Who here uses Chankcast to aid in development?

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Who here uses Chankcast to aid in development?

Post by showka »

Hey guys, I just got a new laptop. It's pretty powerful, but lacks a serial port, so no DC deving for awhile. I was wondering, though, how many people use Chankcast for development? Are there any tutorials for making the images or whatever that it needs using Elf files and other stuff you'd normally send through DcTool?
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Post by Prophet][ »

you can make a usb coders cable. Search the hardware forum, there is links to sites, circuit diagrams etc.
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Post by Quzar »

GPF is the only coder I know of that uses chankast for development.
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Post by showka »

Ok. I used the Wayback machine to find a lot of info on Chanka's site, before it went under. I'll probably look at it in a weekend or two when I have more time.
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I use Chankast for development - it's missing a console output which is a shame, otherwise I'd use it more.
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Post by GPF »

I just have my makefile call a batfile that creates an iso file with mkisofs.

I create a directory called cd and put all the resources that the program uses. then my bat files does this

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move unscrambled.bin cd\1st_read.bin
mkisofs -J -r -l -o dc.iso cd
move dc.iso C:\ChankastAlpha025
ch.vbs
ch.vbs is just a script that starts chankast and starts it running for me

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         set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
         WshShell.Run "C:\ChankastAlpha025\test.bat"
         WScript.Sleep 1500
         WshShell.AppActivate "Chankast Alpha v0.25"
         WScript.Sleep 300
         WshShell.SendKeys "%R"
         WScript.Sleep 100
         WshShell.SendKeys "S"
and test.bat is

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cd C:\ChankastAlpha025\
C:\ChankastAlpha025\Chankast_alpha_25.exe -file:dc.iso

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Post by showka »

Thanks a lot. The broad band adapter is endlessly expensive, causing me to put off buying it again and again (don't want to go with a half measure like making a USB to serial adapter either). I'm going to look at this more next time I'm home.
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Post by FunKing »

I've been using dcemu (http://alumnos.utem.cl/dcemu/), specially because of its console output. The progress of this emulator is constant, albeit a bit slow... but it's already good enough to test some homebrews.
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