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Re: Undocumented LCD feature - Flip screen
« Reply #30 on: July 16, 2010, 02:15:41 am »
Grab Calcsys and send it to your calc, then go into the port monitor and go over to '10', hit enter and then type in the values to test with. This is how I did it, anyway.

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Re: Undocumented LCD feature - Flip screen
« Reply #31 on: July 16, 2010, 10:09:28 am »
Yeah, that's about the best way to do it, unless you really like writing ASM programs :P
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Re: Undocumented LCD feature - Flip screen
« Reply #32 on: July 19, 2010, 05:04:30 pm »
wow, just looked at the pics, didn't realize it not only flipped vertically, but horizontally as well.

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Re: Undocumented LCD feature - Flip screen
« Reply #33 on: July 19, 2010, 05:07:38 pm »
Yeah, I got four different orientations. Very interesting.
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Re: Undocumented LCD feature - Flip screen
« Reply #34 on: July 21, 2010, 01:26:51 am »
Ok, so I'm still not quite sure what to do. I have Calcsys on my calculator, went to Port Monitor and went to port 10 (says at the bottom that it is LCD Instr but not sure what that means). After that I'm not exactly sure what to do. Like I push enter and see something that says "Output:" and a little weird token thing. Not sure what I type in there.

Ok, so I take that back. I figured it out. My screen flips to like calcdude84se's. The last part of my serial is P-0108J.
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Re: Undocumented LCD feature - Flip screen
« Reply #35 on: July 21, 2010, 01:50:59 am »
It works for me too. Serial is S-0506K. I also found how to shift the screen vertically while I was at high school, it was the same port number, but I didn't knew about flipping the screen...

Edit: Found the numbers: it's from $40 to $7F, $40 is the normal position, $41 causes the screen to shift one pixel up, $48 is one line of text up (since 8 pixels are one line), the first line becomes the last line, and so on.

I believe all the others values causes blue lines of death, that's why I didn't gone below $40...
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Re: Undocumented LCD feature - Flip screen
« Reply #36 on: July 21, 2010, 01:53:27 am »
does not work on mine :(
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Re: Undocumented LCD feature - Flip screen
« Reply #37 on: July 21, 2010, 09:57:19 am »
Yay, two others who've been able to duplicate it!
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As for the BLOD's, commands in the range $18-$1F cause them. Other commands do stuff like set the position on the LCD to read from/write to.
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Re: Undocumented LCD feature - Flip screen
« Reply #38 on: July 21, 2010, 10:21:00 am »
S-0406F: nothin

(but speaking of such oddities, i'll think i'll go start another topic to discuss another one that's been puzzling me.....)

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Re: Undocumented LCD feature - Flip screen
« Reply #39 on: July 21, 2010, 12:49:41 pm »
Nice find!  So that's the source of these mysterious "glitches" like the one that killed Nyarr. ;D

edit:  Tried!  I love it!  It works on my calc, 2635016775 P-0509M.  This is so much fun!

How do I put it back to normal? :P
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Re: Undocumented LCD feature - Flip screen
« Reply #40 on: July 21, 2010, 12:55:23 pm »
I thought Nyaar RPG died due to {AP} having lost motivation on the battle engine? I don't remember him getting mem clears on it

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Re: Undocumented LCD feature - Flip screen
« Reply #41 on: July 21, 2010, 01:00:52 pm »
It works for me too. Serial is S-0506K. I also found how to shift the screen vertically while I was at high school, it was the same port number, but I didn't knew about flipping the screen...

Edit: Found the numbers: it's from $40 to $7E, $40 is the normal position, $41 causes the screen to shift one pixel up, $48 is one line of text up (since 8 pixels are one line), the first line becomes the last line, and so on.

I believe all the others values causes blue lines of death, that's why I didn't gone below $40...
Something like this happened to him.  I just can't find the topic to site this source. =/

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Re: Undocumented LCD feature - Flip screen
« Reply #42 on: July 21, 2010, 01:04:08 pm »
What, BLOD's or vertical shifting?
Vertically shifting the screen is documented and the OS will fix it every time you turn the calc off and back on.
As for BLOD's, pull the battery. Quickly.
Also, it's $40-$7F, not $7E :P
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Re: Undocumented LCD feature - Flip screen
« Reply #43 on: July 21, 2010, 01:48:51 pm »
calcdude84se: yes I meant $7F, my keyboard slipped and didn't noticed the error. Fixing my post now.

But it could be nice for a vertically scrolling picture, right?

Vertically shifting the screen is documented and the OS will fix it every time you turn the calc off and back on.
I love how the flipping trick doesn't do that so you can easily trick your friends.

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Re: Undocumented LCD feature - Flip screen
« Reply #44 on: July 21, 2010, 01:53:09 pm »
Vertically shifting the screen is documented and the OS will fix it every time you turn the calc off and back on.
I love how the flipping trick doesn't do that so you can easily trick your friends.
Alright, a RAM Clear didn't even fix the flipping trick.  I see a lot of fun in my future. :P