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[parrotgeek1]

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[parrotgeek1]

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[Lionel Debroux]

Chances are that you'll get censored quickly on that mostly dead board, killed by its staff's behaviour ^^

[parrotgeek1]

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[Lionel Debroux]

Wrt. blanking the calculator's ID: have you tried searching for references to the strings which indicate CAS/non-CAS discrepancies ? They're in code paths which can only be preceded by tests and most of all, branches (taken or not taken).

but there isn't really an active english TI website anymore is there?

As a whole, community Nspire programming, for both Nspire Lua and Ndless, is much less active than it used to be.

As for community websites... well, welcome to the community's dirty laundry
CodeWalrus was created by DJ, the founder of Omnimaga, after it became painfully clear, through multiple events, that especially two members of the Omnimaga staff, were behaving in actively harmful ways, turning members away from at least Omnimaga (including the TI-Planet staff, two of whom posted ~70-90% of Omnimaga's newsing activity for several years, in a mutual benefit solution), if not the whole community. These two persons also happen to be good friends of the staff of the other English-speaking main community site, where self-aggrandizing posts by staff and Omnimaga-diminishing posts by non-staff happen not to be unheard of.
Unsurprisingly, CW picked up most of the activity of Omnimaga in short order - like Omnimaga itself, under the ruling of DJ and friends, picked up the Nspire activity from two other boards in a matter of months, thanks to a much better mood.

I'm not a perfect human being, and as a matter of fact, I was involved in some of the aforementioned events. However, I'm stating publicly verifiable facts about the reasons why CW was created, staff friendships, the tone of some posts at the other community site I still haven't mentioned in this post, and the CW and Omnimaga activity curves - so if you want to check for yourself, you'll find that I'm not a liar.

PS: why are you even awake?!

If that question was directed at me: it's 8 a.m. here

[parrotgeek1]

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[critor]

Ok, I managed to set up some test ROM with nBoot+ControlX, although it was not easy.

The OS 4.4 has to be set as an ExtnD partition image which can be launched directly by ControlX.
Because Boot2 4.0.3 also includes CAS/non-CAS checks, so we won't be able to boot the OS the normal way.

1. decrypt OS 4.4 image (19.5MiB...)
2. insert a TI-Certificate header with correct sizes (see Boot2/Diags images and Hackspire doc)
   
3. add the FF F0 footer
4. compress the image with nsBar (down to 14.6MiB)
5. take your real or emulated TI-Nspire CX non-CAS
6. with nsPartManagic, resize the ExtnD partition to exactly 0x1d80 pages (no more because of the RAM, and no less)
7. OSes 4.2-4.4 don't let enough RAM free space for the current BtMg to be able to flash such a huge image, so downgrade to the much lighter OS 3.1
8. you'll then be able to flash the compressed 4.4 image with BtMg
9. now install the 4.4 non-CAS OS to have it extract 4.4 compatible resources files in your system folders
10. now go to the ControlX menu, and select te OS 4.4 image in the ExtnD partition - you may also set it as the default boot image

[GalacticPirate]

Enorme Bon,Excale, puisque tu voulais que je fasse ce patch moi-même, ben j'ai demandé de l'aide Tu peux mettre à jour nLaunchy maintenant ?

[critor]

I confirm the patch is working in Firebird with my local ControlX build.
4.4 CX CAS OS is running on a non-CAS CX setup.

Code added to the patchos.c file :

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      if(os_id==CXC440_532) {
         // cas check patch by parrotgeek1
                                       // r5 is where 900A0028 value goes
                                       // r4 is where 900A002C value goes
         PATCH_SETB(base+0x00CAF71,0x54);      // was:LDR R3, [PC, #0x484] : 0xE59F3484
                                       // is: LDR R5, [PC, #0x484] : 0xE59F5484
         PATCH_SETW(base+0x00CB3FC,0x00010105);   // [PC,#0x484] was 900A0000, repurposing as fake 900a0028 value
         PATCH_SETW(base+0x00CAF88,0xE3A04341);   // was: ldr r5,[r3,#0x28] : 0xE5935028
                                       // is: MOV R4, #0x4000001 : 0xE3A04341
         PATCH_SETW(base+0x00CAF8C,NOP);         // was: ldr r4,[r3,#0x2C] : 0xE593402C
                                       // is: alternate nop
         // fix reboot when document manager loads
         PATCH_SETW(base+0x08D0718,0xE59F2110);
         PATCH_SETW(base+0x08D0720,NOP);
         PATCH_SETW(base+0x08D0830,0x04000001);
         // maybe other 3 not need
         PATCH_SETB(base+0x00E44F5,0x31);      // was:LDR R1, [PC, #0x190] : 0xE59F1190
                                       // is: LDR R3, [PC, #0x190] : 0xE59F3190
         PATCH_SETW(base+0x00E44FC,NOP);         // was:ldr r3,[r1 + 02c] : 0xE591302C
                                       // is: alternate nop
         PATCH_SETW(base+0x00E468C,0x04000001);   // [PC, #0x190] was 900a0000, repurposing as fake 900a002c value
      }

[critor]

Still on Firebird.
Removing the last 3 patches doesn't seem to change anything - it still seems to work perfectly.

But unless I made some error, there is a little problem with the home screen messages when launching OS 4.4 CAS without installing it (with the 4.4 non-CAS resource files instead of the 4.4 CAS resource files) :


Up to OS 3.6, such trick didn't seem to cause any problem.