Kissmahir? What is this?

Did I miss something…?

Yes :(
Kiss Mahir was a site that was posted on Xoom a LONG time ago, when Xoom was just starting up.

It immediately caught popularity from, well, *everybody* and now he has a domain name and a new page.

If you saw the Webby Awards this year, you would know that he presented the award for best personal site, which went to cockybastard.com.

Both fine sites, imo, in their own interesting ways.

--BlueCalx

Further proof that the world revolves around me, I don't check this page for fuor days--there are no news items for four days. coincidence? i think not (well, maybe).
the black helicopters are circling...

eggo

nick, the write of this column, did you read clockwork orange? or did you just see stanley kubricks bits and peices of torn apart sex and good literature?

Just bought the book. I'm on page 30.

You should read nickd.org more often: you would have known the answer to that one! :)

--BlueCalx

Not to be a party pooper, but MaxMem was supposed to be a TI-FR exclusive program...

The author uploaded this his own very self.
It _was_ but not it's not.

Good for him :)

--BlueCalx

Oh, boy, let's not start this again... :-)

-- JaggedFlame, who's had his fill of 'Area 51.5: The RPN Incident'

WOOAAH.... that was a real incident.... but it's a must to live any kind of things in your life. Incidents included. Here at ticalc we lived many things: surprises, deceptions, headaches(Ams2.03, etc), Humouristic posts, first comments eliminations, Incidents, ... Wow man , this is a cool site!

I will take that solar striker is not backwards compatible from the handy dandy little address error I got when I tried to run the phoenix level set. (sob)

phoenix is compatible with the old version of solar stricker. You can only use the levels included with the zip

TBO v1.80: Good job, Flavien! You are on the way to the POTM award!
SolarStriker:How can these french guys say that it's EASY??
Maxmem 2.00: I just love the new uninstall feature of MaxMex. Now you can temporarily restore your original FlashROM if you need to send the Product Code to another calc or whatever...

Yep, the new uninstall feature of MaxMex. :-D I know what you meant... I just couldn't resist, sorry... :-)

Hey, I was serious... =8-)

I don't know if you guys are aware of this: Apparently, a few days ago it was released at TI-FR a 'non original' version of Maxmex for AMS2.04, source code included! This version was made dissasembling the old Maxmem 1.00 by Julien Muchembled and doing the necessary changes to work on AMS2.04. What happended? Yes, Julien complained arguing that this kind of information shouldn't be distributed and the file was instantly removed from the TI-FR archives. Two days later he released Maxmem 2.00 (with no source, of course).

What do you think? Open source so that everybody can easily learn about the nasty tricks of all kind of programs or Closed source on this kind of dangerous information to avoid mentally retarded people to make FlashROM writing programs which could easily screw the calc up??

I'd say closed source just so TI wouldn't be able to see how it's done. What they don't know can't hurt us :)

I think everything should be open source.

I'd like to check out the source for the 2.04 max mem.

I like to know the inner workings of stuff.

Read the A89 mailing list. Zeljko already figured it out. (Of course, he won't release any source, which is good.)

I say closed source because there is absolutely no reason to write to protected areas of the FlashROM unless you are writing HW2patch or MaxMem, or a whole new operating system. Julien Muchembled handles writing HW2patch and MaxMem himself, so no one but him needs to know the highly dangerous routines he uses. If someone ever does write a new TI-OS, I'm sure Julien will be kind enough to reveal his methods to the authors of the new OS. Besides, if he reveals his methods, TI can block them with a new AMS or hardware version.

Sounds like you think that Julien is the only one who knows how to write to `protected memory addresses'. I sure hope not, because that just isn't true. There is even information posted on the web about writing to rom (mind you, this isnt source, but its better that way).

-Matthew

If it's closed source and Julien dies in a horrific accident, whatever will we do then?

If it's open source, we could see an invasion of calculator viruses that overwrite the protected flash and render the calculator unusable.

My opinion is closed, simply because I don't like the idea of too many people knowing how to do what Julien has figured out.

I am a fan of open source, though, but this just doesn't seem appropriate material for it.

Maybe Julien should release his source to some people he trusts, in case he resigns from the TI world. I'm definitely against open source in this case, although I'm a big fan of it and release all my programs here with their source.

That sounds good.