BeeKey Atari on a key and now BeePi

[Gaiyan]

Finally I have found the culprit
Read this article : https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=111773&p=768259

Basically :
- delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
- edit /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules and remove eth*|wlan*| from
# device name whitelist
KERNEL!= ...

With that, your eth or wlan port won't be renamed anymore and you can use default beekey setup for eth0 or wlan0

Sweet, thanks. Will try it out.

Gaiyan, I forgot to answer your TT installation question ; yes it's possible but it won't be easy to do as EasyAraMint is specifically setup for Aranym.
The easiest way may be to install first easymint : http://atari.st-katharina-apotheke.de/h ... texte=news
Install nvdi and then copy manually and selectively the content of C and H (you can use a USB key to transfer files from BeePi disk images), but don't copy directly Auto, Gemsys and Mint directories to your TT as they are specific to Aranym. You may have also to edit mint and xaaes configuration files, based on the one in EasyAraMint. So quite a lot to do indeed.
I should receive my CT60e soon, so may be I will do a specific install for 030 machines.

Thanks much! I will do this when I can.

[Gaiyan]

My review of the BeePi. I would appreciate comments.

[BlankVector]

My review of the BeePi. I would appreciate comments.

Great review! I have advertised it on the EmuTOS Facebook page.

[itaboy]

Well done Galiyan. And Great work, Philippe!!

[Faucon2001]

Excellent review Gaiyan !!! Thanks, I really appreciate, it's motivating. To be honest, though I had a lot of fun doing it, due to the lack of feedback I was considering giving up on BeePi and only concentrate on BeeKey. But now that I see that there is inteqrest, I will continue.

Just a detail regarding Aranym setup, the default key is alt+F12, not shift+F2. I guess you've changed it.
Regarding additional features, there is also the integration with Hatari which allows to run hardware specific games, demos and apps directly by double clicking on the disk image under Aranym, increasing the compatibility to almost 100% of softwares and bringing also midi for musician lovers (Cubase is working great) : with this feature you also have a Mega STE @32 MHz in 1280x960 a few clicks away.
For the next steps, I plan to correct the recently detected bugs for networking, include the latest Hatari 2.0 build, give the choice to boot at start into Aranym or Hatari, push the integration between Aranym and Hatari, improve the printing solution to be able to connect directly an USB printer (for now it only works with network printer), may be propose to install a lighter version of Mint as requested by some users (a kind of vanilla Mint under Tos4.04 and videl emulation that will give a slower but much more compatible setup for Aranym, able to run Calamus and other hardware dependent softwares), and finally design an Atari style case for the Pi when I will receive my 3D printer to push the user experience to the top
I have everything already setup on paper, it's now more a matter of time to do it.
If you have other ideas, feel free to share.

[wongck]

Excellent stuff

[Gaiyan]

Thanks everyone!

Excellent review Gaiyan !!! Thanks, I really appreciate, it's motivating. To be honest, though I had a lot of fun doing it, due to the lack of feedback I was considering giving up on BeePi and only concentrate on BeeKey. But now that I see that there is inteqrest, I will continue.

Thanks! I'm sure there is interest. Thank you for sticking with it

Just a detail regarding Aranym setup, the default key is alt+F12, not shift+F2. I guess you've changed it.

Oops, my bad. I've fixed it now.

Regarding additional features, there is also the integration with Hatari which allows to run hardware specific games, demos and apps directly by double clicking on the disk image under Aranym, increasing the compatibility to almost 100% of softwares and bringing also midi for musician lovers (Cubase is working great) : with this feature you also have a Mega STE @32 MHz in 1280x960 a few clicks away.
For the next steps, I plan to correct the recently detected bugs for networking, include the latest Hatari 2.0 build, give the choice to boot at start into Aranym or Hatari, push the integration between Aranym and Hatari, improve the printing solution to be able to connect directly an USB printer (for now it only works with network printer), may be propose to install a lighter version of Mint as requested by some users (a kind of vanilla Mint under Tos4.04 and videl emulation that will give a slower but much more compatible setup for Aranym, able to run Calamus and other hardware dependent softwares), and finally design an Atari style case for the Pi when I will receive my 3D printer to push the user experience to the top
I have everything already setup on paper, it's now more a matter of time to do it.
If you have other ideas, feel free to share.

Sounds good!

[AlexSTE]

Quick question. I am having problems with zip files from web page listed.
On my mac I can't unzip any of them, seems to be always corrupted.
Any zip beekey, beepi....
I noticed some other files (img from this www) would download to certain level 30-40mb and then stall.
Is there any other source for these files like Sourceforge?

[Faucon2001]

Humm, I had previously some issues with certain browsers, google chrome in particular, corrupting the download but it was working ok with Firefox. Now I have the same issue with Firefox. It seems that there is something wrong with my provider
I can send you a file via drop box, meanwhile I fix this issue with my provider. Which one do you need?

[christos]

I guess i need to buy a pi. I dont know why but i seem to be more motivated real h/w and that seems close enough and cheap enough to be worth a try!

[TheNameOfTheGame]

BeePi seems mostly fast enough but is there a way to smooth out the cursor updating? It is very choppy when moving the mouse.

[Faucon2001]

It seems that my provider doesn't know how to solve this issue !!!
I have tried to resume download after a stall with Firefox and it works, and now it works again with Chrome !!!
Sorry, I don't have a 100% reliable solution for now.
If you have issue with download, send me a message and I will give you a direct link.

@AlexSTE I have sent you a direct link via private message
@The NameOfTheGame : very choppy? If you move the mouse at high speed, the mouse cursor is a bit blurry, but I don't see the mouse choppy. it's not as smooth as with BeeKey, I guess the processor speed is the limit. Sorry, but I don't have a clue.

[AlexSTE]

It seems that my provider doesn't know how to solve this issue !!!
I have tried to resume download after a stall with Firefox and it works, and now it works again with Chrome !!!
Sorry, I don't have a 100% reliable solution for now.
If you have issue with download, send me a message and I will give you a direct link.

@AlexSTE I have sent you a direct link via private message
@The NameOfTheGame : very choppy? If you move the mouse at high speed, the mouse cursor is a bit blurry, but I don't see the mouse choppy. it's not as smooth as with BeeKey, I guess the processor speed is the limit. Sorry, but I don't have a clue.

Awesome thank you very much.

[TheNameOfTheGame]

Can BeePi use the new release of MyAES or is it tied to XaAES?

[OL]

Can BeePi use the new release of MyAES or is it tied to XaAES?

I think the best is to do yourself, this is quite simple:

copy myaes folder in C:\gemsys\
Modify mint.cnf to load myaes020.prg rather XaAES
Correct shell.cnf in myaes folder to load desktop of this configuration

It should start like this

Probably you will have to adjust a bit myaes.cnf too for the use.

Olivier

PS: I have forget to said I have wrote a small software to be able to choose at start AES you want to use name "selgem" you can download it from MyAES web page, I just updated it

[Faucon2001]

MyAes is already installed and setup in Beekey and Beepi
There is an app, that you can access with right click/ setup, to switch from xaaes to myaes
You'll just have to change myaes files with the new ones to do the update.

[TheNameOfTheGame]

Great! Thanks for the answers!

[christos]

Just to let you know I installed Beekey on my laptop and so far I am very happy with it. How you made it look and work so good is beyond me, but I really liked it.
My only problem was that there was no wifi support from the start, but that was easily fixed by using network manager. This is what I did:

Connect it to ethernet.
SSH to the hostOS as described in the manual.
Install network manager

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apt-get install network-manager

Start network-manager service

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systemctl start networkmanager.service

Use nmtui to configure the connection:

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nmtui

Select the wifi network you want to connect to and fill in the data as needed. Because toswin2 isn't quite up to the task to do proper cli UI's I suggest using an external system. It is doable through the atari though.

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Rebooting will make it work.

Anyway, thanks again for all your work you really made my laptop much more fun!

[Faucon2001]

Thank you Christos, very nice tip. It's going to simplify a lot wifi setup.
If you haven't seen it, there is an update on page 4 of this thread which accelerate the boot time too.
It is also explained in this thread : viewtopic.php?f=8&t=31104

Enjoy!

[AtariZoll]

Installed on 8GB Pen drive.

BeeBox.jpg

It started well, Internet access too. Don't know why creating couple GB persistent area on Pen drive takes so long. Restart of PC was problematic too.
But overall great achievement. I need to test some Atari SW in it ...

[Faucon2001]

Welcome and thank you for testing Beekey.
USB2 pendrive are vers slow, explaining the long time to create the persistence but also to copy all the files which are modified, especially the disk images. Second boot should be faster.
USB3 pen drive are a better solution for a constant use.

[AtariZoll]

Welcome and thank you for testing Beekey.
USB2 pendrive are vers slow, explaining the long time to create the persistence but also to copy all the files which are modified, especially the disk images. Second boot should be faster.
USB3 pen drive are a better solution for a constant use.

I meant creating persistence (step 3) while writing files on Pen drive under Windows. It took some 20 minutes (3 GB) . After first boot it took only some 3-4 minutes.

[avtandil]

Just to let you know I installed Beekey on my laptop and so far I am very happy with it. How you made it look and work so good is beyond me, but I really liked it.

Did you mean that you installed BeeKee to the USB-stick and just plugged it to your laptop ?

Or you got success to install BeeKee as one of the laptop systems ?

[christos]

Yeah. The first one... wrong choice of words

[christos]

I am having some issue running hatari. I can't find it. Double clicking on a disk image doesn't seem to launch it either. Any ideas?