Coding, retro-gaming, and other projects
Thursday, 16 April 2015 The original project by Dave Lowe and Holly Jazz Lowe has been rebooted to a new Kickstarter project which includes orchestral recordings of the Frontier – Elite II themes. Links: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/278860000/uncle-art-elite-ii-orchestral-and-retrogaming-musi
Version 3.0.0 BETA Overhaul of emulator selection / launching – single rom folder per platform, with the facility to change default emulator per platform or per rom on launch. Also allows launch of certain emulators with specific configurations, such as render plugin for mupen64plus, and model configuration for fuse. RetroArch render resolution is also configurable … Read more
Tuesday, 10 March 2015 Dave Lowe aka Uncle Art and his daughter Holly Jazz Lowe have started a Kickstarter project to create a double album called “A Temporal Shift” – with originals and remakes of Dave Lowe’s Amiga, Atari and C64 Music – Link to project. Well worth backing in our opinion! Apologies (again) for … Read more
All currently maintained images have been updated to kernel 3.2.63 as well as having all packages updated. XBMC 13.2 has been added to the Joggler repository, and is included in the updates. Currently the squeezeplay installer script isn’t working, but hopefully this will be fixed soon by the maintainer. As the script is downloaded – … Read more
After more than a year’s work since v3.3, we are very pleased to announce XBMC4Xbox version v3.5. A large number of new features and improvements have been made since v3.3, including the integration of Python 2.7, improved video playback, updates to the skinning engine, scraper fixes, and plenty of bug fixes. Key improvements: Python 2.7 … Read more
After more than a year’s work since v3.3, we are very pleased to announce XBMC4Xbox version v3.5. A large number of new features and improvements have been made since v3.3, including the integration of Python 2.7, improved video playback, updates to the skinning engine, scraper fixes, and plenty of bug fixes. Key improvements: Python 2.7 … Read more
It has been some months since 3.5 Beta 4 – a little longer than planned, however many fixes have been made since then, and we are now very close to the 3.5 release. If no major problems are found, XBMC4Xbox 3.5 final will be made in the next week or two. Please do test out … Read more
It has been some months since 3.5 Beta 4 – a little longer than planned, however many fixes have been made since then, and we are now very close to the 3.5 release. If no major problems are found, XBMC4Xbox 3.5 final will be made in the next week or two. Please do test out … Read more
New images are now available for Xubuntu 14.04 LTS as well as a 14.04 ubuntu base/server image. The Linux Mint 13 and 12.04 images have also been updated with package rollups, and kernel 3.2.58. The Ubuntu 12.04 image with Unity 2D has been dropped. It never worked very well on the Joggler anyway. The new … Read more
Due to some recent changes, and a few more issues reported and fixed, we decided to push out another beta. XBMC4Xbox Beta 4 is out, which includes the following changes: Fixed string encoding issue on system information screen. Fixed some cases where XBMC addons would fail due to our strict type checking – now automatically … Read more