ZDoomZ on E2 internal memory

[princeofpersia]

Bit of a strange one, this... as you all know the Tungsten E2 doesn't have an internal drive to store files on. However, Dmitry of UDMH fame has a small piece of software on his site that basically gives the E2 an internal dirve, like the T5 and others: palmpowerups.com/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=18

Problem is, this upsets ZDoomZ badly. Although the executable is happy to go onto the internal drive, it will no longer detect .wad files from either the SD card or internal memory (even the copy on the SD card!), and ZDoom appears to pay no attention at all to any of the .wad files on the internal drive, no matter where they are placed. Perhaps ZDoom is designed to *not* handle internal memory on an E2, and thus goes bananas when there is some? Any thoughts on this?

Despite the small memory of the E2, I would very much like to see this included as this would allow me to use my WiFi adaptor as it takes over the SD slot. (Obviously I'd have to use a later version of Metaview's version but that's a moot point - support in the root version is what counts )

[Tinnus]

princeofpersia said:

Perhaps ZDoom is designed to *not* handle internal memory on an E2, and thus goes bananas when there is some? Any thoughts on this?

No idea about the rest, but I'm pretty sure this is not the case...

[princeofpersia]

tinnus said:

princeofpersia said:

Perhaps ZDoom is designed to *not* handle internal memory on an E2, and thus goes bananas when there is some? Any thoughts on this?

No idea about the rest, but I'm pretty sure this is not the case...

I'm merely hoping that I've simply screwed it up somehow, but I don't understand why the SD card WAD files are ignored (but not the CFG strangely enough) and why no location I tried on the internal drive seemed to rectify things.

It's worth noting that the hack is pretty much complete - every other program behaves with it in exactly the way as would be expected on a device with an internal drive natively. All the hack seems to do is enable the part of the OS that handles it.

[metaview]

Internal drive on E2? Is it like the good old ram-disk? If Dmitry decides to do a TX version and sends me a copy, I will evaluate it with my ZDoomZ version and make it running. As far as I know, there isn't anything which should prevent it from working. Have you checked any other port? Like Quake, Hexen, MyUAE, Duke3D, PalmPDF etc. pp. (to only speeak of things, where I had my hands within)?

[princeofpersia]

I've got it sorted. After giving up on it, I ran LJP, SkinUI and a chinese notepad program I use, and when I returned to the internal memory with my file manager, under /PALM there was both a PROGRAMS and a Programs folder. The internal memory is case sensitive? Is this true for other devices?

Regardless, once I'd sorted out the folders properly, I still didn't get any .WADs until I'd copied over the same .WAD from the SD card to the memory and the ZDK. Once I got two copies of the WAD, I removed the WAD on the internal memory and now there's no trouble at all. Seems like that old bug has resurfaced.