Quote from: happybobjr on August 07, 2010, 02:51:59 pm

Albertrocks: very true.

Maybe at one point we can have someone that knows what they are doing, write a windows program tha will change something in ti-basic into kos format?

Good idea. Plus it will actually change the program so the calculator it self doesn't have to do the scaling which saves on speed, altough these programs are going to be bigger because you can't optimize 'em to the max. But size isn't much of a problem anymore.

I agree on >20Mhz

As for RAM:16mb?
Flash-Rom: Also 24mb? maybe more, depends on OS size.

Well, we're not going to throw away every single fun game written for the TI-8x series, are we?

I like the converter idea though. That would be very efficient, and avoid even including any of TI's stuff.
We would still need a Basic editor for TI (er, OT) Basic. Something similar, but with more features.

Why are people so opposed to the fact that new software can/will be written for this device? Nobody made such a big deal when the TI-83+ came out and we couldn't run TI-86 games on it. Perhaps someone could eventually write something like Emu8x if we want to use TI-83+ software, but I don't think we should make it such a big deal when designing this device. This is NOT TI. We might be throwing away "fun games", but games aren't the point of this device anyway. People can write new games if they want, taking advantage of how much better this device is than the TI-83+.

We won't halt. We'll continue on with the OS building and hardware. But when we're done, we will eventually need to design a compat layer or converter. I really don't mind as long as Axe gets ported. But for the other students at school? They will be wanting that "Mario" or "Pacman99" game from the other person's TI, and when they try transfering it (or downloading and installing it), they would be kind of pissed that the calc can't run it. Again, just my 2 cents on the topic.