Hey, I did a talk about Rockbox at FSCONS 2009 and the slides from it are now available to browse or download (11MB).
Rockbox at FSCONS 2009
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There was video being recorded, and I’ll make sure to let you know as soon as it is available online somewhere. That might take a [...]
Just recently, it was announced that the guys now have a Rockbox port with working sound on the Mini 2440 device. So it seems this port is already in a quite advanced state with most of the Rockbox functionality in place. The Rockbox Mini2440 page lists USB and SD drivers as notable missing pieces. So [...]
Michael “TheSeven” Sparmann is one of the primary magicians behind the recent linux4nano efforts and he has done a lot of the Rockbox port for the iPod Nano 2nd generation.
Some 10 hours or so he posted this neat picture:
… showing off custom code running on an iPod Nano 4th generation. If you want to keep [...]
New feature: New game plugin: Codebuster (a Mastermind clone). (FS#10497)
New feature: Support for customisable statusbars using the skin engine and .sbs files.
New feature: Right To Left support for Hebrew and Arabic languages in the menus
Enhancement, improvement or optimization: Support for gapless playback of iTunes encoded MP3 files
On ebay there’s a fancy S3C244-based board named mini 2440 with a 3.5″ touch LCD attached on sale for 85 USD. 64MB ram, 400MHz CPU, a nand flash and more. Lots of stuff for the money.
The guys in the lyre project seem to have adopted this as yet another hardware platform to attempt to run [...]
New feature: %Sx tag added for localisation of the WPS
Hey, it’s really about time to nominate your favourite Free Software persons and projects from the nordic region for the 2009 awards before the time runs out.
This year, I decided to nominate the following “nordic” heroes:
Simon