Coding, retro-gaming, and other projects
In the last two and a half months there has been a lot of progress with XBMC4XBOX. This project site has improved, with better integration (visually) of the forum, as well as a brand new bug-tracker at http://redmine.exotica.org.uk/projects/xbmc4xbox which includes all the data from the old Sourceforge hosted Trac. The restoration of the wiki is … Read more
RetroArch is a modular multi-system emulator system that is designed to be fast, lightweight and portable. It has features few other emulator frontends have, such as real-time rewinding and game-aware shading. For each emulator ‘core’, RetroArch makes use of a library API that we like to call ‘libretro’. Libretro is the API that RetroArch uses. … Read more
This is a brand new website for the XBMC4XBOX project. Please bookmark it – http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk What has Happened? The http://www.xbmc4xbox.org site was hosted and managed by someone else. They have not been around since the end of May 2012, and at the end of June 2012, the site went off-line for non payment. So far … Read more
We are pleased to announce stable version 3.0.1 of the popular media center platform XBMC for the 1st generation XBOX (now called XBMC4XBOX). A huge amount of work has been put into this, and it features numerous additions and improvements over the last release such as: librtmp Support (http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu/) to support many online video streaming … Read more
The Jolicloud OS has been renamed to Joli OS, to avoid confusion with their online desktop app. With this change, the new 1.2 version was also released bringing new functionality and performance – see http://www.jolicloud.com/blog/2011/03/09/welcome-to-the-new-jolicloud/. The 1.2 version has now been adapted for the Joggler and can be downloaded from the Jolicloud page. Ubuntu Maverick … Read more
We manage our Magento shops in source control, but upgrade extensions as needed via Pear and Magento’s channels. However since mid December 2009, no upgrades have been showing up. Looking at the pages on the Magento site, there are upgrades available for some of the extensions we are running, but they are no longer being … Read more
We are using the configurable products feature of Magento to group together some of our products that differ for example only by colour or number of items in a pack. In our case there is just a single “option” for the product and we wanted it to default to the “first” option in the dropdown, … Read more