I've been thinking about this lately. I have a TI-89 and a TI-83 plus. This is almost a purely conceptual topic, but here goes:

Would it be possible? Could the community actually port linux over to the calcuator turning it into some kind of a PDA, or has this been done?

Curiousity, mostly. But with everything that I've seen done to the system - 3d shooters, SNES games and everything else - it makes me wonder.

Interesting question...I would be interested in seeing if it could be done as well!

It would be real cool, but I don't think it is possible.

You can write some very amazing software for the TI calculators, but the main OS is, as far as i know, burned in the calculator. One cannot replace it.

Too bad...

"Could the community actually port linux over to the calcuator turning it into some kind of a PDA,"

The project to do so already exists. It is called LinuxTI. Here is a link to a thread discussing LinuxTI.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hlight=linuxti

If the link does not work then search the forum for LinuxTI.

Should be easy. I'm installing Gentoo on my garage door opener. It's compiling KDE at the moment. Should be finished in, ..let's see.., around 2175? Hope no-one wants to get the car out before then.

lmao, wow, funny
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as for porting linux to the ti calculator, it seems possible, but
pointless as anything else then for fun, the ti calculators can run arbitrary code from user memory if tricked into doing so (look at www.ticalc.org) for information about this, but the os would take up most of the user memory leaving little space for the programs! unless you could implement SLIP or PPP networking and run the programs off a server
that and the small screen size would be prohibitive as well, as for using a ticalculator as a specialized data display, such as an uptime display, or a game stat display, etc...

You know, that's a better idea for implementation frieza.

But that's a mighty expensive little display heheh.

Could be useful for something like maybe an mp3 player controller, attached to a laptop or something for use in a car.

Hmm...

-Shade

Yea, but they are also hacking into the electronics. They add some kind of expansion board to the calculator whit more RAM/ROM and an extra microprocessor. Than it could be done... But they dont got anything working yet, the sourgeforce project page says the project is still in 'planning' fase.

ya think? but not quite as expensive as some of these:
and these do less than a ticalc
http://www.matrixorbital.com/pages/default.asp

for such implementations you are better of building the hardware yourself. A display and microcontroller, connected to a serial port, or maybe even USB. Cheaper (and easyer) than using a TI-calculator

not really, all you have to write software in ti assembly that handles some vt100 like protocol with a serial or usb graphlink cable, then write software at the linux end to send information to the calc

OK, then using a TI is easier. But I was thinking about writing linux for the calculator! That is a lot harder, if not impossible.

But building it all yourself is still cheaper than using a TI calculator. And in my opinion also more fun!

more fun true, much more fun, but not necesarily cheaper if you already have the calculator just my 2 cents

Yeah..this seems a bit more difficult than I had hoped. A lot of fun, but difficult.

I will check out linuxti..

plus..garage-door linux might be possible. Lets not give up hope on that

A single circuit is better than none at all

An Open Source operating system has been announced for Texas Instrument 68k calculators.

http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files...319/31951.html

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