Re: GameRunner distribution v0.3
Well done. Thank you ! On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:31:31 +0100, Rafael Ignacio Zurita rafaelignacio.zur...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, new version of GameRunner after almost one year. GameRunner is an Openmoko Linux distribution. It aims to convert the Freerunner phone into a Linux-based handheld game console : http://gamerunner.sourceforge.net/ New Version 0.3 Available : http://gamerunner.sourceforge.net/download_installation.html Screenshots, pictures and instructions about how to play : http://gamerunner.sourceforge.net/games.html Changelog since 0.2 : - added The Battle for Wesnoth game - added Free Heroes II game - added RoadFighter racing game - added Xgalaga game - added GnuBoy emulator - added Xvier (4 in a row) game - fixed the problem with ubifs on nand (previous versions used to corrupt FS on NAND) - added bigger icons for launchers - improved a bit the snes9x performance Some random notes : - Boot time using qi is 15-20 seconds since second boot - Many games use gamerunner gamecontrol which we wrote to control games like an external gamepad. With this tool we do not need to modify games source code in order to use touchscreen and accelerometers as controls. If it is hard for you to play games, please, read the documentation on screen and gamerunner web site. Also, you will find a video explaining the two modes feature. The gamecontrol has a lot of command line arguments, so you can set your own settings for it. - Use Power button for exiting any game and get back to main menu. - Use Aux button for switching mode in games using gamerunner gamecontrol. - We have a forum to share suggestions, ideas, contribution work or report of bugs. Also, we think openmoko mailing list is fine as well. - save does not work on The Battle of Wesnoth. We will work on that. Sorry about the delay for this new version. We got several suggestions on forums, but we have not had time to work on those ideas before. Now we finally did, so enjoy :-) Rafa -- 用斯斯！ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GameRunner distribution v0.3
On 02/17/2011 09:30, community-requ...@lists.openmoko.org wrote: GameRunner distribution v0.3 Thank you very much! -- # giacomo 'giotti' mariani O ASCII ribbon campaign: stop HTML mail www.asciiribbon.org # ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GameRunner distribution
GNUtoo meinte am 01.05.2010 21:33: On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 17:45 +0200, Frank Meier wrote: Hi, I've tested your distri. But for most games I get a only white screen with yellow/green fragments. Other games didn't start Greets Frank you used the wrong kernel(the one in rootfs) you should use the one that should be downloaded separately. Denis. Hi, I tested both. But I will test it again with new download ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GameRunner distribution
Hi, I've tested your distri. But for most games I get a only white screen with yellow/green fragments. Other games didn't start Greets Frank ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GameRunner distribution
Hello, --- On Sat, 5/1/10, Frank Meier newslett...@dedanaan.de wrote: I've tested your distri. But for most games I get a only white screen with yellow/green fragments. Other games didn't start Thanks for testing. About the issues: odd :( I would guess that something was bad with download or installation. We have tested with two hardware revisions and with both : Qi and uBoot. For the behavior you are telling me I would guess that the kernel is not the proper kernel gamerunner uses, but I can be wrong because I do not have more details about your problem. Can you download and test again? If so, check that the kernel you download is properly placed on first partition (if you use uBoot) or as /boot/uImage-GTA02.bin file in the same rootfs partition. If you see those problems again then please give us more details about and we will try to help you. Thanks again. Rafael ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GameRunner distribution
On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 17:45 +0200, Frank Meier wrote: Hi, I've tested your distri. But for most games I get a only white screen with yellow/green fragments. Other games didn't start Greets Frank you used the wrong kernel(the one in rootfs) you should use the one that should be downloaded separately. Denis. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GameRunner distribution
Thanks, I was waiting for that distribution since I bought the mobile! I'm now flashing... -- /_\ The ASCII Per comunicare in modo riservato: \_/ Ribbon Campaign gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net \ X Against HTML--recv-keys 20611EAD /_\ Email! -- Try to save your soul: http://www.godfanclub.tk/ -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GameRunner distribution
please don't forget this great mod: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8VRABmJKSw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8VRABmJKSw:) y On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Rafael Ignacio Zurita rizur...@yahoo.comwrote: Hello, GameRunner is an Openmoko Linux distribution. It aims convert the Freerunner open mobile phone in a Linux-based handheld game console. It is simple, and contains cool and suitable open source games for Linux mobile devices. http://gamerunner.sourceforge.net/ We have been working in this idea for a couple of months (in 2009), improving current openmoko games, and writting a game control useful for any game. Our first idea is always to have with us a SD full of games to play. Because the last two months we did not do much, I am announcing it, so other gamers can try it. All the games which use the new gamecontrol does not work well the first time you run these. After, all go okey. Moreover, we need to improve that general game control that we are writting, because it is not so cool yet. But well, you can play if you know well it :) For other games we have worked improving speed as well. If we get some free time to continue we will add super nintendo emulator (which we already have tested) and new versions of the new game control. After, we'll add more games specifically built for this game distro. The web site has some docs as well about our work. Cheers -- Rafael Ignacio Zurita ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GameRunner distribution
Good idea! :-) Any plan to include any emulator? Will it be possible) urodelo On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:01:34 +0200, Leonti Bielski prishe...@gmail.com wrote: I just wanted to express my gratitude for creating this distro. I'm going on a trip in a few days and this just what I needed!!! Leonti On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:48 PM, GNUtoo gnu...@no-log.org wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 11:05 -0700, Rafael Ignacio Zurita wrote: Hello, GameRunner is an Openmoko Linux distribution. It aims convert the Freerunner open mobile phone in a Linux-based handheld game console. It is simple, and contains cool and suitable open source games for Linux mobile devices. Great idea!!! But I would prefer to just: opkg install task-gamerunner under SHR,or shr-gamerunner images. A big issue is that I was unable to remove frame pointer under a recent kernel... and frame pointer says: CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER: If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) If I remember well on htcdream that had huge performances impact (from unusable midori to usable) By the way we have some games in openembedded and maybe SHR: *battle for wesnoth *xboard + gnuchess and/or phalanx(for beginners) *mokomaze *pingus *scummvm *numpty physics *supertux *etc just grep for game in openembedded Denis. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Creato con il rivoluzionario client e-mail di Opera: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GameRunner distribution
Hello, Rafael, I've just tested this distribution and it works very well. Fast booting, a lot of games with well adapted controls, great performance and bug-free QVGA mode. I have a feature request: launcher must have an option to show a hint on how to play the game before starting it. Best regards, Anton -- View this message in context: http://openmoko-public-mailinglists.1958.n2.nabble.com/GameRunner-distribution-tp4981438p4988161.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GameRunner distribution
--- On Fri, 4/30/10, urodelo urodelomuta...@yahoo.com wrote: Good idea! :-) Any plan to include any emulator? Will it be possible) I did some tests one year ago. Now I need to come to life again that work started. http://fz.hobby-site.org/om/emulators/ Regards, Rafael ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GameRunner distribution
Hi, --- On Fri, 4/30/10, ANT ant0...@gmail.com wrote: I've just tested this distribution and it works very well. Fast booting, a lot of games with well adapted controls, great performance and bug-free QVGA mode. I have a feature request: launcher must have an option to show a hint on how to play the game before starting it. Your idea is really useful.. I will add that feature soon ;) Thanks. Rafael ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GameRunner distribution
On 4/29/10, Rafael Ignacio Zurita rizur...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, GameRunner is an Openmoko Linux distribution. It aims convert the Freerunner open mobile phone in a Linux-based handheld game console. It is simple, and contains cool and suitable open source games for Linux mobile devices. http://gamerunner.sourceforge.net/ We have been working in this idea for a couple of months (in 2009), improving current openmoko games, and writting a game control useful for any game. Our first idea is always to have with us a SD full of games to play. Because the last two months we did not do much, I am announcing it, so other gamers can try it. All the games which use the new gamecontrol does not work well the first time you run these. After, all go okey. Moreover, we need to improve that general game control that we are writting, because it is not so cool yet. But well, you can play if you know well it :) For other games we have worked improving speed as well. If we get some free time to continue we will add super nintendo emulator (which we already have tested) and new versions of the new game control. After, we'll add more games specifically built for this game distro. The web site has some docs as well about our work. Cheers -- Rafael Ignacio Zurita GameRunner is based on Linux Image-gta02-g291a9d50_mwester-stable.bin kernel and Om2008.9-gta02-20081117.rootfs. XGlamo is providing X. OMG, it's sooo old! I think you can make it a LOT faster by using newer kernel (for instance, andy-tracking HEAD), and maybe X.org instead of Xglamo (but with this one i'm not sure if it will give performance boost, but I believe it will :P) -- Sebastian Krzyszkowiak dos ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GameRunner distribution
Hi, --- On Thu, 4/29/10, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak d...@dosowisko.net wrote: On 4/29/10, Rafael Ignacio Zurita rizur...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, GameRunner is an Openmoko Linux [snip] GameRunner is based on Linux Image-gta02-g291a9d50_mwester-stable.bin kernel and Om2008.9-gta02-20081117.rootfs. XGlamo is providing X. OMG, it's sooo old! I think you can make it a LOT faster by using newer kernel (for instance, andy-tracking HEAD), and maybe X.org instead of Xglamo (but with this one i'm not sure if it will give performance boost, but I believe it will :P) We have tested several alternatives. Check the boot speed, check the games speed, and then tell us which option is better :) Anyway, another reason is that many games were modified for that kernel API as well. I am not sure if you can play Doom using current kernel; and I see a little anarchy as well with current kernel + X/Xfbdev/Xglamo/xorg + xrandr + /etc/fb.modes + rotation + screen sizes, etc. But again, the base system is not important. We checked the alternatives and we decided that base system. It is okey for all the sdl+allegro games, and we are not going to maintain a base system. We just need more games :) Regards. -- Rafael Ignacio Zurita ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GameRunner distribution
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 11:05 -0700, Rafael Ignacio Zurita wrote: Hello, GameRunner is an Openmoko Linux distribution. It aims convert the Freerunner open mobile phone in a Linux-based handheld game console. It is simple, and contains cool and suitable open source games for Linux mobile devices. Great idea!!! But I would prefer to just: opkg install task-gamerunner under SHR,or shr-gamerunner images. A big issue is that I was unable to remove frame pointer under a recent kernel... and frame pointer says: CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER: If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) If I remember well on htcdream that had huge performances impact (from unusable midori to usable) By the way we have some games in openembedded and maybe SHR: *battle for wesnoth *xboard + gnuchess and/or phalanx(for beginners) *mokomaze *pingus *scummvm *numpty physics *supertux *etc just grep for game in openembedded Denis. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GameRunner distribution
I just wanted to express my gratitude for creating this distro. I'm going on a trip in a few days and this just what I needed!!! Leonti On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:48 PM, GNUtoo gnu...@no-log.org wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 11:05 -0700, Rafael Ignacio Zurita wrote: Hello, GameRunner is an Openmoko Linux distribution. It aims convert the Freerunner open mobile phone in a Linux-based handheld game console. It is simple, and contains cool and suitable open source games for Linux mobile devices. Great idea!!! But I would prefer to just: opkg install task-gamerunner under SHR,or shr-gamerunner images. A big issue is that I was unable to remove frame pointer under a recent kernel... and frame pointer says: CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER: If you say Y here the resulting kernel image will be slightly larger and slower, but it gives very useful debugging information in case of kernel bugs. (precise oopses/stacktraces/warnings) If I remember well on htcdream that had huge performances impact (from unusable midori to usable) By the way we have some games in openembedded and maybe SHR: *battle for wesnoth *xboard + gnuchess and/or phalanx(for beginners) *mokomaze *pingus *scummvm *numpty physics *supertux *etc just grep for game in openembedded Denis. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: GameRunner distribution
30.04.2010 01:05, Rafael Ignacio Zurita пишет: Hello, GameRunner is an Openmoko Linux distribution. It aims convert the Freerunner open mobile phone in a Linux-based handheld game console. It is simple, and contains cool and suitable open source games for Linux mobile devices. http://gamerunner.sourceforge.net/ We have been working in this idea for a couple of months (in 2009), improving current openmoko games, and writting a game control useful for any game. Our first idea is always to have with us a SD full of games to play. Because the last two months we did not do much, I am announcing it, so other gamers can try it. All the games which use the new gamecontrol does not work well the first time you run these. After, all go okey. Moreover, we need to improve that general game control that we are writting, because it is not so cool yet. But well, you can play if you know well it :) For other games we have worked improving speed as well. If we get some free time to continue we will add super nintendo emulator (which we already have tested) and new versions of the new game control. After, we'll add more games specifically built for this game distro. The web site has some docs as well about our work. Cheers -- Rafael Ignacio Zurita ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community Good idea! I have another one: turn freerunner to to something like gamepad, it has accelerometers - so it can emulate sword or tennis racquet for games ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
