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KDE Running On A GameCube
Bruno_me writes "Some of the folks at the GameCube Linux project have gotten KDE to run on a GameCube. There's a screenshot of what it actually looks like and what it should look like. This is the first real 'GameKube.' And of course, here is the original frame buffer (dd if=/dev/fb0 of=./kde.fbdump)."
This seems very useful.
Sorry, I don't speak fbdump.
Does KDE run smoothly on a 486Mhz PowerPC with 40mb of RAM?
So, the first screenshot is when you are sober and the second one is when you are on acid?
Well I'm convinced... if KDE can run on a gamecube, it must be better than Gnome.
laugh, its a joke
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Well, at least, we can say that KDE runs well on black&white TVs :)
Scratch out the "C" and replace it with a "K"
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Unlike the Xbox or the PS2, there are no mod-chips for the gamecube. Nintendo did one hell of a job constructing this little machine.
:^).
The way to hack the Gamecube is somewhat interesting. Back in the days of the Sega Dreamcast, there was a game known as "Phantasy Star Online", which attempted to connect to a remote server to get and execute whatever code it got from the remote server.... grin
When Sega ported the game to the GameCube, the exploit came with it. So what folks do is they load up Phantasy Star Online 1+11, run a "loader" on their computer (linux or windows). And have the loader on their computer send the gamecube whatever they want (home games, illegal rips, the linux kernel, etc).
This has been over-simplified greatly.
And note: some of you might be thinking about using this to play illegal copies of games. Don't bother. You end up needing to use a bazillion different loaders to load whatever game, and the network port of the Gamecube is limited to 10mbps, which makes many games unplayable.
Sunny Dubey
The story reporter got a link wrong - the screenshot ought to look like this . :-P
(it's funny, laugh.)
The Free desktop that Just Works
Server? What use is a desktop environment on a server? All you need to run a server is a Linux distro and a TUI.
You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
maybe it's just me but I like the fist picture better, or maybe it's just the mushrooms talkin
From all reports yes it booted but the color map was broken on the x server so it didn't look really great. Here is what it looks like. I think it took slightly less long than expected, only four and a half days.
Didn't the PSO exploit originate from the Xbox version? Something about the GC and (later) Xbox versions both using the same keys to sign downloads...
Someone got the key from the Xbox game and guessed that the GC version might have used the same one and it did! Sega messed up.
probably get modded down or troll for admitting i use IE6, but the FB link crashes it. maybe i'll be using that gamecube for my browsing soon..
IIRC, they boot on NFS, since there is no real HDD on the gamecube. And it's more useful that way, since they don't have to burn a mini-DVD backwards every time they make a modification. What seems more a problem now is color management. :)
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From all reports yes it booted but the color map was broken on the x server so it didn't look really great. Here is what it looks like. I think it took slightly less long than expected, only four and a half days.
:). That image is of the Centris display, but it's my Athlon's PearPC session merely using X11 on the Centris.
:).
nooooo. no no no.
The boot failed due to a byte-order issue with drive images made on PCs, and failed at the four and a half day mark. I'm not sure where you got the URL for the image, I can only presume once it was pasted on IRC it spreads everywhere
I'll have it booting sometime soon, just not this week
It's official, Linux does run on everything, toasters, xbox, gamecube, your grandmother, robot cheney...
You will be baked, and there will be cake.
In short,
is exactly the same asbut simpler and easier to use. No good reason to use dd..The first screenshot is what KDE looks like when the Predator is using it.
Unlike the Xbox or the PS2, there are no mod-chips for the gamecube. Nintendo did one hell of a job constructing this little machine.
The problem has never been the mod chips, it's been the fact that Nintendo uses a custom media disc, not the CDs/DVDs that the PS2 uses, or the DVDs that the Xbox uses.
If the GCN could take commodity media, then I'm sure a mod chip would be forthcoming. However, Nintendo stopped you from getting to the point where a mod chip would be useful.
You do have to admire the fact that they, unlike Microsoft or Sony, managed to beat the piracy problem on the cube.
"Server? What use is a desktop environment on a server?"
So you can administer it without having to memorize a bunch of badly spelt commands?
Perfect? No. Handy? Oh yes. At least if implemented correctly...
"Derp de derp."
Mplayer works fine, and you can see some more useless screenshots here. Snes9x has also been ported, as well as a couple other emulators (MAME and some neogeo emulator for example). Other than that I haven't found much use for it except for the geek-factor, the memory is too limited to do anything heavy... But playing SNES games on the cube is pretty sweet though.
Give me a job. Please?
The screenshot simply appears to be a hosed colormap. Mozilla does it to me all the time on KDE, but everything else works fine. Anyone have ideas where and how to fix the colormaps on X?
First, you must edit ~/../etc/foo/config/../x11/./ColMpS/knickers. Then you must kill the X Server with the Holy Spear of St. George, which is hidden behind the great mountains of Esrever. You must defeat many challenges, dragons, trolls and worse, British Rail. After defeating the twelve wizards, and filling in form K23462-D-246, you can then file your tax returns. After receiving second prize at a beauty contest, you will be able to restart the X server and watch it crash because you missed out a ^ on line 587.
I might've missed a few things, I'm sure there's a fiendish and deadly labyrinth somewhere as well, and probably a kernel recompilation as well...
10 PRINT "LOOK AROUND YOU ";
20 GOTO 10
(a) no modding involved, so in that respect it's really easy to get up and running. (b) Well, since they have mplayer running, you could use it as a network media player. I think if someone developed a front end specifically for gclinux that would let you specify a samba/windows file share in a .conf file somewhere, displayed the files in some user-friendly way, and then spawned mplayer when you clicked on one,... well that'd be nice. ... sadly, I don't know how to program squat on linux or I'd be all over that.
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I'd rather be flamed than ignored.
So... when do we have the first person claiming to run KDE on a GameCube emulator on his 486-33 MHz? Or runnning a GameCube emulator in the 486-33MHz emulator on the GameCube?
;)
(Cry, I'm serious
"You do have to admire the fact that they, unlike Microsoft or Sony, managed to beat the piracy problem on the cube."
And it answers the age-old argument that gets posed back and forth. You know, the "I wouldn't pirate games if they were cheaper...Games would be cheaper if you didn't pirate them"
Apparently the industry lied and games aren't made any cheaper even when they aren't pirated.
IIRC, the GameCube uses standard off-the-shelf miniDVDs (1.5GB). The thing is, the discs are written backwards. Spinning the other way. That is what prevents the burning of GameCube DVDs.
Now I see where games.slashdot.org got its colour scheme from. Taco was browsing using a gamecube.
GameCube discs spin the same way (clockwise viewed from label side) as CDs. It's more likely that GameCube discs are stored in the second DVD layer, whose spiral goes from out to in like that of a vinyl record, unlike the spiral of a CD or the first layer of a DVD, which goes from in to out.
And it answers the age-old argument that gets posed back and forth. You know, the "I wouldn't pirate games if they were cheaper...Games would be cheaper if you didn't pirate them"
If it's of any worth, when I owned my modded PSX about 5-6 of my games were legitimate copies. As a Gamecube owner, with no pirated games, I still only own about six. It's the age old realization most companies never come to: just because one pirated 50 games doesn't mean he/she was going to buy them in the first place.