Busy busy as always, but still trying new packages as they catch my eye. Not that anyone is surprised at what the Z2 can do after seeing Full Throttle running, but for the MSX lovers out there openMSX runs at 100% speed with sound etc etc. Just apt-get install openmsx, and run it once with a rom. Exit out, then edit the ~/.openMSX/share/settings.xml and set your scale factor to one. I found a sample config file on the net here that worked well. That will set the output to 320×240, looks and runs great.
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I acquired the Trivial Pursuit – Digital Choice Edition game at a local target for 10$. It’s an interesting little device, with an b&w LCD display, usb out, 16mb internal storage, and the ability to download or create your own questions… on windows only (ouch).. Turns out it’s an interesting device. Here’s what I’ve been able to find out so far.
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So now that the Z2 is running debian and everything is working, it’s really easy to install new programs and emulators. They are even automatically added to the fluxbox right-click mouse menu. I haven’t changed or recompiled a single C file this time, this is fully “general public” ready! Here’s what I’ve been playing with this weekend.
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Just a quick followup to the debian image video. Bomberclone is in the debian repository. It loads, but at 640×480. You can change this in the source code and re-compile if you wish, however it’s still (mostly) playable at 640...
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So you’ve only got a windows machine handy, and you want to flash your Z2 to the newest debian (apt-get! no more cross-compiling!) image with wireless? This video is for you. Full Text after the jump.
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And not just HULU, anything that you can dynamically transcode and serve on the network, you can watch or listen to on the Z2. 30 rock on the Zipit Z2? Oh YES THANKS. Instructions after the jump.
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Here is a video Mark and I made of the complete flashing and installation process, and a tour of the new userland features. For those following along at home, the required setup artifacts are below. You will need
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Aliosa27 continues his trend of FANTASTIC progress read on below Continued from the last article post, from Aliosa27»>
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A couple of months ago, Mark and I were playing some wormux on the PC. I had all my characters and teams set up, and all my macros just the way I liked them. The next day my computer crashed and lost everything. To prevent this from happening again, we sat down and wrote this python program, “Save Game Saver”. Basically you set up a profile for a game (location of save game), then it allows you to upload those saves to gmail. Each upload is versioned in gmail, so you can store and retrieve multiple saves you uploaded on any day for any game. Considering Steam and Xbox are both moving towards this internally, this would be kind of a stepping stone till game developers get off their asses and figure it out. Mark and I both found it really useful though, so go ahead and download it or alter the source.
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So I finally sanitized my root fs and managed to get it down to about 200 megs, grab it here. Todd got the correct keymap working in X, grab it here Todd built a battlevel ipkg , grab it here (From Todd: “To get the battery meter to work I had to manually create some inodes, with: mknod /dev/i2c-0 c 89 0”)
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