »
It would be nice indeed. If I remember the calc is pretty much the same hardware aside from the screen used and the flash memory size, right?
Right and this would be easier than TI-Boy because the fx-9860g does't have any opcodes the Prizm doesn't support. Plus the screen is smaller so it is easier to draw.
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« on: May 11, 2011, 11:35:27 pm »
For Vixen I would suggest using Qwerty's Khavi framework as the byte code loader. Khavi is designed to work as a virtual machine framework and is well suited for interpreters and emulators. It is very fast, small size, and can handle threads.
And for Emerald make sure you keep in mind the other languages on the Prizm. Yes there is an Axe like language planned, but sometimes a user would prefer an interpreted language over a compiled one for easier and faster coding. Then on the interpreted side you have both Lua and Java, but both of those are computer compiled. I would though match the language difficulty with Lua, but easier than Java and harder than BASIC. And yes there is also a planned BASIC interpreter rewrite, but that is not byte code so is a little bit slower plus it doesn't have OOP. I would almost think of Emerald as advanced BASIC as that would be your target group, experienced BASIC coders who feel restricted by current BASIC constraints.
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« on: May 11, 2011, 11:24:20 pm »
Nice, is it the same version as in the first post? If not, are you planning to post a new 8xp soon?The Prizm is coming up, but there is hardly any casio fx-xxxx development.
Hey, the Prizm is technically an fx- calc too
It's named fx-CG10 or fx-CG20 depending on your region.
Indeed, also I think fx-9860G is still not dead. It's just not super active and most projects are never completed.
I see a fx-9860g emulator on the horizon. It would very similarly to wine in that native cpu instructions would run as normal, but new code would be used to manage the hardware. Or you could say similar to TI-Boy too.
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« on: May 11, 2011, 10:55:14 pm »
The OS jumps to the program as if it's a subroutine, so you can just rts without generating any serious errors.
Are you sure about that? I've seen discussions on IRC where people have said that it's not like that...
Why don't we check what's in the PR when staring programs? We can check the code around the returned address and see how apps are initiated. And I did see how the code is loaded. As we know apps are ran from flash, but how it is done is the physical address of the app is mapped to virtual memory at 0x30000000. This would suggest that 0x30000000 is not a static address, but is remapped every time an app is ran. @Qwerty you had a minor error in your code. fix'd it for ya  sts.l pr,@-r15
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lds.l @r15+,pr
rts
nop
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« on: May 11, 2011, 03:34:38 am »
you could use thepenguin's video maker to make one of your own, ikkerens.
builder, i am impressed. did you run those levels on partial speed in wabbit, or have you just practised that much?
Now I thought will thepenguin77's video player you could not upload your own videos yet. He said the process was something like 10 steps and as too complex for most people, but you could ask him to do so.
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« on: May 11, 2011, 03:09:44 am »
At least Casio has been more perceptive to our needs than TI's. I believe Casio is up to something big for the Prizm, but I'm not sure what it is yet. When I did contact them it sounded like it had something to do with images.
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« on: May 11, 2011, 03:07:10 am »
Hm, that's certainly odd. I haven't experienced it with my Prizm, though.
I can think of only two things that could of caused it. The overclocking app back from January or the LAN party Well I believe the person with the most similar Prizm to mine is FinaleTI's because our serial numbers are only about a hundred off. But then again I've barely heard anything thing from him yet about the Prizm  So I don't know if he has the same issue
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« on: May 11, 2011, 03:02:13 am »
Nothing it just happens at random. Sometimes within Insight other times in the OS. It can really happen at any time and place/
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« on: May 11, 2011, 02:41:05 am »
Note: From what I remember, the CX doesn't support MSD mode, meaning you still need to get through the hassle of using a connectivity software to transfer files between your calculator and the computer and forums are still gonna get flooded with "Calc not detected by computer" help threads. The Prizm supports mass storage device mode.
To be honest, I've been having some trounble with making my computer detect my Prizm... But it's still much easier to use that the route TI chose.
Ah ok weird. Hopefully it doesn't get worse with the time as the Prizm gets more popular. But again I had the same thing happen with certain USB flash drives before.
I was using the USB cable I got from TI earlier. I've switched to using the Casio cable now, and it works every time
Oh silly TI. You even make your usb cables buggy. It just wouldn't be TI if there were no bugs. btw Has anyone else gotten a bug on their Prizm in which everything will freeze for a couple of seconds then return to normal. it doesn't seem as if the calc is frozen, but as if the keyboard input is.
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« on: May 11, 2011, 02:13:28 am »
I didn't think this was worthy of a legitimate thread, but I got a cool Crysis icon set up for the Prizm. The code though causes some crashes My favorite part is just the menu icons which conform exactly with the rest of Prizm apps courtesy of JosJuice  
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