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Omnimaga => News => Topic started by: DJ Omnimaga on March 02, 2012, 09:45:04 am
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Texas Instruments has officially announced (http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/nonProductSingle/whats-new-version-32.html) the arrival of OS 3.2 for this Spring, although we do not recommend upgrading right away when it comes out.
Of course, this OS comes with plenty of new features for math purposes. This year, as seen in the TI-Planet news (http://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=121248&sid=57b4acc9258dac97720f1b052183eb30#p121248) post about the new OS, a lot of graphing features are being added, such as parametric 3D graphing and the ability to switch the 3D view. As mentionned on IRC by some people a few times before, Lua is supposed to be improved a lot as well, most likely something that goes with the eventual release of the Lua SDK that is supposed to be this Summer unless things changed. According to TI-Planet, the latter should be built-in the TI-Nspire Student Software, meaning that you may only have to purchase it if you bought your calculator on Ebay without the linking software or if you got an older model.
While this OS may improve a lot of math and Lua programming-related things, like before, we do not recommend upgrading to the OS immediately after its release. It may block Ndless 3.2 permanently, or at the very least, the next 6 or 8 months, and install an anti-downgrade protection on your machine! Wait until the TI community have tested this OS before upgrading, in case you still want to use Ndless again after the OS release.
The two PDFs on this page (http://education.ti.com/sites/US/downloads/pdf/TI-Nspire%203%202%20Release%20Notes.pdf) may contain a few more information about this upcoming release.
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Well, the new features looks pretty great, but always remember to pass your upgrade file through TNOC before installing it.
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Well, the new features looks pretty great, but always remember to pass your upgrade file through TNOC before installing it.
Note that this trick which is very usefull on classic Nspire won't help with downgrading CX Nspire at all.
Without Ndless, to my knowledge it's impossible to bypass the OS downgrade protection.
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This OS looks great, but I have to stay with ndless. It's extremely tempting though.
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This OS looks great, but I have to stay with ndless. It's extremely tempting though.
I think they made it on purpose so you think about giving up Ndless. But I don't upgrade unless they include a GBC emulator in their OS.
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GBC emu in their OS?
That means never! XD
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I think they made it on purpose so you think about giving up Ndless.
They had most of these new stuff before they even heard of Ndless 3.1 ;)
This OS looks great, but I have to stay with ndless. It's extremely tempting though.
Well, it's not yet out you know :P
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From what I remember Lua will considerably be improved, but for the community to adopt it it would have to achieve much better speed than it currently does, and much better getkey speed. Also a lot of people will still want gbc4nspire, nDoom, etc, which will never be possible in Lua, so those people better wait before upgrading and hope their teacher won't force them to upgrade.
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This OS looks great, but I have to stay with ndless. It's extremely tempting though.
Well, it's not yet out you know :P
I'm allowed to be tempted by a potential upgrade even though it's not out.
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Of course, but I sounded like you thought it was already out :-\
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XD I don't have to worry about this because I have a Prizm!!!!
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Some of those new features sound nice, I hope the OS update does not block Ndless...
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I hope the OS update does not block Ndless...
Sorry but :
(http://clarenceboddicker.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/nelson-ah-ah.jpg)
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NICE!!! I love Nelson. Best character from the simpsons XD XD XD
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Totally getting the new OS, the 3d parametric graphing outweighs the nDoom, but not much.
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Keep in mind however that once you install it, there are small possibilities that you might never be able to run nDoom again for the rest of your life.
If that was the case I guess people could work on a community 3D parametric graphing extension for Ndless though, or something like that.
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Such a task would require an amount of development time much more important than the amount of free time we have, though.
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I guess that's what TI is for, the boring handling maths stuff these days. The calc community handles the fun stuff, and trying to outmaneuvre TI's OS protection.
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Well, their attitude regarding Ndless and native programming is indeed very sad.
But don't forget that Lua is being update as well with some nice new features ;) (Of course this does not justify their stance regarding Ndless)
Edit: And math is not boring :P
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I guess that's what TI is for, the boring maths stuff these days. The calc community handles the fun stuff, and trying to outmaneuvre TI's OS protection.
Math gives you the ability to upgrade a qualitative understanding to a more precise and powerful quantitative point of view. And when someone bores you with details, that's not a characteristic of math, it's a problem with the presenters personality and we all know a few teachers who have that problem. Take the simple act of subtraction for example. Consider adding a negative instead?
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Well, their attitude regarding Ndless and native programming is indeed very sad.
But don't forget that Lua is being update as well with some nice new features ;) (Of course this does not justify their stance regarding Ndless)
Edit: And math is not boring :P
Yeah I didn't mean Maths is boring, but that the technical mathematical features they handle and add with blocking third-party programs, all official things and stuff.
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I guess that's what TI is for, the boring handling maths stuff these days. The calc community handles the fun stuff, and trying to outmaneuvre TI's OS protection.
I think he only meant that he prefers nDoom's raycasting rather than Ti's 3D engine :P
(wait, is nDoom raycasting at least, so I don't say stupid things ?)
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Haha Hayleia ;D :D,
It might be because I remember there was a ndless raycaster demo waaay back in the days of ndless1.1 that looked like ndoom.