3rd Party Operating Systems?

chickendude · Post by **chickendude** » Fri 14 Jul, 2006 7:16 pm

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/

CompWiz · Post by **CompWiz** » Fri 14 Jul, 2006 7:36 pm

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.

chickendude · Post by **chickendude** » Fri 14 Jul, 2006 7:42 pm

Yea, I remember reading about that several years ago on the Detached Solutions message board.

CoBB · Post by **CoBB** » Fri 14 Jul, 2006 8:04 pm

For the time being there are only proof of concept attempts but no useful alternatives.

chickendude · Post by **chickendude** » Fri 14 Jul, 2006 8:28 pm

Alright, that's essentially what I was wondering. Thanks

Post by **CDI** » Fri 14 Jul, 2006 8:31 pm

There is an OS being developed by people at UTI called Vera, I'll grab the link if I can find it

Liazon · Post by **Liazon** » Fri 14 Jul, 2006 8:44 pm

For the 68k, there is also PedroROM AFAIK. But you were asking about 8x+

CoBB · Post by **CoBB** » Fri 14 Jul, 2006 8:46 pm

Vera hasn't even reached the foetal stage.

http://vera.sourceforge.net/

GuillaumeH · Post by **GuillaumeH** » Sat 15 Jul, 2006 12:07 pm

There are other ones here : http://wikiti.denglend.net/index.php?ti ... ternatives

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Sun 16 Jul, 2006 4:11 am

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.