and a useful dslinux install(has links and retawq as browsers, font is microscopic though).Â
Small note: there are two ways to increase font size. The first is to compile your own build with the larger font selected. The second is to use the 'consolechars' program and an appropriate .psf font file to change the font used, which doesn't require you to compile your own builds.
Consolechars can be obtained from
http://dannysied.googlepages.com/DSLinux_addons.zip. Put consolechars in /usr/bin and font.psf in your home directory. Launch it by typing "consolechars -f font.psf" to change to the larger font or "consolechars -R" to reset it to the regular font. Ignore the dlditool that's in that zip file since dlditool is now enabled in the precompiled builds.
Well, I did NOT know of the app that did NOT require re-compiling, although it is kind of funny seeing that t here's that post in the dslinux forums about the guy trying to re-compile for a larger font size. I'd bet that he wishes that he had known of that app and that is something that SHOULD be added to the wiki.
As for dslinux myself, I can live with the small font as pages don't all quite render nicely even with the tiny font but it does ok, and is readable after a fashion. I'm MUCH more interested in finding a way to get the browsers running with a SCDS1 SDHC myself, and hopefully my trail of posts ending at the dslinux forums and supercard's own forums gets a fix of some sort in place some day, as everything else for dslinux seems to work for the SCDS1...
Anyways, we're threadjacking here, so time to move along...
@H8ff0000
Thanks for the info. I was looking at some other alternatives the other day on dealextreme and other places. Found a bunch of 2000mAh batteries with and without chargers that looked interesting as well.
@fryfrog
I don't think that the DS will ever be able to play MP3s AND do anything else really meaningful as playback of MP3s/OGG/etc. is somewhat CPU intensive and the DS doesn't exactly have alot of horsepower or RAM for that matter as shipped.
Apparently the ARM CPUs used in the DS aren't soft-moddable to higher speeds either as were some of the older ARM chips used in various other handheld devices, iPaq, Newton 2100, some of the ARM based Palms IIRC(as well as the 68XXX Palms), etc.
Personally, I was really hoping that the PSP would get better games, but when it came down to getting a new handheld, DS native games just pushed it over the top even though it is incredibly weak from a technical standpoint, then again it does have something like 5 times the battery life of a PSP with standard hardware which is important to me in handhelds. (I still like OLD 68XXX Palms, e.g. IIIx for their mono screens(great outside in the summer still easily readable) AND incredible battery life(weeks or months even with a fair amount of usage, and I used to read ALOT of ebooks on my old IIIx). Actually I upgraded my IIIx with a TRG XTRA XTRA Pro upgrade(8MB RAM/4MB flash) which ws meant to be used with hacker-dude san's Japanese OS support, but in my case it doubled my RAM and FLASH which was useable for storing applications and documents, unfortunately I semi-bricked it last summer while trying to defrag FLASH with rechargeable batteries that were apparently too far drained to last FLASH operations.
Can't find a copy of Palm OS 3.30 that DOESN'T want to backup my files before re-flashing the OS. (I can get to recover mode I think, but there is no way I can get the backup to run, and I can't see how to tell it to skip it with the update app supplied by Palm, and I've misplaced my old raw copy of the OS update file. If anyone knows where to find 3.30 raw update file, please PM me... my own searches haven't turned it up yet, although I'm sure I have it on a CDR somewhere...)