Algodoo

I decided to test this things backwards compatibility and it turned out interesting!

Although, it (obviously) works on the Helium, I decided to go as far back as I could. Turns out, it works on all AHOX computers down to the Competitor Model S & E, which were the 4th and 5th computers of the AHOX PC line-up respectively. Getting the DC-1k info works fine, the status on whether it can boot or not, and reading & writing to it.

However, on the Operator SoC-Powered Programmable PC, (which was the 3rd model in the AHOX line-up of computers) although the test program booted up fine, it couldn't find a DC-1k, even with it plugged in.

I assume this is because of a major chip difference between, because whenever I look at the internals of the Chives computer post-Operator and the Operator itself, I am able to see a major difference between them, like chip size, laser positioning, etc. (also, post-Operator PC the internals don't change much after, so you're able to slap a chip from like the Modifier Lite into the Helium case)

Anyways, for the AHOX Duo and CodeCruncher (now called Number 9 with extra cheese PC, lol), the AHOX Duo just leads to a blank screen, even with the DC-1k plugged in. (i had to put the DC-1k on a block for it to reach the port, but I definitely know it was reaching the Chives chip. i opened the PC up and could see the laser reaching the chip)

It's not an XDisk issue either, since the Duo can read XDisks just fine. Even then, I converted it to a MDisk anyways and got the same result.

Anyways, the CodeCruncher doesn't even have an expansion port and can't even XDisks either, only being able to read MDisks (as reading XDisks returns nothing). However, I manually converted the XDisk into an MDisk, and then opened up the CodeCruncher PC and changed some collision settings to make sure that DC-1k could access the CPU, and I knew that when its laser was touching the CPU.

However, same result. Blank screen. Nothing happened. Just a pure black void, no matter what. And I guess that concludes it!

TL;DR: The DC-1k works all the way down to the AHOX Competitor Model S & E. The Operator SoC-Powered Programmable PC doesn't detect the DC-1k at all, but still boots from the test program, and the AHOX Duo and CodeCruncher (with some modifications to make sure the DC-1k's laser still acceses the Chives CPU) only shows a black screen upon booting the test program disk.

That's interesting!

Also, I'm surprised someone only just know figured out I renamed the Codecruncher. My friend told me to do that I wanna say about 6 months ago and it was too funny for me to refuse.

For the record (although I don't think this needed saying), it doesn't work on the Lithium. Not only because it has no expansion port, but because the CPU is completely different and it doesn't use Chives.

(that's fine though since it has unlimited file slots)

Do you ever plan to bring back expansion functionaility back to the AHOX Basic PCs? If you do, you could possibly create a dedicated RAM area for expansion I/O, so the main program RAM isn't affected at all.

I might, but I'm not sure.