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Calculator Community => Discontinued => Major Community Projects => UberGraphX => Topic started by: Audiophile on July 06, 2012, 01:45:06 pm
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Hi!
Does anyone know from where I can get an UberGraphX calculator (professional edition), if are any for sale?
Thanks!
Iulian
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There aren't any.
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I was hoping to get one too(eventually), but I could not find the link to order.
There aren't any.
What do you mean?
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There aren't any.
What do you mean?
None have been produced yet.
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There aren't any.
What do you mean?
None have been produced yet.
Yet.... do you expect that he will finish/release anytime soon?
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There aren't any.
What do you mean?
None have been produced yet.
Yet.... do you expect that he will finish/release anytime soon?
It would be pretty unlikely since there hasn't been any activity recently, but I hope that it'll get finished some day :)
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Omnimaga: The Coders Of Tomorrow > Forum > Calculator Community > Major Community Projects > Discontinued Projects > UberGraphX > UberGraphX
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Yeah the author vanished completely twice, and since the project redesign, most people kinda lost interest anyway because in the TI community (thanks to past experiences): Project restarts from scratch after seeing so much progress == Project that will never go anywhere. It would have been cool to see it happen, but sadly, like every other project of that kind (OTCalc is another), it died.
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Project restarts from scratch after seeing so much progress == Project that will never go anywhere.
Lol yeah, that's a trend (it happened to me with Ash...though at least I started up on Embers ;D). Too bad this never got realized though
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Does it mean Ash is dead?? O.O
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So I will buy a TI calculator. (:-(
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Whatever you do, don't buy a TI-Nspire. Better, buy a Casio.
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Project restarts from scratch after seeing so much progress == Project that will never go anywhere. It would have been cool to see it happen, but sadly, like every other project of that kind (OTCalc is another), it died.
Well, I would have to slightly disagree - OTCalc was a unique project, no others like that have happened before. ;) Unless you were talking about the fact that OTCalc was a big hardware project, and that projects with that kind of scale have a tendency to die, then yeah. :/
If (and I say this lightly) this project ever revives, it will be when I and a few others have a stronger EE background. Believe me, I'm just a planner in the bleachers for these kind of things, and I prefer to be part of the hardware prototyping process. ;)
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I saw plenty of similar projects happen before, although to a lower scale (the people wanted to build a scientific or basic calculator with simple functions), such as on Epic Programming Studios and I believe United-TI. As for if OTCalc revives I think you would need to improve your time management, to be honest, so that you can at least have a bit of free time during school years and a more consistent activity rate during Summer and holidays. Also no redesign of course.
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Whatever you do, don't buy a TI-Nspire. Better, buy a Casio.
Why not? Nspire Cx has better specs than Casio Prizm. Also I think that Casio products are not of very good quality. I have an old rudimentary Casio graphing calculator that I have troubles with the display (unstable contrast).
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Whatever you do, don't buy a TI-Nspire. Better, buy a Casio.
Why not? Nspire Cx has better specs than Casio Prizm. Also I think that Casio products are not of very good quality. I have an old rudimentary Casio graphing calculator that I have troubles with the display (unstable contrast).
No. The Nspire has a crappy version of TI-Basic, no assembly/C support (at least not without hacking), and a two-way incompatible implementation of Lua (no standard print function). The Prizm is more open to third-party programming.
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Whatever you do, don't buy a TI-Nspire. Better, buy a Casio.
Why not? Nspire Cx has better specs than Casio Prizm. Also I think that Casio products are not of very good quality. I have an old rudimentary Casio graphing calculator that I have troubles with the display (unstable contrast).
Actually, I think that Casio's newest hardware is just as good as TI's. It obviously doesn't have as much memory, etc, but still, it is very quality stuff. And Casio isn't trying to destroy their programming community, like TI is with the Nspire.
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It just depends on your opinion.
With Casio calcs, you get a pretty good piece of hardware (at a great price) and a company that cares about programmability etc. They go to the point of joining forums like this one and someone answers questions and gets feedback. And actually does something with that feedback, leading to stuff like OS bugs being fixed.
With TI calcs, the hardware is hit-and-miss (the CX seems to have some pretty good stuff, but the still-mainstream 83 series is running on the decades-old Z80) and they don't really give a snap about anyone who isn't a teacher. And there's the high prices. Afaict the only reason TI's still floating is because of the monopoly they seems to have on schools, which I guess can be a benefit in classes with teachers that don't know how to teach without being dependent on them.
Personally I have both a CX and a Prizm, and I'm kind of disappointed with how the CX does math (it does stuff like turning division problems into fractions and spitting the same thing back out at you) and symbol input. Also the mouse is kind of wonky, popping up randomly and clicking when you don't want it to.
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As an afterthought aren't there topics about this, even a tutorial somewhere? :P
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Personally I have both a CX and a Prizm, and I'm kind of disappointed with how the CX does math (it does stuff like turning division problems into fractions and spitting the same thing back out at you) and symbol input. Also the mouse is kind of wonky, popping up randomly and clicking when you don't want it to.
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You could just deactivate symbolic math, then it wouldn't give back what you enter.
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I mean just doing normal math. :P This is a non-cas.
If it's on the normal ones then TI's done a pretty good job of hiding it and not documenting it at all b/c after looking through menus and settings for days I've found nothing that appears to change it.
(why didn't they put in something as simple as a F↔D key...)
OT edit: what's with this thread breaking my sig... 0.o
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Just a heads up - you guys aren't talking about the actual topic, UberGraphX. ;) (Unless UberGraphX got sponsored by TI or Casio!)
It's great to discuss about Casio and TI, but here it's offtopic. If you want to, discuss it on IRC or in the proper topic. Thanks! :D
(Maybe a mod can split the topic and merge with the discussion one? I'm not familiar with controls yet.)
DJ_O: Yeah, I'm terrible at time management IRL, even at school. :P One life skill that I must learn....
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Instead of UberGraphX I can buy a netbook. :-\ Most netbooks/UMPCs are pretty nice, but too expensive. Maybe the next TI calc. will be more programmer-friendly.
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Maybe the next TI calc. will be more programmer-friendly.
I seriously doubt it.