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Re: TI-Boy SE
« Reply #645 on: March 16, 2010, 07:55:28 pm »
You got it to work? My NSpire won't boot now. It loads the operating system, goes past the clock, and then crashes and starts all over again. Do you know what's up? I can't seem to find a good troubleshooting guide anywhere.
Is it better to send NDless through an 84? I'd have to get my NSpire fixed either way to do it, but it would be nice to know which is better. Did you make the alternate build yourself? Or did you find it somewhere? If so, can you tell me where?
****Also, I noticed that the TI-Boy SE is depicted at the top of the Omnimaga page, along with the NSpire version of Mario Bros Deluxe. That must be quite an honor!
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Re: TI-Boy SE
« Reply #646 on: March 16, 2010, 11:41:39 pm »
I heard other people say they got trouble upgrading to OS 2.0 x.x. I hope TI didn't screw up badly or that Ndless won't break calcs x.x

I didn't got further problems. When I deleted Ndless and uninstalled it, I upgraded from OS 1.1 to 2.0, then back from 2.0 to 1.1 and installed Ndless. Failed sometimes, then eventually worked. I used an alternate build of Ndless, which was posted in #omnimaga IRC by ExtendeD. It's not official, though, since it may not be stable, which is why it's still not on ticalc.org.

I guess I'll check #omnimaga IRC logs to see if I can find it, but it might be best to wait until it's officially out, in case.

As for Ndless sending through a 84+ the only avaliable tool is Nspire8x on ticalc.org http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/426/42627.html

If your Nspire is locked on the booting, remove a battery, then after putting it back as well as the keypad, hold down HOME, P, ENTER and then ON, and keep all these keys held down until the maintenance menu appear, then from there, delete the OS. Afterward, resend an OS using TI-Nspire computer link software.

If anyone has better explanation feel free to ask.

And yeah I made the banner myself, it was in my plans to include some gbc4nspire and TI-Boy SE stuff. You can even notice the 3D Link to the left, from Calc84maniac polygon 3D stuff. The rest is pretty much other calc games we made or are making.

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Re: TI-Boy SE
« Reply #647 on: March 17, 2010, 10:00:52 pm »
Ah, THAT's what that was! I should have noticed that sooner. Of course it's Link, and that's his shield on the his back.

I wondered why I couldn't reset my OS. I was holding down the wrong keys. Thanks. As for NSpire8x, I already knew about that, but was just wondering which was a more successful way of installing.
I'm not usually behind on the "what." It's usually the "how" that I don't know about, if you understand.
I've heard that 2.0 doesn't work with NDless. It just figures that within days of NDless being announced on TIcalc, TI comes out with a new OS and new software, BOTH of which are supposedly incompatible with NDless.
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I've got it working now.
Man, I've known it was coming, I've heard it was released, I've seen screenshots and videos, but still... I can't really believe it's in my hands now! Forget Heart Gold and Soul Silver, I'm going back to Crystal on my clac!
I should probably post on the new thread for the Nspire version, now, huh?
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BTW, the only one possible change I might make would to make the ctrl key the Start key. That way it would be symmetrical to the clear key for Select. I always have to remind myself that it's one key lower than I think. Is there any reason you made it the shift key? I thought it may be to make contrast changes in-game, but I found out that you can do that just by hitting the + and - buttons.
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Re: TI-Boy SE
« Reply #648 on: March 18, 2010, 12:56:40 am »
I guess so since it might eventually clutter this topic but yeah it's an awesome achievement plus it works so well ^^

There has been a lot of changes in the TI commmunity since late 2008

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Re: TI-Boy SE
« Reply #649 on: April 13, 2010, 07:18:56 pm »
I have a TI-84 Plus Silver Edition and when I try to run Pokemon Red, it gives me the ram error.

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Re: TI-Boy SE
« Reply #650 on: April 13, 2010, 07:28:36 pm »
Unfortunately there isn't anything that can be done to work around the RAM error on TI-84+ calcs released after March 2007. It would require TI-Boy SE to run some data from the archive memory instead of using the hidden RAM that is missing from newer calcs, and this means Pokémon and all other games using a lot of data would most likely run 5-9001 times slower than they do right now. :(

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Re: TI-Boy SE
« Reply #651 on: April 13, 2010, 10:49:22 pm »
It's over 9000!!!!!

Sorry. I had to say it.

Having an 84+ without the extra RAM pages is like having an 83+ with a better CPU, IMHO.

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Re: TI-Boy SE
« Reply #652 on: April 13, 2010, 10:53:00 pm »
It's over 9000!!!!!

Sorry. I had to say it.

Having an 84+ without the extra RAM pages is like having an 83+ with a better CPU, IMHO.
And a bigger flash chip :)
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Re: TI-Boy SE
« Reply #653 on: April 13, 2010, 11:23:05 pm »
It's over 9000!!!!!

Sorry. I had to say it.

Having an 84+ without the extra RAM pages is like having an 83+ with a better CPU, IMHO.
And a bigger flash chip :)
And 24 KB of hidden RAM instead of 8 :P

As well as crystal timers and clock.
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Re: TI-Boy SE
« Reply #654 on: April 20, 2010, 02:30:30 pm »
It's over 9000!!!!!

Sorry. I had to say it.

Having an 84+ without the extra RAM pages is like having an 83+ with a better CPU, IMHO.
And a bigger flash chip :)
And 24 KB of hidden RAM instead of 8 :P

As well as crystal timers and clock.
More mini USB port and a different skin.
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Re: TI-Boy SE
« Reply #655 on: April 20, 2010, 08:04:22 pm »
It's over 9000!!!!!

Sorry. I had to say it.

Having an 84+ without the extra RAM pages is like having an 83+ with a better CPU, IMHO.
And a bigger flash chip :)
And 24 KB of hidden RAM instead of 8 :P

As well as crystal timers and clock.
More mini USB port and a different skin.
And a few more basic commands...

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Re: TI-Boy SE
« Reply #656 on: April 25, 2010, 01:07:26 pm »
It's over 9000!!!!!

Sorry. I had to say it.

Having an 84+ without the extra RAM pages is like having an 83+ with a better CPU, IMHO.
And a bigger flash chip :)
And 24 KB of hidden RAM instead of 8 :P

As well as crystal timers and clock.
More mini USB port and a different skin.
And a few more basic commands...
And porn the ability to read files from USB jumpdrive if you have an adapter

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Re: TI-Boy SE
« Reply #657 on: April 25, 2010, 06:31:43 pm »
Unfortunately there isn't anything that can be done to work around the RAM error on TI-84+ calcs released after March 2007. It would require TI-Boy SE to run some data from the archive memory instead of using the hidden RAM that is missing from newer calcs, and this means Pokémon and all other games using a lot of data would most likely run 5-9001 times slower than they do right now. :(

Couldn't it still be worth a try, seeing as it doesn't work on the new models at all? Since it already runs pretty fast, losing some speed wouldn't really matter, even if some games would become incompatible.
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Re: TI-Boy SE
« Reply #658 on: April 25, 2010, 08:23:30 pm »
Would you really want to play Gameboy games at 10% speed?

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Re: TI-Boy SE
« Reply #659 on: April 25, 2010, 08:39:27 pm »
Plus I'm not sure I could get the emulator to work in 48KB of RAM anyway (the archive usage would only be to back up the previous contents of RAM)
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