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« on: September 27, 2016, 10:28:17 am »
... checking from time to time to see how this very nice application evolves..... Vogtinator has implemented in Firebird v.0.30 "Suspend and resume to/from snapshot files, the feature I had requested here some time ago. Now you don't have to wait for the calc to boot, it's instantly available." It works quite well and I was wondering if you would port the implementation on kArmTI. You UI is very nice and usable, but with the suspend/resume, Firebird is not much more convenient to use despite the more primitive interface. Hi gchiozzi!
Welcome to Omnimaga. Sorry for the late reply and thanks for the kind words about kArmTI.
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But is there a way to exit the emulator in "stand by" mode, like when I just switch off the real calculator, so that when I switch it on again everything is back, including the status of the scratchpad?
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Well, i'm afraid not.  However, as a work-around, you can always minimize kArmTI on the taskbar and later restore it, pressing again the on key. Then it should restore all previous contents. If not try to switch it off (ctrl+on) before minimizing it. It's not quite the same, i know, but maybe it helps.
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« on: November 02, 2015, 03:18:04 am »
Thanks for the reply.
Yes, what I ment was "suspend and resume".
I would use the emulator in order not to bring with me the original piece of hardware all the time for day to day calculations. I this way I would use only one system (even though the OS of the TI-89 is not so different).
Having first to save the scratchpad in a document and then save the flash, coupled with the boot time of the emulator makes it really unconvenient.
I understand the issues with the RAM dump. I would guess that most of the users of the meulator would be like me and not use it for heavy work (in that case the HW would be much faster). I that case the RAM should be mostly empty a compression should be very effective.
About the money issue.... I understand.
Maybe voluntary donations would be a way to explore.
You might also agree in the community of the developers to suggest a non-profit of some kind you would like the donations to go, instead of giving the money to any of you (just to put an example, Wikipedia).
I know you do it for fun, but this would be a recognition for your work and would make people think that there is quite some work behind this software.
Thanks,
Gianluca
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« on: October 26, 2015, 07:21:34 am »
Hi Vogtinator,
First of all, it is great to finally have an nspire emulator for Android.
I installed it on an S4 mini and it works :-)
It looks nice and, once started up, is quite usable.
Cannot say yet about stability, but looks promising.
I have anyway some comments that I consider quite important to make the app usable:
- The main annoyance (common to all nspire emulators I have tried) is that there is no way to save the state.
If I exit the emulator and restart (even if I switch to another app and I come back after a bit of time), everything is lost.
There must be a way to implement saving the current state so that I can "switch off" the emulator and come back
to the same point when I "switch it on" again.
- This might help as well with the second big issue: startup time.
Whenever I start the app:
- I have to press the "bomb" several times until it starts booting (I do not really see the point: it should
just start when when I open the app).
- Then it takes more than 2 minutes before boot is completed and I can type my expressions
This makes the emulator unusable as a day-to-day calculator.
I am asking myself if there people really USING these emulators or if there only around perosns developing them.
That is for sure a lot of fun, but without true usability, you cannot really get a wide and happy user base.
For this reason I am still using very good and usable TI-48 emulators on my PC and Android phone/tablet.
I think that if you concentrate on developing the Android (and IOS) variant (this is what puts you apart from the other branches of the main emulator) you can have a good success among the many kids that use the nspire at school.
I would be for sure available to pay some euros on Google Play for a good emulator.
It might be I am completely wrong and I did not understand the "right way" of using the emulator.
I would be gratefull if anybody would comment and tell me how people is using it efficiently.
Thanks anyway for the good start... and go on devleoping and improving it,
Gianluca
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« on: September 17, 2014, 04:13:11 am »
So, there are two feature that in my opinion are essential to make the emulator usable:
1) save the state when closing.
This should be pretty easy to implement in the emulator,
if we accept the time and disk space used by a full memory dump.
That would not be a problem for me.
2) Have some kind of emulation of the cursor on the display.
The best would be to be able to click anywere on the display to put there the cursor.
This is what I naturally tend to do.
The implementation of this is clearly a rather bigger effort.
One issue: when I play this emulator, I get very soon a popup telling me that I am low of memory.
After that there is alway an icon representing a full disk in the top right corner.
Still, If I check the memory in the Handelt Status, I have more than 100MB free.
Anybody else has seen this problem?
Any idea?
It is not clear to me to whick memory it refers.
Might that be that I am using the worng startup parameters?
I have a CX CAS and I start it like this:
/1=boot1.img.tns /F=TI_NspireCXCAS_3.6.0.550.bin /K4
Thanks for the help!
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« on: September 10, 2014, 05:14:09 am »
Dear all,
I have seen that whenever I start kArmTI, it boots from scratch instead of getting back to the status it had when I previously exited the emulator.
I can save the Flash and get back the filesystem with my documents when I restart.
But is there a way to exit the emulator in "stand by" mode, like when I just switch off the real calculator, so that when I switch it on again everything is back, including the status of the scratchpad?
I have this feature emulators for other calculators (like Graph 89, for the TI 89) and I find it very convenient for a "real usage".
Sorry if this is a silly question: I could not find any information on that and I am new both to kArmTI and to the TI-Nspire itself, but I would be surprised if this possibility does not exist.
By the way: great job!!!
The emulator seems to work quite well.
And it would be really great to have it running on Android: I am using Graph 89 for the TI-89 and it would be super to have also the TI_Nspire.
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