A89: Re: Make love, not shell wars...


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A89: Re: Make love, not shell wars...




Some of us have already begun working on such a project... Anyone who is
interested in helping (If you know 68K) email me at eddie@evansville.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Dark Ryder <DarkRyder@cyberdude.com>
To: Assembly-89 Mailing List <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Monday, September 07, 1998 4:30 PM
Subject: A89: Make love, not shell wars...


>
>As we're all looking forward to the official, TI release of the TI-89
assembly
>information (some of us with less patience than others ;), it has been
brought
>up several times the the 89 and 92+ will allow the possibility of a
replacement
>ROM written by users - an OS rather than a shell.
>
>I, of course, have been just as eager to start as everyone else, but, not
having
>my 89 yet, I'm forced to just think about these things.  I was reading a
recent
>article on ticalc when I realized that everyone wants to make a new ROM.
(well,
>maybe not _everyone_, but a lot of people!)  This is very worrying - a
>replacement ROM is likely going to be a larger project than anyone here has
>taken on before (ZShell comes close, I bet), and all I see in store is an
>endless stream of low-quality hacked ROMs because none of us have the time
or
>knowledge on our hands to get it right.  It will be the worst 'Shell War'
we've
>ever seen because there likely isn't going to be many good ones.
>
>It seems to me that in order to make a _real_ replacement ROM, we must
'join
>forces', so to speak.  We need to organize a team of 10-15 68k programmers
to
>tackle the project systematically and effectively.  Perhaps a mailing list
>dedicated to the development of ROMs, and the sharing of information about
the
>hardware and the existing ROM.
>
>I think it is important that an effort be organized soon, before we all get
too
>caught up in our own projects, programs, shells, and even
never-to-be-finished
>ROMs to care.  Those who know 68k programming and those with too much time
on
>their hands (and especially those in _both_ categories) _need_ to have a
forum
>to exchange the knowledge and ideas that will be required to take full
advantage
>of Flash ROM technology.
>
>Thank you for your time, and remember the shell wars _you_'ve seen.  Did
they
>ultimately prove who was best, or did they only prove who has the least to
do?
>--
>Dark Ryder
>ICQ#:     8189903
>E-Mail:   DarkRyder@cyberdude.com
>
>Happiness is inversely proportional to how much you want to upgrade your
>computer.
>