Here's a good thought to think about.

Back in the 1950's when the computer was just being invented there was no such thing as programming classes. These pioneers (which includes my grandfather (which also explains why I was born with the asm programmer gene )) invented programming and defined the rules. Weren't they all autodidacts then? Now why is it that in today's world you have to take formal classes just to be recognized as a good programmer. A good programmer should be recognized by the work and accomplishments they have achieved in the past.

Now I have always been a self taught programmer, but I'm now realizing that if I want to make this my career then I will have to study computer science in college. At my high school there is an AP computer science, but I'm already a more skilled coder then the teacher  I also looked at most college courses and realized that I wouldn't be learning anything significantly new until my third year.

Yeah so that's about it. 

Yes I learned it last year. it is a very easy language to get started with. But I will not be coding the Nspire with it 

Have you tried reseting your ram yet. If that doesn't work try resending the OS. I have 2.43 on a 84+ SE too and have never had this problem.

Earlier I was thinking about creating a new version of Casio BASIC for the Prizm that was still interpreted, but was tokenized before running and extremely fast. It would be easier to learn than Java (which is also in development) as it would be just the BASIC language and would be safer and still easier than the currently being developed Axe port. But now if I'm wondering if I should lean more to Lua/python side for the easier to write code. The only downside is that I might have to give up the on-calc coding coding which is a big plus.

Yeah, we still need to document which peripherals Casio did include with the proc. After some analysis many hardware ports seem to be either missing or placed somewhere else in ram. Most notably is the usb and the dmac. 

Quote from: z80man on April 13, 2011, 11:14:13 am

No,  not a necro. It has been over 2 months

btw, it is quite fun to read these old posts and to see how far we've come.

We have come pretty far since I started lurking for about 2 years and doing nothing at all. We cracked the freaking nSpire, and as if that wasn't enough of a breakthrough, we can run Doom, GB(C) ROMs, and NES ROMs on it. on it.

Well were actually talking about the Prizm here not the nspire
but Doom, GB, and NES does sound interesting.

Quote from: graphmastur on April 12, 2011, 10:41:31 pm

Quote from: ruler501 on April 12, 2011, 10:40:42 pm

how can anything be slower than Nspire BASIC?

True.  A three-toed sloth going across the US from east coast to west coast would finish before the NSpire could count to 999.

Both of which would finish before the Prizm could draw a stick figure

Speaking of which how fast can a Prizm draw a stick figure. Well the answer to that is 2.75 seconds meaning that the three toed sloth must be traveling faster than 3,927,272 miles per hour!  That's one fast sloth and one frickin slow calc. 

Nice catch. I must have missed that.

However, I just noticed a simpler way of detecting .class files: use the "magic" number 0xCAFEBABE. It's present in all .class files, so it can identify them and my file format can easily allow that particular header to be invalid.

Yes that is an easier way of detecting class files, but when it comes to a shell that is designed for any file format type, using something like 0xCAFEBABE is not universal. So it might be easier if the first time you run the java program it does a call to the libraries of the shell with "class"  and an icon as an argument. Then when viewing files in a screen similar to Doors, all class files will have a coffee cup icon and when you click on it java will be run with the class file as an arg