Re: [E3-hacking] Is it possible to install a Desktop Environment into E3 Linux

I wouldn’t know how to port Minix,can anyone else do it..? Spanner.. From: Nick Griffin Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎15‎ ‎April‎ ‎2019 ‎13‎:‎11 To: Discussion of the Amstrad E3 emailer hardware/software I believe it needs a hacked version of the

Re: [E3-hacking] Is it possible to install a Desktop Environment into E3 Linux

I believe it needs a hacked version of the original firmware really and everything would work and if you could hack the internet and email apps in the Main Software so it would work with a network adapter to download email and that. But that will never happen because there is no interest in

Re: [E3-hacking] Is it possible to install a Desktop Environment into E3 Linux

Android's also way too big! Even the earliest version (I have one on my desk) needed 192MB. Current versions get a bit uncomfortable in 2048MB.. Linux is really too big for the E3; the OS, even the 10-year-old version the E3 used, doesn't scale down well that far. Now, if you wanted to port

Re: [E3-hacking] Is it possible to install a Desktop Environment into E3 Linux

Hi Nick, > Has anyone got any ideas on how to show a gif on the E3 screen..? If you have a working framebuffer then fbvis is a image viewer by Ali Gholami Rudi who no longer uses X11. See his `FRAMEBUFFER' section. http://litcave.rudi.ir/ -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [E3-hacking] Is it possible to install a Desktop Environment into E3 Linux

On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 at 22:19, Ed Robbins wrote: > gmenu2x is probably your best bet. It's a GUI that runs on the framebuffer > using SDL, generally used to launch SDL applications. It's used on the > zipit z2, gp2x etc (similar specs) mostly for launching emulators, music > players etc. > Note:

Re: [E3-hacking] Is it possible to install a Desktop Environment into E3 Linux

You could try animate from ImageMagick. -- Piotr Michniewski niedz., 14 kwi 2019 o 22:48 Nick Griffin napisał(a): > I guest it would be imposable, Has anyone got any ideas on how to show a > gif on the E3 screen..? > > Spanner.. > > *From:* Piotr Michniewski > *Sent:* ‎Sunday‎, ‎14‎ ‎April‎

Re: [E3-hacking] Is it possible to install a Desktop Environment into E3 Linux

I guest it would be imposable, Has anyone got any ideas on how to show a gif on the E3 screen..? Spanner.. From: Piotr Michniewski Sent: ‎Sunday‎, ‎14‎ ‎April‎ ‎2019 ‎21‎:‎39 To: Discussion of the Amstrad E3 emailer hardware/software