Revision as of 08:54, 28 May 2006

Name: Michael

Date-of-Birth: 1-02-1984

Occupation: Student at Saint Peter's College in Jersey City, NJ

Area of Study: Philosophy and Elementary Education

Website: Summary

Projects Under Development

MZip

On-calc data/program compression utility.

Current functional algorithms include:

• Fibonacci encoding/decoding [1]
• Elias gamma encoding/decoding [2]
• Elias delta encoding/decoding [3]

Future algorithms:

• Static Huffman [4]
• Adaptive Huffman [5]
• PuCrunch [6]
• Ion [7]
• Burrows-Wheeler Transformation [8]
• BSTW Algorithm [9]
• LS77 [10] or LZSS [11]

Other Algorithms

• ShellSort [12]

Abandoned Projects

Nostalgy

new 3rd party operating system.

Current features:

• OS loader
• RAM integrity verification and erasure upon non-integrity detection
• Mathematical system calls

Features already implemented, but not yet included:

• Grayscale: built-in 3,or 4-level grayscale support (based on Duck's grayscale programming package)
• Audio

• PlayWAV: built-in WAV playing capabilities
• PlaySound: built-in sound effects

• Media:

• Sprites: OR-drawing, XOR-drawing, AND-drawing, scaling, clipping, masking

• Font:

• 4x5 fized-width font

Planned features:

• User interface: user-selected

• TIOS Homepage-style command line interface
• graphical user interface

• Linking:

• TIOS: TIOS-compatible routines
• non-TIOS: non-TIOS compatible routines, which allow for faster connections due to data compression before sending, and decompression upon reciving

• Compression/Decompression: built-in on-calc data compression/decompression routines with an assortment of different algorithms.
• Grayscale:

• user-adjustable interrupt speed (based on Duck's grayscale programming package, but the interrupt speed would be more acutely adjustable)

• RAM

• Executable RAM: user RAM programs would begin @ $8200, and thus allows for more executable RAM
• Stack Space: 3KB reserved stack space
• Data Management Table: VAT-like system for file management
• Folder support: the user can create and manage folders both in RAM and ROM
• Registry: System registry to allow for hook chaining
• Multi-tasking(?): allow up to three programs to be running simultaneously on RAM page 1

• ROM

• Apps: Flash space would be allocated in 4K or 8KB sectors, depending on the user's choice. This would be made possible by having all APPS use only relative jumps/calls

• Interrupts

• IM 1 hook: system-supported, chainable
• IM 2: system-supported, chainable routine

• Media:

• Video (like animated gifs?)
• Video-Audio sync-ing (AVIs?)

• Font:

• 4x5 variable-width font

Styles:

• inverting
• grayscale
• clipping
• centering
• word-wrap
• bold
• underline

• Keypad-Input

• "normal" keypad
• qwerty-style keypad
• user-remappable

• External Hardware Drivers

• PS/2 Keyboard Driver
• PS/2 Mouse