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Coding > New Project Idea

#34047 - dist0rted - Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:38 pm

Well, I've been having some ideas, but most aren't very good. This one looks pretty cool, and would give you something to do with that old 486 running MS-DOS and/or Windows 3.1.

Anyways, the Linux GBA System. I'll take a minimal version linux that will be maybe 10-20 MBs and program it to run GameBoy Advance ROMs. If anyone knows about programming graphics for the linux console, please let me know. Otherwise, if X is required, I'll have to think of someway to make it like 10 MBs and have no window manager, I'd just preload a ROM from the hard drive or a connected GBA.
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#34054 - Abscissa - Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:12 am

Hey, that does sound like a pretty cool idea.

#34059 - tepples - Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:43 am

dist0rted wrote:
Well, I've been having some ideas, but most aren't very good. This one looks pretty cool, and would give you something to do with that old 486 running MS-DOS and/or Windows 3.1.

Anyways, the Linux GBA System.

I don't think a 100 MHz i486 PC could emulate a GBA in real time; it has enough trouble emulating a Super NES. Make it a late PII or an early PIII and I'll talk.

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I'll take a minimal version linux that will be maybe 10-20 MBs and program it to run GameBoy Advance ROMs. If anyone knows about programming graphics for the linux console, please let me know.

Unlike SDL, the Allegro library can allegedly talk to a Linux framebuffer device without an X11 server running.
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#34061 - dist0rted - Thu Jan 13, 2005 3:54 am

Sweet, but I have my ideas. Such as using Xboo to connect the GBA to the system and possibly use its resources or instead just use the computer to store the ROMs on the harddrive. I've already began making a minimal version of linux, which you can see on my site (check for URL in signature).
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#42450 - superjudge - Wed May 11, 2005 6:24 pm

I'm hoping to someday see a small version of xfce on my GBA, but that doesn't sound likely.

If that isn't possible, familiar with a pointer would be sweet, too.

GPE looks nice:
http://gpe.handhelds.org/screenshots/

I think Opie would be much nicer, though, and apparently has support for different resolutions and such.
http://opie.handhelds.org/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=opie12
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