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General Discussion => Introduce Yourself! => Topic started by: ase1590 on March 08, 2011, 09:24:58 pm
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Hello!
I am ase1590, and I am a beginning programmer. I have been lurking the forums for a few months, and decided I would make up an intro.
As I am a relatively newcomer to TI technology, I have been playing with making Libraries for my Nspire, and my natural inclination to extend the features of all the devices I own led me to here in my searching.
So Hello OmniMaga!
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Welcome to the forums! I take it you own an Nspire? What kinds of libraries are you making?
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Yes, I am the owner of an NSpire CAS
Right now I'm just getting the ti-basic scripting under my belt. As I progress, I may move to more complicated libraries over time, hard to say what exactly. I just create them on an as-need basis at the moment.
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!peanuts
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Heya and welcome on the forums! I hope you enjoy your stay. :D
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Hello, I just bought a ti nspire recently. I heard good things about it and how it can play games. I know learned that you have to hack it. I've softmoded several things before, psp, wii, ipod. I can't find any tutorials. I guess I have the nspire cas? I'm not even sure, it came with the touch pad.
it just says on the box ti nspire with touchpad. I really want to hack this, I love homebrew. If someone could just point me in the right direction. Let me know if I really have the cas, and how I can hack it. I really appreciate it.
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Heya and welcome on the forums. :D If you got the one that has white sides, it should be the regular TI-Nspire. I am glad you are interested in TI-Nspire hacking. You might find our C programming sub-forum useful (in the Calculator programming and support section as well as the Ndless section under our projects. Otherwise there is http://hackspire.unsads.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page and if you need additional help, feel free to ask on the forums. :)
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Thank you so much for getting back to me so quickly! And yes! it does have the white sides on it. So that means its easy to hack? I love all your guys work and I admire all the homebrew people develop.
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No problem. Unfortunately I cannot tell if it's easy or not, though, as I do not program in C or ARM9 assembly, but hopefully during morning when the TI-Nspire guys visits they might be able to answer you. Both the TI-Nspire and TI-Nspire CAS are nearly identical, hardware-wise. Just the keypads are different and for the old ClickPad ones we can't remove the CAS keypad.
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hmm, so you can't tell me how to install ndless on a regular nspire with a touchpad or point me to a tutorial?
I can wait for someone to help me. I just want to know if it can be done so i can run homebrew and work like a normal calculator too. I don't know how to program or anything either, I just know how to follow simple instructions. :/ haha lame I know.
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Oh I thought you needed programming help. To install Ndless you need OS 2.0.1 or 2.1 which can be downloaded at http://ourl.ca/7373
Make sure to read the Ndless 2.0 readme.txt carefully to install it. The latest version of Ndless 2.0 Beta is located at http://bytecode.fr/miscfiles/ti/nspire/ndless-2.0-beta
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Oh thanks! :D
it says i have os 2.0.0.1188
I should also mention that I looked at a few videos on youtube and people have the white sides, but a blueish inside. My inside is black. I'm not sure if that makes any difference. I bought this today so i don't know if this is some new model.
is it safe to follow all these instructions?
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Nope the color makes no difference. Just make sure to follow all instructions. Also update your OS to 2.0.1.60 (this one: http://education.ti.com/downloads/files/ti-nspire/2/TI-Nspire-2.0.1.60.tno). Ndless 2.0 was made incompatible with 2.0.0.1188 because it's a very dangerous OS (It can break your calculator)
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Thanks a lot! I'm running windows 7, so I hope its compatible. I'll just install all this tomorrow its getting late. Thanks so much for your help! I really appreciate your help. I wish I could give you a medal or something haha. :D
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Don't worry, it will (I use 7 too :D). And nah it's fine, I am happy to help when I can. :D
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Goodnight! You're awesome :D
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EDIT: Was beat to it, dang >__< I guess that's what happens when you leave to do something and don't refresh your browser when you come back.
When it comes to ndless and ndless programs, they should run the same on both the CAS and non-CAS TI-Nspires, so that is a moot point.
First, find out what version of the OS you have (home->Settings and Status->4:Status... then look next to "Version:" near the top). This will determine if you need to update or not. Because 2.1.0.631 overclocks your processor, you should update to that version, so download version 2.1.0.631 of the OS at the TI website (there is one for CAS and one for non-CAS; download the non-CAS one and see if that works first).
For installing ndless, pop over to the ndless beta thread (http://ourl.ca/9367) and download the latest beta version (can be found at page 5). Next, get the TI-Nspire Link Software from the TI website and link up your calc to the computer (NOTE: Do NOT update your calculator under any circumstances using the autoupdater; if you update to OS 3.0 on accident, you will ruin all your chances of getting games or using ndless at all for a while). If your OS needs to be updated, do it the manual way: on the top of the Link Software, under Tools->Install OS, then browse for the .tno file for the OS.
Now you are ready to install. Extract the ndless .zip file somewhere on your computer and navigate there in the Link Software's file browser. In the calcbin, there should be three installers and an ndless_resources file. Drag/drop the 2.1.0 installer and resources file to somewhere on your calculator that is NOT MyLib (create a new file) and then copy over Particles.
Once the transfer finishes, unplug your calc from the computer and click on the ndless installer. If everything went smoothly it should say something like "Ndless installed!" and there should be a dotted line near the bottom of your screen; if it crashes, pull a battery.
Lastly, run Particles. If it boots up and runs, then that will also tell you ndless was installed correctly. If it doesn't work, report back here.
Note that ndless will not break the normal functions of your calculator and since it is cleared every time the RAM is cleared, you will need to re-install it every time you see the "Loading Operating System" screen.
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Welcome to the Omnimaga , ase1590!
I hope you enjoy your stay here and become a great programmer.
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