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Rockbox General => Rockbox General Discussion => Topic started by: Rob on September 11, 2007, 03:21:47 PM

Title: Updates?
Post by: Rob on September 11, 2007, 03:21:47 PM

I use Rockbox h3xx (not specialised build), and the last time I updated was a couple of months ago, March I think. I went to update today, and it all looks very different - there is now:

Date    Package       Maps    Changes     Voice       Rev

When before there was just Date and Package I think. What are the other ones - I spent ages reading the manual before, so I know most things, so I don't want to read it all again just to understand what they are. Are they essential? And has there been any major additions to Rockbox in the time, such as the NES emu I've always wanted >_>

Thanks :)

Title: Re: Updates?
Post by: GodEater on September 11, 2007, 03:22:58 PM

Where are you reading that from ?

Title: Re: Updates?
Post by: Rob on September 11, 2007, 03:25:44 PM

http://www.rockbox.org/dl.cgi?bin=h300

Title: Re: Updates?
Post by: GodEater on September 11, 2007, 03:27:36 PM

I'd stick to downloading the current build if I were you - then you won't have to worry ;)

http://build.rockbox.org/dist/build-h300/rockbox.zip

Or - to put it another way - no they're no essential.

The Changes just describe what went into that release, so it's not a "download" as such.

The "Voice" is the voice files to go with that build. They've been build specific for a month or so now.

The "Maps" are of interest only to developers interested in debugging things.

Title: Re: Updates?
Post by: Rob on September 11, 2007, 03:36:48 PM

Is the current build the one that was put out that day, or the older, more stable version? It's been a while and I can't remember >_>

Title: Re: Updates?
Post by: LambdaCalculus on September 11, 2007, 03:37:36 PM

The current build is the one that changes with each SVN revision.

Title: Re: Updates?
Post by: GodEater on September 11, 2007, 03:48:36 PM

Which means it changes every time someone checks some code in, and therefore there can be several "Current" builds a day...

Title: Re: Updates?
Post by: Rob on September 11, 2007, 04:29:41 PM

Ah ok, that's the one I wanted :)

And while the topic's open, does anyone know if there's been any progress with making a NES emulator? It's something I've always wanted to see on Rockbox, but I don't nearly have enough coding experise to make it myself.

Title: Re: Updates?
Post by: LambdaCalculus on September 11, 2007, 04:34:29 PM

Here's one:

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php?topic=11843.0

And here's the wiki on it:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/PluginTuxNES

The plugin is on the back burner for a little while, because the only other guy that's working on it is in school right now, and I'm rather swamped myself. So it may be quite some time before anything really happens with it.