we should probably sticky an explanation on how to do this, because people keep asking about it every two weeks or so, it seems.
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what about just drawing sprites from byte-aligned positions on a buffer (so reading every twelfth byte rather than all in one contiguous chunk)? that would give, basically, the same functionality.

it's a EULA, which means it probably wouldn't hold up in court, as there is no way to prove that you actually read and accepted the terms when acquiring the os (you may have gotten it from the calculator of a friend who downloaded it, for example, which is a possibility enabled by TI themselves with the "send OS" option). furthermore, it would only potentially affect users, as nothing at all can be said against people producing third-party emulators without a shred of code from any TI product in them. lastly, this is all assuming that they would bother paying attention and taking action against single users in the first place, which is highly unlikely.

EDIT: all that being said, the 84+SE C is a huge disappointment, and is practically the best possible move TI could have made if their intention was to dismantle the community (or the part of it focussed on the z80 series, at least).

the latest greyscale version has been uploaded to ticalc.org! see above

Quote from: epic7 on February 11, 2013, 05:00:45 pm

So according to them, gravity is nonexistent and objects fall to the earth because the earth is perpetually accelerating upward.

Hmm, disproof:

1] Assume gravity does not exist and that in fact, the earth is perpetually accelerating upward.
2] Ignore the fact that 'up' is defined in relation to the direction of gravity. Assume that 'up' simply means that the earth is accelerating in one direction.
3] Select two objects.
4] Drop object one from a reasonable height, followed by object two.
5] Record the velocity of both objects at any given moment.
6] Note that the velocities are different.

If the Earth was in fact accelerating toward the objects and the objects were in fact not moving relative to the universe, there velocity relative to the Earth would be identical.

that doesn't quite work. if you drop one after the other, then the one you are holding will continue to accelerate due to the force applied by your hand, while the other would cease accelerating as soon as you dropped it. thus, the object dropped second would be nearer the velocity of the earth than the object dropped first at the point you measure.

i already grabbed screenies from fzero, portal prelude, cadan, ash: phoenix, and jumpman. what else? (besides serenity)