RE: TI-H: "Bootstraped - Dumb calc"


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RE: TI-H: "Bootstraped - Dumb calc"




It isn't illegal.  You havn't asked my scheme for protecting it.  The
orriginal ROM is on the board.  The new roms go on to the server.

>That is so far beyond illegal I won't even go into it.  Also, why would
>you want to do it that way?  try piggybacking a header onto the ROM so
>that you can have both without breaking the laws.  After all, there's very
>little stopping you from installing an 83 ROM at that point, if you're
>resourceful enough...
>Christopher Kalos
>raptorone@geocities.com
>VirtuTech Developer's Group
>AOL IM: Raptor1CK
>
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>From:   Grant Stockly[SMTP:gussie@alaska.net]
>Sent:   Wednesday, March 04, 1998 6:38 PM
>To:     ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
>Subject:        TI-H: "Bootstraped - Dumb calc"
>
>
>I'm the first person ever to bootstrap their calc over a network.  Using
>the internal ROM, I blowtorched it off and soldered a header in.  Then I
>made a circut on a breadboard with an AVR...  You turn on the calc.  The
>avr says hello and gets hold of the server (mac) downloads the selected rom
>on the server, loads it into SRAM, then resets the internal Z80 chip and
>then the calc started up!  It crashed after working with it since my
>breadboard was shorting out but it worked!  I havn't tried it yet, but if I
>can find an 82 I will dump its rom into it.  It won't work, but it would be
>interesting...
>
>So this will be a feature on my network.  The hub will hold a rom of each
>calc and when the calc asks for the rom it sends it and then the calc runs
>the ASM.
>
>This isn't just for making something neat.  Once we have the display
>driver, memory, and link port routines down we can make calcs that play
>only games, or one program.  This would make games a whole lot faster!
>
>After someone does taht I can incorporate the design into the EIII.  Then
>you would get the interface from the EIII and the EIII would ask you which
>program to run.  If you decide to run TIROM then it would look like a
>normal calc.  When doing this we could make a *patch* that someone would
>apply to their calc.  Then we could incorporate "goodies" into the TI
>interface...
>
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