Zipit Hacking Information

From my adventures with the Zipit, I decided to create a page that contains information about what I have done with my Zipit, as well as links to some of the scripts that I created or found elsewhere.

1.) Step-by-step instructions on how to flash the Zipit to Open Zip It.

- Derived from Hunter Davis’ Zipit hacking tutorial w/ video

2.) WPA wireless setup and video playback

3.) Doom on the Zipit using PrBoom

4.) New Userland image from SoundGuy

5.) Sidetrack – New Userland image based on the RootNexus Image – SideTrack

Other Related Links:

- ZipitForge

- Open Zipit Developer Site

- HunterDavis.Com Zipit Hacking

List of all the applications confirmed working on the Zipit:

From Hak5 Forum:
Screen – multitask from the command line.
Alpine – email client that will work
Pidgin – works in x but screen size is an issue so has to be setup on another system.
Finch – the console version of pidgin [requires pidgin] – works much better you can actually configure it on the zipit.
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mplayer – works and can play back video! even in FB mode [no x needed if you set the command string right]
htop – see the processes!
cmuse – good console music / mp3 / internet radio player
mc-midnight commander – console file browser
nano – console file editer
leafpad – x windows file manager
links2 – web browser use -g for graphics
Dillo – also works though window is a bit small. helps to remove as many toolbar as you can.
fceu – nes emulator runs under X use string: ./fceu –opengl 0 –sound 0 –xscale 1 –yscale 1 romname.zip

More apps that I was able to install and I can personally vouch for:
- Apache2
- Lighttpd
- MySQL
- ccrypt
- PHP5
- Irssi
- OpenSSL
- wipe