I decided to make it look like a camcorder, with a separated display - look here:

Your skin looks great! So, let's say you still can make some money as an artist, or if you already have a good pension, think about helping out to make one for "Omni-Nspire"?

Here goes a quick one (still in draft-phase) for experimentations:
   

1. The frame should be small enough to fit most netbooks.
2. Doesn't depend on weird incompatible windows' fonts.
3. Should start from the command-line
4. Well the looks is always very subjective! Let's start with a small frame. As I'm getting older, my eyes start having some pain to read the small glyphs.
5. Still has some glitches but is already usable, i think.

Let's see if someone is interested and then i might spend some more time on it.

SpiroH

Download: SpiroH_v11_beta

could it be that the Install.bat does not support 64bit systems? i get an error when i try to run it xs

I would simply say that i've developed both apps 'kArmTI' + 'SpiroH' on a 64-bit Win7 system.
I'm afraid i can't help you right now with the .bat file.

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Would be great indeed ...

I'm taking note of the all the things that require improvement, to fix (at least some) as soon as
i have some more time. Right now is a specially akward time, as we are going thru the examinations period.

In meantime i'm all ears,

First off, many thanks for your kind remarks! i really appreciate them!

I'll try to answer some your queries:
1) SpiroH:
(not a very inspirational name, but that's how i started the program and then it stayed like that..):
The basic idea was: KISS: ("kiss it simple sir (or stupid)" ). I was a bit fed-up of the hard work with the skins. That's how the idea came up to my mind.
a) - The command-line business should to be easy enough to fix. I'll look into it asap.
b) - I'm afraid i did not test (nor targeted to be honest...) this thoroughly under xp.
If get many compaints i'll surely do it. Mind you, i also think Xp it is the best M$'s OS to date. Bloated vista has too many useless spy and slow-down processes...
c) - The fonts are "Segoe UI" and  "Segoe UI Symbol". Grab them from a vista/win7 machine and you should be fine.

2) KArmTI:
That's the a glitch i've also noticed, but did not YET dig into it sufficiently.
Yeah, i also work* (besides this hobby...) Maybe my coming holidays will help put an end to it!

Final note:  I've just released this stuff for the first time to the crowds, so they are bound to have glitches... I'm already quite happy some people are finding 'some use for it'.

If you're a german guy (Franz!?) "Vielen Dank für Ihre wertvollen Hinweise und bis bald...", if not 'never mind'.

*Actually, I'm a teacher and i'm doing some exams at this very moment.

Cheers,

My new skin...

Now i see your point. Your skin has much better contrast. I do agree!
AND of course you have fixed your notebook's vertical resolution limitation.

That's why i've also provided a SkinEditor to customize the looks .
Cheers,

Oh. I guess the screenshot looks incomplete, but you do notice there is a gap between the keypad and the actual screen thingy. Yes there is something actually cut off. 

It's rather late for me, i must go to bed. I'll check it tomorrow on an xp machine. It should be simple to fix.
Anyway thanks.

@SpiroH: I tried it out and it looks really nice! The only thing is that the skin is bumped down quite a bit from the emulator itself so I can't access the bottom rows of keys (v,w,x,y,z).

Thanks. Never happened to me. I'll check it out.
How are you starting the application? Via command line?
Please try the 'Boot Options' dialog and report.

I always start kArmTI using the BootOptions (File menu) dialog, i just forgot about the cmdline. Maybe that's the cause.

@khiconmtv:
There are 2 ways to get the 'bootcx.img':
  a. Get it from a friend.
  b. Have the actual machine and use 'polydumper' as linked above by 'Levak'
Keep looking and asking people and ultimately i'm sure you'll manage it. Please be patient...
You should have no problems with the monochrome version though! boot1.img is easier to find.
I'm sorry but as it is copyrighted material i'm not allowed to distribute it.

@Levak:
Thanks mate for all the support.

@DG_O:
I'm afraid it's just a simple starter GIF-tool. It only merges a collection of manually-captured GIF frames into a single animatedGIF.
Of course, this can be much improved but is not a high priority thing todo. I just thought i should do something in that direction and improve it in the future.
The basics are in place, the rest is a matter of free-time...which nowadays is more and more scarce.

About kArmTI:
At this stage i'm releasing it to the crowd for bug hunting (and there are certainly quite a few).
As all of you developers know, this type of project is never finished. This huge ti user community seems to me to be a good place to carry out testing.
I'll be waiting to hear from some users and then try to correct the bugs. I've already done quite a bit and i'm willing to keep doing so for sometime.

Cheers,
SpiroH

BUG correction: Please use the new download!



The new executable v0.81 is here:
http://www.filedropper.com/spirohv81

I've also replaced the key 'w' by the 'comma' which is harder to map for all keyboard layouts.
 
This version is aimed mostly at noob users (around 97% ??), which only need a 'cheap' means to use the calculator.
I plan to add the debugger + maybe some skins, when i can find some spare time.
Until next time.