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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Genesis Neogeo Snes Turbografx Nes Gameboy Emu

« on: December 23, 2005, 06:52:31 pm »

so you can text type on a text editor in the zaurus through this controller?  you tried it?  Sorry for the stupid questions but if it does, the controller will solve alot of problems and ill be ordering one.  even create a ipk file with keymapping and all.

i been looking for one and been hesitating to try a bunch of different onees.

are you playing games with this on z as well?
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I can't use it on the Zaurus since there's no PS/2 port. You do exactly as you describe on a PC.
If you want a gaming controller on a PC which acts like a keyboard, this is the one to get (I've used mine for the past eight years without a problem). I haven't seen anything comparable which is USB though... I'd love to find one.

If I had a PS/2->USB keyboard converter lying around, I'd test it out on the Z (although this wouldn't solve my problem, since I need to press 3 keys at once [to get past two specific points in Chrono Trigger] and don't want to muck with keymappings)... I'll see if I can dig one up and post results.

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / "v5tel" Means?

« on: December 23, 2005, 06:43:42 pm »

I believe E indicates it has been DSP enhanced.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Genesis Neogeo Snes Turbografx Nes Gameboy Emu

« on: December 23, 2005, 03:53:22 pm »

BTW, the only joystick-as-keyboard devices I've seen which I like are PS/2, if anyone has a recommendation, I'm happy to hear it.
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they get identified as keyboard on a pc?
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Yes. Note that by PS/2 I mean PS/2 connector, not playstation 2. For example: [a href=\"http://www.act-labs.com/scripts/proddetails.asp?pid=38]Powerramp Mite[/url]

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Genesis Neogeo Snes Turbografx Nes Gameboy Emu

« on: December 23, 2005, 12:48:26 pm »

Even if it has gamepad support, you still need to modify the sh files and the znester.rc files to work for it.  I have not tried this.  So far, i play simple games like galaga or tetris or rpg's.

The way i see it, if you plug in a usb gamepad and its identified, try typing something into text file with the gamepad.  If you have letters coming out, its all about configuring the sh files or the .znester.rc.  I would try getting a gamepad that works out of the box....like it being identified as a keyboard and associate the buttons to the proper letter through the rc or sh files.

Otherwize, I'm clueless here.

Looks like snes9x needs to be built with --with-joystick to get joystick support.
Any chance you'll be rebuilding snes9x any time soon?
If not, could you point me at the sources you used for SDL snes9x (the stock ones don't seem to compile cleanly for me) and I'll rebuild myself?

Thanks.

BTW, the only joystick-as-keyboard devices I've seen which I like are PS/2, if anyone has a recommendation, I'm happy to hear it.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Genesis Neogeo Snes Turbografx Nes Gameboy Emu

« on: December 22, 2005, 12:04:26 pm »

Has anyone gotten a joystick to work with Cresho's packages?
I've got the joystick detected and can read input (cat /dev/js0), but it doesn't seem to do anything inside snes9x...
Cresho: is joystick support compiled into your SDL and snes9x?

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Landscape Nethack?

« on: December 21, 2005, 10:52:18 pm »

Can anyone point me at a recent nethack build which runs in landscape mode? All the binaries I've seen thus far are setup to run at 320x240 portrait mode.

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Screen Protector Removal

« on: December 20, 2005, 10:54:27 pm »

My screen protector is stuck... with three tiny pieces of lint below it (very annoying!).
Its a non-ashesive one, but it seems to be stuck on really well (static electricity?).
Any suggestions as to how to remove it? I tried a piece of tape, as someone suggested, but that seems to do nothing useful (maybe I'm doing it wrong?)
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Tape worked. Ignore me...

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Screen Protector Removal

« on: December 20, 2005, 10:39:28 pm »

My screen protector is stuck... with three tiny pieces of lint below it (very annoying!).
Its a non-ashesive one, but it seems to be stuck on really well (static electricity?).
Any suggestions as to how to remove it? I tried a piece of tape, as someone suggested, but that seems to do nothing useful (maybe I'm doing it wrong?)

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Hardware Mods / C1000 To C3100 Conversion?

« on: December 19, 2005, 09:30:31 pm »

not do-able
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Why not? I'd think this would be a relatively straightforward (but very delicate) soldering job...

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Nevermind. It's Been Fixed.

« on: December 19, 2005, 07:48:20 pm »

"cp -pr" will indeed copy a filesystem. The snag is that it doesn't understand symbolic links, so if you have say
  libsomething.so, libsomething.so.1, libsomething.so.1.1
where the two former are a soft link to the latter, when you do the copy you'll end up with three files, not two.

tar is often the best way to copy a file system, as it can not only preserve ownership but also symbolic links:
  cd olddir
  tar cf - . | (cd newdir ; tar xf -)

cp -d will not dereference symlinks, that is, if the input is a symlink, the output will also be one.

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Hardware Mods / C1000 To C3100 Conversion?

« on: December 18, 2005, 10:04:54 am »

Has anyone looked into the feasibility of turning a C1000 into a C3100 by soldering on an internal CF connector?

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Nevermind. It's Been Fixed.

« on: December 17, 2005, 11:09:03 pm »

But on a 6gb drive you can only have a total of four primary partitions, or three primary with extended. (as Bam already pointed out.) This is preclusive as both the swap partition and whatever you choose for partition 3 both will also demand to be Primary. You would then have four primary partitions and that prohibits any logical ones- and you would have to have at least one more to meet my requirements.

I'm not aware of any requirement that swap be a primary partition. With that said, I don't know that I've ever tried swap on an extended partition. If you've seen it stated as a requirement, can you point me at such a reference? (I'm always interested in learning something new)

Also this just addresses the partitioning. I also need to know how to properly copy the data from the old 4gb partitions to the new 6gb ones.
I've been told to use the dd command.  I'm totally disknowledgeable in it's use.  Can you enlighten me to its use? Or offer a better alternative?

The following should be sufficient (as would bam's suggestions):
With the 4GB drive in place:
dd if=/dev/hda1 of=~/hda1.dd # read all data off partition 1, store that data in "hda1.dd" in your homedir
dd if=/dev/hda2 of=~/hda2.dd # read all data off partition 2, store that data in "hda2.dd" in your homedir

With the 6GB drive in place, properly partitioned:
dd if=~/hda1.dd of=/dev/hda1 # read from ~/hda1.dd and output it to the new partition 1
dd if=~/hda2.dd of=/dev/hda2 # read from ~/hda2.dd and output it to the new partition 2

dd reads/writes the raw bytes from the filesystem ("if" is "input file", "of" is "output file").

If you put both disks in the Z at once, you should be able to do the dd directly without storing to the internal flash by doing:
dd if=/dev/ORIGINAL1 of=/dev/NEW1
dd if=/dev/ORIGINAL2 of=/dev/NEW1

where ORIGINAL is the location of your 4GB CF and NEW is the location of your 6GB CF. "hda" is the one internal to your unit. I don't whether the other will be "hdb" or "hdc" (If you have no SD card in, run "df -k" from the prompt, and you'll see which of the two is in use...)

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Nevermind. It's Been Fixed.

« on: December 17, 2005, 09:12:21 pm »

One.)  The first and second Primary partitions MUST exist as ext3 and MUST be 9mb in size apeice. Furthermore the number of sectors for each of those partitions must be identical to the original hard drive installation (20 apiece).  This gives us two useless 9mb partitions and only two other primary partitions to work with. Or one Primary with extended partitions. This is mandatory for the machine to boot at all. (Not what I WANT but mandatory nonetheless.)

Then add the following before the commands I've provided:
fdisk /dev/hda
n p 1 (enter) 20 # make partition 1. Make it 20 sectors in size.
n p 2 (enter) 20 # make partition 2. Make it 20 sectors in size.
t 1 83 # make partition 1's type  be linux
t 2 83 # make partition 2's type  be linux
w

(back at the shell prompt)
mke2fs -j /dev/hda1 # make partition1 ext3fs
mke2fs -j /dev/hda2 # make partition2 ext3fs

You've now got two 9MB partitions which come first on your drive.
Following the other directions will get you the other three partitions setup.

Primary partion at all and it is impossible to manually mount it.  The scripts I'm referring to try to manually force the third partition to be FAT32 and if it is not they simply refuse to mount it and prevent any other method of mounting.

This shouldn't be a problem, in my example the third partition remains FAT32.

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Nevermind. It's Been Fixed.

« on: December 17, 2005, 07:00:21 pm »

So, start a terminal and:
su
fdisk /dev/hda
d 3 #delete partition 3
n p 3 1 +3072M # create a 3GB partition #3
n e 4 (enter) (enter) # create a ~3GB extended partition #4
n l  (enter) +512MB # create a 512MB partition #5
n l (enter) (enter) # create a 2.5GB partition #6
t 3 b # label partition #3 as FAT32
t 5 82 # label partition #5 as swap
t 6 83 # label partition #6 as Linux
w # write changes back to the disk

 I should note that these are made into lines for convenience of explanation, each (space) in these instructions is really hitting (enter) and the hash mark (#) and data following it are comments and shouldn't be typed in.

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C1000/3x00 Hardware / Nevermind. It's Been Fixed.

« on: December 17, 2005, 06:58:05 pm »

After switching out the HDD’s what I wish to end up with is a partitioning scheme that includes the following:
-Complete compatibility with Cacko 1.23
-A 512mb Swap Partition (NOT a swap FILE!)
-A 2gb partition formatted with ext3 that is visible from within the Cacko 1.23 environment – It must be possible to install programs onto this drive!
-A 3gb FAT32 partition for hdd3/hda3 so that I can still use the Z as a USB storage device under Windows 2000.

The simple reason being that you cannot have 5 primary partitions on one drive, the maximum is 4 I believe.

but I REALLY want to avoid that performance hit!  - For the same reason I desperately do not want to have to settle for the performance of a swap file rather than a Swap Partition!

First off, let me throw out that I don't own a 3100 so I'm unable to guarantee this works perfectly. However, since I don't care about a reward, I don't feel bad giving you  a "This should work" solution.

Why do all five need to be primary partitions? Unless there's some really quirky zaurus-related reason, they don't need to be.

So, start a terminal and:
su
fdisk /dev/hda
d 3 #delete partition 3
n p 3 1 +3072M # create a 3GB partition #3
n e 4 (enter) (enter) # create a ~3GB extended partition #4
n l  (enter) +512M # create a 512MB partition #5
n l (enter) (enter) # create a 2.5GB partition #6
t 3 b # label partition #3 as FAT32
t 5 82 # label partition #5 as swap
t 6 83 # label partition #6 as Linux
w # write changes back to the disk

Now you've got your five partitions and are back at a command prompt.
mkswap /dev/hda5 # make partition #5 a swap partition
mke2fs -j /dev/hda6 # make partition #6 an ext3fs (-j makes it ext3...)
mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/hda3 # make partition #3 a FAT32 filesystem

Now you've got your filesystems created and just need to update /etc/fstab
load that up in your favorite editor (you need to be root to edit it, so do it from the command prompt, or run "chmod a+rwx /etc/fstab" first so user zaurus can edit it too...)

Change the fstab to add the following lines at the end:
/dev/hda5 (tab) none (tab) swap (tab) sw (tab) 0 0

You haven't specified where you want your new filesystems to be mounted.
Add the following line to your /etc/fstab, replacing /FOO with the mount point you'd like to reach the ext3fs at (/tmp for example [which is probably not a particularly good use of the space ])
/dev/hda6 (tab) /FOO (tab) ext3 (tab)  (tab) 0 0

Your new fat32 file system will continue to be mounted in the same place as the old one.

If you'd specify exactly where you want the filesystems, I'm happy to go into much more detail as to the appropriate lines to add to /etc/fstab.

Now reboot.