Coding, retro-gaming, and other projects
Wednesday, 25 December 2013 After 20 years, Putty Squad by System 3 is released for the Amiga and can be downloaded for free from their website. Huge thanks to them for making this possible, and to Galahad for his work in restoring the game from the original development files. Further information regarding the story can … Read more
Wednesday, 27 November 2013 Emails have gone out to backers of Chris Hülsbeck’s Turrican Soundtrack Anthology Kickstarter project, with download links for all 4 CD’s as FLAC, mp3 and other formats. The email contained the message: “ “Surprise! Winners Save The Planet! :) Finally it is done – as promised, here’s your advance backer / supporter … Read more
XBMC4Xbox 3.3.3 has been released. It fixes problems with scrapers (TMDB scraper broke due to http://www.themoviedb.org/ deprecating their old xml API), as well as an issue with thumbnailing images that were not in JPEG format. Fixes: Updated TMDB scraper (based on scraper from xbmc mainline), which now uses their v3 JSON API. Also has some additional … Read more
XBMC4Xbox 3.3.3 has been released. It fixes problems with scrapers (TMDB scraper broke due to http://www.themoviedb.org/ deprecating their old xml API), as well as an issue with thumbnailing images that were not in JPEG format. Fixes: Updated TMDB scraper (based on scraper from xbmc mainline), which now uses their v3 JSON API. Also has some additional … Read more
Saturday, 12 October 2013 The Amiga Works (album cover) Those that backed Allister Brimble’s Kickstarter campaign for his new Album “The Amiga Works” are now receiving their CD’s and USB Sticks. For those that missed the opportunity to back the project during the campaign, the album and USB stick as well as the poster (with … Read more
XBMC4Xbox 3.3.2 is out. It fixes a couple of issues that were introduced in 3.3.1. Fixes: Fixed black background issue for Confluence Lite when interface is not in English. Fixed a problem with the recently updated build script that didn’t package up PM3 and Confluence. See the development page for links to the source code … Read more
XBMC4Xbox 3.3.2 is out. It fixes a couple of issues that were introduced in 3.3.1. Fixes: Fixed black background issue for Confluence Lite when interface is not in English. Fixed a problem with the recently updated build script that didn’t package up PM3 and Confluence. See the development page for links to the source code … Read more
Changelog: v2.8.9 (Fri, 30 Aug 2013): Addons: – available to all; Main > Feeds ticker: – do not scroll on low refresh devices (e.g. Nook); v2.8.8 (Sun, 25 Aug 2013): Music > Playlist: – select playlist / party mode; v2.8.7 (Sat, 17 Aug 2013): Music > Library: – crashing with large library; – … Read more
Changelog: v2.8.9 (Fri, 30 Aug 2013): Addons: – available to all; Main > Feeds ticker: – do not scroll on low refresh devices (e.g. Nook); v2.8.8 (Sun, 25 Aug 2013): Music > Playlist: – select playlist / party mode; v2.8.7 (Sat, 17 Aug 2013): Music > Library: – crashing with large library; – … Read more
It’s been a few weeks since the 3.3 release, and here is a small update to fix a few issues and the addition of a bonus skin theme. Read on to also find out what may be coming soon to XBMC4XBox. Changes: There were problems accessing the video/music playlists when nothing was playing. Adding plugins … Read more