Turn Your $8000 KORG OASYS Into a $400 PC

[bongman]

Turn Your $8000 KORG OASYS Into a $400 PC

read all about it:
http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=2507


The enterprising hacker went on to comment on the "interesting" boot scripts.
"You can see how Korg loads everything behind the scenes. Some parts of the code is commented. As time allows, I'm interested in looking at the Linux underpinnings in more detail."

I see a future spent conversing with lawyers looming.

 

[Cheez]

Haha! Interesting article!

What about the other way around? "Turn your $400 PC into a $8000 Korg OASYS?"

 

[bongman]

let me know if you can do it,

I dun mind turning my $2000 PC into a Korg Oasys.

 

[Cheez]

Seriously, that's technically possible - although sound will not be exactly the same, and it wouldn't have the cool spaceship look.

With 8000USD, anything's possible - software-wise!

Maybe in a few years time - some wise-guy will come up with some OEM midi controller keyboard shell - something like the NEKO. If that comes up as dirt cheap and able to fit a mobo inside - we can get some spaceship looking keyboard PC. Very much like being able to choose the type of PC casings we like - we can choose the "keyboard casing". What about that???

 

[lowjk]

let me know if you can do it,

I dun mind turning my $2000 PC into a Korg Oasys.

Definitely possible but you'll have to write your own code and Operating system.
If I recall correctly, Oasys processor isn't that powerful (? equal to Pentium 4) but the codes have been optimised for its own operating system.

 

[Cheez]

Definitely possible but you'll have to write your own code and Operating system.
If I recall correctly, Oasys processor isn't that powerful (? equal to Pentium 4) but the codes have been optimised for its own operating system.

Yes, I think they use a 486 processor. I wonder - will that actually make it more expensive? I always thought older chips are more costly, especially when they are not readily available anymore.

 

[lowjk]

Yes, I think they use a 486 processor. I wonder - will that actually make it more expensive? I always thought older chips are more costly, especially when they are not readily available anymore.

Nope it's not a 486.
Just checked up: it's a 2.8GHz Pentium 4.

 

[Cheez]

Oh. It's not too bad then!