TortOS v1.3.0

TortOS on the GKD Pixel 2. The Pixel 2 has no system of its own to run on, so this release brings one: a card image with TortOS on plastron, a small Linux built to boot fast. The shelf is up about 3.6 s after the power button. Write TortOS-v1.3.0-pixel2.img.xz to a card with the TortOS Installer or any image writer; it erases the card. The first boot turns the rest of the card into space for games, music and saves. FUNCTION is MENU, and FUNCTION with volume is brightness. The Pixel 2 has no Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, so it has no Over The Hare, no box art fetched on the device and no RetroAchievements.

Date & Time, in the TortOS menu on both devices. Set the clock and choose your time zone, each part with left and right. On the Pixel 2 this is how the clock gets set at all, and it keeps the time once it is. On the Brick, Wi-Fi still sets the clock, but until now there was no way to choose a zone other than New York.

The Brick starts sooner. The emulator and the launcher start about 1.4 s sooner, and the consoles row is complete on its first frame instead of cards filling in after.

Also:

• Holding volume or brightness in a game repeats, at the same pace as on the shelf.
• Volume and brightness pressed in the in-game menu step from where the game left them, and are no longer pressed again when the game resumes.
• Muse no longer clips very loud recordings, which could crackle.
• The screen goes dark as soon as the power-off animation ends.

Updating from an earlier version

On the Brick, replace the TortOS/ folder on the card with the one in the zip, and nothing else. Copying Roms/, Saves/ or Bios/ over the card's own replaces them, games and saves included.

New install

As in the README. The Brick uses TortOS-v1.3.0.zip, the Pixel 2 TortOS-v1.3.0-pixel2.img.xz. TortOS-v1.3.0-pixel2-sources.tar holds the source of the open-source software in the Pixel 2 image, and SHA256SUMS the checksums of all three files.

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Huge thanks to SundownerSport for his excellent installer!