Archive for the 'Hardware' Category

Tux Droid

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

I don’t know what I’d do with this, but I want one.

Tux Droid ONLY works on systems running Linux, NOT Windows PCs or Macintoshes.

DLDI

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Amadeus has written a DLDI driver for DSLinux.
This allows DSLinux to read and write the filesystems of all DS devices supported by DLDI, but if the device wasn’t able to boot DSLinux before the writing of this driver, then this will still be the case.

Making use of the RAM in the Supercard

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

Amadeus has been working hard to fix the 8bit write issues that were preventing DSLinux from making use of the 32MB of RAM in the Supercard, M3 and G6 carts.
This has resulted in a working build for the Supercard SD that has 17MB of RAM available after booting.
Only 16MB of the RAM is being used […]

RAM expansions

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

Amadeus has built his own RAM expansion for the DS.
The new G6 and M3 flash cards also provide 32MB of RAM, but it is not normally writable.
I recently found that the RAM on the G6 can be made writable by writing 0xaa55 to 0×09fffffe.
This additional RAM may be useful for creating a web browser for […]