Re: TI-H: Why expander? Why compress? Use a FDD!


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Re: TI-H: Why expander? Why compress? Use a FDD!




>sorry man, mem chips = 2-3+ pins,  floppy interface = 34 pins in addition to a
they have 4, but anyway...  ;)

The number of pins isn't important, but You would have to go with flash
anyway.  You would have to load the file into flash and then into the
calculator.  If you didn't do this, you would have to read a block of disk
mem to the 4414s flash.  After reading around 800,000 blocks of disk drive
memroy, you would have to burn a new ($12) AVR.

>very complicated data stream.  Also the LS-120's would be even more difficult,
>they actually use an ide interface and emulate a floppy w/ drivers.
>
>Michael Cook wrote:
>
>>     Hello. We all want more mem for our calcs. But why
>> should we use mem chips that have limited capacity? If we
>> were to interface a 3.5" disk drive, we could carry around
>> DISKS of games, and at ~6K each, that is over 225 games! If
>> we could compress, that would be even more. How do you get
>> games on it? You could send them to your calc (a few at a
>> time) and then to it like a normal expander, or send them
>> all at once by your comp's disk drive. If we made our own
>> format then both PCs and Macs could make and share the
>> games. Also, if you opt, you could buy a LS-120 drive to
>> hold about 20,000 6k games! RPGs could have two parts, the
>> game that goes on your calc and the data on the disk. That
>> could be up to 120mb of graphics, text, etc.
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