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General Calculator Help / Re: Help with DummyOS and OSLauncher
« on: May 09, 2012, 04:22:38 pm »
Yeah, DJ_O can you please give us a link of the updated version? I downloaded it from here, and I don't know if that's the new one.

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General Calculator Help / Re: Help with DummyOS and OSLauncher
« on: May 03, 2012, 04:25:06 pm »
I tried launching both DummyOS and the CAS OS with the enter key and by clicking, and I can still never get either to work properly.

I also heard that launching DummyOS should be pretty reliable and easy? I can't get it to work. (The picture shows a failed DummyOS boot)

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General Calculator Help / Help with DummyOS and OSLauncher
« on: May 02, 2012, 05:39:56 pm »
I tried running DummyOS through OSLauncher and I either get a blank screen, which won't reboot until I pull out the touchpad, or what happens in the picture attached. It looks like there are two small versions of the screen and then random pixels at the bottom.

If I try to run OS 3.0.1 CAS, it always freezes at the clock screen, or just turns into a blank screen and never even gets to the clock.

This is on OS 3.1.0, BTW.
Spoiler For Spoiler:
Sorry for being inactive, I've been busy  :-\

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Try borrowing a friend's clickpad if you know anyone else with an Nspire.

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News / Re: Reflash your Nspire Boot2 without RS232!!!
« on: March 15, 2012, 05:44:59 pm »
Does this mean users of black-and-white Nspires can downgrade their OS back to 2.x and 1.x if they want to?

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Other / Re: Help with a custom build?
« on: March 15, 2012, 05:40:52 pm »
It would be a very good idea to wait at least a month. Intel's Ivy Bridge, Nvidia's Kepler, and the rest of AMD's Southern Islands architectures are all coming out very soon, with increases in efficiency and power.

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Casio Calculators / Re: Hacking into the .g3p/b format
« on: March 03, 2012, 02:01:09 pm »
Cool, thanks for the info :)

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Casio Calculators / Re: Casio's Response to My Suggestions
« on: March 03, 2012, 01:41:18 pm »
Ahh, didn't read properly :( But it would be hard for Casio to allow the emulator to be run off a flash drive and keep it from being pirated - this hasn't worked in the video game industry, so it probably won't work here.

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Casio Calculators / Re: Hacking into the .g3p/b format
« on: March 03, 2012, 01:38:46 pm »
I meant, what's the difference between .g3b and g3p files?

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Casio Calculators / Re: Hacking into the .g3p/b format
« on: March 03, 2012, 01:13:46 pm »
Why does Casio have two formats? Do they serve different purposes?

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Casio Calculators / Re: Casio's Response to My Suggestions
« on: March 03, 2012, 01:12:45 pm »
By emulator you mean the Nspire Student Software right?
I don't know how it would be possible to install it on a flash drive, but I don't see much of a purpose - Goplat's emulator is perfectly fine for me.

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Casio Calculators / Re: Casio's Response to My Suggestions
« on: March 03, 2012, 09:54:50 am »
Ahhh, I see qwerty. Great work with the library, but a library ≠ a program, and it won't be as fully featured as if Casio themselves implemented all the catalog to support arbitrarily large numbers. Then again, that would be a PITA for them to do, so kudos to TI for having the patience to make their Nspire support arbitrary-precision arithmetic. :)

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Casio Calculators / Re: Casio's Response to My Suggestions
« on: March 03, 2012, 09:44:56 am »
Where can I find your math library?

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Casio Calculators / Re: Casio's Response to My Suggestions
« on: March 03, 2012, 09:39:21 am »
Yeah, that was what I meant.

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Casio Calculators / Casio's Response to My Suggestions
« on: March 03, 2012, 09:22:03 am »
I emailed the guy that responded to me to give me my free Prizm. Here's (the important part of) what I said:

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1. Support for arbitrary-precision arithmetic. The Nspire family of calculators have this, and it makes them tremendously powerful. I also have an Nspire, and it is a tough decision for me to choose between the two calculators I own because while the Prizm has many advantages over the Nspire, the Prizm cannot perform operations involving very large numbers (say, 23200)
2. Showing what each function in the catalog takes in. When I use the catalog to select a function, I often don't know what inputs I should type in, or the order that they go in. This can become quite frustrating because I would then have to experiment with the function to see how to use it. Reserving a line in the catalog menu to display what inputs a function needs and the order they go in would be very useful.
3. A better font. You might think this is a minor complaint, but the font of a calculator contributes tremendously to the look and feel one gets when using it. I believe the font is too thick (it looks like everything is in bold), and also too large in most places. It also has serifs, which makes the calculator look a bit outdated, and characters such as the lower case "p" don't line up with the rest of the characters. Changing the font to something that is sans-serif and fixes the problems I mentioned would improve the look and feel of the Prizm significantly.
4. Fix the logarithm button. This is only a minor complaint, but pressing the logarithm button will give a log function that doesn't display what base it is in. However, if you go to the math menu, and then logab, you get to specify the base as well, which I prefer.
5. Allow third-party C and assembly development. Not doing so has been TI's greatest mistake, and it is one that you can take advantage of. Allowing third-party development will attract a large audience of programmers to buy the Prizm because they are tired of jumping through so many hoops to develop on the Nspire. The programs they will make will also benefit Casio - believe it or not, many of the programs made for calculators aren't games, but rather extremely powerful utilities that extend the capabilities of the calculator even further! Just look at what TI-84 developers have done over time: they made extremely fast prime factoring programs, added support for arbitrary-precision arithmetic, added the ability to type lowercase letters, and even allowed the calculator to recover from RAM clears! Opening the Prizm to third-party development will make the Prizm even more powerful, and it would be much easier for Casio to release an SDK than it would be to program all the features third-party developers would have added.

Implementing these suggestions, which can be done just through a software update, would make the Prizm a near perfect calculator, and it would be an easy choice for me, as well as others, to pick between this and an Nspire. I truly hope that Casio will listen to these suggestions.
I know the guy I emailed probably wasn't in the programming department of Casio, and that most of their important decisions are probably made in Japan (he's in Washington state), but it was worth a try. I at least got a response! Here's his reply:
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Thanks for your feedback and detailed suggestions.  I'm glad you are enjoying your Prizm and I hope you share the word with other students and teachers; word of mouth is the best way to spread the news.
 
I will certainly pass your suggestions on to those that make the decisions, but wanted to take a minute to respond to a few of your points:
 
1. Arbitrary-precision arithmetic: I admit I'm not familiar with this, but you've piqued my interest.  I will be looking into it.
 
2. Catalog Help: An absolutely fabulous idea -- I don't make these decisions, but I'm going to push for this one.
 
4. The logarithm button: Have you tried the MATH soft-menu in Run-Matrix?  I think this is the button you're speaking about.  From Run-Matrix, just press F4, then F2 and you'll get the log-of-any-base template.
 
5. Third Party C Development: From a certain perspective, I'm totally with you.  I've got some programming background and I've seen what a nice community of modders there is out there.  And it certainly would, as you said, open up our calculator to a great deal of demand.  However...  we're a primarily a provider of calculators to the education market.  Can you imagine how teachers would react if calculators could be modified?  You and I both know that modifications would include things like faking a memory reset or other things that would facilitate cheating.  Until we figure out a way to allow modding AND keep calculators safe for testing purposes, we're at an impasse.
He didn't respond to my suggestion about fonts :( And he says that third-party development won't happen until they can keep it safe for tests  :'( I wonder if my other suggestions, especially catalog help, will be implemented in the next OS update though.

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