potential PPC Amiga REAL CHEAP

[_ThEcRoW]

That just makes no sense. If you want to code anything for worldwide usage, you need a license from nintendo to do it, if not, all the efforts would be illegal(remember accolade case vs. sega?).
First ask nintendo if they allow you or the one who will make the port, and then begin work. I'm not trying to give your mind away, but that project seems impossible one at the moment.
Cheers.

[MskoDestny]

lou_dias wrote:
how does that work?  Do I have to put up the money up front in some AROS-dev team controlled account or do I just pay up when it's completed.

I think the money is given up front to prevent people from backing out at the last minute. I would start a thread over at aros-exec.org to refine the wording of your bounty before submission and get the exact procedure.

Storage is not an issue with me anyway as a network file server can be purchased stand-alone or running off my PC.  I already know it's  more than fast enough despite what some people on this site will tell you.  If it's fast enough for the business environment, it's fast enough for you and me.

Keep in mind that network support in AROS is somewhat immature. You can use FTP, but I'm not sure whether there is a SMB or NFS client yet. Hard to say what kind of networking it will have by the time the port is done.

Author says there will be a host and slave mode:
http://www.gcdev.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1511

Too bad it doesn't use the Hi Speed port the Gameboy Player uses. As it stands it would seem that the only way to have USB and Ethernet would be to use a USB ethernet adapter which has the disadvantage of additional overhead and not working with current software compatible with the BBA.

That just makes no sense. If you want to code anything for worldwide usage, you need a license from nintendo to do it, if not, all the efforts would be illegal(remember accolade case vs. sega?).

Accolade largely won that case. The only thing that got them into trouble is they didn't follow proper clean room procedures when they did their reverse engineering and copied some of Sega's code verbatim. There's nothing illegal about making homebrew for game consoles as long as you don't violate copyright in the process.

[Louis Dias]

Actually the only thing illegal to my knowledge it if I were using the mod chip to make illegal copies of software or using code from Nintendo's own developer's kit without a proper license then it would be illegal.

All code on the homebrew scene has been reverse engineered.  That is perfectly legal.

ps,

I am importing 50 SD card adapters for the Gamecube (minimum order).  I have received interest in these from a number of people on the gcdev.com forums so I bit the bullet and took a chance and did an international money transfer.  Here is the url with tracking information.  So it looks like I ain't getting screwed so far.
http://app1.hongkongpost.com/CGI/mt/e_detail.jsp?mail_type=ems_out&tracknbr=EE689048961HK&localno=EE689048961HK

These were an Asian market product only.  Only 2 Nintendo games are actually compatible with it:  Animal Crossing and Doshin The Giant.  So it's basically for homebrew developers.  If anyone needs one, I should have them next week.

@MskoDestny
In those screen shots, I assumed 256MB and that 64MB were dedicated/designated as "chip ram" and 192MB to fast ram so it looked to me like memory useage was much smaller.  Maybe the author can correct us.  I'll post about that on his thread.

[Louis Dias]

Wow, I just stumbled upon this:

http://www.sandisk.com/pressrelease/20050106a.htm

combine the SD card adapater with this product and now you can hook up any USB device to a gamecube.

Now you've got your USB storage and your ethernet.

That's everything.

here's an 80GB USB 2.0 hard drive for $83 http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1538966&CatId=530

[MskoDestny]

That SD card cannot be used as a USB host. It's just an SD card that can double as a USB flash drive.

[koaftder]

lou_dias wrote:
Wow, I just stumbled upon this:

http://www.sandisk.com/pressrelease/20050106a.htm

combine the SD card adapater with this product and now you can hook up any USB device to a gamecube.

Now you've got your USB storage and your ethernet.

That's everything.

here's an 80GB USB 2.0 hard drive for $83 http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1538966&CatId=530

Yea, great. So where are the drivers? Wheres the OS port? Go learn C, post back when you are able to do more than "Wouldnt it be great if?". Generally speaking, nobody cares.

[Louis Dias]

koaftder wrote:

lou_dias wrote:
Wow, I just stumbled upon this:

http://www.sandisk.com/pressrelease/20050106a.htm

combine the SD card adapater with this product and now you can hook up any USB device to a gamecube.

Now you've got your USB storage and your ethernet.

That's everything.

here's an 80GB USB 2.0 hard drive for $83 http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1538966&CatId=530

Yea, great. So where are the drivers? Wheres the OS port? Go learn C, post back when you are able to do more than "Wouldnt it be great if?". Generally speaking, nobody cares.

Hey, if you don't care, then don't read and more importantly don't post.

As for drivers... there is a c library, libogc, that has a read/write api for SD cards for homebrew code.

on Linux

The MMC/SD card kernel block driver has been updated to support read/write mode . It also supports now hot-plugging cards, thanks to new functionality added to the EXI layer.

from www.gc-linux.org  :-P

[Louis Dias]

MskoDestny wrote:
That SD card cannot be used as a USB host. It's just an SD card that can double as a USB flash drive.

oops read it too fast...I'll find one though...

[Louis Dias]

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18784

I'm staying out of this thread even though it re-iterates alot of why I want a GC port.

Anyway, I have received the SD Gecko cards.   If anyone is interested in one, email me.

[Louis Dias]

At work this week, I witnessed a 64MB Windows Mobile PDA running internet explorer.  The system has no hard drive or extra memory in it other than the built-in 192k ROM.  Cache was only invented to load pages you visit often faster back then.  With today's internet access speeds, a web cache is not required.

Back in '96, I was using IBrowse on my 6 meg CD32+SX-1 system to get on the web and only at about 14.4kbs!  I eventually upgraded to 33.3 and 56k, but by then I was on the PC with 32 or 64 megs of ram.

So I say a GC running AOS can be quite useful for mobile (in car) gaming and simple web surfing + email.

[KThunder]

i have witnessed a really really long lived thread on amiga.org by a guy named lou_dias who really really freakin wants to run amigaos on a games machine :-D

[KThunder]

i wonder what the longest running thread on amiga.org is?

[KThunder]

dude do you dig this thread up every time you find something interesting? you can start a new thread you know. they let you do that :-o

[Louis Dias]

KThunder wrote:
dude do you dig this thread up every time you find something interesting? you can start a new thread you know. they let you do that :-o

Wouldn't that be worse?

Besides it goes along the lines of 40MB isn't enough memory to do anything with a Gamecube...which ofcourse is B.S. as Amigas have been doing plenty with 2MB and a floppy.  Heck back in the day, a 20MB HD was huge...

Oh, and I have SD Gecko memory card adapters in stock incase anyone is interested.  I've shipped some out to a couple of GC developers and they are happy.

http://www.gcdev.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1493&start=30

[koaftder]

KThunder wrote:
dude do you dig this thread up every time you find something interesting? you can start a new thread you know. they let you do that :-o

But then he wouldnt have the thrill of seeing his latest troll at the top of the pile *again*. The threads message count increases by one, the post count on the user account increases by one. The total views increases by several with each troll. Oh my, the excitement!

[Karlos]

lou_dias wrote:

KThunder wrote:
dude do you dig this thread up every time you find something interesting? you can start a new thread you know. they let you do that :-o

Wouldn't that be worse?

IIRC, Wayne once suggested that very long threads were not so good for the system backend, taking a long time to process etc.

-edit-

As this is post 404 in this topic it would have been amusing were it to vanish or something :-)