I kind of have to disagree with you a bit DJ, I think graphics is pretty important (although he really doesn't need to add too much, it's already amazing), but, at least from my point of view, Axe is a program that will let the most basic BASIC programmers make games at assembly level with equal graphics and speed, and I think that being able to do most of the graphic capabilities of actual ASM programs is important. But that's just my opinion, and I do agree that other things should also be focused on.

He's talking about graphical user interface for compiling programs

Maybe. But I think that since they provide us with the entire OS, I suppose we can do what we want with it, except for distributing it.
Even though putting CAS on the non-CAS one might be considered stealing, I don't think TI can do much about it.

They can do things to the people who release such a hack, I think.

What I think is that if they sent DMCA notices, the EFF would fight back again and TI would end up epic failing again, like what happened with the keys.

TI might have some ground on this one though -- this would be stealing software that actually costs something (I know the .tnc upgrades are free, but they require the upfront cost of a more expensive calculator)

So if it is on a 15MHZ calc it will compile certain code and on 6MHZ it will compile something else. That makes it easier to compile for timing and such.

Once there is timing support, it will probably be independent of clock speed anyway (using interrupts)

Well I would be ok with compiling smartly. We could just give out the source and people could compile it themselves. Unless we send it to ticalc then we would just make different versions. Running smartly would make it run slower.

How often are you going to have to check calc type though? It's not that slow anyway.

Hmm yeah, maybe instead of having plotSScreen always be the draw area, add a command to set a different buffer to draw to. You would only need to change immediate loads of plotSScreen to loads from a variable in memory. Heck, maybe you could use Theta for this purpose, and have it be accessible like a normal variable.

Awesome