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5x00 General discussions / Installing Ti85 Emulator.

« on: July 13, 2009, 08:40:27 am »

It's been a while since I've had my zaurus out of the closet and I was going to try installing the TI85 emulator (I've already got the ROM for it), but I'm a bit rusty and hazy on the process.  I was hoping for a little jump-start  from someone to get going again.

Thanks.

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Software / Zug Downloads

« on: February 08, 2007, 08:30:34 am »

Is anyone else hosting the roms?  Particularly for the 5500?  Seems a shame to let this resource slip away.

Thanks.

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Software / Zug Downloads

« on: February 07, 2007, 09:43:47 pm »

Will ZUG Downloads be available again, or will this remain an inaccessible feature?  Noticed this a while ago and haven't seen any discussion about it.

Thanks.

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Deals and Great Z Buys / Relatively Cheap Batteries For 760/860 Or 5000

« on: August 11, 2006, 08:56:50 am »

It's definitely after-market, but I've used one for over six months in my 5500 and I've had very good experience with it.  Hard to beat the price when they have it on half-price clearance.  The only bite is the $6 shipping charge, but it comes bubble-wrapped in a box.

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Accessories / Can You Use Pcmcia Cards

« on: August 17, 2005, 12:09:07 pm »

I'm no genius, but I fooled around with this for a while. I think I ran into power consumtion problems. I was trying to run a 5v lucent/orinoco/cabletron/att/whatever pcmcia card over an adaptor. I got the drivers to load, and read from the card, but never managed to enable it as a dev

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It has to be an older card that is 16 bit and runs on 3.0 or 3.3 volts, the cf slot doesn't supply any more than that.

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General Discussion / SD users with ext2 FS: please share your experiences!

« on: June 24, 2005, 08:56:57 am »

[span style=\'font-size:25pt;line-height:100%\']Important corrections for the poll!!![/span]

Sorry folks, I was wrong when writing in the poll question:

* ZUG polling allows each of us to vote only once. For your vote, give the answer for the card that you use the most often.

* The question should have read: If you use SD card(s) with ext2 partition, have you ever encountered any problem (filesystem corruption, card damage, ...)? If there's an ZUG admin that could change the poll question, I'd appreciate it *very much*.

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Hi,

I start this new thread for a single purpose: trying to centralize the experiences of Zaurus users who employ their SD cards with ext2 filesystem. Could you share your experiences, whether good or bad? This may help others too, to judge whether it is worth trying using SD + ext2.

My experience has been a bad one. (Only 1 experience, so it's unfair to conclude right away.) I used to own a Lexar SD 256MB 32x which I re-format to ext2 right after I received it. After 2 months it broke down, and reformatting it would result in a completely unusable card.

I have checked around and seems like people suggest to NOT mess up with filesystem on an SD card. See e.g.

http://docs.zaurus.com/index.php?id=managi...ing_sd_cf_howto

Now, MMC card seems to be okay to use for ext2. But MMC is slow, and NOT necessarily cheaper than SD anymore (note that, folks!).

So, please contribute your experience, and we'll see if this law applies:

SD + ext2 = corruption


Thanks,
Wirawan
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My experience with the Sandisk 512 SD is that it does not handle ext2 very well, it appears to format fine, it looks fine - it just doesn't work, even after numerous reformats.  I put it back to FAT16 and it functions OK, I formatted my old LEXAR 128 SD to ext2 and it works like a charm.  One thing I did notice was that ext2 handles application installs fine, but stalls out on simple file transfers - is this normal?

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General Discussion / Sandisk Sd Card Formatting

« on: June 16, 2005, 01:14:01 pm »

I appreciate the response, but I used to have a fair number of programs installed on my old Lexar 128 SD formatted as FAT and I could easily transfer files to it.  I formatted the Sandisk to EXT2 hoping to make it easier to install even more programs to it.  Nothing appears to be outwardly wrong with the card's setup, but I can't put anything more on it.  I was hoping that by this time we were well beyond the previous Sandisk snafu's, but maybe not.

My experience (SL6000L, Sharp ROM) has been that most programs won't install to SD or CF, and only work properly when installed to internal flash.  So you're probably not doing anything wrong - that's just the way it is.  Internal, hard-coded stuff with the OS, eh.

But if you've installed programs like dictionaries, Bible readers, Gutenbooks and the like, you can probably install their data directories to SD or CF, which could account for substantial space savings on internal flash.
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General Discussion / Sandisk Sd Card Formatting

« on: June 16, 2005, 09:09:27 am »

A while back I reformatted my 512 Sandisk SD to ext2 in order to move most of my programs onto it and save room on my 5500's internal memory.  I have only been able to install a couple of programs on it, everything else fails to set up, it won't even accept files transferred for storage.  Did I overlook any step beyond reformatting?

Thanks.

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5x00 Hardware / PCMCIA adapter

« on: November 30, 2004, 02:51:40 pm »

Whoops!  That's semsons.com.  

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5x00 Hardware / PCMCIA adapter

« on: November 30, 2004, 02:49:44 pm »

Try semson.com  

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Security and Networking / Extending Wireless Range

« on: February 18, 2004, 09:08:00 am »

A more mobile approach would be to use a compatible pc wifi card that has a built-in antennae connector with a pcmcia to cf adapter.  You\'d be taking a battery performance hit with the pc card but it would allow you to enhance your reception.  Actually, just the pc card\'s own antennae should give you better reception, my Samsung pc card usually shows double the signal strength of my D-Link 660.