DCLinux help

Shilar · Post by **Shilar** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 1:10 am

My main question is: How does one run programs other than what's on the Linux CD, in Linux? I'd love to try running PyDDR or even Mugen.

tom61a · Post by **tom61a** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 4:09 pm

1. You'll need stuff compiled to run on SH4 for it to work. This basically means you need Linux on your desktop, and the source to whatever you want to run.

2. You need some way to transfer the code to the Dreamcast. BBA is best to connect to an NFS drive and load it from there. The Coder's Cable will work too, you need to terminal into DCLinux and then upload it via Kermit or other transfer protocol to the RAM drive on the DC. If you don't have either a BBA or the Coders cable, then your only option is create a new Linux DC image inside Linux on your desktop and add whatever programs you want before burning it. (it's best to just recreate DC Linux from scratch rather than extracting it from the existing image)

BlackxKnight · Post by **BlackxKnight** » Thu Jul 10, 2003 8:55 pm

so hold up...ive been told that Mugen on DC was impossible because the DC didnt have enough RAM to run it but what ure saying is that with a coders cable i could transfer mugen to my DC after i have linux is up via Kermit and the coders cable...correct me if im wrong

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Fri Jul 11, 2003 5:33 am

You can either burn the stuff to the disc (which requires a PC with a Unix-like OS, such as Linux), or you can transfer it to the DC after it's running. You could probably use a coder's cable, but a BBA or LAN adapter would be easier - you can just mount the stuff over the network using NFS (or SMB if DCLinux has Samba installed).

You can't run Mugen on it, since it's only available as x86-compiled binaries.

Shilar · Post by **Shilar** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 11:54 am

Too bad there's not an x86 emulator for the DC.

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Thu Jul 17, 2003 7:09 pm

Yeah. There was some work into an x86 emulator that can load x86-compiled Linux apps and run them as if they were native. I think it actually works quite well, although slowly. It's primary aim was to do the same thing, but using Wine or DOSEmu to allow Linux/Unix users on non-x86 systems to run Windows and DOS programs.

I don't know if that works on the DC (it'd probably be way too slow, or use too much memory) but it might be worth a try.