Very interesting! I am excited at the possibilities Lua introduces to programming on the calculator. What level of sophistication can we achieve with this?

Sounds like great news to me! Nice to see them responding to our interests.

Funnily enough, I got the same email, except modified slightly to mention me as a coder and Cemetech as a community. Methinks that all of the complaining we did, including the well-publicized editorial I wrote criticizing TI's attitude with the Nspire and recommending the C-programmable Casio Prizm, might have actually made an impact. Huzzah.

Indeed, and I also think that the fact TI actions were featured outside the TI community on technology sites where Sony actions are reported too probably scared them that they would get a similar reputation towards everyone, not just calc programmers, not to mention I am sure they probably noticed the Casio PRIZM development.

I personally did not get any e-mail, but TexasInstrumentsCalc sent me a friend invite on Youtube and the former TI-BANK moderator team (Critor, Levak and Adriweb) were offered by TI to beta-test the Nspire Lua tool a few weeks ago.

Indeed, I got an invite from that Youtube account as well, but I wasn't convinced it was TheRealTI. :)

Yeah I'm skeptical too, since I recall seeing another TI channel there before.

The two channels I've seen are TICalculators and TexasInstrumentsCalc... Both look like they are TI's, but I'm not sure.

You did tell them to allow C and ARM on the Nspire like in Casio, right? I hope you gave suggestions instead of just bashing TI and saying Casio++.

Thanks for helping us though :)

I could have sworn you read the editorial; it's linked from the Web Page link of this post.

It's good that TI now opens their platform to more development. Now the next step is that they stop blocking Ndless in future OS updates and keep Lua development free.

Looks like they rushed this out in an attempt (which I hope will prove unsuccessful) to squash the development of a community-developed conversion tool which would hopefully actually be cross-platform and not covered by a restrictive EULA. ExtendeD was already quite far at writing one, he already figured out the encryption used.

Just to ket you guys know that an official website about TI-Nspire Lua scripting is being made (for now, some tutorials are there, and and online documentation).

Here's the URL : http://www.inspired-lua.org

I don't think official is exactly the word you're looking for, unless that's made by TI (which it doesn't look like to me). :) I think you mean "unofficial".

Well, Adriweb, Levak and Critor are working together with TI under NDA. The site got the 'blessing' from TI, so you can call it a bit official.

Grrr, another unauthorized use of MY "INspireD" pun! You could have at least asked…

And TI will not be happy about you calling it "official", either.

No offense, but it hardly takes a group of world-class minds to come up with that pun repeatedly. :P

the only thing I have against the use of Inspired, InspireD, inspired or whatever is that I always mistype it as Nspired, because the calculator name is TI-Nspire, not TI-Inspire. :P

I'm pretty sure that TI came up with that before you did.

He is Kevin Kofler.

Your argument is invalid.

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