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If anybody is actually following this..! Had a few weeks off, making progress with the 2D accelerator (aka blitter, which is only part of what it does).

Out of interest, how did you get on if you did install it? I suspect a full Open2x release is unlikely, as far as I'm aware one the last remaining things to improve was the TV support which has become somewhat irrelevant with the passage of time. Plus, to compile Linux 2.4, you need a 2.95 gcc...

As previously promised in the Open2x bootloader post, the environment and libraries for building bare metal binaries are now available. Orcus, punisher of broken promises, and god of the underworld, finally delivers what used to be called 'HH' - the ability to write homebrew which doesn't depend...

I see you've already found it on github! The bare metal library and build setup are quite usable - you can build the bootloader, and I have a couple of simple examples. The big thing which is missing at the moment is audio, I'll post more about it once I get that working and it is useful for...

Certainly if it could be done, I have 3 Wizzes which no longer have batteries (one of which expanded violently when I removed the back from the case and I think may have later caught fire in the battery bin at the tip!) and would be interested in having a go.

I thought I'd post this up since it's now feature complete (at least enough for a first release). I've written an entirely new GP2X bootloader from scratch, which can do a few things the original u-boot can't like loading bare metal executable files (more on this to come), kernels and even...

I picked up an F300 on eBay only a couple of weeks ago!

If you are interested in the 3D hardware, I know JustBurn had a simple driver of his own working a few years ago.

Unfortunately, I suspect it's not quite that simple (I speak from experience!). Firstly, a lot of stuff is not open source, and that which is tends to be old and is a bit of a pain to port (plus somebody actually needs to sit and do it). Also, a lot of things access hardware directly, and subtle...

Well it is certainly possible (though a bit of a pain) to get the Caanoo to boot off UART. However, when I download a bootloader from a Caanoo firmware and tell it to run, nothing happens. I'm not sure I want to try to flash it without having had it boot from RAM first, so I shall have a bit...

Does the Wiz recovery tool not work with the Caanoo? I will try to find a few minutes this weekend to see if I can get my Caanoo to boot over serial.

Where are you based?

It probably wouldn't be hard at all to make the Caanoo firmware run a lot of Wiz binaries directly. I'm guessing it'd just be a case of enabling OABI compatibility in the kernel and providing a set of OABI libraries (which you could just pull out of the Wiz firmware). I started making a custom...

Pandora bends spacetime!

quasist == cool.

Alas, the bad lizard has never confessed to the crime, but I have long suspected it passed first to somebody who I would describe as slimy rather than scaled!

Any official firmware beyond 2.x is crap anyway. You're best either going back to 2.0->2.1.2 or going straight to Open2x. Try Open2x first, if that doesn't work, you may need to run the NAND blanker which can be found in the firmware section of the archive (since your bootloader is still in...

I don't think you can control the power LED. On the F100 there is the battery LED which you can control, but that doesn't exist on the F200.

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...

The front page is locked to stop people hijacking the very first thing you see. I've fixed the links on it.