Building Image 3.x BBS on RPi4w/4GB and Manjaro

• Performance Testing with NIB3

Build:

• Manjaro ARM Xfce, RPI4B/4GB (NOTE: Openbox will be the final window manager)
• Resolution 800x600
• VICE r40835
• tcpser 1.15a (Jim Brain)
• Disable power settings, screensaver and lock.
• x11vnc allows remote and headless operation of the RPis with little overhead

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• Download image Manjaro-ARM-xfce-rpi4-23.02.img.xz

unxz Manjaro-ARM-xfce-rpi4-23.02.img.xz
sudo dd if=Manjaro-ARM-xfce-rpi4-23.02.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 status=progress 

• Put the microSD in the RPi4B and boot - first run takes a while go get coffee.
• Enter your desired Locale settings and click on "Next"
• Set your timezone and click on "Next"
• Set your desired Keyboard settings and click on "Next"
• Set your desired login credentials and click on "Next"
• Last Chance to back out - click on "Next"
• Reboot, Login and open a terminal.
• In terminal, enter:

sudo pacman-mirrors --country United_States
sudo pacman -Syu

The system will now do a complete upgrade. This will take some time.

• Reboot system again
• Open terminal and type

sudo pacman -S --needed yay

• Note: yay is a nice little package management tool that will not only draw from the standard repositories, but the aur.archlinux.org repositories also. It's usefulness on an ARM system is questionable, but we'll see if it is really needed or not.
• Also, if you ssh into the system, you can copy/paste most of what I'm writing here.

pacman -S --needed gtk3 base-devel git svn xa dos2unix glew
cd 
mkdir -p sandbox/svn
cd sandbox/svn
svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/vice-emu/code/trunk vice-emu-code
cd vice-emu-code/vice
./autogen.sh
mkdir ../gtk3ui-vice
cd ../gtk3ui-vice
../vice/configure  --enable-gtk3ui --disable-pdf-docs --disable-realdevice --without-pulse --without-alsa --without-resid --disable-new8580filter --disable-portaudio --with-fastsid --disable-cpuhistory
make -j $(nproc --all)
sudo make install

• VICE is now compiled. To get network connectivity, we will need Jim Brain's 1.15a of tcpser available on git.

cd
mkdir -p sandbox/git
cd sandbox/git
git clone https://github.com/go4retro/tcpser
cd tcpser
make clean
make
sudo cp tcpser /usr/local/bin

• done

Switch to Openbox and adjust resolution

• In a terminal type:

sudo pacman -S --needed openbox obmenu-generator obconf x11vnc

• Log out
• Log back in selecting the "openbox" item from the menus in the upper right of the login screen.
• Adjust screen resolution by right-clicking and selecting "Xfce Terminal" under "Terminals" and typing

xrandr -s 800x600

• start tcpser and xscpu64 from the individual tabs or create a login script as is your choice. I like running everything from a terminal to see the feedback from the programs if needed.