I'd just love to see a solid open-source standard graphing calculator app for the common tablets - something like a more user-friendly version of gnu octave or something. The vendor lock-in by the education industry and TI is absurd.
KnightOS – An open-source OS for calculators
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#12This makes me so sentimental. My parents did not let me have a computer when growing up, but they did let me have a calculator. So I did what I had to do to buy a ton of them (TI82, HP48GX etc). At some point I purchased a TI92 but when reading about that now I see it was classified as a computer and not a calculator.
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#13I wish there was an open-source OS supporting phones like Nokia 1202 http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_1202-2573.php or cycle computers http://www.sigmasport.com/en/produkte/bikecomputer/topline_w... - tiny devices with dot matrix displays and traditionally limited capabilities. I thought it's never going to happen (unless I get wealthy and support creating such a device, of course) but this one is close.
Rockbox is also sort of close: http://www.rockbox.org/ I guess it already supports more chips and screen sizes than something aimed at TI calculators would.
But can it really be called an operating system?
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#14I'd just love to see a solid open-source standard graphing calculator app for the common tablets - something like a more user-friendly version of gnu octave or something. The vendor lock-in by the education industry and TI is absurd.
Seriously, the few times a month I need to crunch numbers I reach for my phone, then get frustrated and just use Google because my TI83's batteries have been dead for years. I don't know what it is but I haven't seen a touch calculator interface anywhere near as good as a standard graphing calculator for just banging out some computations.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rockbox is also sort of close: http://www.rockbox.org/ I guess it already supports more chips and screen sizes than something aimed at TI calculators would.
But can it really be called an operating system?
I think so. There's a gameboy emulator in there:
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/PluginRockboy
I guess it would be more applicable to the bike computer use case than a phone. But who knows.
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#16If anyone here is interestd in helping with the project, we just made this tool inspired by Mozilla's "What can I do for Mozilla" tool:
http://www.knightos.org/contributing/what-can-i-do.html#!/pr...
It's not just assembly!
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#17I can see this being used to cheat in exams ;)
The facilities of the TI are generally usefull for that.
Which is why TI added a key combo that erases the memory.
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#18I'd just love to see a solid open-source standard graphing calculator app for the common tablets - something like a more user-friendly version of gnu octave or something. The vendor lock-in by the education industry and TI is absurd.
Seriously, the few times a month I need to crunch numbers I reach for my phone, then get frustrated and just use Google because my TI83's batteries have been dead for years. I don't know what it is but I haven't seen a touch calculator interface anywhere near as good as a standard graphing calculator for just banging out some computations.
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#19I can see this being used to cheat in exams ;)
The facilities of the TI are generally usefull for that. Which is why TI added a key combo that erases the memory.
Except most teachers only cleared the RAM because they didn't know any better, so you could "archive" whatever you wanted in the flash...
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#20@Sir_Cmpwn, you should document somewhere that at least the TI-83+ ROM will run fine on Android using the Andie Graph emulator. :)