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[Eurysilas]

...can't get the keyboard integrated...

What do you mean, he can't get it integrated? TheMasterSwordsman, care to explain? Last I checked, keyboard drivers were completely standardized (don't know about the one's with fancy extra buttons). Or am I misinterpreting the situation?

[sigtau]

Writing an ISR (the instruction when a certain piece of hardware sends some information) for the keyboard is more difficult than you might think, even when you have everything else set up, a bare kernel is running... and that stuff.

I didn't say I won't finish, I just said I am hitting a roadblock, but I'm researching how to set it up.

[Eurysilas]

Ah, OK. You're not quitting...Good. Had me disappointed there for a minute. I'm sure you'll get it. It'll just take persistence and time.

[sigtau]

Well, Takuya said he cleaned up the code today by separating different elements in the C code into separate files, and he eliminated the warnings that were generated at compile-time... now I believe we *really* need to work on interfacing now, because I'm itching to release a first alpha.

Edited by TheMasterSwordsman, 29 May 2008 - 07:52 PM.

[TetriTek]

Wow, that sounds great, glad to hear your still going through with it. sorry your encountering a problem though. how important will the keyboard be when the alpha is finished?

[Aaron1046]

wow... sounds great!!!!
Hope you get richer then Microsoft!

[sigtau]

Wow, that sounds great, glad to hear your still going through with it. sorry your encountering a problem though. how important will the keyboard be when the alpha is finished?

Hopefully, it will be your swiss army knife of all input devices.

[TetriTek]

oh, wow.. yeah, now that i think of it, it is super important... hmmm.. couldnt be saying this without it!

[sigtau]

I just wanted to say: BUMP! No, just kidding. Actually, I was out of town without any real access to the Emerald source code or my development platforms. Now I've gained access to those all over again, and I should resume coding soon...

[Beefster]

Sounds like a good idea. Maybe I could use it as a layer under my idea of WinDux. (Pronounced like the cleaning product) What WinDux does is it strips everything except the .exe and batch runners from any windows computer and installs a specially shelled Linux-based OS which provides a close-to-the-same GUI as the Windows OS you were previously running.

[Takuya]

Work on my part is delayed due to my MBP being in the shop. Optical Drive being replaced.

[sigtau]

Yeah, and it seems like it might be about two or three more weeks before development on my end resumes, by that time I'll be going to Cybercamps again this summer for a weeklong course in advanced C++, so Emerald will probably get a C++ bridge at that point so I can start writing with some newfound skills.

ROCK on... Emerald!

[TetriTek]

glad to hear you guys are still up to that challenge. hope progress goes smooth from here on out!

[sigtau]

Bumpeth!

No, not really, but it hasn't been 3 months (the time when the topic is proclaimed dead, this one expires next month... or at least, now it doesn't). So, anyway, I just wanted to say that this project is NOT dead, I am announcing that I have leaped past the part I couldn't figure out (I just pasted something wrong... damn it, what is wrong with me?!) which left me at the part where I code the simplest parts: The keyboard driver and the Programmable Interval Timer (PIT, the chip that can time signals sent to hardware at intervals). I can use the PIT to display uptime, as well... the PIT counts each processor "tick" as its units. 18.222 ticks is one second (ask the IBM engineer why he used 18.222 or what he was smoking...), so that means if I use the ticks to determine uptime, I can determine down to the second how long the kernel has been running.

Anyway, since Takuya seemed to abandon me because of the project's downtime... I just wanted to say: You'll all have an operating system to enjoy after a while... and if someone could point Schwa to this thread--after I get a basic library working--I want to implement his text version of Chess he's been playing in Message Board Games as a standard part of Emerald--I can't wait to jump on this project. Or, in PC ASM, that's "jmp" on it.

[Alestance]

I was scared for a month that this project was heading where Winux had. That goodness! ITS ALIVE! ALIIIIIIIIVEEEEE!

I can't wait to see this go far. Its destined to.