Coding, retro-gaming, and other projects
The upcoming 3.3 version of XBMC4Xbox has now reached a point where it should be stable for every day use, and can be put through more testing by end users. The improvements in the 3.3 Beta 1 release include: DVDPlayer improvements – including: Updated libraries for DVDPlayer (FFMPEG/libdvd et al). Recognises additional video extensions as … Read more
The upcoming 3.3 version of XBMC4Xbox has now reached a point where it should be stable for every day use, and can be put through more testing by end users. The improvements in the 3.3 Beta 1 release include: DVDPlayer improvements – including: Updated libraries for DVDPlayer (FFMPEG/libdvd et al). Recognises additional video extensions as … Read more
Tuesday, 7 May 2013 “Paula Agnus Denise – Best of Amiga and CD32 Video Game Music” is a collaborative compilation album released on May 6th, 2013 in CD, download and streaming formats. The album includes a total of 19 tracks which are either remastered, studio versions or remixes of Amiga game music, with five of … Read more
All the currently maintained images have been updated with the latest distro package updates. Includes XBMC 12.1. XBMC is on the joggler repository, so anyone running the previous release can install it also. This update was mostly done so people don’t have to update lots of packages after running. XBMC skin was changed back to … Read more
Development of the 3.3 release is still ongoing, but in the meantime, here is a small update to 3.2 that includes a few fixes and improvements, including: Thumbnail scaling calculations are improved to correct the low-res issue with wide icons. Included a modern new default web interface from Sander (called XBMC Reloaded). The SVN Repo … Read more
Good news – the Paypal account is restored. I would like to think that the big social media fuss wasn’t necessary and this would have been happily resolved quickly anyhow, but I somehow think it might have been more to do with the large discussion on reddit, all the Tweets, and the 220,000+ hits we … Read more
This issue is now resolved – please see http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/2013/01/good-news-paypal-account-restored/ We have a donation page where we have accepted donations via Paypal for the project and site. This money goes towards the project, with money sent to developers, and helps covering costs etc. Today I received an email from Paypal informing they have frozen my account. … Read more
Sunday, 6 January 2013 v58 of the High Voltage SID Collection has been released by the HVSC Team. The collection now contains 43,116 SIDs. You can download the complete collection or use the web based search interface to browse and search the collection, as well as stream mp3/ogg recordings on demand. Note that the official … Read more
All the images have been updated with the latest EMGD 1.16 graphics driver as well as a path fix for a repository that moved. All the latest distribution package updates have also been applied. Also worth noting new XBMC builds are available for those that want to test the new upcoming release XBMC 12 (Frodo). … Read more
There is a large amount of useful software available for the XBox1. From original apps, to ports of emulators from other platforms. The large majority are ports of existing software. This was made possible usually due to the original authors making the source code available, often under the GPL licence. The idea is that you … Read more