Re: A89: Re: WindowsTI
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Re: A89: Re: WindowsTI
It won't be anytime soon, if at all. Those were pictures he draw by hand,
not screen shots (I watched him draw them in Physics II...).
At 08:19 PM 9/25/98 +0200, you wrote:
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>When will Windows TI and TI-IE be released ?
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>MP <philhuck@club-internet.fr> <http://mp.i-france.com>
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>-----Message d'origine-----
>De : Miles Raymond <m_rayman@bigfoot.com>
>À : assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
>Date : vendredi 25 septembre 1998 00:48
>Objet : A89: WindowsTI
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>
>I have been inspired by WinShell for the TI-86 and the column about Telnet
>83 to come up with WindowsTI OS and TI-IE app for the TI-89. I have
>included pictures that I made wednesday night. Justin Karneges has said
>that he is going to try to make the PPP protocol part of an ASM program, and
>my ideas rely mainly on if this comes true.
>
>WindowsTI is like the "Ultimate OS" described on ticalc.org. It will be
>module-based so features can be included or left out. A few of the
>different features that have been described are: built-in RAM compression,
>false multi-tasking, icons/descriptions, and others. ASM programs will
>exclusively run in WindowsTI with a text/graphical interface. Special
>commands in the WinTI-API will allow the use of the "taskbar" as the menu
>system (as demonstrated in TI-IE). This will result in better use of screen
>space.
>
>TI-IE (Texas Instruments Internet Explorer) will be exactly what it sounds
>like: a graphical browser. The problem with this is that the current
>graphics available on the web are larger than that of which the TI-calc can
>contain. This can be solved in two ways:
>1) The graphics can be left alone, and not downloaded
>2) The graphics can be selectively downloaded, and changed to a monochrome
>format, to take up less space.
>I know that this sounds very optomistic, given the TI-calc's memory and
>processing power. I do not know if a decompression scheme can be programmed
>in a small amount of memory. I think that GIF support is necessary, and
>JPEG support would be appreciated. This is why I chose the TI-89 for this
>project, because it has more memory and is faster than the other TI-calcs.
>TI-IE would have the basic ability to view web pages. File upload/download
>support is very considering, but the only practical use of uploading is to
>play a multiplayer game over a web page with another TI-calc hooked up to
>the Internet. TI-IE would not support encryption because I was told that
>this was way over my memory budget. My dad cringed when I told him how much
>memory I had to do this in.
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>Thanks for any comments. Again: I am not a programmer (yet), though I will
>do graphics. I plan to draw more pictures of WindowsTI and a few programs
>for it, such as mTIRC and TI-Explorer.
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>-Miles Raymond
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