#96972 - bsder - Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:14 am
Okay, I've been doing homebrew with an EFA Linker for a while. It's a nice card, but it requires a Windows driver. I'd like to start doing some heavier development, but I really don't want to have to keep moving the binaries to Windows just to write my card.
So, what card would allow me to stay completely in Linux for everything?
I presume that the card needs to look like a pure USB drive, so which one qualifies? Alternatively, a solution in which I can remove a Compact Flash, miniSD, etc. card and use a generic reader/writer would be fine too.
What do the folks here recommend? Price isn't particularly an issue.
Thanks.
#96973 - tepples - Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:30 am
| bsder wrote: |
So, what card would allow me to stay completely in Linux for everything?
I presume that the card needs to look like a pure USB drive, so which one qualifies? Alternatively, a solution in which I can remove a Compact Flash, miniSD, etc. card and use a generic reader/writer would be fine too.
What do the folks here recommend? Price isn't particularly an issue. |
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#97000 - JaJa - Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:50 am
| tepples wrote: |
| bsder wrote: | So, what card would allow me to stay completely in Linux for everything?
I presume that the card needs to look like a pure USB drive, so which one qualifies? Alternatively, a solution in which I can remove a Compact Flash, miniSD, etc. card and use a generic reader/writer would be fine too.
What do the folks here recommend? Price isn't particularly an issue. |
Em. Three. |
I believe Tepples kinda cryptic reply was down to the fact we can't promote companies or products on these boards.
You could look/ask in the hardware forum http://forum.gbadev.org/index.php?c=3
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#97011 - dualscreenman - Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:29 am
I'd recommend a Supercard CF, but since you posted this over at DSLinux, you already know that. :-p
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#97021 - Scorpei - Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:39 pm
G6lite can be written to in Linux. and their software can (though badly) run via Wine.
#97064 - bsder - Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:13 pm
Sorry, I didn't realize that a product recommendation was going to be verboten. Mea culpa.
Based on recommendations from here and DSLinux, I ordered a Supercard CF.
I'm kinda waiting for things to settle out a bit before jumping into the newer stuff. I have a DS Lite, and really like the idea of some of the smaller solutions, but I'm going to wait a bit to let other people test the compatibility.
Thanks for the replies.
#97071 - ateam - Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:04 pm
The Super Card software can be run on Linux perfectly using CrossOver Professional, a commercial fork of WINE. CrossOver costs around $30, but it very worth the money, since both Cedega and plain old WINE can't run the SC patcher correctly.
#97076 - Linkiboy - Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:02 pm
| ateam wrote: |
| The Super Card software can be run on Linux perfectly using CrossOver Professional, a commercial fork of WINE. CrossOver costs around $30, but it very worth the money, since both Cedega and plain old WINE can't run the SC patcher correctly. |
And what "homebrew" needs to be patched to run on a SC CF?
#97082 - tepples - Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:17 pm
| bsder wrote: |
| Sorry, I didn't realize that a product recommendation was going to be verboten. Mea culpa. |
As I read the rules, product recommendation is OK; retailer recommendation isn't.
| Linkiboy wrote: |
| And what "homebrew" needs to be patched to run on a SC CF? |
None for the CF that I know of, but it appears that some makers of adapters are releasing patchers for homebrew that ran on older SD adapters to run on the company's newer SD adapters.
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#97093 - MaHe - Mon Aug 07, 2006 11:01 pm
| Linkiboy wrote: |
| ateam wrote: | | The Super Card software can be run on Linux perfectly using CrossOver Professional, a commercial fork of WINE. CrossOver costs around $30, but it very worth the money, since both Cedega and plain old WINE can't run the SC patcher correctly. |
And what "homebrew" needs to be patched to run on a SC CF? |
All the GBA homebrew, for instance ... :)
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#97187 - Scorpei - Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:50 pm
The SC software works fine with Wine, don't worry, never had any problems with it.
#97195 - sonny_jim - Tue Aug 08, 2006 2:18 pm
I can also confirm that the Supercard software will work under recent versions of Wine, although there is a few visual bugs it installs and works just fine.