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] Another Idea about the Amstrad E3 Original Firmware

Sorry had to add abit I missed.. This is another idea I have, this is about the Amstrad E3 Original Firmware, I wish I thought of this before I flashed E3 Linux on mine. This will only work if your E3 is activated(unlocked). The installer for installing E3 Linux on the E3 Release V2 uses a

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

[E3-hacking] Another Idea about the Amstrad E3 Original Firmware

This is another idea I have, this is about the Amstrad E3 Original Firmware, I wish I thought of this before I flashed E3 Linux on mine. This will only work if your E3 that is activated(unlocked). The installer for installing E3 Linux on the E3 Release V2 uses a Ramdisk to boot up so it can

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] Trying to Flashing the backup of the Original Firmware Again

It looks like when it backs up the NAND its copies the blocks that are bad too making the image bigger, so if you try and restore the E3 back to the way it was, you can’t because the bad Blocks stop it from installing, if you want to use Linux on the E3 use it from the Ramdisk in Release V2