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<div>What the ams-delta mini distribution ..?<br>
Which one do I download… <a href="https://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php" target="_parent">https://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php</a> and how do I install it on the E3..?<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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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.</div>
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<div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Sun, 21 Apr 2019 at 12:40, Nick Griffin <<a href="mailto:span1922@live.com" target="_parent">span1922@live.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>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
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the.earth.li/pub/e3/</a> 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…?<br>
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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.<br>
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.<br>
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Oh and what happen to this… <a href="https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http://amstrad-e3-hacking.freeforums.net/thread/7/support-status-update&data=02%7c01%7c%7ca0b9c24dc4674add1b8b08d6c688ee6f%7c84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7c1%7c0%7c636914688762378349&sdata=NXv3LlBFMP0bxp1Ool7i0X0cLJG6yYCDwj0OeESE7AI%3D&reserved=0" target="_parent">
http://amstrad-e3-hacking.freeforums.net/thread/7/support-status-update</a> why did the work on E3 Linux stop and only get to 2.6.19…?<br>
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and very interested in this bit at the end.. “<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">BTW,
my 12-bit framebuffer display support has been accepted and included in<span> </span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
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svn revision 31139 on May 6th. Using it, I can enjoy a prescaled<span> </span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
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5fps MSMPEG-4 encoded live video stream playing fluently in<span> </span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
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mode on my E3 display.”<br>
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Leave a reply in there and tell us what happened to E3 Linux 2.6.34..</span><br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 20 April 2019 22:25<br>
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<div>OK sorted it out now, (thanks to <span style="text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Verdana,Arial; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
Ollie)</span>, will I be able to use these files to put the Amstrad firmware back on the E3 at all..?<br>
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question is here too <a href="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%7ca0b9c24dc4674add1b8b08d6c688ee6f%7c84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7c1%7c0%7c636914688762398366&sdata=5OC%2BRe0pVyTRImDzqgh5EffiWn%2BP%2BVFM88xPc5sCT1c%3D&reserved=0" target="_parent">
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<div id="gmail-m_6099867399286070093readingPaneBodyContent">Hi Nick,<br>
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> sudo nand-oob-strip.py e3-nand-backup.0 e3-nand.0: No such file or<br>
> directory<br>
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Two things. You probably don't need sudo as your ordinary user should<br>
be able to read e3-nand-backup.0 and write e3-nand.0. You have to<br>
specify a path to the nand-oob-strip.py script for the shell to find it.<br>
Since it's in the current directory, that's just `.', i.e.<br>
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./nand-oob-strip.py in.0 out.0<br>
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If that complains, then it's because ./nand-oob-strip.py lacks the<br>
`execute' permission for you. Either add it with chmod(1), or run the<br>
Python interpreter directly:<br>
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python3 nand-oob-strip.py in.0 out.0<br>
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Alternatively, to modify the file in place, so ensure they're not your<br>
only copies, you can do<br>
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LC_ALL=C perl -i -0777pe 's/(.{512})(.{16})/$1/gs' \<br>
e3-nand-backup.{0..5}<br>
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which substitutes every 512 bytes followed by 16 bytes with just the<br>
512.<br>
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Cheers, Ralph.<br>
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