On Jan 4, 11:37=A0am, "Jeff M." <mass...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Jan 3, 11:19 pm, Charlie Springer <R...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Is anybody using the Nintendo DS as a non-game platform? It has an
ARM7 =
and
> > an ARM9 with two screens, one a ouch screen, plus wireless. I have
been
> > messing with free development tools in c and assembly. It would be fun
t=
o use
> > a full Forth running in the DS as host. A wireless laptop can be the
> > "terminal."
>
> > -- Charlie Springer
>
> Charlie,
>
> Others have done this with the GBA. I've been trying to find a link
> for you (www.gbadev.orgwould be a good starting point to try and find
> it), but there's a company that created a chip you could plug into the
> GBA to then use it as a controller. Having the screen for output and
> an ARM7TDMI made it very advantageous. And the GBA is very simple to
> program. Doing the same on the DS I see as being much more useful
> (WiFi + touch screen + 3D display capabilities, 2 processors, ARM9,
> etc), but battery life won't be very good.
>
> Licensing is a big issue here. There's been court cases on the
> subject, but I don't remember how they turned out. I'm a professional
> game developer, and I can tell you that Nintendo takes their consoles
> and licensing *very* seriously. The bottom line is that all programs
> require a special program at the start (copyright Nintendo) just to
> boot, and that's where the licensing issues come up. Just food for
> thought.
>
> You may want to examine the emulators available
(http://www.desmume.com/is=
very good) and independent scene for development
> (http://www.dsdev.org/is
a decent place to start).
>
> Hope this helps! If I find the hardware link I was looking for, I'll
> post it here.
>
> Jeff M.
Hello
I think the company you refer to is Charmed Labs
http://www.charmedlabs.com
But there are others.
The unit held a Spartan3 FPGA and was used to provide simple motor
control. They ran ECOS on the ARM processor....a nice arrangement, .
Since then the company has built their own platform..I believe in
cooperation with CMU for robotic experimentation and again if memory
serves me right it is ARM9 based,
regards
Ian
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