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Sharp Zaurus / Re: Sharp Zaurus zapple Apple II emulator

« on: June 08, 2026, 05:45:01 am »

The author has answered me, unfortunately it seems we are out of luck:

"Thanks you for your email. I havn't archive my work regarding the emulator. Also, my zaurus has been out of order and won't work now. I am sorry about that."

I'll now try to get in touch with the users who have posted on the forum that they have tried the emulator, one of them has opened this thread:
https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?topic=14442.0

Failing that, it could be worth to try to do again a port. Zapple is based on YAE 0.6, that version seems to have been the last one:
https://web.archive.org/web/20241007010758/http://www.netfront.net:6502/

Varti

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Sharp Zaurus / Re: Sharp Zaurus zapple Apple II emulator

« on: June 07, 2026, 07:01:18 pm »

Hi and welcome!

I have checked the URL of the blog, mentioned on the forum thread, on archive.org:

http://led.e-fever.org/zaurus/modules/mydownloads/

The page has been stored, but the emulator's archive has not since it was probably downloadable only after logging in on the blog. I have also searched on the web and in my local Zaurus archives, to no avail. I have found two old email addresses of the author, I have sent him an email, I'll report if he'll answer back.

Varti

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Re: Security certificate expired

« on: June 07, 2026, 05:46:47 pm »

Our host has fixed the issue, I no longer see the certificate error here. Please let me know if it's fixed for you too, so that I can confirm them about the fix working.

Varti

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Re: Security certificate expired

« on: June 03, 2026, 05:30:01 pm »

There's already a ticket on Ibiblio, opened 9 days ago, about the certificate being expired, it seems they have not fixed it for our forum, I have notified them about the issue:

https://support.ibiblio.org/t/expired-certificate/1047

Varti

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Re: Issue with new users registrations

« on: June 03, 2026, 05:22:03 pm »

Hi koan, long time no see, glad to see you again.

Yes, unfortunately the registration emails are not being sent since a while. These days I'm doing a (long overdue) forum upgrade, I first want to check that this issue is not related to the forum software being too old for the PHP version used by our hosting service (ibiblio). In case this won't fix it I'll open a ticket to the host. In the meantime I usually manually accept all the registration requests, these days unfortunately I was quite busy, sorry for the inconvenience.

Varti

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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: it looks like a dead forum, is it just a bad moment or is it really dead?

« on: April 15, 2026, 07:02:27 am »

Hi btgdelta and welcome! Unfortunately I can't help you with the SD card reader initialization, but looking forward for any progress report. Does gentoo still support the armv5 CPUs?

Varti

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Site Suggestions, Requests, and Updates / Issue with new users registrations

« on: April 12, 2026, 04:43:57 am »

Hi,

an user has informed me that it's not possible to register any new account since emails are not being sent. I'm now investigating on this.
In the meanwhile, I have manually accepted all the account request, so those of you that are still waiting for the mail should have the account validated, let me know if it works now.

Varti

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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: it looks like a dead forum, is it just a bad moment or is it really dead?

« on: April 12, 2026, 04:39:45 am »

Hi ArchiMark, glad to see you back here, hope things are going well for you.
I'm also interested if there are news about the new bootloader.

Varti

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Gemini PDA - Hardware / Re: Gemini notification LED

« on: March 20, 2026, 04:29:38 am »

AFAIR LEDison only lets you configure the five LEDs in the middle.

Varti

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New products and alternatives / Mecha Comet portable Linux device on Kickstarter

« on: February 02, 2026, 10:24:29 am »

The Mecha Comet is a modular handheld Linux computer that lets you swap out the parts to suit what you want to use it for. A keyboard, a gaming controller and an IO board module have been announced so far.

https://www.xda-developers.com/i-love-this-linux-handheld-computer-and-you-can-help-fund-it-right-now/

The device can be configured as follows:
- an AMD64 I.MX8M Plus CPU, 4-core, up to 1.8 GHz or an I.MX95 CPU, 6-core, up to 1.8 GHz
- 2GB, 4GB or 8GB RAM
- 64GB or 128GB eMMC storage, an external MicroSD card or an NVMe SSD disk can be used too, supported size up to 1TB
- a 3.92" AMOLED display

It will be available starting from May 2026 (I.MX8M Plus version) or September 2026 (I.MX95 version). The prices start from $189/€160 for the base model, the modules and all the other accessories must be ordered separately.

As a word of warning, this is a Kickstarter project, so keep in mind that the project might not reach its goal or the pledged money be returned.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mecha-systems/mecha-comet-modular-linux-handheld-computer

Varti

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Cosmo Communicator - Android / Re: Android Recovery missing partition and custom OS options?

« on: November 25, 2025, 11:55:25 am »

Hi,

have you tried flashing with both 'Aeroplane mode' and 'Do not disturb' ON? What error does the CoDi Assistant return?

Varti

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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: YT video about Zaurus and intel arm

« on: October 03, 2025, 11:58:45 am »

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PDA ---- serial ---- laptop ---- VGA ---- VGAvideo-grabber


I didn't know this was possible. Too bad it won't be possible to do the same with a video output e.g. showing the Sharp ROM desktop GUI, not enough bandwidth on the serial port for a start...

Varti

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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: YT video about Zaurus and intel arm

« on: October 03, 2025, 03:27:57 am »

I believe your bootloader is shown at

v3-rev, is shown at 13:16

Aha, missed it, it shows a bit more of this. Is that clip showing it running on an emulator?

Varti

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Zaurus - Other distros support / Re: YT video about Zaurus and intel arm

« on: October 02, 2025, 09:07:57 am »

Nice that we still have coverage of the Zaurus after all these years, and that your project is also shown! I believe your bootloader is shown at this time in the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHZyDh0vyl4&t=887s

Varti

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Gemini PDA - Linux / Re: "The Scatter file does not correspond to this device" error.

« on: October 02, 2025, 07:44:21 am »

Glad to hear you have managed to flash it, though it find it strange that it worked only on Windows. I remember having issues as well flashing my Gemini from Linux (I use Void Linux), I don't remember the details of the issue, due to lack of time I had to use Windows.

Varti