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+I finally got tired of using my iPAQ +over a 115kb/s serial link, so I switched to USB +networking. Wow. ipkg upgrade (analagous to +apt-get dist-upgrade on a Debian 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. +

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+The other thing I did was get QtopiaGNUBoy working on the iPAQ. The problem is as follows: the GNUBoy launcher is looking for the executable qtopiagnuboy, which is placed in /opt/QtPalmtop/bin. For some idiotic reason, that path is not in $PATH. You can work around that by setting $PATH properly from the console (ex: # PATH="$PATH:/opt/QtPalmtop/bin"; export PATH for sh and bash users, or setenv PATH "$PATH:/opt/QtPalmtop/bin" for csh and tcsh users), but typing that out on the mini-keyboard sucks. The correct fix is to modify /etc/init.d/qpe and add the following lines: +

+ +
+PATH="$PATH:$QPEDIR/bin"
+export PATH
+
+ +

+Oh yeah, for those of you who would rather do HTTP proxying instead of (or in addition too) IP masquerading, /etc/init.d/qpe is also a good place to set http_proxy and HTTP_PROXY (Konqueror/Embedded incorrectly uses the latter). +

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+Anyway, GNUBoy works -- even for color games -- but it's really not +playable yet. The requisite screenshots: Monopoly and Zelda. 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 Snow-Man why I was feared up and down +the west coast in Street Fighter II Turbo (as long as Joe wasn't around), and all +across the country in Mario Kart (as long as Sean wasn't around). +

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