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Software / Virtual Box For The Zaurus?

« on: January 23, 2015, 04:52:26 am »

Technically, any computing device can emulate any other, so the Zaurus (various models) could emulate others - but the limitations are storage and processing speed.  With a big enough CF or SD card, storage need not be a problem, but the low processing speed limits the complexity of the emulation - plus, you'd be emulating the hardware as well. I doubt whether VirtualBox could run on a Z, but highly-optimised emulations - i.e. CPU emulation core written in ARM assembler - might work.  UAE runs quite well on my SL-5500, and it's written in C (note, I have not tried FS-UAE, but am using the old UAE).

I use the following rule: if the system to be emulated was made before 1990, it might work on the SL-5500.  SIMH works well because it is not too resource-hungry (apart from the VAX).

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Software / Looking For The Simh Ipk

« on: July 12, 2009, 03:36:24 am »

Does anyone have a working link for the simh_3.1_arm.ipk?  The original host at www.kerberos-research.com appears to be dead.  

I'd love to find this. Running a PDP-11 emulator on the Z looks like a lot of fun!

I've had SIMH running on my SL-C860 for a couple of years now: I installed development tools and compiled it from source.  When I had pdaXrom on my Z, I put up a basic webpage with a .tar.gz of SIMH:

SIMH on Zaurus (pdaXrom)

This is pretty old now, and I run Angstrom and compiled it for that as well.  Let me know if you're interested.  I've run SIMH on an hx4700 iPAQ and got OpenVMS 7.3 running on the VAX emulator: it was pretty slow, but it was usable (sort-of).

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Software / Date Stamp In Vim

« on: July 12, 2009, 03:21:20 am »

Escape the '%' characters with '\' and it should work, e.g.
[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']:r !date +"\%Y \%m \%d"[/div]

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Software / Frotz

« on: July 12, 2009, 03:08:15 am »

I can run frotz through the terminal, but I don't know how to load any games because I don't know where the program is looking.  Basically, how can I tell the terminal to load from the SD Card?  Or, conversely, where should I drop the game file so that Frotz can find it?

This may not be of much help since my reply is VERY late: the commandline version of Frotz (I'm using Frotz 2.43 with ncurses) looks at the environment variable INFOCOM_PATH.  I have something like this in my .bash_profile:
[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']export INFOCOM_PATH=/home/lex/Infocom[/div]

Frotz then finds the data files, whatever the current dir.

Also, Frotz doesn't pick up the width and height of the tty that I'm logged into, so I renamed the Frotz binary to 'frotz.arm' and wrote a script to call it:

[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']
#!/bin/sh
# Call frotz.arm with width and height
# 03-Oct-08
# Get rows and columns from stty, as tput doesn't allow querying
rows="`stty -a | head -n 1 | cut -d ";" -f 2 | tr -dc "0123456789"`"
cols="`stty -a | head -n 1 | cut -d ";" -f 3 | tr -dc "0123456789"`"
$0.arm -w ${cols} -h ${rows} $@
[/div]
I hope that this helps!

Lex

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Debian / Socket Bluetooth Cf Card Not Working (surprise!)

« on: September 09, 2008, 04:36:19 am »

I have a Bluetooth CF card on Angstrom on SL-C860.

ant, thanks for your script as it was enough to get my card working.  I have no idea what manufacturer the card is - it doesn't return an ID, other than 'Bluetooth CF card', when I do 'pccardctl ident'.

This worked though:

[div class=\'codetop\']CODE[/div][div class=\'codemain\' style=\'height:200px;white-space:pre;overflow:auto\']modprobe serial_cs
modprobe hci_uart
hciattach -s 115200 /dev/ttyS4 socket 230400
hciconfig hci0 up[/div]

Perhaps I should post this on an Angstrom forum but it's late in the day and I am dozing off at the keyboard.

Lex

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Security and Networking / Bluetooth DUN not working ... please help

« on: January 30, 2005, 02:44:40 am »

Hi,

p.s. although it is strange that when i do:

sdptool browse i only get the mac address i dont get more information like im supposed to, like the channel for example.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=64296\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

I had trouble with 'sdptool browse' showing nothing, so I tried 'sdptool search' instead, and that worked.

E.g.  sdptool search DUN 12:34:56:78:90

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Sharp ROMs / Cacko Rom 1.22 Is Available!

« on: January 04, 2005, 10:35:20 pm »

... I take it that due to the flash needing to be resized, the standard diag menu rom backup doesn't work properly? ... that's how I've always done backups before - perhaps the only backups I should do are via the backup/restore utility?

Please, read my previous posts carefully - no backup/restore between different ROM versions. Period.  At least, I'm not going to support such scenario because there are too many differences between the ROMs.

Understood.  In this case, I wasn't doing a backup/restore from the Qt utility, but rather from the Sharp diag menu: the full ROM/RAM backup.  What I was wondering was whether the Sharp backup utility somehow corrupts the backup file as it is not aware of the resized flash partitions.  This is a little off-topic, I admit.

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Sharp ROMs / Cacko Rom 1.22 Is Available!

« on: January 04, 2005, 01:15:38 pm »

Thanks for this new rom, which is a dream come true: it's fast, it's functional, everything that I can run on it, I can run after a few clicks - the package feed system is excellent.  My Origo NL-2511CF wireless card worked straight away, and I can run X with the x-qtserver - too cool!!   (I'm currently displaying the 'deco' X screensaver on it, wirelessly, from another host).

One oddity: I was running 1.21b before, did a ROM/RAM backup from the diag menus and tried to restore it later, using the diag menus again: my SL-C860 flagged a rather ominous-looking red error.  I take it that due to the flash needing to be resized, the standard diag menu rom backup doesn't work properly?  Actually I should not have been messing with this since it is way beyond my knowledge, but that's how I've always done backups before - perhaps the only backups I should do are via the backup/restore utility?

Alex

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / WLAN card compatibility

« on: August 27, 2004, 02:25:00 pm »

System: pdaXrom 1.1 'Kathrin' on SL-C860

Hi,

I just got my Origo Wireless LAN CF card working, but I didn't add anything to hermes.conf - added the following to /etc/pcmcia/config instead (I realise now that I should perhaps have added it to the other file instead).  My comments are in square brackets here:

card "Origo Wireless LAN CF card" [can be anything, i guess?]
   manfid 0x000b, 0x7100  [output from 'cardctl ident']
   bind 'orinoco_cs'

I rebooted the Zaurus after adding this stuff, plugged in the card and its LED flickered briefly and stayed lit.  I went into System Tools / LAN & WiFi and set up SSID and WEP modes.  After that, all was plain sailing.  

Since I'm a total newbie to pdaXrom and to the Zaurus in general, I was looking for /etc/pcmcia/wlan-ng.conf and didn't find it.  I have a bit to learn about wireless systems.

Alex