I managed to get Linky (http://brandonw.net/svn/calcstuff/Linky/) to the point that you can emulate a USB flash drive using the TI-89 Titanium and a raw image of sectors you supply.
I packaged the program, the image for the NT Offline Password and Registry Editor boot disc, and the PC program to create TI-89 Titanium Flash applications out of raw sector images at: http://brandonw.net/calcstuff/NTPasswd.zip.
YouTube video showing it:
This same thing could be used to boot DOS or Windows 3.1 as well -- anything known to fit on a floppy disk (or bigger -- there's about 2.3MB to work with).
Hopefully this also gets people more excited about the prospect of a real USB library coming to the TI-89 Titanium, so that it can enjoy all the usb8x goodness that the 84+/SE has.
As always, amazing work from one of our resident Cemetech Experts! I enjoyed watching that video a lot, especially when I realized you're also basically the first person to actually have Linux on a calculator (in a sense), all the fake Youtube videos of people running silly BASIC shells notwithstanding.
As always, amazing work from one of our resident Cemetech Experts! I enjoyed watching that video a lot, especially when I realized you're also basically the first person to actually have Linux on a calculator (in a sense), all the fake Youtube videos of people running silly BASIC shells notwithstanding.
Or Windows, if I wanted! Granted, Windows 3.1 or maybe even 95 at best, but it still counts.
As always, amazing work from one of our resident Cemetech Experts! I enjoyed watching that video a lot, especially when I realized you're also basically the first person to actually have Linux on a calculator (in a sense), all the fake Youtube videos of people running silly BASIC shells notwithstanding.
Or Windows, if I wanted! Granted, Windows 3.1 or maybe even 95 at best, but it still counts.
BrandonW: What are the chances you could set up this (or an 84+) to advertise itself as a flash drive, and make it able to send/receive .89*/.8x* files through the OS's file manager? Seems like that would be pretty useful.
BrandonW: What are the chances you could set up this (or an 84+) to advertise itself as a flash drive, and make it able to send/receive .89*/.8x* files through the OS's file manager? Seems like that would be pretty useful.
That would be extremely useful! No more need to install any drivers or TI-Connect!
BrandonW: What are the chances you could set up this (or an 84+) to advertise itself as a flash drive, and make it able to send/receive .89*/.8x* files through the OS's file manager? Seems like that would be pretty useful.
Link8x one of BrandonW's much earlier projects can more or less but it is not prefect.
BrandonW: What are the chances you could set up this (or an 84+) to advertise itself as a flash drive, and make it able to send/receive .89*/.8x* files through the OS's file manager? Seems like that would be pretty useful.
I attempted this years ago with periph8x for the 84+/SE. It's very involved to emulate a FAT filesystem and translate between oncalc variables and their 8x* file equivalents, not to mention write support being a huge pain because you have to figure out what the PC OS thinks it's doing when it modifies a given sector and then apply that same thing to the actual variables. PC-side write caching makes it even more difficult; you can delete a file in Windows Explorer and pound F5 (Refresh) and Windows makes NO attempt to let the drive know what it did.
Having said that, though, read-only support is complicated, but do-able. Write support might be possible, but it would be twitchy at best.
That's unfortunate, yet more or less what I had thought. I hope that if you get the chance you will give it a try, but it would be certainly understandable if you didn't. What further plans do you have for this project?
I attempted this years ago with periph8x for the 84+/SE. It's very involved to emulate a FAT filesystem and translate between oncalc variables and their 8x* file equivalents, not to mention write support being a huge pain because you have to figure out what the PC OS thinks it's doing when it modifies a given sector and then apply that same thing to the actual variables. PC-side write caching makes it even more difficult; you can delete a file in Windows Explorer and pound F5 (Refresh) and Windows makes NO attempt to let the drive know what it did.
That's disappointing, but understandable.
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I enjoyed watching that video a lot, especially when I realized you're also basically the first person to actually have Linux on a calculator (in a sense), all the fake Youtube videos of people running silly BASIC shells notwithstanding. 
I hope that if you get the chance you will give it a try, but it would be certainly understandable if you didn't. What further plans do you have for this project?