Omnimaga
Calculator Community => Other Calculators => Topic started by: Roboman on December 20, 2012, 06:07:59 pm
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So, a few times in class/on the bus, people look over and say
"Wut you doing on dat clakalatr?"/me says "Just playin some portal"
He says "WUT?!?!? IT CANS DO DAT?"
::)
and one time somebody refused to believe I created a simple BASIC game. He insisted I downloaded it from the internet.
Share you'r stories of people reacting to the 'odd' things happening on you'r calculator screen. Things said people deem...
IMPOSSIBLE
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People look at my playing WIP Sunrise 3. That's... pretty much all for right now.
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they see derpy hooves..........
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My math teacher (who is quite technologically-oriented and uses graphing calcs (although not as much as I or any of us do)) was amazed when I showed him how to blow out a TI-83/84/+/SE screen using ASM and what it looks like.
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I showed him how to blow out a TI-83/84/+/SE screen using ASM and what it looks like.
Blow out? I don't know what that means.
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I reckon it means "zoom in"?
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I constantly get wtf looks when I play doom on the nspire at school.
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I find it awesome when somebody brags about a BASIC density calculator or similar program, and then I say “Oh yeah, I remember programming on the 83, though I programmed tron on mine”
I plugged a keyboard into my calculator with linucx and typed dmesg, and my friend thought I was awesome
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There is not a single person who hasn't asked me if my CX has wifi.
Also, my social studies teacher told me to make a time machine on my calculator earlier today :P
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By blow out he probably meant what happens if you make your calculator BSOD for too long.
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By blow out he probably meant what happens if you make your calculator BSOD for too long.
Yeah, I meant the BSOD thing...
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There is not a single person who hasn't asked me if my CX has wifi.
Also, my social studies teacher told me to make a time machine on my calculator earlier today :P
There is not a single person who hasn't asked me if my CX has wifi.
Also, my social studies teacher told me to make a time machine on my calculator earlier today :P
There are adapters for wifi lol
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Random person on the (city) bus actually swearing at me in surprise while I was playing Fruit Ninja.
It felt good :3
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lol, did you tell him about omnimaga? :D
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Just let me know before it goes off okay
:P
Not many people really saw my CX b/c I got it like a week before I graduated and college people are just meh XD
One of the security guards at my old high school took like a while to figure out that the Prizm wasn't a phone tho. What kind of a phone has 50 buttons and a clip-on case? 0.o
Essence betas, the Tio menu and messing with zStart's picture thing got some fun reactions in their days tho.
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:Pause "HI"
continues to amaze my fellow classmates to this day.
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Just let me know before it goes off okay
:P
Not many people really saw my CX b/c I got it like a week before I graduated and college people are just meh XD
One of the security guards at my old high school took like a while to figure out that the Prizm wasn't a phone tho. What kind of a phone has 50 buttons and a clip-on case? 0.o
Essence betas, the Tio menu and messing with zStart's picture thing got some fun reactions in their days tho.
Lol, last year I was programming on my Nspire in my lap during school, and somebody asked me who I was texting.
Also, a few years ago when phone’s were still illegal in our school and I carried around my four function calculator, people thought it was a blackberry or other phone and thought I should put it away so I don’t get caught
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Hm, now I'm wondering what would happen if someone were to take a TI-108 and stick, say, an apple logo on the back. Should be interesting.
"It's a prototype"
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Someone at school back in 2001 was absolutely shocked and amazed at the "incredible" graphics of Illusiat 2.
I can't imagine what would have been his reaction if he saw Reuben Quest... O.O
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If they are still alive then its safe to say they havent seen Reuben Quest ... yet :P.
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Or the ruben quest remake/me runs
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Sadly the game was not finished when I was still in school. I started it after ending school. :P When I finished hi school I was halfway into ROL2 development and when I was in hi school, I was working on ROL3, Zelda DLQ and ROL4ever (cancelled)
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Here are their reactions in the order when they try using my 84+SE (the one they should never touch :P):
Hey, what's that rabbit showing when I turn it on ? (thanks zStart for the 8 lvl greyscale pic at startup)
Why does it display 8.41 pm even though it is 10.54 am ? (thanks zStart for launching my program at startup but a RAM Clear killed the time)
Crap, what's the password ? (next step of the program at startup :P)
Lol, why is your cursor like that ? (thanks zStart for allowing custom fonts and thanks Spyro for the amazing font)
Then they try launching some progs and they no longer want to give me back my calc :P
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the biggest reaction i've ever gotten was from plugging a pair of headphones into my 84+, with second place taken by making a chat program and talking to someone across the room via a link cable spliced to christmas lights :P
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By the way this topic title should probably be edited, because it's your, not you'r (nor you're, the more common grammar/spelling mistake). ;)
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the biggest reaction i've ever gotten was from plugging a pair of headphones into my 84+, with second place taken by making a chat program and talking to someone across the room via a link cable spliced to christmas lights :P
Now I want to do that heh
Don't want to ruin my only transfer cable though.
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People always joke about the fact that I would be able to put PDF in my TI-Nspire CX. Where they get stunned is when I answer them that in fact, yes, it is possible.
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Oh, this was so funny, and it was even before I downloaded anything special for my calculator.
I had the startup app display a picture with “I am awesome” on it in cursive and other fonts.
I forgot all about that and gave it to my Statistics teacher to put an app on, and he turned it on and said “Oh, well that’s true”
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Lol, why is your cursor like that ? (thanks zStart for allowing custom fonts and thanks Spyro for the amazing font)
Yay! ;D
I put an Apple sticker (the kind you get with an iPod) on the slide case of my TI-Nspire and people ask me if I have an Apple calculator. Lolz. I can usually amaze the school jocks (the kind who don't know how to turn on a computer) pretty easily by writing programs to instantly solve their algebra homework.
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Well, A lot of people saw me playing portal during social studies on my ti-84 and most refuse the truth, but some want to buy 84's just for portal
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People usually just ask me if I am playing games or if I have games.
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When I connected earphones to a calc and played some games with sound, some people came standing around me and they first thought I just pretended it could do sound. Then I let them listen to it themselves and then they walked away with blown minds.
Also when I was playing portal on my calc after an exam, some guys from my class asked me: "WTF is that portal?!"
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I came to school with an xbox mic plugged into my claculator. Everyone though I had serie or something XD
Then I told them I was making music for a game and they were still mind blown...
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People always joke about the fact that I would be able to put PDF in my TI-Nspire CX. Where they get stunned is when I answer them that in fact, yes, it is possible.
How _do_ you read PDFs on Nspire?
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I came to school with an xbox mic plugged into my claculator. Everyone though I had serie or something XD
Then I told them I was making music for a game and they were still mind blown...
(http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/22109620.jpg)
When I connected earphones to a calc and played some games with sound, some people came standing around me and they first thought I just pretended it could do sound. Then I let them listen to it themselves and then they walked away with blown minds.
Also when I was playing portal on my calc after an exam, some guys from my class asked me: "WTF is that portal?!"
Did that too in highschool. I was writing my chiptune tracker at the time.
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People always joke about the fact that I would be able to put PDF in my TI-Nspire CX. Where they get stunned is when I answer them that in fact, yes, it is possible.
How _do_ you read PDFs on Nspire?
Convert them to a pic and open them with mViewer.
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or use linucx and evince :P (or something more lightweight, because evince carries a slew of dependencies with it).
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Sometimes when people notice me typing into my calculator, they come over and look at the screen... which gets more people to notice me... which gets a small mob around me... which gets the attention of the teacher. Then the teacher tells me he does not want to see my calculator out again :mad:
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I've been put on calculator banishment in classes before, too :P
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I have gotten calculators banned at schools
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Then the teacher tells me he does not want to see my calculator out again :mad:
Take this particular calc away and take another one out of your bag. Each time I do that, they give up :P
(They mostly give up because I only use my calcs outside of the class time except when I need to make a calculus) so they don't have a particular reason to ban my calcs since I use them reasonably)
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My math teacher once tried to ban me from using my 84+ during class, even though it was the required calculator for the class, and I was only calculating stuff x.x
But yeah, at my old school, people's minds were blown with a Snake game I slapped together in about 15 min for a friend :P
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I go onto people's calculators and type
:While 1
:Disp rand
:End
And then watch them be totally amazed.
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They are surprised that I made a chess game and a pong clone.
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People always ask me if I can get WIFI on my Nspire CX CAS.
When they see the color screen they are usually like "What is that? Is that a calculator?" Then I say yea and give it to them then they are all like "And it has a mouse!?".
Then when I play Pokemon on it they usually react with a "You can play Pokemon on your calculator!?" . It's pretty fun amazing people. Thanks everyone for the awesome programs. :)
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I go onto people's calculators and type
:While 1
:Disp rand
:End
And then watch them be totally amazed.
Better : https://tiplanet.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=5518&p=86592#p86592
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People always ask me if I can get WIFI on my Nspire CX CAS.
You can with an adapter...
All 6 of my teachers support me programming on my calcs so when I'm on it in class they don't care ^_^
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You can with an adapter...
Having the TI-Nspire Navigator System craddle doesn't say you have access to internet (most common sense for "having WiFi").
In fact, if the host doesn't have a certain program launched in order to make a proxy between internet and the nspire (software that is not official but requires official stuff), you can't have internet.
Here, WiFi is just a protocol that TI has chosen in order to have a communication between a teacher and its students.
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You can with an adapter...
Having the TI-Nspire Navigator System craddle doesn't say you have access to internet (most common sense for "having WiFi").
In fact, if the host doesn't have a certain program launched in order to make a proxy between internet and the nspire (software that is not official but requires official stuff), you can't have internet.
Here, WiFi is just a protocol that TI has chosen in order to have a communication between a teacher and its students.
I do not believe I implied that at all. I merely suggest making an adaptor and necessary programs be possible. I failed to communicate properly from lack of usable time on my hands.
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I stopped bringing my graphing calcs to school, I just bring my iPad now. People react a lot stronger to that than an old calculator :P
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Why not load IOS on your calc?/me runs
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Yeah, why not? It'ss only made for about a 100 times more pixels (if talking about the Nspire), and it uses touch. That certainly is a wonderful idea :)
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Or why not even Windoze?? /me runs
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Well, windows 8 was made for a tablet, so maybe it will work on a calculator XD
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Well, windows 8 was made for a tablet, so maybe it will work on a calculator XD
The RT version is made for ARM processors, the same es the Nspire, so theoretically I think it should be compatible :) size and ram not included of course..