Well, according to a friend of mine who was coding in ASM on the HP48, there was a way to tweak the sync on those ... and you''d get a cool plasma effect similar to what you get if you press the screen with your fingers. The problem is that this damages the LCD. So his theory was that you could f*ck up the whole thing like that. For the TI89, I must say I haven''t been in touch with calculators for ages. But I donn''t think the TI come even close to what you can do on an HP.
I mean ... do you know a lot of systems designed to use Black and White, where you can actually display 16 shades of grey ??? (yes, I have seen it), or even make a playable game with 4 shades of grey (I think it was called "columns" or something).
Of course it sucks your battery like no other program ... but heck, that''s a little price to pay.

Personally, I like challenges where you do something think "naaah, that can''t be done". Like the above mentioned shades of grey on a 1bit display, or ASCII art, or games on a scientific calculator, etc...
just for the sake of pushing the limits, and proving everybody wrong. I used to do that a lot when I took courses in the Fine Arts ("Oh yeah, I can''t do that ? Well, look at me !")

arf

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Wasteland: I haven''t had any trouble with BeOS, Windows 9x or NT (2K) on my computer, the only thing I have had trouble with was Linux, it just ran way too slowly. Like the cursor was at one side of the screen, I move the mouse, and it''s on the other (graphical mode). In console mode, it''s pretty cool though.

It''s not Linux'' fault that your mouse moves slow... The graphical thing you talk of is (probably) X, which is nothing more than a program. A simple change in the config files would probably have made it faster

Hmm, I guess I can''t argue with that logic... I''m going to have to reinstall Linux right now.

Linux is cool, I think someone should write all the linux command line tools (grep... oh how I love grep!) for DOS... then again I think we should all just use Linux

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Nekosion

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I think someone should write all the linux command line tools for DOS.

Someone already has. Check out Red Hat''s website for "Cygwin", I remember running bash under Windows (it was very slow though ).

I think the hardest thing to program would be a program that could rewrite itself to perform more functions than before. So by the time the program that the millionth version of the program has written, it will be able to code every other piece of software ever and improve on itself. And by the billionth version, it might have even found the meaning of life because by then it would be able to think for itself.

hey, if I''m not part of the solution, I''m part of the problem. I may as well help the problem then.

Finsihing a job early and under budget.

Trying to understand the inline assembler of a graphics program when you don''t know assembler or the german it''s commented and written in...


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Writing an intelligent program which could translate .EXE/.DLL files to easy-to-read C++

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quote: Original post by ahw
For the TI89, I must say I haven''t been in touch with calculators for ages. But I donn''t think the TI come even close to what you can do on an HP.
I mean ... do you know a lot of systems designed to use Black and White, where you can actually display 16 shades of grey ??? (yes, I have seen it), or even make a playable game with 4 shades of grey (I think it was called "columns" or something).

Heh. You could even do that on the TI-85 (which had a 1bit display) in asm by switching colors on and off faster than the lcd could change color. And I know there were playable games with 4 shades of gray on the 85 too... in fact, the first one I saw might have been columns... could be the same programmer

quote: Original post by dethsled
I think the hardest thing to program would be a program that could rewrite itself to perform more functions than before.

Or knowing why this problem is impossible to solve...
( Never heard of the "Halting Problem" ? )



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