#define _PAGE_ History #define HISTORY_PAGE #include "head.t"

2004-11-09: Some downtime due to planned server maintenance (replaced a harddisk).

2004-11-01: The site was down nearly four days due to hardware failure while the admins were away.

2004-10-26: Rockbox v2.3 is released.

2004-10-26: iRiver progress: the LCD driver is working!

2004-10-05: Call for help: We need information from Ondio owners for our Archos Ondio port.

2004-10-01: Touchdown! The Coldfire BDM wiggler is working on the iHP-120 target! Time for some sweet GDB debugging...

2004-09-24: We finally have rockbox.org, thanks to Jeff at Misticriver.

2004-09-13: Call for help! Please donate your broken iRiver iHP-1xx to the project!

2004-07-08: Good news for Windows users! You can now install the daily builds with an installer executable. Thanks to Christi Scarborough for that.

2004-06-17: We now have a Wiki for the documentation. Feel free to join the documentation frenzy!

2004-05-07: The CVS repository has moved

2004-03-14: Rockbox can talk to you

2004-03-11: Version 2.2 is released

2004-02-05: Rockbox can play video, with sound

2003-12-04: Version 2.1 is released

2003-07-09: Rockbox started from flash ROM works

2003-06-30: The plugin loader is now alive

2003-05-09: The 400-file dir browser limit is gone.

2003-05-03: Finally, FM Radio support for FM Recorder models!

2003-04-23: The Rockbox Digest - track Rockbox development.

2003-04-15: Version 2.0 is released

2003-02-14: Matthew P. O'Reilly gave Linus an FM Recorder for his birthday! Linus had it for 2 hours before he took it apart and started drawing schematics...

2003-01-10: Full ISO-8859-1 font support added for Players, using the Rocklatin1 dynamic charset system.

2002-12-21: You can now donate to the Rockbox project via PayPal. See the new button in the left menu.

2002-11-10: Added recording functionality.

2002-10-15: Now the Player/Studio models run the same firmware. No more Old and New player firmware.

2002-10-11: Version 1.4 is released. Grab it.

2002-09-19: We now support multiple languages. You can help by translating Rockbox to your language. No programming skills required. See instructions here

2002-09-13: We took a big step and converted to an entirely new font system for the Recorder. Please bear with us as we smoothen out the initial quirks.

2002-09-03: ROLO, the Rockbox Loader has been integrated into the CVS, allowing Archos or other Rockbox firmware being loaded by simply selecting the file!

2002-09-02: Vote for your favourite tshirt designs!

2002-08-28: Version 1.3 is released. Go fetch.

2002-08-09: Version 1.2 is released. Download it here.

2002-08-06: Web site moved to new domain: rockbox.haxx.se.

2002-08-06: Battery charging added for the Recorders (players have hardware charging).

2002-08-02: Rockbox T-Shirt Design Contest

2002-07-28: Configuration saving implemented for all models. Experimental saving to disk is not yet enabled on the players by default.

2002-06-30: USB cable detection added.

2002-06-27: MP3 playback now works for Recorder 6000 and Recorder 10 too.

2002-06-19: Version 1.1 is released. Download it here.

2002-06-19: Recorder sound support checked into CVS. Good news: No background noise!

2002-06-10: Playlist and scroll support added. Testing for release v1.1.

2002-06-07: The ATA driver now works for the Recorder models too.

2002-06-01: Version 1.0 is released! Download it here.

2002-06-01: Web site has been down three days due to a major power loss.

2002-05-27: All v1.0 code is written, we are now entering debug phase. If you like living on the edge, here are daily builds.

2002-05-26: New web design. First player release drawing closer.

2002-05-03: SOUND! Linus' experimental MAS code has played our first 4 seconds of music.

2002-04-27: Julien Labruyére has generously donated an Archos Jukebox 6000 to the project. Thank you!

2002-04-25: Grant Wier has tested the Player LCD's double-height capability:

2002-04-23: Report from the Rockbox Spring Developer Conference 2002 ;-)

2002-04-22: Gentlemen, we have threading.

2002-04-11: The Recorder charset has been mapped.

2002-03-28: Lots of new stuff on the web page: faq, irc logs, tools and photos.

2002-03-25: New section for hardware modifications. First out is the long awaited serial port mod.

2002-03-25: New instructions for how to build an SH-1 cross-compiler.

2002-03-14: New linux patch and instructions for unlocking the archos harddisk if you have the "Part. Error" problem.

2002-03-08: Uploaded a simple example, showing how to build a program for the Archos.

2002-03-05: The harddisk password lock problem is solved! Development can now resume at full speed!

2002-01-29: If you have feature requests or suggestions, please submit them to our Sourceforge page.

2002-01-19: Cool logo submitted by Thomas Saeys.

2002-01-16: The project now has a proper name: Rockbox. Logos are welcome! :-)
Also, Felix Arends wrote a quick tutorial for how to get sh-gcc running under windows.

2002-01-09: Nicolas Sauzede found out how to display icons and custom characters on the Jukebox LCD.

2002-01-08: The two LCD charsets have been mapped and drawn.

2002-01-07: Jukebox LCD code. I have written a small test program that scrolls some text on the display. You need this file for units with ROM earlier than 4.50 and this file for all others. (The files are gzipped, you need to unzip them before they will work.)

2001-12-29: Recorder LCD code. Gary Czvitkovicz knew the Recorder LCD controller since before and wrote some code that writes text on the Recorder screen.

2001-12-13: First program released! A 550 bytes long archos.mod that performs the amazing magic of flashing the red LED. :-)

2001-12-11: Checksum algorithm solved, thanks to Andy Choi. A new "scramble" utility is available.

2001-12-09: Working my way through the setup code. The notes are being updated continously.

2001-12-08: Analyzed the exception vector table. See the notes. Also, a mailing list archive is up.

2001-12-07: I just wrote this web page to announce descramble.c. I've disassembled one firmware version and looked a bit on the code, but no real analysis yet. Summary: Lots of dreams, very little reality. :-) #include "foot.t"