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At 01:20 PM 7/26/2003, Nic Roozeboom wrote: >I imagined it would be only a matter of time before someone would >announce >they had hacked OS1.1, and made all sorts of improvements... such as >being >able to configure one track as a MIDI looper... yes, it's amazing. It can't be that hard. Maybe you could take it on? After all, the Repeater is only a fully custom piece of hardware with its own unique system architecture, and code running straight on the silicon probably without any commercial OS in between. But that just means you gotta know how the hardware works to write the code and there's no OS there to do anything for you. Of course, no documentation is publicly available on the hardware architecture or the programmable logic parts. But heck, with a little patience, a multimeter, logic analyzer, scope, and a year or two of spare time you could probably figure out most of it. Then I guess you would have to decompile the machine code from the roms into undocumented assembler or maybe even C code. I don't know how well decompilers work, but probably the result will be messy and difficult for humans to understand. Hey, but no matter, if you had all the time to figure out the hardware, you've got time to unravel the code too! I bet it would be fun. Once you've got that figured out, then you can go about adding your own features. Careful now! this ain't wimpy windows programming. Real-time embedded coding without a net! Everything you do has the potential to throw something else off, so you need to keep an eye on every clock cycle and all the possible states you could be in. Judging by the kind of bugs they had, there probably aren't many cycles left to play with, but there must be a few here and there. The Electrix guys only went a year over schedule and still had bugs trying to do this, so it can't be that hard really. Oh, by the way, did you catch the time when Electrix mentioned they were out of code space? Ah well, there are probably a few features in there you don't use anyway, so rip 'em out! Assuming you can actually figure out which part of the code they're in... Sounds like a great project! kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com