TI-Nspire Hack Enables User Programming 88
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from the done-and-done dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Texas Instruments' most recent, ARM-based series of graphing calculators, the TI-Nspire line, has long resisted users' efforts to run their own software. (Unlike other TI calculator models, which can be programmed either in BASIC, C, or assembly language, the Nspire only supports an extremely limited form of BASIC.) A bug in the Nspire's OS was recently discovered, however, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary machine code. Now the first version of a tool called Ndless has been released, enabling users, for the first time, to write and run their own C and assembly programs on the device. This opens up exciting new possibilities for these devices, which are extremely powerful compared to TI's other calculator offerings, but (thanks to the built-in software's limitations) have hitherto been largely ignored by the calculator programming community."
TI announced a new firmware release today (Score:5, Funny)
It fixes some battery reporting issues and other minor bugs. All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
Re:I still love my TI-89T (Score:1, Funny)
You kids and your new fangled TI-89s. In my day, all we had were TI-85s, and they did everything we needed and more! I once plotted an entire 40 mile trip to and from school, in the snow uphill both ways.
Re:WHY? (Score:4, Funny)
"All Turing qualified expert systems, sentient hypercomputers, and copies of Mathematica version 26 or higher, must give their binding asset to the College Board's Standard Code of Ethics for the Assistance of Puny Humans before being allowed entrance to the test chamber..."