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DSwiki
DSwiki
General
Author	OlliPolli
Type	Utilities
Version	0.3 Alpha 2
License	Mixed
Last Updated	2009/03/20
Links
	Download
	Website
	Source

Latest revision as of 12:38, 20 August 2024

DSwiki is an offline viewer for Wiki markup, for example for the Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wiktionaries. It is NOT a web browser.

This homebrew is optimal for all people with a Nintendo DS that like to have their information "portable", but cannot access the Internet directly. So far, no Program was very good in displaying the Wikipedia on the DS. NewDictS can display an uncompressed dump, but this dump is outdated, and the Wikipedia has grown dramatically since then, so compression was absolutely necessary. In addition, most homebrew programs can't handle UTF-8.

It was part of the NEO Spring Coding Compo 2009 (NDS App).

Features

Get the complete Wikipedia on a Nintendo DS (English edition fits on a 4GB storage device, German edition is 1.2GB).
Quite good handling of internal links.
Alternative display text and appended letters are supported to create the same look as in the online version.
Subpage links are supported.
Very good Unicode/UTF8-Support.
Fast and easy searchable index.
Bookmarks.

Installation

Download and extract file, DLDI patch it if needed and copy it to the root directory of the card.

Create a folder in the root of your card called dswiki.

Create a dump of the wiki site you want to use, pre-made dump.

Copy all the files ifo, idx, ao1, ao2 and db? to the folder you created.

User guide

Take the tutorial at the first start, or start it any time later from the menu.

A random article will be loaded at the start.

Controls

Navigation:

Up/Down - Scroll one line backward/forward

Left/Right - Scroll one page backward/forward

L/R - Go one page back/forward in history

Select - Choose another available wiki

Load Articles:

A - Go to another random article

Stylus - Follow a link on the bottom screen

Screenshots

Changelog

Version 0.3 alpha 2

Fixed some issues with the translation from wiki-markup to XML. That results in a significantly higher number of pages to display correctly.
Percent indicator updates to show the progress while processing the DOM.
Slightly reformulated the textbrowser-part of the tutorial.
Doubled the memory space for caching font data, resulting in a better performance with non-standard languages.

Credits

DSwiki is based on:

NewDictS Thanks to sesa for graphics-/unicode- and font-routines.
Wiki2Touch Thanks to Tom Haukap for the file format and index routines.
libbzip2.
UCS fonts.

Thanks to Markus Kuhn + some other fonts + Titlegraphic.

Thanks to beloved wife.

External links

Google Code - http://code.google.com/p/dswiki
NeoFlash - https://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php?topic=5519.0 (archived)

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-{{Infobox homebrew
+{{Infobox DS Homebrews
-| title       = DSwiki
+|title=DSwiki
-| image       = [[File:Dswiki.png]]
+|image=Dswiki2.png
-| type        = Utilities
+|description=Offline Wikipedia Reader.
-| version     = 0.3alpha2
+|author=OlliPolli
-| licence     = Mixed
+|lastupdated=2009/03/20
-| author      = OlliPolli
+|type=Utilities
-| website     =
+|version=0.3 Alpha 2
-| download    = Media:DSwikialpha2ds.zip
+|license=Mixed
-| source      = http://code.google.com/p/dswiki/
+|download=https://dlhb.gamebrew.org/dshomebrew2/dswiki_0.3alpha2.zip
+|website=http://code.google.com/p/dswiki
+|source=http://code.google.com/p/dswiki
 }}
 DSwiki is an offline viewer for Wiki markup, for example for the Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wiktionaries. It is NOT a web browser.
-This homebrew is optimal for all people with a Nintendo DS that like to have their information "portable", but cannot access the Internet directly. So far, no Program was very good in displaying the Wikipedia on the DS. NewDictS can display an uncompressed dump, but this dump is outdated, and the Wikipedia has grown dramatically since then, so compression was absolutely necessary. In addition,
+This homebrew is optimal for all people with a Nintendo DS that like to have their information "portable", but cannot access the Internet directly. So far, no Program was very good in displaying the Wikipedia on the DS. NewDictS can display an uncompressed dump, but this dump is outdated, and the Wikipedia has grown dramatically since then, so compression was absolutely necessary. In addition, most homebrew programs can't handle UTF-8.
-most homebrew programs can't handle UTF-8.
-It was ranked 6th in the NEO Spring Coding Compo 2009, APP section.
+It was part of the NEO Spring Coding Compo 2009 (NDS App).
 ==Features==
-*Get the complete Wikipedia on a Nintendo DS. The English language edition fits on a 4GB storage device, the German edition is just 1.2GB.
+* Get the complete Wikipedia on a Nintendo DS (English edition fits on a 4GB storage device, German edition is 1.2GB).
-*Quite good handling of internal links. Alternative display text and appended letters are supported to create the same look as in the online version. Subpage links are supported.
+* Quite good handling of internal links.
-*Very good Unicode/UTF8-Support
+* Alternative display text and appended letters are supported to create the same look as in the online version.
-*Fast and easy searchable index
+* Subpage links are supported.
-*Bookmarks
+* Very good Unicode/UTF8-Support.
+* Fast and easy searchable index.
+* Bookmarks.
 ==Installation==
-#Download and extract file
+Download and extract file, [[DLDI|DLDI]] patch it if needed and copy it to the root directory of the card.
-#[http://chishm.drunkencoders.com/DLDI/ DLDI patch] it if needed and copy it to the root directory of the card
-#Create a folder in the root of your card called /dswiki
+Create a folder in the root of your card called dswiki.
-#Create a dump of the wiki site you want to use, [http://code.google.com/p/dswiki/wiki/Dumps pre-made dump]
-#Copy all the files ifo, idx, ao1, ao2 and db? to the folder you created
+Create a dump of the wiki site you want to use, [http://code.google.com/p/dswiki/wiki/Dumps pre-made dump].
+Copy all the files ifo, idx, ao1, ao2 and db? to the folder you created.
 ==User guide==
 Take the tutorial at the first start, or start it any time later from the menu.
-[[File:Dswiki2.png]]
+A random article will be loaded at the start.
 ==Controls==
-Navigation:
+'''Navigation:'''
 Up/Down - Scroll one line backward/forward
@@ Line 48: / Line 52: @@
 Select - Choose another available wiki
-Loading Articles:
+'''Load Articles:'''
 A - Go to another random article
@@ Line 54: / Line 58: @@
 Stylus - Follow a link on the bottom screen
-A random article will be loaded at the start.
+==Screenshots==
+https://dlhb.gamebrew.org/dshomebrew/dswiki2.png
 ==Changelog==
 '''Version 0.3 alpha 2'''
-*Fixed some issues with the translation from wiki-markup to XML. That results in a significantly higher number of pages to display correctly.
+* Fixed some issues with the translation from wiki-markup to XML. That results in a significantly higher number of pages to display correctly.
-*Percent indicator updates to show the progress while processing the DOM.
+* Percent indicator updates to show the progress while processing the DOM.
-*Slightly reformulated the textbrowser-part of the tutorial.
+* Slightly reformulated the textbrowser-part of the tutorial.
-*Doubled the memory space for caching font data, resulting in a better performance with non-standard languages.
+* Doubled the memory space for caching font data, resulting in a better performance with non-standard languages.
 ==Credits==
 DSwiki is based on:
+* [http://tvgame360.com.tw/viewthread.php?tid=21913&extra=&page=1 NewDictS] Thanks to sesa for graphics-/unicode- and font-routines.
+* [http://code.google.com/p/wiki2touch Wiki2Touch] Thanks to Tom Haukap for the file format and index routines.
+* [http://bzip.org/ libbzip2].
+* [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html UCS fonts].
-[http://tvgame360.com.tw/viewthread.php?tid=21913&extra=&page=1 NewDictS] Thanks to sesa for graphics-/unicode- and font-routines.
+Thanks to Markus Kuhn + some other fonts + [http://www.stefanie-gronau.de Titlegraphic].
-[http://code.google.com/p/wiki2touch Wiki2Touch] Thanks to Tom Haukap for the file format and index routines.
-[http://bzip.org/ libbzip2]
-[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html UCS fonts]
+Thanks to beloved wife.
-Thanks to Markus Kuhn + some other fonts + [Titlegraphic http://www.stefanie-gronau.de]
+==External links==
+* Google Code - http://code.google.com/p/dswiki
+* NeoFlash - [https://web.archive.org/web/20210207055212/https://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php?topic=5519.0 https://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php?topic=5519.0] (archived)
-Thanks to beloved wife
-[[Category:Homebrew applications]]
+[[Category:NEO Spring Coding Compo 2009]]