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[dupe] KnightOS – a FOSS operating system for TI calculators written in z80 asm (github.com/knightos)
60 points by rlei123 on May 2, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 12 comments




There are pictures and a demo here [0], although the demo didn't work for me.

[0] http://www.knightos.org/


Does the console report an error? The demo should work fine on any modern browser


Author of KnightOS here, happy to answer questions.


I knew the lead dev once. Pretty cool project, honestly. On an unrelated note, anyone from Cemetech or Omnimaga here?


Cemetech user here, although I pretty much stopped going there, as I was more into Casio calculator stuff and nowadays there's not much development activity for these. I must say I envy the large community support for the TI calcs, especially the older z80 ones, which are really really well understood and have been reverse-engineered in every way possible.

I kind of got into reverse-engineering the Casio Prizm, but eventually gave up because the SuperH is a much more complex architecture than the Z80; also, the firmware is so much bigger and not very well understood, it's hard for a beginner to dive in. That more or less explains why there's no such thing as a KnightOS for Casio calculators.

I'm part of that group that learned more about computers and programming with his calculator, than math. Which was actually a very good outcome, since in this undergrad computer engineering course, calculators are mostly forbidden, but the knowledge I got from them is quite useful :)


Hey! Made an account just to reply. I used to lurk on both Omnimaga and Cemetech pretty frequently several years ago. I remember when the original OS signing keys were first factored as well as the bootloader debacle later on with newer calculators. I still check in occasionally to see what cool new hacks are going on nowadays.


Fellow Omnimaga user here... I don't post on my account much though; I mainly just used it to tell some people I got Android running on my NSpire CX. From what I've noticed, however, it's a very friendly community.


CodeWalrus/Cemetech lurker here, both are pretty cool except due to some drama Cemetech doesn't really support KnightOS


I use this on my TI-83+ SE! The only thing the OS is missing is (ironically) a calculator program...


You're welcome to make one :)


Man, I wish I had this when I was a kid!




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