Re: update on the ALyX semi-replica project

Perhaps one of these boards would work better than a Pi?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813455003&cm_re=raspberry_pi-_-13-455-003-_-Product

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6DB2337144&cm_re=raspberry_pi-_-9SIA6DB2337144-_-Product

On 12/16/2014 05:31 PM, Brian Connors wrote:
> I don't know if anyone's been wondering, but I thought I'd give a bit
> of a progress report since I put up my first announcement. I may have
> pictures soon, depending on how long it takes to get the plastic cut
> out and mounted on the frame.
>
> I finally settled on constructing the frame from Actobotics parts,
> since that was what I could get the best price on at retail; it cost
> about US$40, not including tools and plastic for the shell. There's a
> picture at http://instagram.com/p/wSZLMSJQsc/ which shows the main
> part of the frame before I attached the motherboard rails; the plan is
> to support the rear of the case with the plexiglas shell itself (which
> I am currently learning to cut and paint). I'm not sure about putting
> out more than basic measurements of the frame, primarily because
> anyone who wants to duplicate it is likely to have a completely
> different set of parts available, but if anyone's interested I can put
> a materials list together.
>
> Unfortunately I'm still not sure about using the Raspberry Pi for the
> CPU. I haven't been able to get LisaEm to work at acceptable speed on
> the Pi and I'm going back and forth between trying to tough it out or
> upgrading to a BeagleBone Black (and losing 3 USB ports) or even a
> Riotboard (and losing about $40). Mini vMac works fine -- great, in
> fact -- but I feel like I'd be copping out settling for a sort-of Mac XL.
>
> Keyboard and mouse aren't an immediate concern, but if cost was no
> object I'd go straight for a Matias Tactile Pro and maybe build a
> mouse with a cheapo optical mouse and a handful of PCL pellets. (In a
> lot of ways, this is going to wind up looking like what a Lisa would
> have looked like had they still been available around 1990.)
>
> I have the Lisa Workshop-like shell to the point where it can be used
> to compile simple Pascal and C programs, view and kill processes, and
> create, mount, and burn ISO images to optical disc, but I've been
> primarily building and testing on OS X Yosemite, so although it
> compiles and runs fine under Free Pascal on Raspbian, very little
> works because the config file I'm using is tailored to OS X. I haven't
> tested it at all on Windows; I don't know if Free Pascal sees Cygwin
> as Windows or Unix, so I'm not going to open that can of worms unless
> someone specifically asks. It doesn't support anything like the LW
> Exec scripting language; I may do that eventually, but right now it
> just runs bash scripts as shell commands.
>
> I'm trying to figure out a platform-independent way of implementing
> stationery pads. I'm considering making something like a sharchive
> that would invoke the stationery pad manager with a hashbang line at
> the beginning and extract the actual file; this would have the
> advantage of requiring no changes to any file managers you'd use on
> Raspbian, but it also fills me with horror at the possibility of
> someone breaking through the sandbox somehow, so I haven't tried to
> implement it just yet.
>
> So that's where the project stands at the moment. The code and shell
> templates are still available at github.com/csyde/alyxproject (the
> shell is lash.pas). I want to get it out to a wider audience but I'm
> not quite sure how. Feel free to send suggestions.
>
> /Brian
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