Third-party firmware PoC...

[Claudio L.]

(07-08-2014 06:33 AM)cyrille de brébisson Wrote:  Hello,

Neither I, nor Tim offer, nor will offer help in 'hacking' the calc... As you can imagine, this is somehting that our position within HP does obviously not allow us to do.

Please be careful when talking about us as what you say might be mis-interpreted and prove detrimental to us, which I am assuming is not something that you want.

I meant hacking in the sense of 'tinkering', or 'exploring', not in the bad meaning of the word.
Here's the Wikipedia definition of Hacker (hobbyist) that I was referring to:

Quote:In home and hobby circles, a hacker is a person who enjoys exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness.

debrouxl's 3-color bars firmware demo is, in my point of view, an example of 'hacking' in a spirit of "playful cleverness".

I didn't mean to get anybody in trouble (only for using that word?). The only reason I used the word 'hacking' is because the thread at Omnimaga has exactly that word in the title.
Your post offering help was very clear in what you can or can't do:

http://www.omnimaga.org/hp-prime/let's-h...#msg387959

Full firmware replacement falls within the "anything else" in your post, and is clearly not 'hacking the Prime application', but it can very well be called 'hacking the calc', the way I wrote it without getting you in trouble.

In any case, I had contact with you in the past, and I also worked with Tim a few years ago (he wasn't at HP back then). I wouldn't knowingly try to get either of you in trouble.

Claudio