RE: TI-H:

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RE: TI-H:

Nice hybridization of different peoples responses there... I was merely presenting a potential risk from your system.  If TI is giving you their blessing, then that's great!  However, not everyone is as honest as you are.  You know that pretty well, since you have complained in the past about people who might take your AVR-based designs and use them for their own profit.  
	By the way, you might also want to look into connecting the IDE system directly to the CPU.  It's been done before, and there's a really old set of messages in the archives.  I might forward it later.  You can connect it via some sort of 8-bit connection... pretty strange.
Christopher Kalos
raptorone@geocities.com
VirtuTech Developer's Group
AOL IM: Raptor1CK

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From: 	Grant Stockly[SMTP:gussie@alaska.net]
Sent: 	Thursday, March 05, 1998 6:52 PM
To: 	ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: 	RE: TI-H:


Guys, after sending e-mail to TI and getting a positive response (they want
to use the results) I think I know more about this than you do.

>That so far beyond wrong

Proove it wrong.

I think I HAVE to go into it. It is ilegal to
>copy or pirate ROM, but each calc is different, you can only use a ROM
>designed for it (you could modify it for compatibility, but then it's
>not TI's original ROM).

If you want to pirate your ROM thats your choice.  I realy don't care what
you do thats against the law.  fiy, read another of my posts.  I blow
tourched the rom off and bent all of the pins to a bread board.

You can legaly rip your ROM out and replace it
>with whatever you want!!!

When did I say I was even copying the TI rom to the computer!?!

You can even reverse engineer the ROM if we
>were that determined and start mass producing TI-Clones!!!

heh...thats what everyone does in the GB community

If we make
>our own ROM and load it into the calcs, that's our right, so unless you
>plan on pirating a TI ROM, SHUT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes.  I plan on pirating a rom.  I feel like posting one to this list.  I
feel like throwing my TI85 in the tolit... (I did)

WHEN did I ever say anything about TIs rom?  Why would I want to know whats
in TIs rom?  I don't care!  TIs already giving me portions so I can write
the driver...

>It is not ilegal to replace or re write a ROM and replace the original
>with it, so don't go jumping to conclusions. It's no different than
>downloading a ROM for an emulator! If you own the calc, it's LEGAL. If
>you don't it is ILLEGAL. Since the calcs have different internal
>structures, the ROMs are not compatible, so the ROM will only run on a
>calc it was designed for. That makes it very unlikely that any
>illegalact is commited!!! O-K !!!

Ya know...you are the one that has been wrong so far...I NEVER said
anything about transfering the rom over the network.  I DID say that I was
making an AVR that with ROM bank switching.... would give the calc extra IO
which goes to a 10B-2 and IDE HD...

-Rach
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