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Required files here and quick start guide here ! I'll be posting more info as time permits. Help needed on building a mipsel-linux uclibc toolchain.

Another pulse racing video!: However, Booboo would like to clarify as follows: "It's not going to be a "release" understood as a more or less finished work. It's just a way of saying that I will be posting all the information and all the work I've done. In fact, I just haven't done it before because I was too busy and so excited that I didn't want to lose time organizing and publishing the info. Now that all the basics are working, I've reached a milestone where people can actually program under dingoo linux, and it's time to dedicate some effort to publish all the info, so others can advance in parallel with me towards a full firmware replacement. Once what I have now is available to anyone, I intend to: 1- Make dual boot work. 2- Complete hardware support. Dual boot is not necessary for programmers (which can develop using USB boot) but is for users, so it will be soon required after programmers start releasing programs for dingoo linux. So,...

Booboo says: Status update: - video + sound + keyboard working. - SDL working, madplay working (20% CPU with a 192Kbps stereo MP3). Have a look: More very very soon: Booboo intends to post it all on Google code. Watch out for it!

Amidst the growing excitement over Linux, Homebrew and whatever else, it’s easy to forget that the manufacturers also have a say in things.  A new version 1.1 firmware has been released on the official Dingoo website: grab it here (It’s the first item on the list of downloads).  Unfortunately, no Y/B button fix appears apparent from the text file which accompanied it: This firmware version shows as V1.1, the language functions in an increase of Japanese, Korean, Russian in three languages, upgraded A320      Built-in language is Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Russian, six, to facilitate the use of players around the world. Small fruit Digital: http://www.dingoo888.com A320 firmware upgrade steps: 1. Connected to the computer's USB line, the A320-extracting machine A320.HXF the root directory (can be overwritten A320.HXF old files) 2. Election...

From the Spanish GP2x forums (untranslated link here ), it’s clear Booboo hasn’t been idle this Friday night: Hello, I finish implementing the keyboard and what I have done it is not to warm up the head to me and to use the mapeo of keyboard of the SNES9X: D-DAP: you shoot with an arrow Button A: “d” Button B: “c” Button X: “s” Button and: “x” Button left shoulder: “to” Button right shoulder: “z” START: to enter SELECT: space If somebody has some better suggestion, please it says than it. For the subject of the volume of audio and the retroiluminación of the screen me a pair of things has been happened and also it would want to hear commentaries: In both cases his it is to implement these functions in drivers corresponding. This is very well for a system of escritiorio but it seems to me that very it is not adapted for the...

Here’s an excruciatingly exciting update from Booboo on Linux: Status update: Sound is working. Turns out that the ALSA support in the Ingenic kernel just doesn't work. OSS does, though the implementation is a bit buggy the sound quality is not affected as far as I know. I just need to get the keys working and we'll have miniSD + video + sound + keys, just enough to play emulators and other apps, as long as one doesn't mind booting into linux just for that and resetting when finished to get back to the original firmware. Using linux as a full blown firmware substitute won't be possible until the rest of the hardware is supported. Key support is trivial and I'm sure I'll get it working this weekend. At the moment the only way to boot linux is by using the USB boot mode, so a host PC is required. As you know...

Booboo explains about the challenges of getting Linux to dualboot below.  Hello, I am trying to obtain the dual boot. On ccpmp.bin I know that: 1 - Load in 0x80004000. 2 - The size of data to load is in the second DWORD. 3 - Once loaded, loader 0x80004008 jumps to the position. Ccpmp.bin complete occupies 5MB, but only a little more 2MB is occupied. The rest is free to put what we want, although will be only loaded if DWORD modifies suitably secondly. I have verified that putting 0x00500000 (=5MB) in the second DWORD everything continues working correctly. The strategy is: 1 - To carry u-boot and to form it so that carge kernel and root filesystem of miniSD. This already is done and works perfectly if position directly this u-boot in memory I execute and it. 2 - To modify u-boot so that their direction of load is 0x80404000 (0x80004000 + 4MB). 3 - “To inlay” u-boot in offset +4M of the file, which would be equivalent to once loaded in mem...

Seagal has released his PIE320 0.1 Pacman emulator!  Download and discussion here .

Another day, another update top Jorghej’s Wonderswan emulator.  Grab it here . Jorghej says: I request excuses by the errors that did impossible to play in version 0.3. Corrected the majority of them already it is possible to be played the engaged games. Also the execution has been accelerated considerably deshabilitando the file of log as they recommended to me and excluding certain files in the compilation (files used in some tests). I also asked Jorghej the following question : Hello Jorghej, Would it be very difficult to do what you have done with the Wonderswan emulator, and produce a port of Frodo, or another C64 emulator? His reply: I do not think is much more complicated… Linux or not, the future looks bright for Dingoo emulation. Jorghej, how can we get you to work on Frodo? Can we take up a collection and send you dancing girls, gold bars and small islands?

Props to Jorghej for releasing v0.3 of his Wonderswan emulator.  Grab it here ! Jorghej, good on you for not slowing down your work on this emulator.  It seems to me that after a flurry of homebrew activity 2 weeks ago, the considerable progress on Linux could have slowed things down a bit – are developers waiting for Linux before investing more time into this machine? But as Jorghej shows, there is no need to wait for Linux to be released before working on homebrew!  Don’t forget there are links to Wonderswan birdfood here .