Coding, retro-gaming, and other projects
News from http://xbmc.org – http://xbmc.org/zag/2012/10/05/10-anniversary-for-xbmc/ Note that this news is written as a perspective from XBMC not XBMC4XBOX (Although it’s a 10 year celebration for us too). Thanks and a big congrats to Team XBMC for their hard work building XBMC, and taking it from the XBOX onto other platforms. Kudos! Happy Birthday To Us! … 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
Linux Mint 13 is now available for download. Due to the on disk size of Linux Mint, the install is cut down somewhat with removal of some packages including banshee, mono and libreoffice. Ubuntu/Xubuntu 12.04 and JoliOS 1.2 images have also been updated, with kernel v3.2.20 and a config fix for florence, that fixes the … Read more
Images for Ubuntu/Xubuntu 12.04 LTS, are now available. Also included is a Base/Server image that boots to console that can be used to build your own customised desktop, or used as a base for other tasks. The Joli OS and Linux Mint releases are also updated. Changes include: Kernel 3.2.16 EMGD 1.14 Updated XBMC, and … Read more
It’s been close to a year since the last stable release. The truth is, the nightly builds have probably been more stable than the last release as some useful fixes went in soon after. Due to lack of free time, and developers, it’s taken a while to get around to doing another point release but … Read more
Linux Mint 12 is now available. It includes the latest development version of MATE Desktop Environment and boots to MATE by default. Gnome 3 is included, but the Gnome 3 shell does not currently work on EMGD. Libreoffice, GIMP and VLC were removed to save some space. Updates for other distributions are also available. New … Read more
Ten years ago today, the XBOX console was first introduced to North America. Since then, it has seen the release of many great games, including many of the best selling video game series’ of all time, and one of the largest online communities for games which allows gaming online, downloading new games/content, and tv, movie, … Read more
In the last news posting I had said a LXDE ubuntu image would be made (Lubuntu). However, it turned out, that there were a few issues with LXDE, including a stability issue with chrome and Xserver, that I hadn’t seen before. Instead I went for XFCE desktop (Xubuntu), which is a good replacement for the … Read more
New images released with Linux Mint 11. Linux Mint 11 is still heavier on the Joggler than Ubuntu, but may have a more familiar interface for some. It can also be slimmed down easily. Joli OS and Ubuntu Natty are also updated. Updates include: New EMGD v1.8 – xbmc now works without having to build … 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