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diff --git a/content/posts/2002-04-13-he-s-ipaqing-heat.html b/content/posts/2002-04-13-he-s-ipaqing-heat.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2b0e2e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2002-04-13-he-s-ipaqing-heat.html @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +--- +date: "2002-04-13T16:16:47Z" +title: He's Ipaqing Heat +--- + +<p> +I finally got tired of using my <a +href="http://athome.compaq.com/showroom/static/iPaq/3835.asp">iPAQ</a> +over a 115kb/s serial link, so I switched to <a +href="http://www.handhelds.org/z/wiki/How%20do%20I%20setup%20USB%20networking#sa1100_usbd">USB +networking</a>. Wow. <code>ipkg upgrade</code> (analagous to +<code>apt-get dist-upgrade</code> on a <a +href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a> system) is a lot faster now; +roughly 120kB/s instead of 10kB/s over the serial link. The theoretical +maximum throughput is about 1.37MB/s, but I think the limiting factor +here is the iPAQ CPU (a 206MHz StrongARM processor), since things get +kinda slow when I'm doing really heavy "disk" and network operations. +</p> + +<p> +The other thing I did was get <a href="http://www.slac.com/~mpilone/projects/qtopiagnuboy.phtml">QtopiaGNUBoy</a> working on the iPAQ. The problem is as follows: the GNUBoy launcher is looking for the executable <code>qtopiagnuboy</code>, which is placed in <code>/opt/QtPalmtop/bin</code>. For some idiotic reason, that path is not in <code>$PATH</code>. You can work around that by setting <code>$PATH</code> properly from the console (ex: <code># PATH="$PATH:/opt/QtPalmtop/bin"; export PATH</code> for sh and bash users, or <code>setenv PATH "$PATH:/opt/QtPalmtop/bin"</code> for csh and tcsh users), but typing that out on the mini-keyboard sucks. The correct fix is to modify <code>/etc/init.d/qpe</code> and add the following lines: +</p> + +<pre> +PATH="$PATH:$QPEDIR/bin" +export PATH +</pre> + +<p> +Oh yeah, for those of you who would rather do HTTP proxying instead of (or in addition too) IP masquerading, <code>/etc/init.d/qpe</code> is also a good place to set <code>http_proxy</code> and <code>HTTP_PROXY</code> (<a href="http://www.konqueror.org/embedded.html">Konqueror/Embedded</a> incorrectly uses the latter). +</p> + +<p> +Anyway, GNUBoy works -- even for color games -- but it's really not +playable yet. The requisite screenshots: <a +href="/screenshots/ipaq/monopoly.png">Monopoly</a> and <a +href="/screenshots/ipaq/zelda.png">Zelda</a>. For the first time in my +life I have more USB devices than I can plug in at once: my UPS, my +Playstation controller adapter, and my iPAQ. I'm planning on +getting another controller adapter so I can teach <a +href="http://www.snowman.net/">Snow-Man</a> why I was feared up and down +the west coast in Street Fighter II Turbo (as long as <a +href="http://www.snowman.net/~duerrj/">Joe</a> wasn't around), and all +across the country in Mario Kart (as long as <a +href="http://www.hellojoseph.com/">Sean</a> wasn't around). +</p> + |