openwrt

I felt like re-living old times by playing some Gameboy roms on the Zipit so I compiled the ohboy emulator with OpenWrt buildroot. 

Ohboy is actually a frontend for the Gameboy emulator gnuboy, but it combines the two into one binary. The menu system is a very nice addition to the SDL based emulator and runs well on the Zipit.

I created an OpenWrt package of ohboy that should run on any of the current builds floating around. I'm running slug's in-flash gmenu2x build on my main Zipit right now with my overlayfs scripts that puts packages on the SD card. If you are running the overlayfs scripts you can download and install the package with:

After much experimenting with overlayfs in OpenWrt I've finally settled on a solution that works well. I have decided to call this project 'ovpkg' as in 'overlay package'. You can still use my old instructions if you have an ext2 partition on your card, but if you want to use a completely fat formatted card you can try out this new set of scripts.

You'll need to make sure you have the following packages installed:
losetup, fdisk, e2fsprogs
There seems to be a problem with the e2fsprogs package hosted at the chainxor.org repo that prevents these scripts from working. Install my e2fsprogs package instead of using the one from the repo (opkg install /path/to/downloaded/e2fsprogs_1.41.12-2_pxa.ipk).

Update: It's come to my attention that Windows will not see a Fat partition on a card if the first partition is ext2. I have changed the instructions below to so that the fat partition is first on the card, thus allowing you to use it with Windows.

I've been playing around with the OpenWrt RecoveryOS a bit recently. I like it because it's small, fast and there's a good amount of packages available in Projectgus' repo. The problem with all these awesome packages and the RecoveryOS, though, is that there's not much space left in the Zipit's internal flash to store these goodies. 

WARNING: Do not run the z2uflasher script from z2lite. The flash script is not working properly with it. Until I figure out what the problem is, I recommend using z2sid or openwrt to flash an already u-booted Zipit. 

UPDATE: anarsoul has merged the linux 3.2 kernel into projectgus' OpenWrt repo. This means that the package repo from chainxor.org will no longer contain 3.0 kernel module patches for this openwrt recovery os. The recovery os itself will still work fine, but you should not try to install kernel modules packages with opkg. I will either make my own repo or rebuild the recovery os with the newer 3.2 kernel.