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[paradroid]

Me too.. I still wait a Open2X DR8 for F100 and F200. For solving problem in mame4all frontend.

[Ziz]

Hm, you know, that you can update old software (like the image viewer) by yourself?

I don't think, that open2x is still continued.

[laharl]

senorcuack said he would release DR8 ("an update" in his words) including o2xiv and some other fixes arroung the time I uploaded the uploaded the fixes for o2xiv.......and that was, let's see......3 months ago.
i'm not saying it's dead but maybe he's busy with work/colege/other proyects. i couldn't finish o2xiv because of work and now colege, so maybe he had problems with life too.

[Orkie]

Last I heard he was pretty busy sorting stuff back after coming back from hiking. There may be another release in the future, who knows, but I don't really have time to do one at the moment. We never bothered automating the process, so it's quite labour intensive to put one together, and then it needs to be tested in case something was done wrong..

Edited by Orkie, 13 May 2011 - 10:11 AM.

[albator]

Hello,
I'm trying to recompile the open2x kernel.
I grab the latest from SVN, compile it using the prebuilt toolchain, but it fails. It looks like the current sources do not compile.
Is there a "stable" source archive somewhere ?

[Senor Quack]

Hello,
I'm trying to recompile the open2x kernel.
I grab the latest from SVN, compile it using the prebuilt toolchain, but it fails. It looks like the current sources do not compile.
Is there a "stable" source archive somewhere ?

The kernel requires using a older GCC, I believe, compared to the rest of the Open2X toolchain. I.E., you cannot use GCC 3.xx to build it. I think there is a link to the separate kernel-only prebuilt toolchain on the open2x website. That is the solution if you have not been using it.. If this is not the case reply here and let me know and I can try building it later today.

Edited by Senor Quack, 21 August 2011 - 04:47 PM.

[Senor Quack]

Last I heard he was pretty busy sorting stuff back after coming back from hiking. There may be another release in the future, who knows, but I don't really have time to do one at the moment. We never bothered automating the process, so it's quite labour intensive to put one together, and then it needs to be tested in case something was done wrong..

senorcuack said he would release DR8 ("an update" in his words) including o2xiv and some other fixes arroung the time I uploaded the uploaded the fixes for o2xiv.......and that was, let's see......3 months ago.
i'm not saying it's dead but maybe he's busy with work/colege/other proyects. i couldn't finish o2xiv because of work and now colege, so maybe he had problems with life too.

Yeah I just got done with some summer college classes that were pretty intensely paced. But I've been thinking of the loose ends in Open2X, many little things, especially updating O2XIV and adding mass storage gadget USB support. I need to get an environment set up again under VirtualBox.

One of my other goals is to come up with a way to block statically-linked SDL programs from screwing with the TV-out registers like they all currently do. That would make near-100% TV-out compatibility and configurability possible. Also, I need to add TV-out-enabled-on-boot Open2X menu option as well, to support those using Open2X for modding projects like mini-cabinets, or stuff like bacteria's handheld, etc. Also maybe support added to the TV-tweaker for live adjustments that would be saved permanently for each prorgram. I would also like to get maybe a USB TV-input dongle off DealExtreme that supports PAL, so I can really get a feel for what tweaks and fixes are needed . I haven't been able to do this because of me living in the US with only NTSC stuff.

One other important goal is to fix video playing problems, especially sync problems, that is a biggie. Another biggie is to switch the default SDHC driver to be the original GPH one, this was available as a patch from me earlier in this or another thread. Make the current one available as a patch if it turns out to be needed but from what I remember the GPH driver is significantly more compatible with SD cards overall. The last real biggie I can think of right now is to solve the mmuhack-related bugs, most easily seen in Mame right now.

As for pie-in-the-sky ideas: I think ensuring real, usable touchscreen navigation in GMenu2X is possible would be really cool. Not sure how far Ryo got with that in his Pandora version or if we can easily backport that or other changes..

Edited by Senor Quack, 21 August 2011 - 05:33 PM.

[albator]

Hello,
I'm trying to recompile the open2x kernel.
I grab the latest from SVN, compile it using the prebuilt toolchain, but it fails. It looks like the current sources do not compile.
Is there a "stable" source archive somewhere ?

The kernel requires using a older GCC, I believe, compared to the rest of the Open2X toolchain. I.E., you cannot use GCC 3.xx to build it. I think there is a link to the separate kernel-only prebuilt toolchain on the open2x website. That is the solution if you have not been using it.. If this is not the case reply here and let me know and I can try building it later today.

Thanks a lot.
I was aware there were 2 gcc for open2x, but I messed up with my $PATH and I was compiling kernel with gcc 4.1 instead of gcc 3.3 !
And the "open2x-kernel.sh" adds the gcc 3.3 at the end of the PATH, not at the beginning, so it did not prevent my mistake ...

[zektor]

I installed this awhile back but never really got to use the SDHC function (as I didn't have anything larger than 2GB previously) and just wanted to say that a 32GB Class 4 card works perfectly on my good ol' F100 first edition. Amazing stuff. I know this is old and probably not being worked on anymore, but I hope to see an update one day for such a great piece of work. Nonetheless, if it is never updated again, it is a much appreciated upgrade to the F100 (and F200) and it is HIGHLY recommended for anyone with these systems.

[ZakHooi]

Can someone repost the Dr7 for the F-100, the links in the startpost don't work anymore.

Thanks in advance