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Interesting discoveries in the updater (fxASPI/OSpdateDLL)
« on: December 12, 2011, 01:26:50 pm »
Today, I tried to find out how the Prizm is updated and I extracted OSUpdateDLL.dll and fxASPI.dll (this DLL can also be found with the screen receiver) from the installer.

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Re: Interesting discoveries in the updater (fxASPI/OSpdateDLL)
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2011, 01:43:53 pm »
ME WANNA API! :p

Seriously, that can be very useful and wonderful!

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Re: Interesting discoveries in the updater (fxASPI/OSpdateDLL)
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2011, 01:59:31 pm »
That looks pretty interesting. I might investigate as well.

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Re: Interesting discoveries in the updater (fxASPI/OSpdateDLL)
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2011, 02:12:17 pm »
Cool, that looks like it will be useful, though I don't know anything computer-wise XD

Also, your grammar and syntax are great :) What is your native language? Also, Welcome to Omnimaga!

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Re: Interesting discoveries in the updater (fxASPI/OSpdateDLL)
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2011, 02:59:38 pm »
Heya and welcome to the forums by the way. :D Also interesting find. Some people have been wondering what's hidden in this incredibly large OS update executable, because on TI-8x calcs, an OS update file is often under 1 MB size and we didn't find the 10-11 MB size justified.

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Re: Interesting discoveries in the updater (fxASPI/OSpdateDLL)
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2011, 03:14:34 pm »
Probably, although the thing is even the FX-9860G updaters were almost as large too, and the 9860G/Graph 85 barely use any artwork, being a monochrome calc. It seems they put a lot of other stuff in the update executable or the OSes are just not optimized well (kinda like the TI-Nspire OS 2.1).

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Re: Interesting discoveries in the updater (fxASPI/OSpdateDLL)
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2011, 05:25:01 am »
@vxl : if you want to talk in french about Casio, you can also come on planet-casio :)