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3rd Party Operating Systems?
Posted: Fri 14 Jul, 2006 7:16 pm
by chickendude
I was looking through the ticalc.org archives for the first time, and I found what appears to be a 3rd party OS folder. These are actual OS's that take the place of the one by TI? Have any of you tried these?
http://www.ticalc.org/pub/83plus/os/
Posted: Fri 14 Jul, 2006 7:36 pm
by CompWiz
I remember that there was a really promising looking os being worked on, but then TI's legal threats stopped it's development. Something about you can't use any of TI's code to make the other os, even if it is free and can only run on the calcs that people bought from TI.
I've never tried the 3rd party os's though.
Posted: Fri 14 Jul, 2006 7:42 pm
by chickendude
Yea, I remember reading about that several years ago on the Detached Solutions message board.
Posted: Fri 14 Jul, 2006 8:04 pm
by CoBB
For the time being there are only proof of concept attempts but no useful alternatives.
Posted: Fri 14 Jul, 2006 8:28 pm
by chickendude
Alright, that's essentially what I was wondering. Thanks
Posted: Fri 14 Jul, 2006 8:31 pm
by CDI
There is an OS being developed by people at UTI called Vera, I'll grab the link if I can find it
Posted: Fri 14 Jul, 2006 8:44 pm
by Liazon
For the 68k, there is also PedroROM AFAIK. But you were asking about 8x+
Posted: Fri 14 Jul, 2006 8:46 pm
by CoBB
Vera hasn't even reached the foetal stage.
http://vera.sourceforge.net/
Posted: Sat 15 Jul, 2006 12:07 pm
by GuillaumeH
Posted: Sun 16 Jul, 2006 4:11 am
by tr1p1ea
Some of those OS's are interesting, and they would certainly be a great projet to work on. But they are very large scale and very involved projects that cant really be taken lightly. This is the main reason why there arent many 3rd party calc OS''s out there that are very far along in their development stage.