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[OTZ80]2010 progress
matthias1992:
Ok I just thought I made this topic to get back onto this project. We have decided the hardware components for the OTZ80 but ever since then I haven't noticed any progress...
The big question now is, where do we go from here? Of course we will need to build a hardware dummy of this but who is going to make it? When will it be done? If it all works then what is our next step? I think we are in need of some sort of overall plan...personally I think it is good to know who is gonna do what and when they'll be doing it. If I were to make a schedule from here on I'd say our next step is to make one dummy, in the process of making it much can be learned and once it is succesfully made still more improvements might be possible. Actually building something also keeps the project alive, now again I have no clue as to who is willing to do this...I am not going to be it, I'd prefer to take a siderole in the whole development and just help on any level I can...
So who is going to do it (if anybody)?
DJ Omnimaga:
Yeah for some reasons, right after the polls ended, everything went poof. I think alberthrocks is busy with school and having troubles with grades and Graphmastur seems busy as well, so I'm not too sure if this is on hold until next summer or not.
Also now we'll have to compete with the new Casio calc so we oughta not make the final price too high, if the OTZ80 calc got lower memory than the Casio calc.
ASHBAD_ALVIN:
This is going to be based on the z80 microprocessor?
Let's hope it has more tan 24kb of user RAM ;)
I would love to help and stuff by writing an OS or something, but i'm not good with creating actual hardware. But I have a friend who might. I'll go ask him.
DJ Omnimaga:
I'm pretty sure it will have more than 24, but I was a bit worried it may have much less archive than the TI-Nspire and not much more RAM than the 89 Titanium. The Casio Prizm has 61 KB of RAM and 10 MB of archive, yet costs less than a TI-84 Plus, so if OTZ80 had like 128 KB of RAM but only 1.5 MB of archive, it would need to be considerably cheaper than the rest, especially if the processor is much slower than the new Casio calc.
Also yes it is gonna be based on some sort of Z80 processor.
ASHBAD_ALVIN:
--- Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on October 10, 2010, 01:50:39 pm ---I'm pretty sure it will have more than 24, but I was a bit worried it may have much less archive than the TI-Nspire and not much more RAM than the 89 Titanium. The Casio Prizm has 61 KB of RAM and 10 MB of archive, yet costs less than a TI-84 Plus, so if OTZ80 had like 128 KB of RAM but only 1.5 MB of archive, it would need to be considerably cheaper than the rest, especially if the processor is much slower than the new Casio calc.
Also yes it is gonna be based on some sort of Z80 processor.
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Sounds cool so far. But it might take a while for my friend to repond to my email... he checks it once every 3 or so days. ;)
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