Author Topic: Anyone want an extra Ti-84+ keypad for the Ti-Nspire Touchpad?  (Read 3410 times)

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I recently purchased a Ti-nSpire touchpad, thinking that I could request a Ti-84+ keypad for free.
However this is not the case in my country, so I'm in bad luck.

I am able however, to request one on the the Ti website, and send it to an address in the US or Canada.
So, I decided that I will give it away for free to someone living there.

All people interested please reply with the reason why you think you are the one that need it  ;)

(BTW, if you are tech savvy, like an nspire developer, you might use it to find out how to trigger the 84 emulator without the keypad. If you can do this, I will be really happy)

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Re: Anyone want an extra Ti-84+ keypad for the Ti-Nspire Touchpad?
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2011, 05:01:54 pm »
I had a thought regarding that, actually.

The Nspire has code somewhere in its OS that runs the emu. That code only does one thing for keypads while running: it check if they're in. It only checks for which one is in on bootup. So, if you could find that code and execute it from ndless, it should run the Emu just fine with the touchpad, the only issue being the keymap.

On a side note, I would love the free keypad. I've been dying to mess with the connector, but my parents won't let me, because they think I'll ruin my calc.

Also, the CAS touch in a 1.4 nonCAS boots it into 84+ mode....weird.

I've always thought the nspire would best run a 92+/V200 emu, especially since the clickpad is only short 2 buttons for it, and most are direct maps ;) and it has enough screen res, or at least close enough.
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Re: Anyone want an extra Ti-84+ keypad for the Ti-Nspire Touchpad?
« Reply #2 on: April 16, 2011, 05:15:24 pm »
Thats something I want to donate it to!
I'll fist wait for some more comments, and then I'll see what i'll do.

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Also, the CAS touch in a 1.4 nonCAS boots it into 84+ mode....weird.
I don't understand this, do you mean when you boot the CAS Touch with the 1.4 os for the nonCAS touch it goes into this mode?

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Re: Anyone want an extra Ti-84+ keypad for the Ti-Nspire Touchpad?
« Reply #3 on: April 16, 2011, 05:18:27 pm »
no, when you boot an nspire nonCAS with a CAS touch's keypad, and that nspire is running OS 1.4, it boots into 84+ mode :P not kidding. but, like I said, all the keys are messed up.

Another reason to want it: I can have it for labeling for any non-83+ emulators, like an 86 emu, or an 89 one. :) It might come eventually!

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Re: Anyone want an extra Ti-84+ keypad for the Ti-Nspire Touchpad?
« Reply #4 on: April 16, 2011, 05:25:02 pm »
Thats weird ... and fun :)
Maybe you could have a ndless program remap the keys, so that it works more natural.

Anyway, tomorrow I'll pm you for your address details, its getting to late now :)

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Re: Anyone want an extra Ti-84+ keypad for the Ti-Nspire Touchpad?
« Reply #5 on: April 16, 2011, 05:27:03 pm »
great. Here it's only 3PM tho :P

The key remap seems something more belonging to a homebrew emu, which I've been wishing for for a while now, especially since that will bring save states! No more Mem-clearing fears, just hit the "save"button and test your prog! if it fails, hit Load and reprogram :P