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  1. Re:Questions on that. by hxnwix · · Score: 1 · on New Outlook Won't Use IE To Render HTML

    For those who say that plain text email works better than HTML email: it depends of your target. I will certainly advice plain text for a geek mailing list but for lambda users they prefer shiny lay-out (stats prooves it). Was this confirmed with double-blind testing?

    For those who said that they can't read the email with Pine or with their telnet account. Nobody care [sic] about martians. OK, but what about the blind Pine users pining for blind math software info? Or have you conflated the two groups? Perhaps you have... alienated them!
  2. Re:I'd say more like by generic-man · · Score: 1 · on Office Tools On The Web

    You can get Lemmings for the Game Boy. By your logic, that means that an office suite should run on the Game Boy as well.

    (I wonder how OpenOffice.org for Game Boy Advance Linux is coming along...)

  3. Re:Taking bets... by RichardX · · Score: 4, Informative · on The Gameboy Micro Reviewed

    How long till people port Linux to it?
    About... this long

  4. Re:This is Cool by Pepsiman · · Score: 2, Informative · on Kernel, Shell Boots on DS Linux

    The NDS linux port is based on the GBA linux port:
    http://wwwhsse.fh-hagenberg.at/Studierende/hse0200 6/uclgba/

    A touchscreen keyboard is being worked on.

  5. Re:Cheaper by Tackhead · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Photo-Centric Handheld Can Be A Doom Console
    > You will need:
    > (1) Game Boy Advance ($70 for the regular kind, $80 for the SP)
    > (1) Copy of Doom ($30)

    Yeah, but will your GBA be able to run Linu-never mind, of course it will.

  6. Re:How much RAM? by RevAaron · · Score: 1 · on Python For Nokia Series 60 Phones Now Available

    How much physical RAM does Python require? Could its heap be squeezed onto something small like the GBA (32K RAM, comparatively unlimited ROM)?

    The GBA has more RAM than that. It has 32 KB that is so-called "in-chip Work RAM", but according to these specs it also has 256 KB of on-chip work RAM. I'm not sure what the difference is, but I'm sure it can be worked with. After all, people have a gimped-out version of Linux (uClinux) running on the GBA, I'm sure a gimped out port of Pippy could work.

    Pippy, you say? While you really couldn't run full-blown, real-deal Python, you could run Pippy, which is a much pared down version of Python for Palm OS. According to the Pippy README, "modern" POS devices have 256 KB of RAM. It may say 16 MB on the box, but that is storage, not heap. If it can be done on POS, it should be doable on the GBA. With the resources of the GBA, Lua would probably be a better fit, though.

    It also would probably be possible to have a game pack that had more RAM, and then use it to extend the GBA's RAM, perhaps 8 MB. The GB can address 32 MB total. So, between RAM and storage, you could get a lot in a cart that the GBA could access.

    Then... you right a hybrid multi-key/chording keyboard using the buttons on the GBA so you can program it on the device! Or, you could just do what's easier all around and buy a PDA. Even a cheap, older Pocket PC would do. I can run Python+Tkiner, Python+win32, Perl/Tk- not just CLI perl, but a GUI and all- on my old iPAQ 3650. It owns, even.

  7. Re:Porting Linux... by Bill+Wong · · Score: 3, Informative · on Nintendo DS Reviewed, Internal Structure Exposed

    You don't seem to know what uClinux is...
    It's designed to run on embedded microcontrollers, often with even less ram then the DS has.

    There is already at least one port of uClinux to the gba.
    The DS can run gba cartridges, so, DS can already run this port (maybe requiring a few changes to accomodate the new bios, etc).

    Of course, the gba port doesn't make use of any of the new DS hardware-bits such as touchscreen, second lcd, etc,
    but, the point is, linux is very much possible on DS with uClinux.

  8. Re:And also ... by McCall · · Score: 2, Informative · on Running Ancient UNIX On Nintendo Gameboy

    ucLinux is in the process of being ported to the Gameboy Advance, as can be seen here.. It seems like its getting to be quite usable, if your pretty good with a directional contral pad and 4 buttons...

    I could imagine that the serial port could be used for some sort of network input like this guy did here.

  9. Re:And also ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting · on Running Ancient UNIX On Nintendo Gameboy

    You're a tool. Thanks for playing "How Wrong Can A Slashdot Poster Be?" You win a punch in the groin!