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Sat Aug 30 2003 |
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Some minor news :
- the README file is now written and included into Js2mouse package.
- On Erwan's idea, I did some minor changes into SmallBASIC, now it works on DCLinux-010605,
but there is no sound because I remove links against LibPthread :-( .
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Mon Aug 4 2003
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Dream[Slack] is not dead,
I'm simply too lazy... Here comes really good news :
- There are two new great developpers : Kurdy and
Denis. Each of them make a great work and really help the Dream[Slack]
project. I will create a new section to present them and their works.
- Kurdy is working on the user interface : intuitive,
complete and nice... He provided me some parts of his works and it is
really promising !
- Denis successfully established a NFS connection
between DCLinux and his PC with the SLIP4DCLinux
package, as he said : "there was some minor glithes - but it works. If
you will try NFS on dc slip connection, dont forget to set read/write
buffers to 1024. No need in additional slattach binary (which you put in
archive with kernel), another slattach utility which originally in
dclinux distro works much better (it can handle up to 115200 kpbs, the
slattach wich came with kernel - only up to 38400). Use it the same way
as on pc: "slattach -s 115200 -p slip /dev/ttySC1 &"". He has also
done some tests with Linux/DC.
- LinuxDC team is working on the latest kernel versions
(2.4.6-testX), you can find binaries here.
- I finished my school report
for the Dream[Slack] project (in French, appendices are in English).
You can find in it : some great mistakes, the complete status of
Dream[Slack], the development envisaged, more screenshots, ...
- You can download Js2mouse
sources (no docs, and no key-remapping for the moment).
If you've got some questions, don't hesitate...
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Wed May 28 2003
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Sorry for this long
silence, but time is running out !
- Dream[Slack] distro is deferred due to some
technicals problems... :(
- Js2Mouse finally work perfectly (no latency or FIFO
errors) with any kind of joysticks (analog/digital/both at the same
time) and on every Linux Box (PC/DreamCast/washing machine/...).
- Developpers of Links-2.1 become really active and
make a wonderfull work !!!
Sorry, but I don't have the time to provied you the new links-2.1 or
js2mouse binaries and to repair broken links....
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Mon May 5 2003
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Toolchains are updated !
Sugioka provides new
packages for sh-linux (DreamCast target) :
The cross-devel-kit of Dream[Slack] is now based on these...
I would like to thank all the LinuxDC staff, for their work, but
especially for their help and their sympathy !!!
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Sun
May 4 2003 |
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You can download a package
which contain 'js2mouse' for testing on DCLinux-010605. This is the
first beta version, there are some nuisances :
- When you move quickly the joystick, there is a
latency.
- You may have the following error : "js2mouse.c:54
-> Writing on the FIFO : Resource temporarily unavailable".
But don't be afraid, I know where it comes from, and I will correct it
later. Source code will be release under GPL after the presentation of
my work to the jury (end of June).
Now I will work on :
- The creation of the Dream[Slack] initrd.
- Putting js2mouse in the kernel space, the 'map' and
'convert' functions don't use any libs so I will reuse these ;-).
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Mon Apr 21 2003
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Sorry for this long
silence , I had exams...
Here comes bad news :
- I've failed on creating a special cross-devel-kit for
DCLinux-010605, fortunately the Bill Gatliff's cross-devel-kit works
well on this distro...
Now the good news :
- I'd like to thank LyonHrt, he believe in
my project, so I'm really encouraged !!!
- LinuxDC project is
waking up.
- Links2.1
too...
- I've fully peeled the protocol PS2, so a release of
'js2mouse' will come soon...
- I've compiled linux-2.4.10-pre6 with SLIP support
(network through serial port) for DCLinux-010605, and ... IT WORKS !!!
Thanks to Christian Berger for his the excellent SEGA
Dreamcast SLIP/Linux HOWTO.
You can download a package with quick instructions and prebuilt
kernel+initrd.
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Sat Mar 29 2003
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Whouah !!! I can't believe
it... Dream[Slack] is on the good way :
- Thanks to Dr Zoidberg, Xylene, Captain Skyhawk & polochon for posting a news on DCEmulation and DCEvolution !!!
- The driver to
convert joystick input into mouse input works with GPM and Xfree86 !!!
For the moment this is quite hard to use it, but I will work on it
later...
- I found more
recent tool-chains on the DCLinux ftp server, so I will update the
devel-kit.
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Fri Mar 7 2003 |
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It was a perfect week !!!
I've successfully passed first informatic licence semester, and my
Dream[Slack] announce was published on web @ DCreload (a great French 'DC
second-life' site).
I would like to thank Oggy for the 'official' Dream[Slack]
forum (French AND English).
There are also bad news, I must successfully passed second informatic
licence semester, so I must work for two weeks... ;-)
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Sat Mar 01 2003
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I've find a way to take
'great' screenshots from the dreamcast frame buffer device :
- Open a connection with remote terminal from serial
port (cable coder needed), ex : minicom, Hyper Terminal, ... Set the
configuration to : speed 115200 bps 8n1, hardware flow control,
transfert ZMODEM.
- THEN boot the DC, not before...
- When prompt, log into the two terminals.
- Set the DC FB device to 16 bpp : 'dreamcast:~# fbset
-depth 16'
- Do what you want ;-)
- Upload frame buffer memory mapped : 'dreamcast:~# sz
/dev/fb0'... Be patients it takes 11 mins... I think you can compress it
on the fly, but i have not tested...
- Convert the raw file to another format, ex :
'pc:~#fb2png fb0 output.png 0 640 480 16'
- That's all folks...
As you can see, the background color is ugly.... I will work on this
later... But images are perfectly displayed !!!
You can download this 'high quality' screenshots in the Downloads
section, the old images are removed.
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Fri Feb 28 2003
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I've dissected DCLinux's
boot and start sequences, I think I will make something like this...
I'm thinking about how to implement 'js2mouse' driver...
I've tested Links2.1-pre7 (static), here comes the result :
- Background colors are ugly, why ??? I will work on
this later...
- gpm don't work, but this is normal, I did not use the
good library...
- Pictures are properly displayed.
- The screen is perfectly centered on TV screen.
- The font is beautiful.
You can find screenshots on Downloads section. They are ugly because I
use a video camera to shoot my TV screen...
You can download the Links2.1-pre7 binary that I use.
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Sat
Feb 15 2003 |
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Two new things :
- A new (ugly) site.
- A new section : Downloads, where you can find
pre-compiled cross development tools for PC.
This week, I don't work on Dream[Slack], I have some homeworks...
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Sat Feb 8 2003
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New session of compilation
: I rebuilt all libs as static AND dynamics and apps, from scratch... I
updated versions :
- gpm-1.20.0 with ncurses support (1.20.1 don't seem to
compile correctly...)
- libpng-1.2.5
- libtiff-3.6.0-beta (this is the only version that I
was able to compile as shared library for linux-sh4)
I downloaded linuxSH-2.5.13, I will test it later (I saw that
there is a DreamCast support !!!)
I am working on a test mini-distro which boot through serial port
and mount a multisession cd as / to test these libs and progs.
I began to read documentations about module development; the book
"Linux device drivers" for the bases, $SRC_LINUX/Documentation and
commentaires/codes for input...
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Sun Feb 2 2003
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I've cross-compiled
succefully, for linux-sh4-dreamcast :
- kernel-sh-linux-dreamcast 2.4.10-pre6 with grdrom-cd
support.
- glibc-2.2.4
- busybox-0.60.1
- ncurses-5.3 with gpm support.
- gpm-1.19.6 with ncurses support.
- zlib-1.1.4
- libpng-1.0.12 (I can't compile links-2.1pre7 with
libpng-1.2.1...)
- libjpeg.v6b
- libtiff-v3.5.7
- links-2.1pre7 with framebuffer, png, tiff, jpeg,
javascript and gpm support !!!
I've tested successfully :
- links-2.1pre7 with javascript support, on
DCLinux-010605
- boot trough the serial port the Bill Gatliff's
mini-distro
I need to create a distro which boot through serial port and mount a
multisession cd as / to test these libs and progs.
I must rebuild all of libs as static AND dynamics libraries.
I HAVE TO begin the module development.
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Tue Jan 28 2003
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I received the
needed material to develop on dreamcast.
So, now I can see what to do :
- Write a kernel module (hardware independant) to use
joystick instead of a mouse.
- Create a distro for Dreamcast , named Dream[Slack]
using this work.
I can't port Slackware for Dreamcast because linux-sh binaries
aren't up to date... And it's quite difficult to create patchs for a
whole environement !!!
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