Qemu sam460ex & Pegasos2 emulation with 4.1 various tests.

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I wanted to open this post for those who intend to try to emulate 4.1FE with SAM460ex and Pegasos2 with qemu (host-linux) X86 X64.


EAB has many active users.
The principle is to try and then test with those interested in this.
Currently Sam460ex works but has no graphics card support and relies on SM 501 for the graphics part.
And therefore it is able to start up and able to carry out operations such as installing the system, making updates (update1 & 2 etc.) And do other things.
Pegasos2 is under development and does only the boot part but at that point it stops because it doesn't have a graphics driver like SM 501 to boot completely.
For this there is a solution that needs to be tested but requires a manipulation of the original iso which in this post will remain for "personal use" only for obvious reasons.


The hardware requirements in terms of CPU are also just an "Intel I5 2400"
CPU with which a few years ago I tried to do some perfectly successful tests with qemu.


Here is a small example of a SAM 460ex with update 1 and 2 and running the "mini metal slug" game through a Ryzen 5800x. as mentioned above you also need an Intel i5 2400 and everything will work equally without problems.
The purpose is that other people can do further tests based on the above.
To provide useful data and possibly improve this emulation.
If other users want to participate and need further details such as how to install update 1 & 2 etc.


Or on how to work with a usb-stick to exchange data with 4.1 through qemu and then quickly move the data to do tests then this will also be explained.


Here is a short example with qemu 6.2.0 sam460ex with update 1 & 2 and other updates installed and precisely the execution of the mini metal slug game.
(the audio in the video is present but you cannot hear it because out of laziness I did not use the hardware to capture the video but only the software and therefore it is not captured):

in the second part of the video a "data USB-stick 16gigabyte" is mounted for data exchange perfectly recognized by 4.1 to exchange data quickly.


https://we.tl/t-lYmpIQcbNQ


in 7 days usually the site hosting it deletes it.

[NoX1911]

The video is not available anymore. Can you re-upload it to the zone?