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Off Topic forum / The First Real Zaurus Sl-c Competitor...

« on: February 01, 2005, 10:47:10 pm »

Could end up being more expensive given the winbloze tax....

would be awsome to be able to dual boot that sucker to PPC to run some apps that arent on the Z

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Sharp ROMs / Sdl Issues?

« on: January 23, 2005, 02:19:09 am »

is there a command to pass to sdl to rotate the mouse?

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Sharp ROMs / Sdl Issues?

« on: January 21, 2005, 12:40:04 pm »

Man, do you live on these forums?  

That fixed the pointer timing, but now its rotated.  Like up&down goes right&left,  and vise versa.  hehe  

sorry to be a pain in the ass =)

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Sharp ROMs / Sdl Issues?

« on: January 21, 2005, 11:18:54 am »

Holy crap! thanks so much it works like a charm now.  I wasnt expecting 640x480 to boot.  Its a bit choppy at that res,  but damn!

Thanks for the quick fix on that.

BTW when I switch the settings in Exult to go 320,240 is messes the pointer control up.  Is there a command to change the res that i should put in before exult starts or something?

thanks

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Sharp ROMs / Sdl Issues?

« on: January 20, 2005, 04:21:35 pm »

Very cool.

Thanks for lookin into it

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Sharp ROMs / Sdl Issues?

« on: January 20, 2005, 01:29:27 pm »

For many games out of the feed I have some annoying display issues.  Doom and Exult in particular.

  Whenever I start them up, all is fine and the game loads.  Then the Qtopia bar pops up in magnified mode and the whole thing locks up.  If I hit something like the calender button it goes back to 640x480 and shows the Qtopia desktop with the game now unfrozen running in the corner.

Anybody else have this problem? or even better a solution?

I'm running on an 860 with the Cacko 1.22 and everything is in ram.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / What's Fvwm?

« on: December 20, 2004, 11:03:43 pm »

Yup its just another window manager.  Gives you a different type of interface for X.  Is it better?  Well thats a matter of much debate.  It really all comes down to personal preference.  Honestly you can tweak the heck out of pdaXrom before you even get to the window manager itself.  Personally I'd use the default manager for now untill you're pretty confident you know what you're doing.  The only real reason I'd change the window manager would be to free up more memory.  Other than that my main focus is getting Snes9x and video playback to work perfectly.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Command Line Help Please

« on: December 20, 2004, 10:55:55 pm »

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/

Also i highly recommend just getting a book.  The Linux Pocket Guide is great.  Its about the size of a Z so you pack it along with your beast.  A desk reference is pretty good.  I like the O'Reilly books a lot.

Good luck!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Status Update..

« on: December 20, 2004, 12:22:04 am »

Anybody notice how many views this topic has had?  15000+ at the moment...  DANG!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Ext2 On A Cf Card

« on: December 15, 2004, 07:17:19 pm »

I dont know if its the same setup as with SDs, but when you format a SD its
/dev/mmcd/disc0/part1  rather than /dev/mmcda1

the cf might be similar to that, something like
/dev/hda/part1, /dev/hd/disc0/part1 or some such thing

just a stab in the dark tho

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Live Cd For Developpers

« on: December 12, 2004, 03:03:47 pm »

Dreamcast???  AWSOME!  bring life into the old girl!!  I have the NIC, mouse and kb to boot

sweet!

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Status Update..

« on: December 10, 2004, 09:49:14 am »

hehe,  I've been checking twice a day now.  Down from like 30x a day.  Trying not to go crazy....

However,  I totally respect the goal of putting out a bug free version.  Thats certainly what i want in the long run, rather than a buggy version now.

Thanks for all your hard word Laze.  Nothing I respect more than a perfectionist.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Are you running pdaXrom and for what?

« on: November 04, 2004, 12:36:50 am »

I use my Z for looking at porno, trolling on msg boards, spaming about my X43 webcam, DOS attacks, trashing access points named "linksys" and reseting the password, sending crank letters to the goventment, buying Viagra online, pretending I'm a lesbian on IRC, and bidding on stuff i cant pay for on ebay.

Basically all the stuff i do from my computer at home.

Ok so maybe I dont do all of that... But being able to basically do anything you can from home is the exact niche I think this rom falls into.  Sure the sharp rom makes a better PIM, but i can basically do everything the sharp rom did with a $50 cellphone.  I'd love to see more PIM functionality, but not at the cost of what Xrom is.  And that is a crappy computer (for a desktop) that fits in my pocket.  I even like the small fonts... you need the space if you want to run real apps.  Heck I'm posting from bed with my Z right now.  Now thats freakin cool.  I dont even have pants on!

Its the very fact that my Z is not a PIM anymore that keeps me hooked.  The closer the rom resembles my desktop the more I find I cant even go take a leak without keeping the Z nearby just incase.

If you're not using your Z as a pocket laptop, you should just stick with a sharp rom... IMHO  

btw, the rom kicks ass

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Are you running pdaXrom and for what?

« on: November 02, 2004, 05:17:46 pm »

I use it is basically as a laptop replacement.  Mostly i use it for word documents, spreadsheets, and surfing the net.  I also run kismet just to figure out access point names rather than as a security tool.  Snes9x is really all i need as far as games go.

I use a wlan card (socket) and a pretec wired lan card.

I do however use my other Z as a Pim and I'd like to bee able to sync it with Outlook.  I'd honestly like to just have the normal qtopia apps sync up.  This way i could just flip the Z into portrate mode and work it like a normal pda.

my 2 cents =)

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Most important missing/to be fixed in pdaXrom?

« on: October 31, 2004, 01:22:16 am »

I'd really like to see the spectrum drivers patched for monitor mode support.  I keep a second card just for kismet.

Also when I "hide" the taskbar it only hides the icons, not the bar itself.

that stuff would make my day