Corning Community College
CSCS1730 UNIX/Linux Fundamentals
Obtain the latest stable Vircon32 source code, along with its DevTools source code, collaboratively document how to build it from source, and modify the “hello, world!” demo in some way from the default. Perform this on your UNIX-based personal development system.
As has been the case with many projects this semester, you will also be contributing to the project documentation, detailing the necessary steps to obtain, configure, build, and use the items being focused on. To better ensure everyone plays a part, you will also need to ask a project-related question to the class discord well before the due date (not a DM, not so late that a response won't come in time), and transcribe that in readable fashion to the project documentation under your pertinent section. Include a discord link to the relevant transaction for easier reference.
With further clarification gained from asking the question, you will proceed to craft useful documentation with the rest of the class (the top of the document). The final result should allow anyone to accomplish the project.
Failure to contribute (you don't ask questions to the discord chat, you don't ask a good question, you ask too late, etc.) of the process will be considered in violation of the spirit of the project.
If you struggle with how to form questions, perhaps consider utilizing the college learning commons to receive assistance with forming good questions.
You will want to go here to edit and fill in the various sections of the document:
To begin you must download Development tools and the Emulator off of the Vircon32 github in the Computer software repo. Once downloaded you should unzipped into a folder. Once unzipped go into both Emulator and development tools and sudo download all required libraries. Once you have the required libraries you will have to read the readme.txt and follow the steps in both Emulator and Developer tools folders if you only do one or the other you will only get one or the other so remember to do both! Once you have done both you will have to go into your bashrc and put a path to the developer tools. If done correctly you should be able to run Vircon32 just from typing it in the command line. Once you have that installed if you don't know much about Vircon32 you should look at the hello world tutorial in the console software repo.
http://www.vircon32.com/api/video.html#Working%20with%20colors for colors http://www.vircon32.com/tutorials.html Tutorial guides https://github.com/vircon32 vircons github
To be successful in this project, the following criteria (or their equivalent) must be met:
Let's say you have completed work on the project, and are ready to submit, you would do the following:
lab46:~/src/SEMESTER/DESIG/PROJECT$ submit DESIG PROJECT file1 file2 file3 ... fileN
You should get some sort of confirmation indicating successful submission if all went according to plan. If not, check for typos and or locational mismatches.
I'll be evaluating the project based on the following criteria:
78:fwg0:final tally of results (78/78) *:fwg0:submitted adequately modified demo code for project by duedate [13/13] *:fwg0:custom build script written in bash [13/13] *:fwg0:all files needed to build cartridge are submitted [13/13] *:fwg0:code compiles, cartridge builds with no warning or error [13/13] *:fwg0:committed modified source to semester repo [13/13] *:fwg0:Vircon32 and DevTools not committed to semester repo [13/13]
Spirit of the project incorporates a good-faith effort to collaboratively document and build from source, and to create a custom build script that isn’t based on any tutorial make.sh scripts.