Doom on Quad

Quad Cortex
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Hi everyone,

I’m currently working on a project to get qcDOOM (by VanIseghemThomas) running on my Quad Cortex. I’ve managed to handle the heavy lifting on the software side, but I’ve hit a roadblock with the SSH access to the unit.

Current Progress:

  • Toolchain & Compilation: I’ve successfully set up a WSL (Ubuntu) environment and compiled the qcdoom binary using the arm-linux-gnueabi- cross-compiler.

  • Assets: I have the compiled binary and the doom1.wad file ready in my local directory.

  • Network: The unit is reachable on my local network.

The Issue: I am unable to transfer the files via SCP or establish an SSH connection.

  • Port 22 returns Connection refused.

  • I’ve tried the legacy “hidden” port 57284, but it returns a Connection timed out.

  • Ports 2222 and 443 also do not respond.

It seems the SSH service is either completely disabled or strictly firewalled in my current CorOS version.

My Questions:

  1. Is there a known method to trigger/enable the SSH service via the UI or a specific boot sequence in recent/older CorOS versions?

  2. Since my unit is out of warranty, I am considering the hardware route (internal microSD access). If I manually enable SSH in sshd_config on the root partition, are there any known integrity checks/checksums that would prevent the unit from booting?

  3. Has anyone successfully managed to run unsigned binaries by utilizing the “New Neural Capture” screen to stall the main UI rendering?

I’ve put a lot of work into the compilation side and would love to see this classic running on our amazing hardware. Any technical insights, “dev-mode” tips, or pointers toward the right modding community would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

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interesting … to the brave the glory!

I assume you copied out the shadow file with the opencortex one? that has the ssh password in it.

As per his read me.

It looks a bit daunting, but if you clone your sd card first … why not?

I realize that’s not too helpful, can you contact Thomas directly?