Olympus m:robe MR-100

[SpoKou]

Hello I'm very interesting by installing Rockbox on my mrobe 100 is there any new thing about the development of rockbox for mrobe 100 ?

[nopasaran]

hi there, I hate gravedigging, but I would also like to know if there is any news on a possible m:robe port.

If I can contribute anything, I will try to do my best. The problem is that I am neither a hardware guru, nor an assembly nut. I cannot provide any technical assistance I am afraid.

I think that the m:robe 100 was an awesome little gadget and it would suit rockbox perfectly. It's sad that olympus let this stylish little player die off just like that and that they refuse to release the source for firmware and this utterly fubared itunes clone "M:Trip"...

[EDIT:]
alright, I posted on the mrobe.org forum again... I think we can get this project started again... I am sick of the mrobe community not going anywhere and that wonderous little machine being so badly neglected. I am sure we can port rockbox to the mrobe100 if we pull our act together a little bit.

Whoever is interested, have a look at the link to the mrobe.org thread and read my suggestions.
http://www.mrobe.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1125

[lowlight]

I've got a couple of mr100's that I've experimented with. It's easy to run code using a generic mi4 Rockbox "bootloader." I can make the touchpad led's light up . However, without working display and button drivers, it's hard to do much else at this time. Drivers for most of the other components are already in Rockbox and will hopefully work with only minor tweaking. I'm waiting to find time and motivation to dig back into the bootloader disassembly to figure out that stuff; however, anyone is welcome to do the same...get the bootloader file from here, decrypt it with mi4code, and then run it through a disassembler.

[nopasaran]

awesome. I am actually creating a little cms portal at the moment to build a community for the port. there is a lot of interest in the mrobe community and I believe that we can get something going together.

The cms is supposed to serve as a development aid. We can gather information and achievement reports in there.
Also I am planning to open a donation fund. The devs who will actually port rockbox to the mrobe100 successfully would get the donated amount in the end or it might be donated to the rockbox project... we will need to figure that out later on, first is the cms.

There seems to be someone by the name of shirour who has made some attempts to get rockbox up and running... I will try to contact him aswell and keep everyone up to date with information on the progress. The problem with this possible port is, that it has been poorly organized and thus disappeared out of public sight too much and too often.

Good to hear that you still poking around ^^

[EDIT]
Nope, Shirour has actually developed a linux branch that runs on the mrobe500i. So, I guess he would have some knowledge about the 500i but neither about rockbox nor the mrobe100... to bad.

[Bagder]

nopasaran, you're really better off trying to get Rockbox porters over to the Rockbox site and camp, rather than working a lot on keeping them away on other sites/wikis etc. Also, don't underestimate the help and assistance you can get from existing Rockbox hackers on other platforms. We've reverse engineered a lot already and we can offer a hint or two at times.

Rockbox is a single software that runs on a wide range of players. mbrobe100 - being "just another" PP target - will share more than 95% of the code with other Rockbox targets.

But of course you're free to do exactly what you want.

[nopasaran]

yes, you are probably right. I have whipped up a little postnuke cms with a forum anyways. It can serve as a sort of blog for me and maybe a few people from the m:robe community might join.

I will try to lurk the forums here then and lure more m:robe users onto rockbox. Many of them have never even heard of it, they need a little motivation.

If you guys want to take a look anyway: http://rockbottomblog.net/rockbox/

Hopefully something can be achieved. If not... it was a nice try  

[EDIT]
Also: I have pm'ed Shirour anyway, he might have some more information. Maybe he would be willing to write an mrobe display or touchpad driver to be included in rockbox.

[lowlight]

Finally had some "spare" time to work on this, and I can now write to the LCD!

Not the best picture...

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[Bagder]

whoa, congratulations lowlight! very nice indeed!

[dan_a]

Well done!  That was probably the biggest sticking point with the Sansa code, so progress should be a lot easier now

[lowlight]

Making progress  

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[Llorean]

Please keep this thread to technical discussion.

[preet]

Hey
I own an MR-100 and want to help develop the port... I know C/C++ and I'm willing to learn whatever else I need to help contribute. Could anyone point me in the right direction, tell me what I should do, etc.

Thanks,
Preet

[Bagder]

lowlight, perhaps this is a good time for you to commit some of your work and help others to get to the point where you are?

[mertdogar]

heyy, lowlight .. i'm a your new fun that waits you to see your works about mr100  . can u show your source codes?

[NicolasP]

I believe low_light has committed his work to the SVN repository.