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    Emulation Of Dos Classics

    Can supercool game X from my wayback DOS machine be ported? Short answer: Don't count on it. Long answer: There are a few sides to this question: Can the game itself be ported? Porting requires the game's original source code. Some companies have released the source to their classic games...
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    GP2X Timing A Game Loop

    Hey all, Here's another "What's the current best practice" question from me: What's the best way to time a game loop? I'm looking for a call like Windows' timeGetTime: reasonably cheap (timeGetTime returns a DWORD, no fancy floats or int64s) and times accurately to the millisecond. Better...
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    GP2X Shell Scripts Leak Memory

    This may be relevant to shell script writers: Shell scripts as they are usually written now leak memory! I'm referring to the scripts that end with: #!/bin/sh ... cd /usr/gp2xmenu ./gp2xmenu What happens here is that the gp2x menu is launched in a subprocess. The current process (the shell...
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    GP2X Temporary Files

    Hey everyone, I have a bit of a dilemma. I want my menu to store a bit of state in a temporary file, to provide consistent behaviour across launching child apps. Where do you reckon I should best store this state? The natural candidate seems /tmp, and that's where I'm writing it now. However...
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    Gp2xforge Launched

    Well, here I am announcing the launch of GP2XForge, the open development site dedicated especially to the GP2X! I hope there's still enough interest to make the site useful. The site is still far from finished, but I want to make it available to as many people as possible, as soon as possible...
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    Looking For The Name Of A Game

    Damn, I'm stuck trying to remember the name of a game I used to play wayback on my 386. Each level consisted of a single screen, containing a boss with a bunch of territory around him. You were a little ship that could move along the edge of the territory. The idea was to leave the edge and...
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    Mocca 0.1

    Have you gotten tired yet of explaining how to start a ROM every time you hand your GP2X to a friend? Mocca is my attempt at making a better menu/frontend/launcher for the GP2X. My inspiration was that it should be modal (meaning that it should only show the possibilities relevant to the...
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    GP2X 2xforge?

    The rant thread is going in an entirely different direction, so I thought I'd create a new thread with an attached poll to measure the climate for this: Would you like a SourceForge-like site, dedicated specifically to GP2X development, providing services for developing your...
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    GP2X Remount In Sync

    You know how in some launcher scripts the SD card is apparently being remounted in "sync" mode, so that writes to the card will be safely completed? This is the command used: mount /mnt/sd -o remount,sync Except, I had problems with a launcher script of my own, so I ran it from sterm. I used...
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    GP2X Displaying Text

    I hope this question makes any sense -- I'm not very experienced in low-level C coding/Linux library code and whatnot... What are our options for displaying text on the gp2x? I've used pygame previously, which includes SDL_ttf. SDL_ttf is in some ways a bit annoying to use, but I guess text...
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    Launcher And Application Reliability

    The way launching applications is organized currently can be called less-than-ideal. One common problem I have: the menu doesn't automatically reload itself after starting an application, so it is up to the application to restart the menu. If for some reason it does not: black screen, gp2x...
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    Music Player Progress Bar

    Anyone else notice that the "time indication" bar on the music player actually does nothing useful? I'm guessing it's only there to give us the impression of a regular music player, advancing by a bit each elapsing second. You can tell because: It doesn't ever go backwards. Stop the song, or do...
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    GP2X Multiplayer Options?

    Everyone knows that the best part of playing a game is playing it together with a friend (or foe). I'm just back from a LAN party so I may be a bit biased ;). Unfortunately, the GP2X doesn't as of yet support networking very well, and it doesn't look like it will anytime soon. Playing games...
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