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Re: 1337mod for Nspire
« Reply #15 on: February 15, 2011, 04:55:21 am »
How does this work?
It overwrites the english language file with an edited one.
You can find the original file at /phoenix/syst/locales/en/strings.res in the Nspire's file system.

Wow that's l33t!!! whoever did this is the l33t357's person 3v3r!

Could actually serve a useful function for adding other languages or something that are not already included on the nspire. and also to alter the menus! This could be a great development for creating a better TI-nspire OS!!! what do you all think?

PS: and as DJ_O said making the OS a better platform for programming!!! the next ndless!
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Re: 1337mod for Nspire
« Reply #16 on: February 15, 2011, 05:18:48 am »
Can someone explain please why the changes are permanent? I always thought the OS copied its files from ROM during boot up...
Yes, it copies the OS files into the RAM, but if you change the OS files that are located in the flash, they will be loaded into the RAM after a reboot. (Correct me if I am wrong)

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Re: 1337mod for Nspire
« Reply #17 on: February 15, 2011, 05:22:36 am »
oh, not sure if that's right but sounds right to me
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Re: 1337mod for Nspire
« Reply #18 on: February 15, 2011, 03:22:27 pm »
PS: and as DJ_O said making the OS a better platform for programming!!! the next ndless!
Although to run OS patches you actually need Ndless. :P

And is it very hard to write to Flash? I wonder if you need to unlock it or something? Until a few years ago almost nobody knew how to write to Flash on the 83+.

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Re: 1337mod for Nspire
« Reply #19 on: February 15, 2011, 03:27:26 pm »
As of yet, I am not quite sure that this method can work for copying a CAS.  I have been completely killed with school work this week (all of my teachers thought it would be lovely to finish work before President's Weekend...), but I plan on investigating more over the weekend.

The only thing that is bothering me now is the sake of whether the differences between the non-CAS and the CAS are in fact located in the /phoenix/ directory.  There might be further protection, blocking this from being possible.

I actually think the method used here might be somewhat legal!  Not that TI would like it, but the program only patches the OS itself, the user has to give it the appropriate files to patch it with (I should note, it is not the easiest task in the world to retrive them if you are  not familiar with the Nspire OS).  I don't see anything illegal with that! :)


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Re: 1337mod for Nspire
« Reply #20 on: February 15, 2011, 03:29:32 pm »
Well the illegal part would probably be to distribute the patches that contains parts of the CAS OSes. You would have to distribute a program that allows you to convert a CAS OS into a patch file in tns format so the user have to create the patch himself. I doubt TI would like to see parts of their CAS OS downloadable on Omnimaga or ticalc.org.

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Re: 1337mod for Nspire
« Reply #21 on: February 17, 2011, 08:19:51 pm »
PS: and as DJ_O said making the OS a better platform for programming!!! the next ndless!
Although to run OS patches you actually need Ndless. :P

And is it very hard to write to Flash? I wonder if you need to unlock it or something? Until a few years ago almost nobody knew how to write to Flash on the 83+.
The os is stored in a single .img file, which is digitally signed, so the os can't be modified in flash. However, just writing to the flash is easy, we've had it ever since ndless came out.

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Re: 1337mod for Nspire
« Reply #22 on: February 19, 2011, 02:32:51 am »
Hmm I see. What kind of OS files are modifiable besides the text like in Compu program?

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Re: 1337mod for Nspire
« Reply #23 on: February 19, 2011, 07:31:01 pm »
Hmm I see. What kind of OS files are modifiable besides the text like in Compu program?

The text file that compu is editing is in fact located in TI-Nspire.img (at /phoenix/syst/locales/en/strings.res, to be exact).


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Re: 1337mod for Nspire
« Reply #24 on: February 20, 2011, 02:17:48 pm »
Actually I'm wondering why there is a TI-Nspire.tnc file on my non-CAS nspire.... (/phoenix/install) ???

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Re: 1337mod for Nspire
« Reply #25 on: February 20, 2011, 02:18:43 pm »
Actually I'm wondering why there is a TI-Nspire.tnc file on my non-CAS nspire.... (/phoenix/install) ???

The *.tnc extension is actually "universal" between both of the Nspires.  The .tno extension is "exclusive" to the non-CAS only.


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Re: 1337mod for Nspire
« Reply #26 on: February 20, 2011, 02:26:06 pm »
The *.tnc extension is actually "universal" between both of the Nspires.  The .tno extension is "exclusive" to the non-CAS only.
And that file is signed too? Why are the language files extracted then..  :-\

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Re: 1337mod for Nspire
« Reply #27 on: March 23, 2011, 06:42:48 pm »
Sorry to bump an old topic, but has there been any progress on adding CAS to the nspire basic?

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Re: 1337mod for Nspire
« Reply #28 on: March 23, 2011, 06:46:29 pm »
Sorry to bump an old topic, but has there been any progress on adding CAS to the nspire basic?

I don't think that is possible using this method.  Sorry. :(