Use Blitzmax on an old PC
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I installed Arch Linux to use with blitzmax and I found it is light on RAM usage and CPU power. Im using a 128MB RAM 600mhz PC with an 82810 intel graphics card Here is a small guide to get started, the official arch linux site has more detailed guides but this guide is a good overall checklist of things to do: burn arch linux to CD, you have a choice between core and FTP iso versions I used core, FTP installs from internet. I tried to do a FTP install but it didnt work. then when you reboot you are faced with a black screen and an input prompt. type in 'root' to become the root user First thing to do is get online. You have to use a text editor called nano to edit a file called /etc/rc.conf so type in: nano /etc/rc.conf If you are using an ethnernet cable connected to a cable-modem you change the network part of the file to look like this: eth0="dhcp" INTERFACES=(eth0) ROUTES=(!gateway) press CTRL O to save and CTRL X to exit then type in dhcpcd eth0 to get online, if you are succesful you go on to the next step otherwise:http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Configuring_network now you need to make sure Bash is the latest version you can type pacman -Syu to update all system libraries at once or pacman -S bash to get the latest bash then you need to install some things to get a windows like environment pacman -S Xorg pacman -S xf86-input-mouse pacman -S xf86-input-keyboard pacman -S xorg-driver-evdev pacman -S hal pacman -S dbus pacman -S xfce4 edit the /etc/rc.conf file again and put the words dbus and hal into the DAEMON section inside the brackets a daemon is merely a background process reboot the PC to get hal and dbus working there are a lot of video card drivers with names like xf86-video-intel I used xf86-video-intel-legacy because its the best fit for my 82810 graphics card so I typed in: pacman -S xf86-video-intel-legacy you can search for your best driver here: http://aur.archlinux.org/ now type in Xorg -configure and it will automatically write out a xorg.conf file to tell the system which drivers to use reboot the computer and type startxfce4 to get into the windows like environment |