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« on: November 09, 2012, 12:23:42 pm »
Hmm...Might I recommend a 3-level gray, where the tiles are grey and white? That way you can use more of the tile (no outlines) leading to larger, better looking pieces.
782
« on: November 09, 2012, 12:18:40 pm »
They have manufacturing rights for their ARM chips too. Once you have the tools set up to manufacture a silicon chip, the cost for more chips drops by a significant margin. Keep in mind they make the chips themselves. They don't buy them from someone else.
An arm chip would cost them around $1 to include in something like this. Not a huge price increase considering that they'll be selling it for at least $100.
783
« on: November 09, 2012, 12:37:25 am »
I still wonder whether it tries to emulate an 84+ at all, or is just a rewrite of the OS. IMO, the latter is far preferable. (Don't make me use emulated assembly! Let me use REAL assembly! Arm assembly is so much easier!)
784
« on: November 08, 2012, 06:36:30 pm »
Especially since calculator hardware gets them a higher profit margin than anything else they've ever sold.
785
« on: November 08, 2012, 03:05:05 pm »
Crazy thought: They give it 32 MB and the old CPU, to use up all the chips left over from making non-CX nspires, but they're using the color screens from the CX, and the 84+ enclosure.
786
« on: November 08, 2012, 02:46:47 pm »
not Death Note? not One Piece? not Fairy Tail?
787
« on: November 08, 2012, 02:42:53 pm »
They already have to rewrite the entire gui. It's currently based around drawing routines that are extremely pixel-based, and for a very specific resolution.
788
« on: November 08, 2012, 02:08:29 pm »
Lol, me too.
789
« on: November 08, 2012, 02:04:00 pm »
20 mHz is deathly slow nowadays, though. It would be far easier for them to base it off of the nspire architecture, with a new OS.
On a side note, I hope it is based off the nspire, because that would mean it would be fairly easy to port the linux launcher to it!
Oh, and the fact that it's running a higher resolution, color screen means that it's almost definitely not running the old 84+ emulator. If it is, I will be.....displeased.
790
« on: November 08, 2012, 01:54:55 pm »
I'm betting it just runs a similar OS to the 84+, and really has an ARM processor. I wouldn't call that 'hampered' though, in the same way I wouldn't call a desktop running CLI linux hampered. A smaller OS leads to faster math.
791
« on: November 08, 2012, 01:53:28 pm »
You might like to try the nspire clickpad's keyboard, if you don't have fat fingers. The alpha keys are small, but they're spaced apart and they're raised above the others, so there's no need for modifier keys (Although they have 2nd and shift)
I agree that the touchpad and CX layout is terrible, especially since all the symbols are in submenus. (Seriously? A Trig button?)
792
« on: November 07, 2012, 12:26:32 am »
Hmm.....
I just thought of an idea that would vastly improve Alpha-modifier style keypads, aesthetically. Have a clear acrylic button, with 3 engraved layers. Each layer has its own LED that can be turned on or off, so it shows one of the three button options. Heck, it could even change for different menus. It would be far cheaper than those screenKey things, since it wouldn't need to drive a display. It would just drive three LEDs.
793
« on: November 07, 2012, 12:00:32 am »
Well, it's still a calculator. If you want a gameboy, just make a gameboy.
Also, I really hate touchpads. Especially touchpad-dpad combos.
794
« on: November 06, 2012, 11:52:08 pm »
I just get the feeling that's all the discussion that will be going on there.
795
« on: November 06, 2012, 09:21:58 pm »
Anime doesn't include MLP, right?
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