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Hi - And random questions
« on: September 02, 2010, 08:34:42 pm »
Hi, I'm a high school nerd, know a teensy bit of programming, and have an 84+ and an Nspire touchpad. Nothing out of the ordinary.
I have... 3 questions.
-I want to run Ndless on the Nspire but I don't want to downgrade my operating system. Is there any point in waiting for a version of Ndless to be released that is compatible with 2.0 or is there some fundamental restriction that TI has figured out to prevent that from happening?
-I'm writing an Nspire document during boring classes- a compendium of dirty jokes  ;D Some of them are of the question and answer variety, and I need a way to make the answer stay hidden after the document is closed and reopened and all the answers are spoiled. Kind of stupid of TI when you think about it... how does one set the default to hide the answer when the file is opened?!
-If I finish my 'dirty jokes compilation' do you think it'll be allowed on ticalc.org? It's not pornographic but some of the jokes are pretty raunchy.

Thanks in advance guys.
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Re: Hi - And random questions
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2010, 08:48:26 pm »
Hello and welcome here.  I can't answer your questions about the Nspire, but I'm sure someone else here can.

Oh, and your peanuts should be arriving shortly. :P

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Re: Hi - And random questions
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2010, 08:51:09 pm »
Awesome! Peanuts! Thanks :)

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Re: Hi - And random questions
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2010, 08:53:11 pm »
And here they are, complementary of You Lost the Game, Inc.


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Re: Hi - And random questions
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2010, 08:55:24 pm »
Ah. The Game. I guess I haven't read any of the other topics.

...Sh!t.
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Re: Hi - And random questions
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2010, 08:56:00 pm »
Hi!

I can answer you Nspire questions for you:

1. Right now, you can only use Ndless on OS 1.1.  I believe support for OS 1.7 will be comming soon (there is not too much difference between 1.7 and 2.0)

2. If I am not mistaken, you can do a "question and answer" type setup in the notes app.  Open a new notes page, press menu, then, i believe, templates.  That might hide the answer. EDIT: Nevermid, I misread your first post, you are already using these.  I am not sure about this, as I have never used them.  You might actually want to ask TI about this, they might actually be able to answer your question...

3. Not sure about this one...
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Re: Hi - And random questions
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2010, 09:09:43 pm »
the 3rd is something you would email ticalc.org about to be sure

and welcome.  may i be the first to give you this gift?
here you go... click me :P  http://tinyurl.com/audsrm
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Re: Hi - And random questions
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2010, 09:20:44 pm »
I feel very welcome.

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« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2010, 10:14:38 pm »
thats our job :)
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Re: Hi - And random questions
« Reply #9 on: September 03, 2010, 12:01:49 am »
Heya and welcome on the forums!

For now, I don't think TI has found out how to prevent Ndless on OS 1.7, 2.0/2.0.1 and 2.1, but Ndless developers are very busy so development is very very slow. Hopefully it will be possible to run Ndless on newer OSes soon, but it could still take several months. You can downgrade to 1.1 but 1.1 can be a bit annoying to use (the power management bug) and a lot of stuff such as the BASIC programming capabilities are missing, not to mention new documents woN't work on it.

As for the dirty jokes program, I am not sure if it would be allowed on ticalc, though. You can post it here, though, assuming it doesn't contain actual porn or extremly offensive content.

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Re: Hi - And random questions
« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2010, 09:45:40 pm »
So is it possible to downgrade to 1.1, install Ndless, then re-upgrade back to 2.1?
And thank you, I think I will :)

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Re: Hi - And random questions
« Reply #11 on: September 07, 2010, 09:51:11 pm »
Yes, but only if you have the clickpad keypad.  Otherwise, you will get an "Ndless" reboot.  You can upgrade your OS at any time with Ndless installed.

EDIT:  Also, I should note that you will not be able to open any Nspire documents made on any OS higher than 1.1 if you do downgrade.
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Re: Hi - And random questions
« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2010, 09:54:24 pm »
I have the touchpad... that means I can't downgrade? Or that I can't upgrade? or that it'll screw up some step in between?

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Re: Hi - And random questions
« Reply #13 on: September 07, 2010, 09:55:51 pm »
You can downgrade if you have the touchpad keypad (and upgrade back without any problems), but since OS 1.1 is not compatible with the touchpad keypad, it will reboot infinately.  If you want, you can order a clickpad from TI's online store for $10 plus shipping.


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Re: Hi - And random questions
« Reply #14 on: September 07, 2010, 10:00:38 pm »
What if I borrow a friend's clickpad (yes, I have friends with clickpads =/) and use that to down/upgrade, then give it back and use the touchpad? Does that work OK?
(And off topic, but how do I get things onto my TI-84 keypad without an IO cable? is it possible?)
also, here's my dirty jokes document :)
http://drp.ly/1GvW8o