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April 3rd, 2006

Last weeks I have been very busy, and I have not written too much in this blog. In the next three months it is possible I have good news about the 770. Until then, I will try to keep updated this blog with my progress in the porting of wxPython. I am trying also to port ZSNES, because my brother wanted it to play some SNES games on his 770. I am having problems with the macro assembler. It seems it can not to assemble the macros for other architecture but x86. Anyway, I have not taken a very deep look at it.

By the way, the title of this post comes from one of the funniest books I have ever read.

3 Comments Add your own

1. Martymac | April 4th, 2006 at 9:10 am

A Snes emu is a good idea !!! Why not trying to port Snes9x instead ? It is told to be a lot more portable (works on 64 bits machines, on the PSP, etc…) - even if less powerful.
2. herraiz | April 4th, 2006 at 9:20 am

Thanks for the suggestion. I will take a look at snes9x. I tried before with zsnes because it is the emu I use under Linux, and it compiled without problems under the Maemo environment on my Linux box. But when trying to compile it for the ARM architecture, it failed. I will try with snes9x and report the results as soon as I find some spare time.
3. Martymac | April 10th, 2006 at 12:27 pm

Good news, snes9x seems to compile out-of-the-box. I manage to create an Arm binary.

Bad news, unfortunately, I get a black screen when I try to run a game I only can save the running state of the emulator (useless of course !).

I managed to create an i386 version that worked so it should be possible to get the Arm version working…

Regards