GSport now running on Raspberry Pi

[Polymorph <mike.a.stephens@gmail.com>]

Hi All,

Just thought I'd drop a quick note to say that I have managed to get GSport running on the Raspberry Pi (I don't think anyone has done this yet?).

It was quite simple really, and only required 2 things running the recommended Raspbian "wheezy" distro (although mine is not the latest build):
    1) update the "vars_x86Linux" file and change the line:
           CCOPTS = -O2 -Wall -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium
       to:
           CCOPTS = -O2 -Wall -fomit-frame-pointer -march=armv6

    2) install the xfonts-base package (I had to debug the executable to find that the absence of the 8x13 font was responsible for crashing the program during initialisation)

I've successfully tested it running a few disk images. It's running at ~20MHz, which is very usable. It may run faster on the latest Raspbian distro which has more optimisations (I'll have to try that soon).

One major drawback: I haven't got sound working yet though  :-(

I'll post back after I've done some more testing, and hopefully can figure out the deal with sound.

But it's a very promising start. :-)

Cheers,
Mike