Does anybody know what happened to Detached Solutions?

You really should read other posts first, because I'm sure if Michael Vincent answers this again, he'll go insane or something. They lost their domain, so they have to use detachedsolutions.com from now on. It will be up shortly if not already.

It's back up already, actually.

(In other words, he lost the *domain name*, not the site itself.)

"He" referring to Andrew Magness...

PLAY MEGAMAN86. ITS COOL, YO.

NEVAH!

I wish I had the capability to go insane, but unfortunately I don't since I already have :)

Hooray for Detached Solutions!
(Maybe ticalc.org should post a discussion like the one they had for void...)

Hehe, I was too lazy to READ them all. I just used find for all the forums and nothing with "detached" in it came up. So I decided just post it as a question. Can't read everything as a result of Finals.

Use a Google search--most searches provided by a site for itself pale in comparison to Google. Just put site:ticalc.org "detached solutions" in the search box.

PLAY MEGAMAN86. ITS COOL, YO.

I already did.

i think the Voyage 200 should have applications that emulate z80 calculater on it like the 83+ or the 86. then you could play your favorite games for the z80 calculators on a Voyage 200

That'd be sweet!

Don't encourage him to say stuff. It's not cool, yo.

Encourage him when it's not about megaman 86!!!
good boy, lsvllhs15, you were almost on topic!

BWAHAHA!

I don't think that would be really practical. Considering the size of VTI, the total size of about 10 good asm programs (anything less would be impractical in its own right), and the total memory on the voyage 200...

you might as well just keep your z80 in your other pocket (if the v200 will fit inside one pocket).

yeah... I guess you're right. Its not like I was expecting it too happen anyway. But it would be cool...

I don't think the 68k in the V200 probably would be able to emulate the Z80 at even 1/10th of full speed. But then you'd play fast Z80 games easily!

How about an app for 68K calcs that take a z80 program and convert all the z80 instructions into 68K ones? Granted, it would be a *huge* job, but then the programs could be run... or have an external z80 (it has been done before- look at the BBC Micro! You could plug a z80 into a BBC Micro... click the 'Web Page' button for a picture!)

How 'bout a z80 app that converts 68k to z80!!! ok, so maybe that was a stupid idea...

When will people learn that assembly programs cannot be translated automatically to other platforms. You have to recode everything, an this process cannot be automated. That's what high level languages are for...

I found a program that converts Z80 to 68k assembly automatically (see Web Page, above). Of course, it needs a fair amount of overhead for it to work, but it still might be an acceptable solution for a beginner assembly programmer, or whatever.

And what is the point? It takes much less effort to rewrite it a lot more efficiently in C than to correct the generated source...

You probably know, the real problem with the conversion comes from the fact that the hardware and the software context are quite different between the two CPU lines of calcs. I'd be curious to see a fast solution to this. :)

I know you're all correct, but I just wanted to show that there IS a program that converts Z80 to 68k. I, too, would (re)write a program in C if I wanted to. That's all.

Of course, such a conversion is not too complicated (it would be interesting to see it working in the other direction though). It would be just as easy to write a Z80->x86 converter... Although it would choke on SMC, just like this one does.

I still think someone should make an on-calc compiler. That way, in class you could make assembly progs!

See link.

WOW that's cool!

Ditto.

Kay, I'm clicking on it right now *click*

VTI is a computer program, with Windows overhead, GUI debugger, bells and whistles galore... If someone was to write a z80 emulator for a 68k calculator, it would be much, much less complex, and therefore much smaller.

I was using VTI as an example, as it is the most popular emulator (also the most popular program period).