Re: TI-H: New Calculator!!!
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Re: TI-H: New Calculator!!!
Perhaps Vmac.org will have some useful information.. that is one of the more
recent retrofit attempts.
Zarquon
Sysop of Imperial Realms
-----Original Message-----
From: Probe Doggie <gormbr@online.no>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 1998 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: TI-H: New Calculator!!!
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>>That's how much ram it takes; however, Apple is not known for allowing
>>people to use ROMs and the software in situations like this. If you go
this
>>route, you can a) Try to retrofit an existing Mac Rom into the system.
Many
>>pieces of software have gone this route, however, for it to be legal, you
>>must dump it off a Macintosh you own, and then not use the Mac, or B) Go
>>Ardi's route with Executor, and clean-room rewrite everything.. and that
>>much effort is probably prohibative.
>>
>>Zarquon
>>Sysop of Imperial Realms BBS
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>I have about three older-range macs based on 680x0 processors I donīt use
>anymore [for obvious reasons... :) ]. These are (in order of suckyness)
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> 1) Macintosh SE/20 7 MHz 68000 processor 1986 model
> 2) Macintosh LC 16 MHz 68020 processor 1990 model
> 3) Macintosh Powerbook 145 32 MHz 68030 processor 1991 model
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>The SE/20īs boot image is a primitive version of Mac OS 3.x I think, while
>the two others are 6.0.x and 7.0.x respectively. Donīt think sys 7 will do
>any good as itīs got a voracious RAM appetite (about 2 Megs!)
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>It is a tribute to the Macintosh compatibility policy that the SE can run
>Settlers.
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>I would be happy to dump the ROM off any of these and not use the computer
>(theyīre gathering dust anyway...)
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>
>Probe Doggie
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