Bb

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The title of this article should be bb. The initial letter is capitalized due to technical limitations.

bb (http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/bb/) is a portable text-mode demo with sound support.

I have started porting bb to the iPod. The port is not fully functional, yet!

Screenshots

• bb on a 4g iPod
• bb on a 5g iPod

HOWTO

First, install aalib.

Then compile bb:

apt-get source bb

dpkg-source -x bb_1.3rc1-7.dsc

cd bb-1.3rc1

wget http://ipodlinux.org/images/d/d1/Bb_ipod.patch.txt

mv Bb_ipod.patch.txt Bb_ipod.patch

patch -p1 < Bb_ipod.patch

autoreconf -i

CFLAGS="-Wl,-elf2flt" ./configure --host=arm-elf --disable-threads --with-aalib-prefix=/home/foo/localbuild --disable-aalibtest --disable-libmikmodtest

make

Now copy the bb binary to /sbin on your iPod.

Finally, edit /etc/rc on your iPod. Start bb instead of podzilla there.

For 4g iPods use:

bb -width 20 -height 15

For 5g iPods use:

bb -width 40 -height 24

Reboot.

Notes

• This HOWTO is currently Debian specific.
• bb doesn't work correctly, yet. On 4g iPods the text scrolls away too fast (+ there doesn't seem to be proper syncing). On 5g iPods the LCD code is too slow at the moment, so I can't really tell whether it would work correctly or not.