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Re: How To Write an OS
« Reply #15 on: September 09, 2010, 10:19:10 pm »
Or Punix, the other 68k OS that I just found about yesterday when reading some old ticalc.org news article (and with the assistance of a search engine).

But yeah. I didn't feel like looking through yAronet with Google Translate, especially since I don't know enough 68k assembly right now to even begin to work on an OS.
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Re: How To Write an OS
« Reply #16 on: September 09, 2010, 10:22:47 pm »
Wow I didn't knew about that one. Nice find.
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Re: How To Write an OS
« Reply #17 on: September 09, 2010, 10:29:46 pm »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on September 09, 2010, 10:22:47 pm
Wow I didn't knew about that one. Nice find.
It was in this article, and mentioned by either Kevin Kofler or Lionel Debroux when they were arguing, in particular about GCC4TI adding back Flash OS support.
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Re: How To Write an OS
« Reply #18 on: September 09, 2010, 10:31:08 pm »
Oh ok I see, I thought it was in an older news, specifically about the OS itself.

And typical KK stuff in the comment there x.x (although this is nothing compared to what I saw on french forums in 2004-06)
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Re: How To Write an OS
« Reply #19 on: September 09, 2010, 11:53:12 pm »
Quote from: graphmastur on September 09, 2010, 10:04:11 pm
How do you have the interrupt code be at 38h?
The hardware automatically RST 38H when an interrupt fires in IM 1.

If you are already using my code from the first post, make sure you update the first block after my edit.  I had an extra zero in there by mistake.
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Re: How To Write an OS
« Reply #20 on: September 19, 2010, 11:20:06 am »
Anyone done the WFRNG yet? ;D
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« Reply #21 on: September 19, 2010, 11:43:08 am »
*facepalm* :P
The kernel does include random number generation... :)
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Re: How To Write an OS
« Reply #22 on: September 19, 2010, 11:45:33 am »
Quote from: SirCmpwn on September 19, 2010, 11:43:08 am
*facepalm* :P
The kernel does include random number generation... :)

LOL! And the first thing anybody's gotta do as soon as KOS comes out is port a certain number-guessing game ;)
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Re: How To Write an OS
« Reply #23 on: September 19, 2010, 11:57:32 am »
Yeah, I can feel the fail now...
By the way, the random number generator is pretty good about random numbers, it updates the seed every time it executes, and the OS updates the seed on every interrupt.
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Re: How To Write an OS
« Reply #24 on: September 19, 2010, 12:22:22 pm »
Wow, that's great!

So you can't really "predict" the rands like on the TI-OS anymore...
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Re: How To Write an OS
« Reply #25 on: September 19, 2010, 12:31:31 pm »
It's hard to predict many on the TI-OS though, due to all possibilities but yeah it's possible, if you write numbers down or something, to do luck manipulation, like in games, by setting the seed to something specific then running the game before the boss fight.
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« Reply #26 on: September 19, 2010, 01:05:53 pm »
You can predict the numbers, it's just harder; you have to factor in things like ON presses and link activity, as well as the entire time the calculator has been on.
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Re: How To Write an OS
« Reply #27 on: September 19, 2010, 04:04:12 pm »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on September 19, 2010, 12:31:31 pm
It's hard to predict many on the TI-OS though, due to all possibilities but yeah it's possible, if you write numbers down or something, to do luck manipulation, like in games, by setting the seed to something specific then running the game before the boss fight.

Yeah, when we did a certain project in math class a few years ago, we were supposed to use dice to get our individual "stats". I convinced my teacher to let me use the num generator on an 83 instead, then stored 0 to rand and got two sixes (the max) :D
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Re: How To Write an OS
« Reply #28 on: September 19, 2010, 04:29:20 pm »
Doesnt the z80 have an R register that can be used for Random number generation that is much harder to calculate?  I believe Axe random numbers use something like this...
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Re: How To Write an OS
« Reply #29 on: September 19, 2010, 04:39:39 pm »
Quote from: Builderboy on September 19, 2010, 04:29:20 pm
Doesnt the z80 have an R register that can be used for Random number generation that is much harder to calculate?  I believe Axe random numbers use something like this...
Yes it has a R register but this isn't a random number, it's the refresh register. it could easily be used as a seed though...
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