PocketCHIP stuff
The makers of CHIP went out of business as of 2018 and took all their code down. If you want to keep your CHIP running, you have to rely on the community…
Archived stuff
- CHIP Community wiki
- JF Possibilities, “CHIP is dead.. or is it?” and mirrored the original documentation
- yoursunny, How to Flash C.H.I.P Offline.
- Thore-Krug, Flash-CHIP
Utility
built in calculator: xcalc
use the built in browser: surf http://google.com (need help, man surf)
get a text browser: sudo apt-get install lynx
get a graphical browser: sudo apt-get install midori
get a paint program: sudo apt-get install mypaint
or: sudo apt-get install grafx2
notetaking: sudo apt-get install xournal
sudo apt-get install evolvotron
From blog
http://blog.nextthing.co/give-your-pocketc-h-i-p-3-new-abilities-software-tutorials-from-the-community/
http://blog.nextthing.co/heres-how-to-host-a-90s-style-doom-lan-party-using-pocketc-h-i-p/
http://blog.nextthing.co/customize-the-hell-out-of-your-pocketc-h-i-p-install-doom-give-it-an-icon-on-the-home-screen/
Fun terminal stuff
Watch star wars in ASCII:
sudo apt-get install telnet
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Get lots of games:
sudo apt-get install bsdgames
bsdgames includes: adventure, arithmetic, atc, backgammon, battlestar, bcd, boggle, caesar, canfield, countmail, cribbage, dab, go-fish, gomoku, hack, hangman, hunt, mille, monop, morse, number, pig, phantasia, pom, ppt, primes, quiz, random, rain, robots, rot13, sail, snake, tetris, trek, wargames, worm, worms, wump, wtf. Play bsdgames by typing the name on the terminal.
sudo apt-get install ninvaders
sudo apt-get install nethack
sudo apt-get install 2048-cli
sudo apt-get install moon-buggy
sudo apt-get install robotfindskitten
rouge-like
http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/
https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/
http://www.adom.de/home/downloads.html
Emulators
apt-get install visualboyadvance Then type vba to run it. Vba [rom location] to run the game.
vice: http://www.rift.dk/blog/run-vice-on-your-pocketchip
http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A//www.lemon64.com/games/list.php%3Fpublisher%3D%28Public+Domain%29
To run VICE, type x64 from the terminal. To load a game, tap File then mount a disk, browsing to wherever you put your files.
MEdnafen: https://bbs.nextthing.co/t/mednafen-emulator-configuration-gbc-gba-snes-nes/5027
retroarch: https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch/wiki/Compilation-guide-(Linux)
RetroArch doesn’t require GL. You can compile it without GL/GLES/EGL at the expense of some features (no fancy menus, only RGUI; no shaders). I’m assuming you’ll be able to compile it similarly to how it used to be compiled for rpi (note that opengl/egl/gles are disabled during the ./configure step): https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=56070
fceux
Case mods
keyboard face plate, http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1670579
keyboard, http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1686723
d-pad, http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1644139
combine PiGrrl parts?
source files, https://github.com/NextThingCo/PocketCHIP-Mechanical