[E3-hacking] Config / content filesystem

Mon Apr 22 11:23:38 BST 2019

Does anyone want the E3 adverts, they are not big, there are 7 of them in gif format they are the same size as the screen on the E3 is 480x320, I can upload them for you to download them if you like might make it easier if some wants to look into getting them working on the E3..?
The adverts are the ones from the Amserve website ,I have had them for years lucky,you can’t get the no more. site it dead now.

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From: David Given<mailto:dg at cowlark.com>
Sent: ‎Sunday‎, ‎21‎ ‎April‎ ‎2019 ‎23‎:‎05
To: Discussion of the Amstrad E3 emailer hardware/software<mailto:e3-hacking at earth.li>

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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From: David Given<mailto:dg at cowlark.com>
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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>

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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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