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TI-Nspire / Re: Calling all Linux Kernel developers!
« on: June 25, 2015, 05:18:55 pm »
Congratulations on this outstanding achievement, joshumax. Saw it on the main German tech news site earlier today ;)

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ASM / Re: Z80 system fonts
« on: March 19, 2015, 10:19:40 am »
Cheers @chickendude, good to know. However I need this to work on TI-82 as well and iirc there is no equivalent ROM call available on that one. Ended up using my own fixed-width font which currently uses 70 bytes + 27 bytes decruncher (omitting a few chars that I don't need). Hoping to optimize it even further.

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ASM / Re: Z80 system fonts
« on: March 14, 2015, 12:05:02 pm »
I'm writing a custom print driver, which should be both ultra-compact and ultra-fast... yeah I know. lol.

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ASM / Re: Z80 system fonts
« on: March 14, 2015, 12:01:56 pm »
Ah, thanks Soru. Think I'll be better off making my own bitmaps then, even though I'd prefer not to waste a ton of bytes on this...

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ASM / Z80 system fonts
« on: March 14, 2015, 11:47:33 am »
Hiya folks, does anybody know where in ROM the small system font is stored, and how it is encoded? I'd need the locations for TI-82, TI-83, TI83Plus, and TI84Plus. Though one of the machines is probably enough as a start, the rest I can find via pattern search.

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Yes, it certainly is. As far as I understand, it basically works like this: Host sends a command, telling the client to get ready to receive a packet. Client ACKnowledges, and starts listening, or sends back an error code. Host sends 128 byte package. Client acknowledges it has received it, or reports read error. Rinse and repeat.

So, assuming we can predict when the ACK command is sent, we can stream nevertheless - if there was an error, then the calc will say so (on the display) and ignore the incoming bytes. It would be far from ideal, but good enough as a fallback method I guess.

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Would it not be possible to convert vars to a wavefile and send that? It'd be somewhat dodgy of course, since you can't receive ACK commands like that, but then again you can predict with reasonable accuracy when they will occur. Correct me if I'm wrong though, I really don't know much about TI's link protocol.

@OrestesGaolin, the best option for you would probably be to buy a cable from German ebay, shipping costs should be reasonable. Or find an old PC and build yourself a serial or parallel cable.

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Web Programming and Design / Re: Cloudflare offers free SSL to everyone
« on: October 01, 2014, 07:52:21 pm »
So Cloudflare effectively uses a man-in-the-middle attack to dip into the connection between client and target server, and only encrypts the first part of the route, but to the browser it will look like a valid SSL connection thanks to SNI. In reality, there is no end-to-end encryption whatsoever. It's just a smoke screen, really.

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Miscellaneous / Re: Tetris: The Movie!
« on: October 01, 2014, 08:03:28 am »
Paging Uwe Boll... Uwe Boll to the studio please!  :evillaugh:

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Music Showcase / Re: dat fuzz - new 1-bit music album out now
« on: September 24, 2014, 08:43:48 am »
@DJ_O: The CDs were produces by some small local company. Still waiting for the large part of the batch actually (since more than 1½ months). They claimed their machine was broken, but I dunno... for the time being, I just had them send me a small batch done on waterproof Inkjet glossy CDr. They look ok-ish, but I'm not too happy with them. The jackets on the other hand look awesome. The rest of the CDs will be thermal printed, which should give a near professional look. I can tell you more once I have them (should be next week).

For now my advice is: Don't go for the big shops, look around for a good deal from a local replicator. And get thermal printed ones (Thermo-RE) in any case. They are a bit more expensive but I think it'll be worth it. Also, don't send in tracks via internet. Instead, give them your own (physical) master, using a heavy, good quality CDr.

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Other / Re: Pinging the whole internet
« on: September 23, 2014, 03:24:16 pm »
InternetCensus2014 Mini  :thumbsup:

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Music Showcase / Re: dat fuzz - new 1-bit music album out now
« on: September 23, 2014, 03:18:20 pm »
Yo thanks DJ_O! I dunno about full length, but as I said, I definately want to do a calc music release. Got some other projects to take care of before that though, namely starting to rewrite HoustonTracker with less bugs and better UI ;)

@fb39ca4: For my part, I'm not very good with gfx/animation, but I'd certainly be interested to team up with you on such a project. Shoot me a pm if you're interested :)

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Other / Re: CBS6000 - an 8-bit 6510 computer
« on: September 12, 2014, 08:48:30 am »

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Music Showcase / Re: dat fuzz - new 1-bit music album out now
« on: September 08, 2014, 10:36:06 am »
Thanks guys! Yeah, a calculator music album is on my definite to-do list. I hope it won't take another 4 years to complete ;)

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Music Showcase / dat fuzz - new 1-bit music album out now
« on: September 05, 2014, 07:05:22 pm »


irrlicht project - dat fuzz

Howdy folx! After 4 years in the making, I've finally finished my new album. 17 beeper/1-bit tracks, made for and recorded from the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K home computer. It's mostly 70s prog rock and metal inspired stuff - a trip to the dark side of chiptune, so to speak.

Stream, digital download, and physical CDs are available from bandcamp.
For the die-hard oldskool fans among you, there's also a musicdisk version (executable .tap/.scl).

Anyway, hope you like it.  :)

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