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Recipes contain bits and pieces of hardware-related knowledge, but these bits feel sparse. I've been wanting to consolidate hardware- related documentation for a while, but always fell at odds with the recipes organisation. We don't have recipes anymore, just a /doc/hw section that contains hardware-related documentation which often translate to precise instructions to run Collapse OS on a specific machine. With this new organisation, I hope to end up with a better, more solid documentation.
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# Running Collapse OS on real hardware
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Collapse OS is designed to run on ad-hoc post-collapse hardware
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build from scavenged parts. These machines don't exist yet.
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To make Collapse OS as likely as possible to be useful in a
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post-collapse world, we try to give as many examples as possible
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of deployment on hacked-up hardware.
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For example, we include a recipe for running a Sega Master
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System with a PS/2 keyboard plugged to a hacked up controller
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cord with an AVR MCU interfacing between the PS/2 connector and
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the controller port.
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This setup, for which drivers are included in Collapse OS, exist
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in only one copy, the copy the author of the recipe made.
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However, the idea is that this recipe, which contains schematics
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and precise instructions, could help a post-collapse engineer
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to hack her way around and achieve something similar. She would
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then have a good example of schematics and drivers that are
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known to work.
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# Organisation of this folder
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While /doc's top folder contain documentation about software,
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this folder contains instructions and schematics about ways to
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get Collapse OS running on actual hardware.
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Each CPU architecture has its own subfolder with recipes about
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specific machines of that arch, while /doc/hw's top folder
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contain instructions on broader topics, such as SD cards,
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floppies, EEPROM, etc.
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Most instructions have companion code in /arch that is conve-
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niently wrapped in Makefiles for easy building.
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# How to use
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If you want to run Collape OS on real hardware, browse this
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folder's contents until you find something that closely matches
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your own hardware (or hardware-to-be).
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If you live in a pre-collapse world and are looking for an easy
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platform to try Collapse OS on, easy pickings are PC/AT (which
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run on modern PCs supporting legacy BIOS), Sega Genesis w/
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Everdrive and TI-84+. Those options don't require any soldering.
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# Drivers
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Most instructions in this subfolder tell you to add drivers to
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your Collapse OS. What is meant by this is that you need to
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rebuild your binary with an augmented xcomp unit. See
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doc/bootstrap.txt for details, but the short version is:
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When instructions tell you to declare constant XXX, then load
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drivers from block BYYY and then add word ZZZ to the initial-
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ization string, what is meant is that:
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1. At the top of your xcomp unit, add constant XXX next to other
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declarations.
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2. Between "xcomp core low" and "xcomp core high" loading,
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insert the loading of BYYY. Order may matter.
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3. At the end, in the ,"" string just before EOT, insert the
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ZZZ word. Order may matter.
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