[E3-hacking] Config / content filesystem

Mon Apr 22 11:15:09 BST 2019

OK so converting the gif to something maybe like in a video format or something, I don’t know, I won't know where to start, I never scripted stuff in Linux before, I am not a coder,I have played around with scripts in Linux but easy stuff,this is way over my head,I need a step by step instructions on how to do it,Once I am showed I will,remember how,I understand reading the file from the USB stick ,but I not got a clue how to do it,If this is possible we might of found something to do with it,you wouldn’t just be able to show the adverts on the screen you would able to show anything on it, It would be good as a image viewer and a video player. You could get it to show the adverts and have it a display model of what the emailer was like so you could show parts of what the menu was like to if you wanted but would have to make the image of the menu to show, the adverts are very easy to make, you could make  them yourself, or make a slideshow of your own pictures and videos on the screen.

But I need someone who knows how to do scripting in Linux because I don’t know how. I played around with the scripts in Commodore OS but they are really simply ones and nothing like this, If anyone has some spear time and would like to help I would really appreciate it.

Thanks..

Spanner..
PS… Dose anyone know what was used to make the Main Software (The GUI) on the E3,I want to add it to the page on Wikipedia..? (Phone Book Loader….HAHAHA that makes me laugh but dose make sense.. 😊.)
Looking forward to my new ish Amstrad E3 coming and E1 too.. I have the whole set now..😊 When E3 comes I be copying it firmware and sharing it because its activated so has the .confg file still on it. its will properly operate for 3 Months before deactivating and removing the config file. Someone has to just find a why be able to flash it back properly.

I am good at thinking up ideas but have a problem of making them a reality.. 😊
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From: David Given<mailto:dg at cowlark.com>
Sent: ‎Sunday‎, ‎21‎ ‎April‎ ‎2019 ‎23‎:‎05
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You wouldn't run imagemagick on the E3 itself. (Apart from anything else the E3 distribution is, IIRC, something based on OpenEmbedded/Angstrom and is very hard to get software for?) You'd run it on a PC and use it to convert files to put on a USB stick, and then use simple scripting on the E3 to draw them on the screen.

That said, I remember the E3 framebuffer format to be pretty weird, so you may be better off writing a program (on a PC) to do some kind of custom conversion. fbset on the E3 should tell you the exact format.

On Sun, 21 Apr 2019 at 23:45, Nick Griffin <span1922 at live.com<mailto:span1922 at live.com>> wrote:
What the ams-delta mini distribution ..?
Which one do I download… https://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php&data=02%7c01%7c%7c1884cbd3e3714908d56e08d6c6a5825b%7c84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7c1%7c0%7c636914811491696574&sdata=aHJgcEqUtJC3i7OzT1atOz9D3rblq0Dytc95jvLXl/4%3D&reserved=0> and how do I install it on the E3..?

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If you just want to put images onto the screen, write a tiny script that copies files from the USB stick and cats them to /dev/fb0. Converting images to the right format's a little bit harder but I wouldn't be surprised if ImageMagick could do it out of the box. That'll run happily in the ams-delta mini distribution.

Alternatively, you can boot an old Debian from a USB stick using that kernel --- although you'll need to hunt around to find a userland old enough; I think Debian woody works. That'll give you a (very slow) development system running on the E3 itself. Then you can write your own SDL programs to draw whatever you like, although I should warn you against extended typing on that keyboard unless you hate your fingers.

On Sun, 21 Apr 2019 at 12:40, Nick Griffin <span1922 at live.com<mailto:span1922 at live.com>> wrote:
I do wish I never flashed E3 Linux on it now,theres no point to it,you can’t put anything on it or run anything on it cos its too old and E3 Linux didn’t go anywhere, its just a command line version because the E3 is not powerful to run proper Linux. I installed E3 Linux release v2 (E3 Linux sound better that just Linux or release v2 this way you know what I am taking about)from the.earth.li/pub/e3/<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http://the.earth.li/pub/e3/&data=02%7c01%7c%7c1884cbd3e3714908d56e08d6c6a5825b%7c84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7c1%7c0%7c636914811491716590&sdata=WhRGFTM%2Bj7BOhOgH9a6MOCgfC5EM%2BFGaM%2B4pBZ5R0ZA%3D&reserved=0>  what are the rest of the stuff in there, can I update it to 2.6.19,its at 2.6.16 that what release v2 is…?

I would like to put a program on it so it shows images on it screen you have to make it on it and it don’t even have make on it to make a program so make need to be installed first.
If I can’t put the original firmware back or put a program on it so it shows a animated gif then it useless and I will end up putting it in the bin. I have about 8 gifs of its old adverts and want to show them on the E3s screen, can anyone help me please. I am not used to installing programs from source code, I am use to installing it from a repository.

Oh and what happen to this…  http://amstrad-e3-hacking.freeforums.net/thread/7/support-status-update<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http://amstrad-e3-hacking.freeforums.net/thread/7/support-status-update&data=02%7c01%7c%7c1884cbd3e3714908d56e08d6c6a5825b%7c84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7c1%7c0%7c636914811491726595&sdata=rS6frR9nj3Dw6Uk401ios9A7ClAg%2Beb7FCz3JxtqjeI%3D&reserved=0>  why did the work on E3 Linux stop and only get to 2.6.19…?

and very interested in this bit at the end.. “BTW, my 12-bit framebuffer display support has been accepted and included in
mplayer svn revision 31139 on May 6th. Using it, I can enjoy a prescaled
422x316 5fps MSMPEG-4 encoded live video stream playing fluently in
fullscreen mode on my E3 display.”

Leave a reply in there and tell us what happened to E3 Linux 2.6.34..

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From: Nick Griffin<mailto:span1922 at live.com>
Sent: ‎Saturday‎, ‎20‎ ‎April‎ ‎2019 ‎22‎:‎25
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OK sorted it out now, (thanks to Ollie), will I be able to use these files to put the Amstrad firmware back on the E3 at all..?

question is here too http://amstrad-e3-hacking.freeforums.net/thread/9/config-content-filesystem?page=1&scrollTo=92<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http://amstrad-e3-hacking.freeforums.net/thread/9/config-content-filesystem?page%3D1%26scrollTo%3D92&data=02%7c01%7c%7c1884cbd3e3714908d56e08d6c6a5825b%7c84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7c1%7c0%7c636914811491756622&sdata=WnQymjcLXaV8GN2ieI9cD77vbv%2BwNd3zNhlEWCCtysc%3D&reserved=0>

You don’t need to register to reply or leave a new thread there now.

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From: Ralph Corderoy<mailto:ralph at inputplus.co.uk>
Sent: ‎Saturday‎, ‎20‎ ‎April‎ ‎2019 ‎18‎:‎39
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Hi Nick,

> sudo nand-oob-strip.py e3-nand-backup.0 e3-nand.0: No such file or
> directory

Two things.  You probably don't need sudo as your ordinary user should
be able to read e3-nand-backup.0 and write e3-nand.0.  You have to
specify a path to the nand-oob-strip.py script for the shell to find it.
Since it's in the current directory, that's just `.', i.e.

    ./nand-oob-strip.py in.0 out.0

If that complains, then it's because ./nand-oob-strip.py lacks the
`execute' permission for you.  Either add it with chmod(1), or run the
Python interpreter directly:

    python3 nand-oob-strip.py in.0 out.0

Alternatively, to modify the file in place, so ensure they're not your
only copies, you can do

    LC_ALL=C perl -i -0777pe 's/(.{512})(.{16})/$1/gs' \
        e3-nand-backup.{0..5}

which substitutes every 512 bytes followed by 16 bytes with just the
512.

--
Cheers, Ralph.

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