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1Rockbox History
2
3* Dec 2001
4
5 Björn Stenberg set up and announced the mailing list for Archos Open Source
6 Jukebox software hacking dicsussions. People started to join up. The
7 scrambling algorithm was "broken" and the first ever LED-flashing program
8 was downloaded and run.
9
10 Lots of efforts were put on researching the hardware, how it works, what
11 circuits that are used, where to find the spec sheets for those circuits
12 etc.
13
14 By the end of the month, the first working LCD-code for the Recorder was
15 written.
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17 148 mails was posted to the list.
18
19* Jan 2002
20
21 Initial source packages were offered that did basic things like scrolling
22 or blinking on the screen.
23
24 A vote page was setup for people to vote on a project name, and even while
25 Rockbox was not the winning one, Björn showed his dictator-side and set the
26 project name. Rockbox it shall be.
27
28 Discussions about development environments.
29
30 The issue of locked hard disks were discussed a lot, since Björn got this
31 problem on a whole range of his disks!
32
33 More hardware pins and functionality was detected and researched.
34
35 At the end of the month, Rockbox was setup as a project on sourceforge.net
36 and people immediately started posting feature-requests.
37
38 187 mails was posted to the list.
39
40* Feb 2002
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42 Linus Nielsen Feltzing did some major progress on his gdb-stub and
43 associated hardware modification to do really low-level debugging.
44
45 Lots of feature-requests were posted.
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47 47 mails was posted to the list.
48
49* Mar 2002
50
51 Robert Hak suggested we start maintaining a FAQ, and took an initiative
52 to start the #rockbox IRC channel.
53
54 Daniel started the work on the simulator.
55
56 Initial code was added to the CVS.
57
58 72 mails was posted to the list.
59
60* Apr 2002
61
62 UI-wise functionality is getting written, as by the help of the simulator we
63 write code even though the lower levels aren't quite there yet.
64
65 April 19th. Björn, Linus, Daniel and Kjell gathered at the "Rockbox
66 Developer Conference 2002" at Linus' place and drew up a basic design of the
67 Rockbox software.
68
69 Julien Labruyére donated a slightly broken Archos Jukebox 6000 to the
70 project.
71
72 70 mails was posted to the list.
73
74* May 2002
75
76 Introducing our cool playlist concept.
77
78 May 3rd. We have sound. Rockbox was able to produce sound for the first time
79 ever. The 4 seconds of music was the beginning of "Arcade" by Machinae
80 Supremacy.
81
82 The FAT32 driver is working! We can access the file system.
83
84 The dir browser could run on a Player. The ATA code still didn't work on the
85 Recorder.
86
87 May 28th. We start offering "daily builds" on the Rockbox web site.
88
89 103 mails was posted to the list.
90
91* Jun 2002
92
93 June 2nd. Rockbox 1.0 (for players only) is released.
94
95 The WPS concept was introduced.
96
97 June 19th. Working Archos Recorder mp3 playback was announced to the list.
98
99 June 19th. Rockbox 1.1 was released.
100
101 355 mails was posted to the list.
102
103* Jul 2002
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105 430 mails was posted to the list.
106
107* Aug 2002
108
109 August 9th. Rockbox 1.2 was released.
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111 August 28th. Rockbox 1.3 was released.
112
113 1199 mails was posted to the list.
114
115* Sep 2002
116
117 ROLO was introduced.
118
119 Multiple-language support was added.
120
121 1375 mails was posted to the list.
122
123* Oct 2002
124
125 October 11th. Rockbox 1.4 was release.
126
127 831 mails was posted to the list.
128
129* Nov 2002
130
131 On Nov 10th, Linus announced the first recording code committed to CVS and
132 made available to users.
133
134* Dec 2002
135
136 On Dec 19th, Björn posted the first ever test version for the FM Recorder.
137 Didn't work much...
138
139* Jan 2003.
140
141 The FM version starts to work properly in the end of January.
142
143* Feb 2003
144
145 Matthew P. O'Reilly donated an FM Recorder to Linus. Linus had it for 2
146 hours before he took it apart and started drawing schematics...
147
148 The FM version of Rockbox hits the daily builds on February 17th.
149
150* Apr 2003
151
152 The April 1st joke, Doom on Archos, heated up the community.
153
154 On April 15th, the long awaited Rockbox 2.0 was released. Works fine on
155 Players, Recorders as well as FM Recorders (but without FM tuner support).
156
157 Daniel started editing and publishing the Rockbox Digest.
158
159 368 subscribers of the development mailing list.
160 1349 mails was posted to the list by 181 authors.
161
162* May 2003
163
164 On May 3rd, Linus committed the first code ever that made use of the FM
165 tuner on the FM model.
166
167* June 2003
168
169 On June 29th, Björn committed the first plugin interface and things, and
170 now Rockbox runs plugins.
171
172* July 2003
173
174 On July 9th, Jörg Hohensohn announced the first official release of Rockbox
175 in flash! It only works on the Recorders and the FM Recorders.
176
177* December 2003
178
179 Rockbox 2.1 is released
180
181* March 2004
182
183 Rockbox 2.2 is released
184
185 Jörg Hohensohn introduces the voice concept that now allows Rockbox to talk
186 (speak) the menus and more.
187
188* May 2004
189
190 We finally dump Sourceforge's CVS repository and host it ourselves.
191
192* July 2004
193
194 We start providing Windows installer packages
195
196 Jens made it possible to run Rockbox entirely from ROM, thus making another
197 150-170KB free for mp3 buffering.
198
199* September 2004
200
201 Jens and Jörg started porting Rockbox to the Archos Ondio, Archos' flash
202 memory based player series.
203
204 The work on a iRiver port starts for real. We bought one working and one
205 broken one to the project. Another article (about the porting) appears on
206 slashdot.
207
208 September 24: rockbox.org is ours thanks to Jeff!
209
210* February 2006
211
212 the LaTeX manual was born
213
214 ipod video audio playback
215
216* March 2006
217
218 iAudio X5 bootloader
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220 ipod Mini 2G audio
221
222* April 2006
223
224 ipod Mini 1G audio
225
226* July 2006
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228 FM radio and recording on the X5
229
230* December 2006
231
232 Support for Toshiba Gigabeat F
233
234 Auto-detect 2048 bytes block-size to work fine on 5.5G ipod video
235
236* January 2007
237
238 Changed to Subversion
239
240* March 2007
241
242 Sound on the Sansa e200 models
243
244* September 2007
245
246 Rockbox installs fine on the e200R models
247
248 Sound on the Sansa c200 models