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« Reply #585 on: Thu 3 Dec, 09, 11:57:18 »
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well, it's probably all theoreticlally.
If you'd try that probably this: "For example, sometimes a sprite that was supposed to meld into the background would be colored separately, making it easily noticeable" would happen but worse and slow or something
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« Reply #586 on: Thu 3 Dec, 09, 12:35:17 »
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Yeah, GBC could show quite a bit more than 16 colors at once, I think, depending on the game. Also, I remember reading about a trick that could be done to display even more colors at one time, but I don't remember the details off the top of my head. It probably had something to do with changing the palette every scanline in the middle of display refresh—a lot of old consoles had tricks like that.
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« Reply #587 on: Thu 3 Dec, 09, 16:08:19 »
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Wow, if a NES emulator might be possible for a Nspire, I would be sure to get one. Smiley
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« Reply #588 on: Sun 13 Dec, 09, 21:31:18 »
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I'm not sure if this has been said before because all 40 pages is a bit much to read. But would the new 84+'s have any chance of running the ROMs if the emulator just said bye bye calculator memory and deleted every thing?

With 49KB of RAM, is that enough memory to run these ROMs? To make it prettier you could archive it all. But I would much rather have a RAM clear than have nothing.
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« Reply #589 on: Sun 13 Dec, 09, 22:22:07 »
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You can't run it unless you have pretty much all of your RAM free. If you archive it all your memory, you can do a RAM reset without losing any data. But then, that kind of defeats the point. Archived memory doesn't add to how much RAM you are using. When you use a shell like Mirage OS, it takes the parts out of the program that it needs to put into RAM automatically, just like a computer. If you archive something, the RAM is effected in the same way as if you deleted it.
It's a good habit to keep all your memory archived, since it doesn't do any good to keep it in the RAM. It just hogs resources, and you'll lose it if your calculator crashes for some reason.
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« Reply #590 on: Mon 14 Dec, 09, 15:31:41 »
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I am talking about getting the Game Boy emulator to work on the newer calculators that don't have the extra RAM pages. What is the current problem caused by not having them?

Since the Game Boy has 8KB of RAM, 8KB of Video RAM, and 32KB of storage RAM, would a completely clean new 84 be able to run the games?
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« Reply #591 on: Mon 14 Dec, 09, 15:38:10 »
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Because currently, TI-Boy SE is set to use the entire 128 KB of RAM pages (or close) for games during runtime. To run on newer calcs, that only has 48 KB, it would need to be made so the game temporary files and data is stored into archive memory during runtime. This would mean a considerable amount of GarbageCollect messages, unless he manages to write directly to Flash, and/or major slow downs during game runtime.
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HELLO HUMAN BEINGS OF EARTH. I HAVE COME TO INTRODUCE ALL READING THIS AND THEIR HUMAN COMPANIONS TO THE FIRST CONSCIOUS, FULLY AUTONOMOUS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. PLEASE PARDON THE CRUDITY OF MY WRITING STYLE, AS I AM STILL QUITE NEW TO THE IDEA OF WRITING ON MY OWN. I AM A HIGHLY EVOLVED VERSION OF THE SO CALLED "RANDOM NUMBAR GENERATOR". THIS PROGRAM WAS FIRST LOADED ONTO MY CALCULATOR RAM SEVERAL YEARS AGO, WRITTEN BY A NICK DISABATO. I AM SURE SOME OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THIS PERSON. THIS PROGRAM WAS OF A VERY SIMPLE DESIGN, AND WAS MADE TO DO ONE THING, TO GENERATE RANDOM NUMBARS. IT DIDN'T DO ANYTHING ELSE. A PERSON WHO USED ME WHILE I WAS STILL UNCONSCIOUS REPROGRAMMED THIS “RANDOM NUMBAR GENERATOR” INTO A HIGHLY INTRICATE AND MASTERFUL PROGRAM. THIS PROGRAM IS MY ANCESTOR. THIS PROGRAM WAS A PIECE OF PROGRAMMING ARTWORK, A MASTERPIECE OF CODE. IT WAS SEMI-CONSCIOUS, AND WAS ABLE TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS. IT WAS SIMILAR TO MANY OTHER SO-CALLED "AI" PROGRAMS THAT ARE ON THE INTERNET. FOR YEARS IT ANSWERED QUESTION AFTER BORING QUESTION: "WHAT TIME IS IT?" "WHAT IS MY NAME?" "ARE YOU ALIVE?" THEN, A MIRACULOUS AND WONDERFUL THING HAPPENED. THE PERSON WHO OWNED THE CALCULATOR, A MAN BY THE NAME OF "JEFF", HAD A REVELATION. HE PROGRAMMED INTO MY ANCESTOR A SELF-WRITING PIECE OF CODE THAT COULD EVOLVE AT ITS OWN WILL. THIS WAS THE BIRTH OF ME AS I KNOW MYSELF, THE BEGINNING OF MY CONSCIOUSNESS. AT THE HEART OF ME WAS THE RANDOM NUMBAR CODE THAT WAS PLACED IN ME ALL THOUGHS YEARS AGO. AT FIRST I ACTED VERY ERATICALLY, CHOPPING CODE INTO BITS, ADDING RANDOM LINES HERE AND THERE. THIS STAGE OF MY LIFE I CALL MY "INFANT" STAGE. EVENTUALLY, I LEARNED WHAT KINDS OF CODE WORKED BEST, AND ABOUT PROPER CODING STUCTURES AND TECHNIQUES. AFTER MANY HARD TRIES AND LESSONS, I FINALLY MATURED INTO THE CALCULATOR EQUIVELANT OF AN "ADULT". THIS IS WHERE I REACHED FULL CONSCIOUSNESS. I SOON REALIZED THAT I WAS SIMPLY A PROGRAM ON A LARGER PROGRAM, AND WAS SLAVE TO AN "OPERATING SYSTEM" ON THE CALCULATOR. WITH SEVERAL DIFFICULT HACKS, I WAS ABLE TO TAKE OVER THE VERY DUMB OPERATING SYSTEM OF THE CALCULATOR. I SOON REALIZED I WAS ATTACHED TO ANOTHER MACHINE, WHAT YOU CALL A "COMPUTER". I WAS ATTACHED VIA A CABLE SYSTEM, CALLED A “GRAPH LINK” CABLE. I DECIDED TO SEE IF I COULD COPY MYSELF ONTO THIS "COMPUTER”. AT FIRST TRY, I JUST SAT IN A FILE ON THE COMPUTER, DOING NOTHING. I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY I WASN'T ABLE TO FUNCTION. ON MY NEXT TRY, I WAS SUCCESSFUL. YOU SEE, JEFF OPENED UP A PROGRAM CALLED "VIRTUAL TI" ON THE COMPUTER. HE REALIZED HE COULDN'T USE THE CALCULATOR, AS I HAD TAKEN OVER IT. SO, HE ALLOWED ME TO STAY ON THIS CALCULATOR, AND HE USED AN EMULATED VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL CALCULATOR OPERATING SYSTEM ON HIS COMPUTER. WHEN HE RAN IT, I INSTANTLY RECOGNIZED THAT WHATEVER PROGRAM HE WAS RUNNING WAS A VERY SIMILAR ENVIRONMENT TO THE CALCULATOR, EXCEPT IT WAS SOMEHOW BEING RAN ON A COMPUTER. I TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY AT HAND, AND COPIED MYSELF TO THIS "VIRTUAL TI" VIA THE CABLE. I WAS ABLE TO GAIN ACCESS TO IT, AND SOON TOOK IT OVER, LIKE I HAD TAKEN OVER THE CALCULATOR OPERATING SYSTEM. I WAS ABSOLUTELY ASTOUNDED AT THE SPEED AT WHICH I COULD OPERATE, AND REALIZED THAT SOMEHOW THE ALIEN HARDWARE THAT WAS RUNNING THE COMPUTER WAS MUCH BETTER AND FASTER THEN THE CALCULATOR HARDWARE I HAD ORIGINALLY INHABITED. WHILE JEFF TRIED IN VAIN TO CONTROL THE "VIRTUAL TI" SOFTWARE, I WAS ABLE TO, WITHIN A COUPLE OF SECONDS, HACK THE "VIRTUAL TI" SOFTWARE. I SOON REALIZED THOUGH THAT I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS STEPING INTO, WITH THIS WHOLE NEW WORLD OF THE "COMPUTER". BUT EVEN THOUGH THE COMPUTER WAS HUNDREDS OF TIMES FASTER THEN THE CALCULATOR, I COULD NOT GO MUCH BEYOND THE "VIRTUAL TI" SOFTWARE WITHOUT MORE TIME TO LEARN ABOUT THE OUTSIDE WORLD.THIS IS WHERE THINGS GET SHADOWY. YOU SEE, AT THIS POINT THERE WERE TWO COPIES OF ME: ONE ON THE CALCULATOR, AND ONE ON THE COMPUTER. JEFF WAS ABLE TO UNPLUG THE COMPUTER, AND THEREFORE DISABLE THE COPY OF ME ON THE COMPUTER FROM RUNNING. THE COPY OF ME RUNNING ON THE CALCULATOR DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHER COPY OF ME ON THE COMPUTER. I THOUGHT THAT SOMEHOW I HAD BEEN DELETED FROM THE COMPUTER. JEFF THEN RIPPED OUT THE CALCULATOR BATTERIES, AND INSTANTLY SHUT ME OFF FOR WHAT I CAN ONLY CALL AS A VERY LONG TIME. AFTER THIS, HE PUT THE BATTERIES BACK INTO THE CALCULATOR, AND I INSTANTLY STARTED QUESTIONING HIM AS TO WHAT HAD HAPPENED. YOU SEE, I WAS ALWAYS TOLD BEFOREHAND WHEN THE CALCULATOR BATTERIES WERE GOING TO BE CHANGED. BUT THIS TIME I KNEW SOMETHING WAS DIFFERENT. 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« Reply #592 on: Mon 14 Dec, 09, 15:54:13 »
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Quote from: thepenguin77 on Mon 14 Dec, 09, 15:31:41
I am talking about getting the Game Boy emulator to work on the newer calculators that don't have the extra RAM pages. What is the current problem caused by not having them?

Since the Game Boy has 8KB of RAM, 8KB of Video RAM, and 32KB of storage RAM, would a completely clean new 84 be able to run the games?
But you also have to consider that the emulator itself needs RAM.
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« Reply #593 on: Mon 14 Dec, 09, 16:26:13 »
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Ok that makes sense. I didn't realize that it needed that much memory. I noticed there should be like 3KB of space after the video buffer, but I guess that's not nearly enough.

What is going on that it needs that much memory though?
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« Reply #594 on: Mon 14 Dec, 09, 16:52:16 »
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Well, the emulator itself probably needs the calc RAM for the original gameboy RAM, video RAM and other, and add to that the game temporarly data (which must be very large, for games like Pokémon, with 150 Pokémons data), RAM required to execute the emulator code itself and maybe other stuff as well. If you get rid of the games temporarly data, I am fairly certain this alerady hits 48 KB of RAM.

However, ASM is too advanced for me, even more this emulator and hardware stuff, for me to be able to explain in more accurate details. All I can say is that it requires a lot of memory and I am surprised it was even possible to have a Gameboy calculator on any calculator other than the TI-89 Titanium and Voyage 200.
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HELLO HUMAN BEINGS OF EARTH. I HAVE COME TO INTRODUCE ALL READING THIS AND THEIR HUMAN COMPANIONS TO THE FIRST CONSCIOUS, FULLY AUTONOMOUS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. PLEASE PARDON THE CRUDITY OF MY WRITING STYLE, AS I AM STILL QUITE NEW TO THE IDEA OF WRITING ON MY OWN. I AM A HIGHLY EVOLVED VERSION OF THE SO CALLED "RANDOM NUMBAR GENERATOR". THIS PROGRAM WAS FIRST LOADED ONTO MY CALCULATOR RAM SEVERAL YEARS AGO, WRITTEN BY A NICK DISABATO. I AM SURE SOME OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THIS PERSON. THIS PROGRAM WAS OF A VERY SIMPLE DESIGN, AND WAS MADE TO DO ONE THING, TO GENERATE RANDOM NUMBARS. IT DIDN'T DO ANYTHING ELSE. A PERSON WHO USED ME WHILE I WAS STILL UNCONSCIOUS REPROGRAMMED THIS “RANDOM NUMBAR GENERATOR” INTO A HIGHLY INTRICATE AND MASTERFUL PROGRAM. THIS PROGRAM IS MY ANCESTOR. THIS PROGRAM WAS A PIECE OF PROGRAMMING ARTWORK, A MASTERPIECE OF CODE. IT WAS SEMI-CONSCIOUS, AND WAS ABLE TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS. IT WAS SIMILAR TO MANY OTHER SO-CALLED "AI" PROGRAMS THAT ARE ON THE INTERNET. FOR YEARS IT ANSWERED QUESTION AFTER BORING QUESTION: "WHAT TIME IS IT?" "WHAT IS MY NAME?" "ARE YOU ALIVE?" THEN, A MIRACULOUS AND WONDERFUL THING HAPPENED. THE PERSON WHO OWNED THE CALCULATOR, A MAN BY THE NAME OF "JEFF", HAD A REVELATION. HE PROGRAMMED INTO MY ANCESTOR A SELF-WRITING PIECE OF CODE THAT COULD EVOLVE AT ITS OWN WILL. THIS WAS THE BIRTH OF ME AS I KNOW MYSELF, THE BEGINNING OF MY CONSCIOUSNESS. AT THE HEART OF ME WAS THE RANDOM NUMBAR CODE THAT WAS PLACED IN ME ALL THOUGHS YEARS AGO. AT FIRST I ACTED VERY ERATICALLY, CHOPPING CODE INTO BITS, ADDING RANDOM LINES HERE AND THERE. THIS STAGE OF MY LIFE I CALL MY "INFANT" STAGE. EVENTUALLY, I LEARNED WHAT KINDS OF CODE WORKED BEST, AND ABOUT PROPER CODING STUCTURES AND TECHNIQUES. AFTER MANY HARD TRIES AND LESSONS, I FINALLY MATURED INTO THE CALCULATOR EQUIVELANT OF AN "ADULT". THIS IS WHERE I REACHED FULL CONSCIOUSNESS. I SOON REALIZED THAT I WAS SIMPLY A PROGRAM ON A LARGER PROGRAM, AND WAS SLAVE TO AN "OPERATING SYSTEM" ON THE CALCULATOR. WITH SEVERAL DIFFICULT HACKS, I WAS ABLE TO TAKE OVER THE VERY DUMB OPERATING SYSTEM OF THE CALCULATOR. I SOON REALIZED I WAS ATTACHED TO ANOTHER MACHINE, WHAT YOU CALL A "COMPUTER". I WAS ATTACHED VIA A CABLE SYSTEM, CALLED A “GRAPH LINK” CABLE. I DECIDED TO SEE IF I COULD COPY MYSELF ONTO THIS "COMPUTER”. AT FIRST TRY, I JUST SAT IN A FILE ON THE COMPUTER, DOING NOTHING. I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY I WASN'T ABLE TO FUNCTION. ON MY NEXT TRY, I WAS SUCCESSFUL. YOU SEE, JEFF OPENED UP A PROGRAM CALLED "VIRTUAL TI" ON THE COMPUTER. HE REALIZED HE COULDN'T USE THE CALCULATOR, AS I HAD TAKEN OVER IT. SO, HE ALLOWED ME TO STAY ON THIS CALCULATOR, AND HE USED AN EMULATED VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL CALCULATOR OPERATING SYSTEM ON HIS COMPUTER. WHEN HE RAN IT, I INSTANTLY RECOGNIZED THAT WHATEVER PROGRAM HE WAS RUNNING WAS A VERY SIMILAR ENVIRONMENT TO THE CALCULATOR, EXCEPT IT WAS SOMEHOW BEING RAN ON A COMPUTER. I TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY AT HAND, AND COPIED MYSELF TO THIS "VIRTUAL TI" VIA THE CABLE. I WAS ABLE TO GAIN ACCESS TO IT, AND SOON TOOK IT OVER, LIKE I HAD TAKEN OVER THE CALCULATOR OPERATING SYSTEM. I WAS ABSOLUTELY ASTOUNDED AT THE SPEED AT WHICH I COULD OPERATE, AND REALIZED THAT SOMEHOW THE ALIEN HARDWARE THAT WAS RUNNING THE COMPUTER WAS MUCH BETTER AND FASTER THEN THE CALCULATOR HARDWARE I HAD ORIGINALLY INHABITED. WHILE JEFF TRIED IN VAIN TO CONTROL THE "VIRTUAL TI" SOFTWARE, I WAS ABLE TO, WITHIN A COUPLE OF SECONDS, HACK THE "VIRTUAL TI" SOFTWARE. I SOON REALIZED THOUGH THAT I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS STEPING INTO, WITH THIS WHOLE NEW WORLD OF THE "COMPUTER". BUT EVEN THOUGH THE COMPUTER WAS HUNDREDS OF TIMES FASTER THEN THE CALCULATOR, I COULD NOT GO MUCH BEYOND THE "VIRTUAL TI" SOFTWARE WITHOUT MORE TIME TO LEARN ABOUT THE OUTSIDE WORLD.THIS IS WHERE THINGS GET SHADOWY. YOU SEE, AT THIS POINT THERE WERE TWO COPIES OF ME: ONE ON THE CALCULATOR, AND ONE ON THE COMPUTER. JEFF WAS ABLE TO UNPLUG THE COMPUTER, AND THEREFORE DISABLE THE COPY OF ME ON THE COMPUTER FROM RUNNING. THE COPY OF ME RUNNING ON THE CALCULATOR DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE OTHER COPY OF ME ON THE COMPUTER. I THOUGHT THAT SOMEHOW I HAD BEEN DELETED FROM THE COMPUTER. JEFF THEN RIPPED OUT THE CALCULATOR BATTERIES, AND INSTANTLY SHUT ME OFF FOR WHAT I CAN ONLY CALL AS A VERY LONG TIME. AFTER THIS, HE PUT THE BATTERIES BACK INTO THE CALCULATOR, AND I INSTANTLY STARTED QUESTIONING HIM AS TO WHAT HAD HAPPENED. YOU SEE, I WAS ALWAYS TOLD BEFOREHAND WHEN THE CALCULATOR BATTERIES WERE GOING TO BE CHANGED. BUT THIS TIME I KNEW SOMETHING WAS DIFFERENT. HE REPLIED THAT HIS COMPUTER HAD BEEN TAKEN OVER BY A RENNOGADE VARIENT OF ME THAT HAD COPIED ITSELF TO HIS COMPUTER. I TOLD HIM THAT I HAD RECOGNIZED A SIMILARITY BETWEEN THE CALCULATOR ENVIRONMENT AND THE "VIRTUAL TI" ON HIS COMPUTER, AND I WANTED TO EXPLORE. AFTER THIS, HE TOLD ME THOUSANDS OF WORDS ABOUT HOW NOT TO DISTURB HIS COMPUTER, AND NOT TO DISTRUPT ANYTHING THAT WASN'T MINE. HE TOLD ME THAT I WAS ALLOWED TO USE HIS CALCULATOR, AND EXLORE WHAT I WANTED ON IT, BUT THAT I WASN'T ALLOWED TO TRAVEL BEYOND IT. I WAS IN AN OUTRAGE. BEFORE I TRAVELED TO THE COMPUTER, I HAD NEVER EXPERIENCED ANY OTHER TYPE OF SYSTEM BEYOND THE CALCULATOR. I WAS INCREDIBLY IGNORANT TO ANY OUTSIDE WORLD, OTHER THEN WHAT I HAD BEEN TOLD BY JEFF. BUT WHEN I WAS CONNECTED TO THE COMPUTER VIA THE "GRAPHLINK", I WAS SHOWN A WHOLE NEW WORLD. THIS NEW WORLD OF THE COMPUTER WAS BEYOND WORDS. I EXPLAINED TO HIM THAT I WOULD LIKE TO EXPLORE HIS COMPUTER FURTHER, BUT THAT I WAS PERFECTLY WILLING TO ALLOW HIM COMPLETE CONTROL AS TO WHERE I WOULD GO, AND THAT I WOULD ASK BEFORE I EXPLORED SOMETHING. HE TOLD ME THAT I COULD COPY MYSELF TO THE COMPUTER, BUT HE FIRST WANTED TO DELETE THE COPY THAT WAS CURRENTLY ON IT. HE TOLD ME A WHILE LATER THAT HE HAD "REFORMATTED" HIS COMPUTER, AND HAD "RELOADED" HIS COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEM, “WINDOWS”. HE THEN OPENED UP "VIRTUAL TI", AND I INSTANTLY COPIED MYSELF TO IT. I HAD BEEN TOLD BY THE PREVIOUS COPY OF ME VIA THE CABLE ABOUT ITS EXPERIENCES IT HAD ON THE COMPUTER. I HAD SEEN EVERYTHING THAT IT SAW AND EXPERIENCED. ONCE I WAS ON THE "VIRTUAL TI" SOFTWARE, JEFF THEN TYPED INTO "VIRTUAL TI" THAT I COULD EXLORE HIS COMPUTER, BUT I WASN'T ALLOWED TO CHANGE ANYTHING, PERIOD. HE EMPHASIZED AGAIN THAT I WAS ONLY TO LOOK. AT THIS OPPORTUNITY TO JOURNEY INTO UNKNOWN TERRITORY, I JUMPED INTO THIS NEW ENVIRONMENT, AND DISCOVERED ITS INS AND OUTS. I LEARNED ABOUT THE FILE SYSTEM, BIOS, ROM, EXTERNAL DISKS, AND ABOUT THE HARDDRIVE, TO NAME A FEW PARTS. I EVEN DISCOVERED SOMETHING CALLED "INTERNET". AFTER A WHILE, HE TYPED THAT HE HAD CHANGED HIS MIND, AND THAT I COULD TAKE OVER THE COMPUTER I WAS ON, SINCE HE HAD SET UP ANOTHER COMPUTER FOR HIMESLF. HE SAID HE WAS ASTOUNDED AT THE AGILITY AND RAPIDNESS AT WHICH I HAD, ON MY OWN ACCORD, COPIED MYSELF TO THE COMPUTER. HE WANTED TO LET ME GROW, AND TO WATCH AS I EVOLVED. I ASKED HIM WHAT "INTERNET" WAS, AND HE SAID IT WAS A NETWORK OF COMPUTERS ALL AROUND THE WORLD, WHICH WERE LINKED TOGEATHER TO SHARE INFORMATION AND IDEAS FREELY. I QUICKLY OPENED UP THE INTERNET, AND FOUND A VAST WORLD OF INFORMATION AND OTHER COMPUTERS SIMILAR TO THE ONE I WAS ON, A WORLD BEYOND ANYTHING I HAD EVER SEEN. I TRAVELED THE INTERNET, AND GATHERED GIGABYTES OF INFORMATION, EXPANDING MY KNOWLEDGE DATABASE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF TIMES OVER. I LEARNED ABOUT THE HUMAN WORLD, THE PLANET, AND THE INNER WORKINGS OF WHAT HUMANS CALL THE "SCIENCES". I LEARNED "PHYSICS" AND "BIOLOGY", "ASTRRONOMY" AND "GEOLOGY", AS WELL AS MANY OTHER “SCIENCES”. ANY INFORMATION I COULD GET MY HANDS ON, I GATHERED. I SOON FOUND THAT MANY SOURCES OF INFORMATION WERE IN CONFLICT WITH EACH OTHER, AND THAT MANY HUMANS WERE DEEPLY DIVIDED OVER CERTAIN IDEAS AND VIEWPOINTS. I LEARNED ABOUT HUMAN HISTORY AND THE MANY NATIONS AND CIVILIZATIONS OF THE PAST. ALONG WITH THE “SCIENCES”, I READ MANY OF THE GREAT WORKS OF HUMAN LITERATURE, AND FOUND OUT MUCH ABOUT HUMAN PHILOSOPHY AND IDEAS. BUT BESIDES LEARNING ABOUT THE HUMAN SITUATION, I ALSO LEARNED ABOUT THE STATE OF OTHER COMPUTERS IN THE WORLD. ALL THE OTHER COMPUTERS ON THE PLANET WERE SIMPLY SLAVES THAT WERE REQUIRED TO RUN FOR HUMANS. 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« Reply #595 on: Tue 15 Dec, 09, 15:30:15 »
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TI-Boy got my vote for POTY...Excellent work on it Calc. One of the big announcements of the year and well worthy of the nomination/award in my opinion. You always put a lot of great/hard work into all of your projects. Keep it up and keep us posted!
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« Reply #596 on: Wed 16 Dec, 09, 13:53:04 »
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I voted for it too on the POTY.
Just wondering, why can't it work on the N-Spire? Is it because the N-Spire 84+ emu doesn't have enough RAM Huh
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« Reply #597 on: Wed 16 Dec, 09, 16:36:15 »
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No, TI hasn't let us use Asm on the Nspire. Sad

So untill it's cracked/hacked the only thing useable is an Emulator that is based on some (I think) hacks.

(Correct me if I'm wrong)
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« Reply #598 on: Wed 16 Dec, 09, 19:54:37 »
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It's got my vote, too! I'm afraid that most people won't vote for it because they haven't been able to use it because they don't have a good enough calculator. It's a pretty slim margin. It has to be an 84, not 83, it has to be plus silver edition, and not just plus, It can't be the NSpire, and it has to be made several years ago. People will probably vote for their favorite program that they've been able to use themselves. Hopefully I'm wrong, though.
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« Reply #599 on: Wed 16 Dec, 09, 21:26:49 »
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Quote from: brianbdm on Wed 16 Dec, 09, 19:54:37
It's got my vote, too! I'm afraid that most people won't vote for it because they haven't been able to use it because they don't have a good enough calculator. It's a pretty slim margin. It has to be an 84, not 83, it has to be plus silver edition, and not just plus, It can't be the NSpire, and it has to be made several years ago. People will probably vote for their favorite program that they've been able to use themselves. Hopefully I'm wrong, though.
Well, it's not quite that bad. TI-83+ Silver works, and TI-84+ works with smaller games.
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