New Planned z80 OS

dragon__lance · Post by **dragon__lance** » Fri 03 Feb, 2006 1:23 am

WOW!!

This looks supper cool, just keep it up!!

if a new language was integreted instead of BASIC, that would be so awesome!

dysfunction · Post by **dysfunction** » Fri 03 Feb, 2006 3:24 am

I'd rather see a better-optimized BASIC interpreter, but with extra commands (basically the ones available in xLib, with the ability to add more) and and extra options for certain commands. This way people wouldn't have to learn a whole new language that is so different from the majority of high-level languages, and would still be able to run old BASIC games, just at greater speed.

kalan_vod · Post by **kalan_vod** » Fri 03 Feb, 2006 4:21 am

Yeah I believe that would be better than just making a new basic language.

Brazucs · Post by **Brazucs** » Fri 03 Feb, 2006 4:37 am

Again, I believe any and all languages can be supported. Plugins, my friends, plugins.
Imagine TIGCC for z80. Now imagine TIGCjava. Heck, TIGCfortran even

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Fri 03 Feb, 2006 4:56 am

I think that is getting a bit carried away. Backwards compatibility with existing calc software would be futile. It would require the 'plugin' to recreate an environment akin to what the respected program is used to ... mem adresses, romcalls, all of it.

Brazucs · Post by **Brazucs** » Fri 03 Feb, 2006 2:17 pm

I agree, although it would be nice. We'll leave it up to some poor soul to try to do this.

KermMartian · Post by **KermMartian** » Fri 03 Feb, 2006 6:13 pm

As a plugin? That works.

KevinJB · Post by **KevinJB** » Sat 04 Feb, 2006 12:46 am

I think that is getting a bit carried away.

I think the whole thing is getting a bit carried away

. But I'm not going to bring that up in this thread.

That being said, the first and most important thing you guys should think of is how a VAT is going to work, are you going to have extensions or just pre-built in types of files?

leofox · Post by **leofox** » Sat 04 Feb, 2006 12:23 pm

necro wrote:I have realised this after a little reading, I had been under the false assumption parts of the OS were hard written and I did not know that everything could be wiped out.

There's always BIOS, you don't want to delete that. BIOS is what you get if you do the battery+DEL thing. (SEND CALC SOFTWARE NOW)

Brazucs · Post by **Brazucs** » Sun 05 Feb, 2006 7:08 pm

It appears Jim e has written a Hello World OS!! Kudos to him...

Download it here.
Read about it here

Post by **benryves** » Mon 06 Feb, 2006 10:52 am

I can't contribute much, but I do have a few routines that might be useful, namely (hopefully) TI-OS compatible link routines. My OS was quite the opposite to yours; all the programs had to be hard-coded, and I got a bit bored after CLS, MODE and SCANCODE... I posted some of the routines in the API thread... *hunts*
Aha, here.

Brazucs · Post by **Brazucs** » Wed 08 Feb, 2006 7:17 pm

Wow! Great!! I'm sure that'll be extremely useful! Thanks

By the way, the name has been chosen! "Vera", as brilliantly suggested by Timendus! Check out the wiki now:
http://brazucs.unitedti.org/wiki/