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.

I said I didn't want people to take bryans code.

>        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.

Thats what I'm going to do, but you need alot of rom for the communication
routines.  Thats about rom switching

>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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