Coding, retro-gaming, and other projects
Sunday, 28 June 2015 Just two weeks left to back this new Kickstarter funded album by Dave Lowe, which is to feature remakes of classic Amiga, Atari ST and C64 soundtracks. The highlight of the project will be a full orchestral performance of the Frontier soundtrack by the Chamber Orchestra Of London at the famous … Read more
RetroPie is a system to build / configure and launch emulators on the Raspberry Pi. RetroPie 3.0 beta 3 has been released. Changes include: Integrated controls for emulationstation / retroarch – on first start emulationstation will ask for controls to be configured, and will then also configure retroarch based on your choices. Note there will … Read more
Seven years in the making, the latest album Insert Disk 2 by Instant Remedy is now available to pre-order from Dutch label 010101 Music (of “Paula Agnus Denise” fame). The album features 12 remixes of Amiga game and demo music, expertly mastered by Holger Lagerfeldt and will premiere June 20th, 2015 at the Back in … Read more
Xubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty) Joggler Image v1.6 – 02/02/2017): Download the ext4 version (997 MB) md5sum 22b636115cb437ae7f8903d00160892b Download the Btrfs compressed version (1.2 GB) md5sum 5d3fb4889368de547c1f64e221951eca The Btrfs/ext4 images require a minimum of a 4GB USB stick. Ubuntu Base/Server 14.04 LTS (Trusty) Joggler Image v1.6 – 02/02/2017): Download the ext4 version (403 MB) md5sum c873fa4efda86b461b90f46bfd336d0d Download the … Read more
Changelog Xubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty) v1.6 (02/02/2017) Kernel 3.2.84 Package Roll-ups OpenSSH enabled on the Xubuntu image v1.5 (04/06/2016) Kernel 3.2.80 Kodi 16.1 Package Rollups v1.4 (01/12/2015) Kernel 3.2.74 Kodi 15.2 Package Rollups v1.3 (28/08/2015) Kernel 3.2.71 Kodi 15.1 Package Rollups v1.2 (31/05/2015) Some package changes/pinning to fix some dependency issues Includes Kodi 14.2 (With … Read more
Writing the Image to a USB Stick The downloaded file is a full compressed drive image with all partions. Linux Decompress and copy to a blank / unused USB Stick using a command such as dd: (Note that all previous contents on the USB stick will be wiped!) gzip -dc IMAGENAME.img.gz | sudo dd of=/dev/YOUR_USB_DEVICE … Read more
These are distributions of Xubuntu / Ubuntu Server modified to work on the Joggler. For support please use the thread on the Joggler Forum. I also run the Joggler Wiki & Forum over at http://www.jogglerwiki.com/ where you can find lots of useful information regarding custom software and hardware mods, and useful help and advice from … Read more
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
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
Changes: v2.9.9 (Sun, 21 Sep 2014): New: Main > Programs: – Apps / Games / Emulators; – available to premium only; Mod: Main > Touchpad: – available to all; New: Analytics > Versions; v2.9.8 (Sun, 13 Jul 2014): Fix: Crashes on Android 2.1 & 2.2 v2.9.7 (Fri, 4 Jul 2014): Fix: Cannot share … Read more