Exactly. Also, if ACT takes nspire off the list, they lose probably half their sales to 84+ sales instead. Double Anger!!!

Well....how does Ndless get on there then?

Software to install the CAS on the non-CAS is also most likely legal (after all, we are not distributing TI's files). The current agreement right now, though, seems to be to avoid financially damaging TI in order to placate them (Ndless does not make them happy).

(Ndless does not make them happy).

I do not understand them about this part, though. Sure, it allows people to have a 89 or 83+ in their Nspire CAS/non cas, but they must own the original calc to have the ROM. If they get a ROM without owning the original calc, then it's not Ndless community problem. We provide this for legal use. We are not responsible if someone uses it illegally. It's like console emulators. They're written with 3rd party code so they're legal, as they do not contain any copyrighted content. If someone downloads ROMs online instead of dumping them off the cartridges, it's not the emulator authors problem. Plus, Ndless even attracts more customers. You could barely do anything on the Nspire in terms of coding before. People at school want to be able to do more, including playing games in some cases, to pass time. Obviously they'll hear shit about the Nspire, then go with the cheaper calcs. I myself never wanted a Nspire before. I only bought one because my TI-83+SE broke and I needed a 15 MHz calc, and the Nspire 84+ emu did the job, for me, since I used it for TI-BASIC (Illusiat 13). But had I not needed a 15 MHz calc, I would never have bought a Nspire until Ndless is out.

Heck, over here, Nspire sales went so poor that in 2008 you could get them for cheaper than a 84+SE, even if the Nspire included a 84+SE emulator. One year later, their price risen, but still remained the same as a 84+SE. Today, they're $185 at Staples over here, but it's still only $18 more than a 84+SE.

Internet-wise, did you notice the big increase in Nspire users when Ndless proof of concept were shown? UTI got a huge load of new members. Then when Ndless came out, along with the gbc emu, it became our turn. TI-BANK also got a lot of new members, IIRC.

In other words, Ndless is not going to kill TI sales.

I wasn't saying it was illegal. I was just saying it must not use the actual TI-Connect thing to link it. The same method could likely be used to put on CAS.

If the ACT people found out the NSpire could run a ti-89 they would ban it from the test, and move on. TI would freak out, but they wouldn't care.

I think the price thing is just because you guys live in export areas, where supply is Less than Demand. In the US, nspires cost a good 40 or 50 bucks more.

@Will wouldn't higher demand than supply actually raise prices? I think you got it backward (typo?)

@Bwang Mhmm good question, DS has been pretty dead for a while. The Symbolic authors would most likely need to be contacted if they are still around.

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What I hate the most, though, is when the teacher blocks your 84+ with the PTT mode, then won't even bother disabling it at the end of the test. Final day of school, you return home not realizing. You turn on your calc and can't access PRGM menu until someone sends you something, but no one can. And you don't know any other way than RAM clear to disable it, so you lose your entire game progress.

Or worst: when the teacher resets your RAM before the test, or even worse, both Archive and RAM. Fortunately, on a TI-Nspire it's much harder to do so, though, since he has to remove a battery, put it back then when rebooting he needs to go through the maintenance menu (which means he needs to know the correct key combination, which isn't even gonna be the same on newer Nspires).

Over here for any test we could use our calc as much as we wanted in math, but the way test questions were written rendered every possible program unuseable. Programs gave the awnser, not the entire solution to the problem (that you were forced to write down and counted for 75% of the question score)