03-27-2009, 05:49 AM | #91 |
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PIM functionality
This is a very interesting thread!
If one was looking for PIM functions, and handwriting recognition, a piece of software that would be very interesting to port would be Paul Guyot's OpenEinstein, an emulator for Apple Newton that allows licensed users of the Newton ROM (i.e. those that bought one). Newton was one of the first ebook readers (1993), though display technology of the time was nothing like as good as it is now. This is an emulator at present, and requires a dump of the Newton ROM to run. These can be acquired legally by buying a device for a few dollars on eBay or similar. It runs at acceptable to good speed on a PC like my 1.6Ghz Pentium laptop, but as yet slowly on PDAs (so far- Sharp Zaurus, Nokia 770/800/810). Work was being done last year to remove speed bottlenecks by rewriting some functions in C or C++. Since the UI uses animation, these would have to be removed to make it suitable for an e-ink display, I guess. Is anyone interested in making a port of Einstein to Iliad? There are still thousands of Newton users out there who are looking for a new hardware platform for their favourite device... OpenEinstein is at http://code.google.com/p/einstein/ if anyone wants to take a look. Emulti |
03-27-2009, 08:35 AM | #92 |
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We've talked about this idea several times. The ROM is the bottleneck. (Though I actually have one....)
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03-27-2009, 02:22 PM | #93 | |
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For the record, iRex sucks as a company, probably more than any other I can think of right now. I like the screen of the iLiad BE I bought, a lot. But if it was not for the hope, that people like Adam B. would make the iLiad into a finished product, I would have probably returned my iLiad. I don't know if anyone from iRex reads this forum (they should, although I really doubt it.) But, IMO, iRex really owes a new iLiad to Adam B, since he and a few others like him are the only thing that kept me from returning my iLiad, or from totally trashing iRex to anyone who'd listen. And I don't think I am the only one who feels this way. I hope this gets fixed or resolved. Good luck and sincere thanks for the effort. |
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03-27-2009, 03:20 PM | #94 |
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I'm sure the situation will be resolved. No need to worry or be upset with iRex.
They've done a lot for me and the community already, so for that I'm very grateful. |
03-28-2009, 09:34 AM | #95 | |
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OTOH, it could be the right time to try to address the problem of installing the devel. package on the donated iliads, as now both you and Kumar are affected by that (are the Open Inkpot devs also affected?). Is it neccessary to resurrect Hudson's hack or do you have had some response from irex that they can fix that? [the inability of the donated iliads to get the devel. package]. |
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03-28-2009, 10:33 AM | #96 |
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It appears that all the donated iLiad's are having issues getting the dev kit installed. It might be a good time to find a hack to get that setup.
I can download the files/scripts necessary to flash the alternate boot loader and kernel, the problem is getting that to execute on a stock iLiad. |
03-28-2009, 11:19 AM | #97 |
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I take it you can't get the dev kit installed in the usual way due to the ownership status of the iLiads in question?
Yeah, we need a way around this. We can't have people dependent on iRex to be able to run a new OS (or any other software) on the iLiad. What if they're not around anymore? |
03-28-2009, 05:57 PM | #98 | |
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I've got the donated iLiad's to work (with iRex's help), and I have a script working that will automatically backup the restricted files to compactflash, download the new firmware, reflash the iLiad, then restore the files on boot.
It should be a very fast/simple process. |
04-01-2009, 09:03 AM | #100 |
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Excellent! That's great work, Adam, really fantastic.
How did you fix the image size problem? |
04-01-2009, 09:16 AM | #101 |
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See this thread: http://forum.irexnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=3691
It seems you have to create a clean ext2 image and copy the files onto it from scratch so everything is contiguous. |
04-01-2009, 02:23 PM | #102 |
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Happy to hear this:-)
iRex just went up a notch in my eyes, thanks to you. |
04-10-2009, 04:04 AM | #103 |
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Hello,
I have recently bought an iLiad and am researching possibilities of enhancing its usefulness. So my question is - is the iLiad OS project alive? Thanks, bertold |
04-10-2009, 07:09 AM | #104 | |
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Good choice welcome!
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Personally I believe in small steps that are useful for lots of users. Steps that are not too scary to install... |
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04-10-2009, 09:09 AM | #105 |
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Thank you for the update, hansel. And I quite agree with you. Small, but sure steps.
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