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CommanderROR · 11-07-2006, 06:00 PM

It all sound really great, but still a bit above the "Average Joe" group I'm afraid.
The biggest problem here is, that nobody who updates their Iliad to 2.7.1 or later willb w able to use these.
iRex needs to give us the option of running executables on the Iliad...then we could start making some real headway...
Apps like Chess and the calc could easily be used this way, by just selecting their names in the list (from the CF/SD or internal memory).

Apps that need to install (like the file-format viewers) are another problem since they would require modifications to the OS to some extent...I don't knwo where iRex plans to go with that...but if we need file-association, then we need to have access to at least some parts of the actual OS.

11-07-2006, 06:00 PM	#5
CommanderROR eink fanatic Posts: 2,022 Karma: 4924 Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Germany Device: STAReBOOK, iRex Iliad, Sony 505, Kindle 2	It all sound really great, but still a bit above the "Average Joe" group I'm afraid. The biggest problem here is, that nobody who updates their Iliad to 2.7.1 or later willb w able to use these. iRex needs to give us the option of running executables on the Iliad...then we could start making some real headway... Apps like Chess and the calc could easily be used this way, by just selecting their names in the list (from the CF/SD or internal memory). Apps that need to install (like the file-format viewers) are another problem since they would require modifications to the OS to some extent...I don't knwo where iRex plans to go with that...but if we need file-association, then we need to have access to at least some parts of the actual OS.