Firebird - New TI-Nspire emulator

[alexgt]

Whoa this is awesome, if I start using the Nspire again I will definitely keep this in mind .

[TheMachine02]

Indeed, this emu look really cool. Good job here 

[Dream of Omnimaga]

By the way, does this new emu fix the connectivity issues found in the original? In the original, it often would only let me send stuff to brand new folders and it would often take multiple tries before my program finally sends.

[Vogtinator]

I heavily modified that part to add the file browser stuff and a queue, which should fix most issues, but there may be some breakages,
however, I haven't found anything like that (yet).

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Cool to hear.  Can we drag and drop files like we could do in WabbitEmu and TI-Nspire Student Softweird?

[Vogtinator]

Yep, but not yet into the file explorer. You can drop files on the screen, the destination directory for drops can be changed in Settings->File transfer.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Ok thanks, glad to hear

[alexgt]

Man I wish the Nspire wasn't locked down like the HP Prime then I would use it more But there are not many people that can mod the HP Prime that have one (if any) so that is probably the reason why

[Lionel Debroux]

Like the TI community, the HP community contains a number of good programmers and tinkerers. But they seem to stick to the older models, e.g. the 50g, whose potential hasn't been fully tapped.

[alexgt]

Yeah, the Prime has a lot of potential for awesome stuff...

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Yeah, the Prime has a lot of potential for awesome stuff...

The thing is that on the HP Prime, to make shells/kernels/program launchers (yes, I am serious. Even Doors CSE 8.2 and PreOS would be possible in HP PPL), 3D graphers and high-end games, you don't even need ASM/C. Since HP PPL is so fast and powerful compared to its TI-Nspire Lua counterpart, that is probably another reason why not many people are interested in hacking the Prime.

On the TI-Nspire, with Lua you can do far less and what you can do will run much slower, so Ndless is seen as even more needed.

And of course HP market share is incredibly tiny, so I bet there are about 100 times fewer HP Prime owners than there are TI-Nspire owners.

[Vogtinator]

On the TI-Nspire, with Lua you can do far less and what you can do will run much slower, so Ndless is seen as even more needed.

Before 3.0 there wasn't even lua so you couldn't program at all (TI-Basic is a joke).

And of course HP market share is incredibly tiny, so I bet there are about 100 times fewer HP Prime owners than there are TI-Nspire owners.

Yep. If I had a Prime I'd definitely code the hell out of it...

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[Dream of Omnimaga]

Yeah I still remember the days where only BASIC was available. But even with Lua, try to achieve this in OS 4.0, for example:



Back in the days, I doubt anyone currently in the TI community would even have bothered making an emulator for the TI-Nspire if only BASIC was possible, and even with Lua, I am betting that it would still not have happened, because emulators for calcs are often made so that developers can debug their softwares easier.

Anyway, I'M glad that the Nspire got so much support despite all actions from TI in the last few years and that the emulator is still updated. Hopefully it eventually becomes on-par with WabbitEmu in terms of features, while still remaining open-source.

That reminds me, would a Nexus 5 be enough to use New TI-Nspire emulator?

[Vogtinator]

That reminds me, would a Nexus 5 be enough to use New TI-Nspire emulator?

It runs on a tablet (dell streak 7, 384 MB RAM, 1 GHz) at a usable speed (see also the video), but not fast enough for games.
As a nexus 5 is about 2.5 times faster, it's probably much better, just try it.
The smaller screen is a more limiting factor, although it might work in landscape orientation.
Both speed and a better mobile UI are being worked on ATM.

[novenary]

Isn't the streak 7 x86 ?