2600 dev on chromebook?

[Tod frye]

Hi folks. I have been mostly using a Chromebook recently, and i am curious to see if emulators and assemblers are available for an ARM based Chromebook. 

Stella coding in ARM Linux?

 

This would be nice

 

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Since are coding anyway, maybe you could help adapting Stella for the Chromebook?

[+SvOlli]

Hello Tod,

 

I think, I can help with that, since I've build Stella for several architectures. But I don't have a chromebook, so I can't do a "holding hands" approach. What I've seen so far that there are ways to get an environment that's capable of running the command line and the package manager "apt".

 

Once you've got that, I can help you with a more current version of Stella than what's available in the official apt repository and the assembler that's been mostly used here (dasm).

 

And about 2600 coding on ARM in general: that's no problem, I've done this quite some time on a couple of Raspberry Pis over the years.

 

Hope this helps,

SvOlli

[Thomas Jentzsch]

@SvOlli Thanks for offering your support. And I am sure you can get it working.

 

But the current Stella team cannot maintain any more platforms on top of the existing ones. So what we need here is long term support for Stella on Chromebooks. Some volunteer(s) who make sure, that the version for Chromebooks gets updated when a new version of Stella is released. Either by becoming a member of the core Stella team or as an external supporter.

[haroldoop]

If everything fails, you could always develop from a browser: https://8bitworkshop.com/

[+Gemintronic]

You might be able to cobble something together from Box86 and WINE  Basically, use x86 Windows dev tools.

https://github.com/ptitSeb/box86

 

WINE sometimes has issues with translating paths/directories.  So, even with Box86 & WINE compiled and installed correctly it's a long shot.

[+SvOlli]

Hello Tod,

I've got an update for running Stella on the Chromebook. Since this week Stella is now available on flathub as a flatpak for installation. There are setup instruction for Chrome OS available at the flatpak website.

The flathub build will be maintained not by the Stella team, but by me. You can consider it "semi-official" as some ports on the official Stella downloads page are already done by me as well.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Thanks for making Stella available on other platforms.

 

BTW: You may want to update the launcher screenshot.  

[+SvOlli]

2 minutes ago, Thomas Jentzsch said:

You may want to update the launcher screenshot.

You might want to update the launcher screenshot on https://stella-emu.github.io/screenshots.html then, because there where all screenshots are taken from.

I don't know if the images are linked directly on the flathub page, or if they are copied over during the build process, or if its something in between, though.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Touché!  

 

Fixed! Your turn now.  

Edited August 13, 2022 by Thomas Jentzsch

[+SvOlli]

Done. So what I learned: flathub updates the images when the flatpak-repo gets updated.