Psx4zaurus Now Supports Cacko! :)

[andresgriego]

Holy impressive! I can't believe how well this runs. This is quite the show piece for a Zaurus.

Jon_J's instructions worked perfectly for a C3100.

I have only tested
Lunar 2: Eternal Blue (Disc 1 only so far)
Definately playable.
400MHz = 7-9 FPS and a slight shutter in the audio every 3-4 seconds.
624MHz(204 bus) = 9 - 12 FPS and the slight shutter is there but lessened.

I am going to try Bubble Bobble and Macross later. I'll let you guys know how it goes. Haven't been able to use save-state successfully yet, which is critical IMO.

I will also make a post in the PSX4ALL forums because I want to see more done for cacko and PSX4ALL.

Truely fantastic. Thanks for doing this!  

[Jon_J]

I know this is a longshot, and is the reason I haven't been reading/posting in these forums lately.
I've been playing Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion on my PC. This is a huge game!
http://www.elderscrolls.com/home/home.htm
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Oblivion
It comes on a DVD and installs the full 4.38GB to your hard drive.
Oblivion is also available on the xbox.
Is it possible to get xbox games to run on this emulator?
Is there an xbox emulator that would run on the Zaurus?
At the moment, I'm running Oblivion on my PC by using Oldblivion.
Oldblivion is a program that dummies down the graphics.
(I'm not ready to buy another $300.00 -> $500.00 video card just to play this game in it's full glory)

[bolbit]

1 month since the last realease. zodttd are you still around here ??

[speculatrix]

I never tried playstation1 emulator before, although I followed the discussion keenly. A lot of my colleagues are into gaming, so I though it'd be a good chance to show off my Z.

I checked out the psx4all website and downloaded the latest b4/4 release, and tried it on my C3100 running cacko, and was stunned to find it work (I borrowed a copy of Azure Dreams, didn't know if it worked, now added to Tyrannozauruse's list of compatible games).

Amazing, in a way until you've tried it yourself you won't believe it's possible (even though I've used qemu and vmware for some time, doing this sort of thing on the Z somehow seems harder).

Great! I look forward to future speedups.

[matthis]

Does anyone still have the psx package for cacko?

[Jon_J]

This is the only Cacko version that I have. I think it is the last version for Cacko. It's been awhile since I messed with it.
Notice, when you unzip or open the zip file, there is also a pdaxrom dir.
I think I only installed the stuff in all the other directories.

[matthis]

Thanks for your fast help!!

[speculatrix]

This is the only Cacko version that I have. I think it is the last version for Cacko. It's been awhile since I messed with it.
Notice, when you unzip or open the zip file, there is also a pdaxrom dir.
I think I only installed the stuff in all the other directories.

thanks for taking the time to post that.

[Jon_J]

thanks for taking the time to post that.

Any time I can help a fellow 'Z' user, I will.
I don't have expert or advanced Linux skills, so if I can post a needed file for someone, and explain what it is for, I'll do that.
Since the first day I "discovered" OESF forums, I have been archiving everything I found that is useful for the Z.
All backed up to DVDs.
I'm not giving up on my precious two Zauri. I plan to keep them for a very long time.

[zodttd]

I was contacted recently about psx4zaurus...I apologize sincerely for my absence. And its been quite a long while too. I just found the Zaurus and will feature it on www.zodttd.com as well.
Time to dig up a Cacko ROM and toolchain! Working on getting a release out tonight. So much has happened since I last developed for the Zaurus! Glad to get the lil gadget back up and going.

Might be the wrong place to ask, but in addition to Cacko, what other distros should I compile for?
pdaXrom Beta 3?
Angstrom?

[zodttd]

I was contacted recently about psx4zaurus...I apologize sincerely for my absence. And its been quite a long while too. I just found the Zaurus and will feature it on www.zodttd.com as well.
Time to dig up a Cacko ROM and toolchain! Working on getting a release out tonight. So much has happened since I last developed for the Zaurus! Glad to get the lil gadget back up and going.

Might be the wrong place to ask, but in addition to Cacko, what other distros should I compile for?
pdaXrom Beta 3?
Angstrom?

Oh my, I cant find cross-sdk-armv5tel-cacko-linux-3.4.6-2.2.5-softfloat.tar.bz2 anywhere. Its the pdaXrom toolchain for Beta3 based pdaX distros.
I'm still searching for a cacko toolchain. I remember it being a pain to set up before. Eep.

EDIT: Found it: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distri...ftfloat.tar.bz2

[matthis]

Hi, nice to hear that you're back on the Z!
Here's the toolchain for cacko:
http://www.katastrophos.net/zaurus/kernels...1.09.05.tar.bz2
I have used it successfully to compile the cacko kernel.

Here's another one, which I have used to compile some games before: it already has SDL and some other libs. (though SDL is not the bvdd version):
http://web.mita.keio.ac.jp/~mh070504/cacko-toolchain.zip

hope this helps.

[Dromede]

Glad to have you back zodttd. maybe you should check out the more recent distro's. the 2.6 kernel series for zaurii is quite complete and stable and there are some improvements to the pxafb code, like double buffering.

[Capn_Fish]

Might be the wrong place to ask, but in addition to Cacko, what other distros should I compile for?
pdaXrom Beta 3?
Angstrom?

My list would be:

-Angstrom
-Cacko
-pdaX Beta 3/pdaXii13
-Debian armel

That covers most of the Z community, and Angstrom/Debian builds shouldn't be hard to do at all. The Beta 3 build should run on r1xx as well.

Glad to see you back!

[pelrun]

Hey zodttd, you released psx4zaurus source code and didn't tell us!  

http://github.com/zodttd/psx4all/tree/master

Yay!