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[Dream of Omnimaga]

By TI Voyager, do you mean the Voyage 200 (the successor of the TI-92+)?

For the CSE, the trick is to only draw what's necessary on the screen. For example, if you make a Mario game, you need to shift the sprite around without redisplaying the entire tilemap every frame. THe LCD also supports horizontal wrap-around, so that can be used for scrolling.

[novenary]

I don't think the HP Prime price will drop, it's been around for what now, two years ? And I didn't hear of any price drop. Calculators are usually at a fixed price (unless they rebrand them *cough*TI*cough*).

[annoyingcalc]

I have sorta returned to calculator programming. Working on a new game in axe parser, will post more details soon. I think unlike before, I actually understand how Axe works now

[Snektron]

Hi, guys!
This forum talks about EVERYTHING I love. I'm a programmer, have a collection of 8bit computers, am a photographer and artist, and now I'm studying electronics engineering.
I have a huge passion for graphing calculators, and I use them both in math and in art. My favourite ones are the classic HP, but I've been fidgeting with a TI-84+CSE and finding some nice stuff. (I just bought it because it uses a Z80 processor, my favourite processor ever).
Now I'm trying to use an app called Zoom Math on it. It seems pretty cool, but I can't afford the license.
Well, I think that's it. Hope to chat a lot with you guys, and exchange experiences and information.
BTW, sorry for my clumsy english, I'm brazilian.
Best wishes for all!

Welcome!

[Dream of Omnimaga]

I don't think the HP Prime price will drop, it's been around for what now, two years ? And I didn't hear of any price drop. Calculators are usually at a fixed price (unless they rebrand them *cough*TI*cough*).

I doubt it will drop now, but if schools starts ditching programmable calcs more and more, then TI, Casio and HP will have no choice to drop programmable calculator prices to convince schools to change their mind or at the very worst convince other schools to not do the same.

[semiprocoder]

Hi guys.
I am a young programmer(13), so I may not be that good, but I try. I originally joined this forum because I saw that 4x3 competition, but I didn't have time to finish it and gave up . It was in java. I also started programming calculators on my ti 84 plus se that my brother gave me when I was in 6th grade, but I never really tinkered with it, and I tried to make my own gcd function based on euclid's algorthm in basic because I for some reason couldn't find it in the math functions(and I know it is there because I found it), and I also couldn't find mod so I had to make that as well, but I made it use addition so it was not super efficient and it took like 10 seconds to evaluate gcd of some numbers. I had made it in c on my comp a while back and it worked instantly. I had expected the gcd function to at least work at some reasonable speed. When I saw how slow it was I kinda gave up programming ti 84. I tried learning axe and it wasn't hard to grasp, but it's just sooooo annoying to program on calc. Oh yeah now I program in lua for ti nspire, and, hopefully, when ndless for os 4.0 comes out I will hopefully learn to program for ndless. I know c, java, but not graphics for it, so I just use processing when I have to do graphics. I also just joined a zero robotics team, which has done pretty well and even(I think) won once.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Nice to have you with us Semiprocoder , also you can program Axe on the computer by the way. You need Tokens or SourceCoder. Also regarding robotics, I think Hooloovoo is in FRC robotics, but I forgot if it was that thing.

[DarkestEx]

I don't think the HP Prime price will drop, it's been around for what now, two years ? And I didn't hear of any price drop. Calculators are usually at a fixed price (unless they rebrand them *cough*TI*cough*).

I doubt it will drop now, but if schools starts ditching programmable calcs more and more, then TI, Casio and HP will have no choice to drop programmable calculator prices to convince schools to change their mind or at the very worst convince other schools to not do the same.

Schools aren't dropping them for their high price, but because the government wants "same chances for everybody" and such crap.

Also welcome to CW, Semiprocoder!

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Oh I didn'T say they were dropping them for their high price at all, I said they were just dropping them altogether. What I said about the price is that if schools ditch calcs, then TI/Casio/HP will need to lower their prices in order to convince schools that while school wants everyone to have "equal chances", that perhaps it would be a better option for classes to settle for the cheaper alternative that would become programmable calcs. Imagine if the TI-84+ was $59.99. I bet even parents would insist so that schools allow graphing calcs again. Currently the 84+CE is $150 here (or $130 on sale) and you can sometimes get a tablet for that price)

[DarkestEx]

Oh I didn'T say they were dropping them for their high price at all, I said they were just dropping them altogether. What I said about the price is that if schools ditch calcs, then TI/Casio/HP will need to lower their prices in order to convince schools that while school wants everyone to have "equal chances", that perhaps it would be a better option for classes to settle for the cheaper alternative that would become programmable calcs. Imagine if the TI-84+ was $59.99. I bet even parents would insist so that schools allow graphing calcs again. Currently the 84+CE is $150 here (or $130 on sale) and you can sometimes get a tablet for that price)

Yes I get you, but with equal chances they mean in finals. Everybody has to own a calculator that is allowed in finals. The 84+ and any other graphic or programmable calculator is forbidden in our finals or tests.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

YEah that's what I meeant too. Why don't they just use exam mode or clear everyone's memory before the test? They could also just lend students a temporary calc of their choice with no program and give the teacher their calc before exam starts.

[DarkestEx]

YEah that's what I meeant too. Why don't they just use exam mode or clear everyone's memory before the test? They could also just lend students a temporary calc of their choice with no program and give the teacher their calc before exam starts.

Dunno. Exam mode is not a option as its obviously easily hackable and memory clearing might have problems too. I guess they just want to c with us by forbidding more advanced calculators.

[mrhoola]

Hello , I am new here , just found this forum to find some one to help me program my Ti-nspire. I never have programmed any TI before. However, I am very familiar with C- language , C ++ and assembly for the x86 .  I am an EE , 26 yrs old  and very easy going dude. This place is pretty awesome so far , and I hope I can learn from all of you !!

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Hiya and welcome to CodeWalrus. I hope you enjoy your stay . I don't do Nspire programming but some people here used Ndless to develop games before so they should be able to help

[novenary]

Dunno. Exam mode is not a option as its obviously easily hackable and memory clearing might have problems too. I guess they just want to c with us by forbidding more advanced calculators.

At any rate, "equal chances" is utter bullc as it's well known that some people are naturally less capable than others.