Amazing!!!

Great work guys.

Great work !
O. Armand: what about the same stuff for TI9X?

If I had a cookie, I would split it and give it to you.

Maybe I would even give you the whole cookie.

But, seeing as I have no cookie, youll have to accept my congratulations instead. Great work!

I'd give them the entire cookie jar...

But, seriously, this is soooo cool!!

Brendan, Dan, may your greatness never fade!

(now I just need that cable!)

Oops, forgot to include Michael in that above... ^_^

And me...:)

I think by "Brendan" he meant "Brandon".

err...right...double oops!

If I had a cookie, I would tie it to a stick and hold it in front of the devs heads in order to motivate them to make a port to the 89.

I would buy a whole restaraunt and let them buffet!!!

This is really, really impressive. Good job, guys! Now I want an 84+... How does it run programs directly from the flash drive? Does it just copy them to RAM first then run them, or something more direct?

Yes, it copies the program to RAM and then uses MirageOS to run it.

Oh.. so it can't like run anything larger than can fit in the RAM? Darn.. maybe it could like take one line of code at a time from the flash drive and run it.. that would probably be to slow, though, right?

Um, for that you'd need an on-calc emulator (so that it could stop after each line and get the next), and transferring it a few bytes at a time would be so incredibly slow that it would be unusable. With a lot of caching and some creative hacks it might work, although using jps and calls between different parts of the code would be out of the question.

Yea I thought about that after I posted that last comment.. there HAS to be a way to get something larger than the RAM to play.. maybe split the program up into sections. Make a small program [maybe 50-byte if it's possible] that deletes the section that just played, copies the new one, and plays it.. run this program after every section until the end. A variable would be needed to keep track of what section you're on and how many total there are.. yeh.. comments?

Running current programs that don't fit in the RAM is somewhat of a problem, but designing new programs to stream data from the flash drive is extremely simple with the msd drivers. It would not be hard at all to write a game which, for example, streamed the current level from the flash drive instead of storing all the levels in RAM.

Ah.. I didn't even think about regular programs.. the only files I had in my mind were sound files when I wrote that comment..

As I said before, transferring a program in chunks would be slow and really hard since the address of every call or jp would have to be changed before that section was executed. Hadn't thought about a program *designed* to stream data from the drive, though. RPG programmers could go insane with this.

Just think: you could do something like the original Myst, with pre-rendered backgrounds. And you're right: RPGs would become absolutely massive...

I think that saying "ordinary USB" left too much to your imagination....... can u tell me some models that have been proved and worked and others that haven't worked...

Most notably the Lexar JumpDrive (Secure) and Sandisk Cruzer Mini drives (see URL).

If it runs on 100mA or less of power, it's probably going to work.

any chance for an [ON]+[XTOn] shortcut or something to open the app?

There's no need for this because of auto-launch. If it doesn't already, and you haven't e-mailed me the vendor/product IDs for your flash drive yet, be sure to do that.

Mine doesn't auto-launch, where can I find out how to contact them and have it do that?

I'm the one you contact to have that done (and I think I just said that). E-mail me the vendor/product IDs for your drive. You can get them from USBTools. PortMon is a development tool.

sorry, I didn't read it through carefully enough. I'll get on that asap!

do I need that portmon or whatever to make this work?

Does it work with a Verbatim?