e3-hacking July 2007

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More e-mailers than I know what to do with
by Nathan Friend 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

Hello, I've been watching the list with interest for the last year or so. I have three e3's and two e2's. I have some Linux and electronics experience, any suggestions on what I could do with them. They contain too much fun hardware to just put on eBay... One of my plans was to make a website with howto guides etc, including photos of projects. Great to see so much activity in this community. Nathan.

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Native build environment
by Martin Whitaker 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

Hi Folks, In response to the people asking how I built libspectrum / fuse, and in response to a few people who've asked me (outside of this mailing list) how to get started building applications for the E3 I've put together a 'how-to'. This 'how-to' caters for both Windows-only and Linux users and is aimed at people without a huge amount of Linux experience who don't want to deal with the hassle of cross compiling. I'm not saying cross compiling isn't the best way of doing it, I'm just giving an alternative. The location of the guide is: http://www.whitakernet.com/e3/ There is also a link to a quick 'how-to' specific to building libspectrum and Fuse, which includes the nasty hacks I did to it to get it running on the E3 (sorry Phil - I never did get chance to tidy it up!). I'd appreciate feedback from anyone who uses this system, there are almost certainly still problems with it so do let me know when things either do or don't work. Regards, Martin. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.6/708 - Release Date: 02/03/2007 16:19

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Newbie E3 owner
by lists＠mice-software.com 11 Jul '07

11 Jul '07

Hi, I recently bought a couple of E3s from eBay (£25 each exc. shipping, sadly I've had no luck finding brand new ones for £10 or whatever). One of them was clearly new and has v4.9, however the other turned out to have been used (looks new and still has stickers, but some parts of the packaging are missing and it has some woman's name in it, with PBL v5.1. And some phone book entries, although I can't find them in Amstrad's GUI... Anyway, I obviously bought both to play with, so I had a few ideas: 1) to set one up with a wired ethernet USB adapter and a hard disk (via a USB hub?), my plan being to make one of them into a small file/subversion server that's less power hungry than a Dell PowerEdge or whatever. 2) to set one up in the kitchen as a mini internet terminal, allowing people to look up e-mails/recipes, edit the shopping list, etc. via a wifi dongle 3) use the modem in one as a PBX endpoint to the public telephone system (allowing me to set up Asterisk/etc. on another machine), whilst having it work as a VoIP unit 4) Videoconferencing between other systems :) Anyway, has anyone tried any of these? I've had a look round the wiki and the past e-mails here but it's not really clear what the present state of drivers/etc. are - I don't mind working on drivers either (although my experience with drivers is primarily on OSX and a small amount on Windows) Finally, is there anything I can do with the v5.1 unit, or should I just send it back to the person I bought it from? I was wondering if anybody had succeeded persuading it to talk (by the looks of here and the wiki, no), or if anyone had tried anything more hardcore - I had the notion of trying to do something like putting the CPU into a hi-impedence state and attempting to write the Flash in-situ from an external device, or capturing the contents of the Flash as the system starts using an FPGA and attempting to reverse engineer it. Or is there something simpler like a JTAG connector? Thanks, Colin

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What's the preferred distro for OE and e3
by Andy Collins 03 Jul '07

03 Jul '07

Hi folks, I've been taking a look at using OE to build bits for my e3 (now running Linux happily). What distro to you use to host your OE work? I've tried Fedora but there was a suggestion in the OE camp that it wasn't a good choice but no better alternative was suggested. What do you suggest? Thanks. Andy.

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