Pixie Ebook Reader GBA

Pixie E-Book Reader
General
Author	Sasq (Jonas Minnberg)
Type	Utilities
Version	Beta 2
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2005/07/11
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This is an E-book reader for GBA. It handles plain text, plain PDB (Palm Doc) files and .book files.

Book files are converted from HTML with an commandline tool.

Installation

Run MAKEFONTS.BAT to construct fonts from windows fonts.

Run MAKEBOOKS.BAT to convert example books.

Run MAKEROM.BAT. It just calls MAKEFS to create a bootable GBA file from the files in root.

Flash the generated rom (flashme.gba) to your flashcart (or run it in an emulator).

User guide

Start Pixie and choose a book from the list.

The first time you read a book it will index it in the background, you can tell since the total number of pages keeps increasing.

When done the index is saved to SRAM.

If you get problems with books later, try erasing the SRAM.

Configuration

Pixie has reasonable defaults, but you can edit "reader.cfg" in your root directory before flashing.

You can change margins and linespacing to fit your. You change colors and the location of the book and font directories.

Now you can also change all keymappings, default fonts and sizes.

Screenshots

Changelog

Beta 2

• New font handling, reader tries to find best available fonts.
• Font and size changable runtime.
• Better conversion tools.
• Keymapping completely configurable.
• Bookmarks Set & Go functions.

Beta

• Cached fileaccess - much faster indexing and responsivness.
• Can exit to file menu.
• Displays time.
• Runtime configuration of some things.
• Index and bookmarks should now be saved correctly.
• Sets low cpu frequence when idle.
• More configuration options (such as color).
• Handles suspend/resume (currently only .book files).
• Included windows version for testing.

External links

• Author's website - http://www.nightmode.org/pixie/ (archived)