Dingux System Installation pack. Contains kernels and rootfs. Uses only first FAT partition on MiniSD card.

Release notes:

Big news. Grab both from the google code download section here.

The installation pack includes the kernel images and a root filesystem in ROMFS format. You just need to place both in the root directory of the first (and most likely only) FAT partition of your miniSD card. No need for ext2/ext3 any longer, which should make Windoze users quite happy.

Another big improvement is console and file transfer. As soon as linux boots your PC will detect a new network card and it will be assigned a network address (by a DHCP server in your A320). Telnet to 10.1.0.2 to get console access, FTP to 10.1.0.2 to transfer files.

Enabling networking in the kernel adds enlarges it noticeably, but this is compensated by the removal of ext2/ext3, which is not longer needed and is quite heavy too.

Dingux will try to run the file “local/sbin/main” in your miniSD on startup, and if it exits it will respawn it. Get your menu application of choice, rename it as “main” and place it in “local/sbin” to get it running on startup.

To system menu application developers, I’d advice to use the exec call to launch other applications. The launched application will replace yours in memory (so the menu won’t be sitting silently in the background waiting for the application to end and using precious RAM), and when it exits your menu will be launched again.

I’ve tried to include as many libraries as possible in the root filesystem. If you need some library not included, link it statically as a temporary solution and email me: I’ll try to include it in the next release.

You should notice an important boot speed improvement. The initialization sequence has been optimized in many ways, but the post noticeable is the active monitoring of the miniSD detection. Now the system waits just as long as needed until the miniSD block devices are created, while before there was a fixed delay of one second (the rootdelay kernel parameter was used and the minimum value you can set is one second).

UPDATE: note that existing applications do not work on this new root filesystem. They will have to be recompiled using the new toolchain. I bet developers will catch up quickly.

http://www.dingux.com/2009/07/system-installation-pack-and-toolchain.html

Harmonic tide clock / tide prediction for Android. Originally based on muTide, a Java ME derivative of XTide, aTides uses of the same ‘station.dat’ and ‘data.dat’ files as muTide. Updated files placed on the SD card will override the ones included.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/a-tides/

Android PDF Viewer is a viewer for PDF-Files on ANDROID mobiles. The implementation will be a port of the PDF-Renderer which is published by SUN under the LGPL: https://pdf-renderer.dev.java.net/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/andpdf/

atari2600land has started another SpongeBob SquarePants based game. It’s in early stages and has no plot yet.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=147365

Inkl Player is a karakoe music player for Wiz.

Thanks to http://www.gp32x.com and http://www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?/topic/48777-inkl-player-0-2-released/

The Homebrew Browser allows you to download the latest homebrew applications and games all through your Wii. You don’t need to take your SD card out. You don’t even need a computer! You can also delete homebrew you no longer want.

No more dead links, no more extracting files, no more finding out that the homebrew application doesn’t include an icon.png and meta.xml in the zip file!

Release notes:

Also I might point out that HBB v0.3.3 Revision 1 is out for testing. Please let me know if you have any issues with downloading apps to USB.

Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com and http://www.dcemu.co.uk for the news.

http://www.codemii.com/

PMPlayer Advance (PPA) is a media player for PSP.

Changes:

– added Custom Firmware 5.50GEN-B, PSP1000 Supported
– fixed MP4 (MKV) file delete function

http://forums.qj.net/psp-development-forum/154943-released-pmplayer-advance-fw3xx-3-0-5-5-50-gen-support-20090709-a.html

PCEP is a PC Engine / TG-16 emulator for PSP.

Thanks to http://www.emu-russia.net for the news.

http://psp1or2.blog76.fc2.com/blog-entry-145.html

The Nintendo Gameboy Advance emulator for Sony PSP based on gPSP and gPSP kai source code has been updated.

More than 500 legal homebrew GBA games can be downloaded from here: //files/gameboyadvance/

Thanks to http://emu-russia.net/en/#6488 for the news.

http://jbbs.livedoor.jp/bbs/read.cgi/game/23304/1186977597/l50

Gmu is a music player for the Dingoo. Gmu supports Ogg Vorbis, MP3, Musepack, FLAC and various module formats (such as s3m, stm, it, etc.). It also includes a playlist and a file browser.

Quote:

Here is another Gmu release of the upcoming Gmu 0.7.0! This time it is a version for the GP2X Wiz. It also runs on the GP2X F100/F200 with the Open2X firmware installed. Beware that this is a very experimental release. Unfortunately I currently do not own a Wiz myself, so I was not able to test it on the Wiz.

http://wejp.k.vu/gmu/gmu-0-7-0_beta4-for-the-gp2x-wiz-released