UZIX - The status, the future?

Ascended (15187)

07-11-2004, 09:38

It's been a long time since we heard about Uzix. I was wondering if the project is still being maintained and if new releases are planned for the new future. I'm looking forward to playing around with new versions of ZICA, a GUI and more. (I'd love to see an optimized UZIX with a GFX9000 GUI one day ^_^)...

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Van Argon

Paragon (1119)

07-11-2004, 15:24

It's a sourceforge project, no ?
Everybody can contribute in its development then...

On http://uzix.sf.net , you can see that there was a new 0.2.1 alpha release in september 2003, so maybe the project was abandoned, but anybody can pick it up where it left off.

Van DarQ

Paragon (1038)

07-11-2004, 15:53

X for GFX9000...

Van SLotman

Paragon (1240)

07-11-2004, 16:11

I'm looking forward to playing around with new versions of ZICA, a GUI and more. (I'd love to see an optimized UZIX with a GFX9000 GUI one day ^_^)...

Don't expect a GUI for Uzix. With V9938/V9958 is not possible at all (the GUI test Adriano made became too slow, no way to have multiple terminals on screen + mouse, etc plus multitasking at a decent speed). As for V9990 Adriano cannot see if it's possible or not without having one

A shell otherwise may be possible... but not a GUI.

Last time I spoke with him, UZIX development was still going on, but on a very slow basis, since he had other priorities...

Van [D-Tail]

Ascended (8259)

07-11-2004, 18:52

... like translating Illusion City, which is also a respectful job

Van snout

Ascended (15187)

09-11-2004, 10:21

I totally agree with that, but I do consider the UZIX project to be very interesting, important and respecful as well. I hope more developers join the development to do some serious ASM optimizations, support the GFX9000 and Obsonet, ... (wishful thinking?)

Van adrcunha

Expert (117)

10-12-2004, 20:36

do some serious ASM optimizations

All the code that should be written in ASM for UZIX is written in ASM. Of course it could be a bit faster if it was entirely written in ASM, but... No, it's too much work for too little gain for a single maintainer.

support the GFX9000 and Obsonet

After a lot of work, many headaches, remote debugging and not much feedback (I mean: too much work for too little gain) to make UZIX accessing Novaxis, Bert and MegaSCSI interfaces, I decided to not develop anything for a hardware I don't have. It's very frustrating when you develop something, it keeps crashing just because you can't debug it (you can just imagine what's wrong and do lots of trial-and-error) and worse at all: you can't see it running. Developing UZIX kernel itself, IDE direct access, TCP/IP stack and applications and dual-head support for UZIX was much more fun (and in some cases, faster).

Van adrcunha

Expert (117)

10-12-2004, 21:05

Imaybe the project was abandoned

Its was not abandoned. I'm working on it, but on a VERY slow basis. It's just that working on IC is more funny nowadays.

Van sunrise

Paragon (1091)

10-12-2004, 22:33

What about sending you a gfx9000 in change for some help for something as I suggested to Paulo Maluf jr. Maybe can work something out so be so kind to mail me or via Paulo

Van adrcunha

Expert (117)

10-12-2004, 23:16

What about sending you a gfx9000 in change for some help for something as I suggested to Paulo Maluf jr. Maybe can work something out so be so kind to mail me or via Paulo

Sure. I know Paulo Maluf personally, he's a nice guy. If you don't mind (since I don't know which e-mail address to use for sending you a message, sunrise), contact me by e-mail: adrianoATuzixDOTorg.