Coding, retro-gaming, and other projects
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
It’s the final week of this latest venture by Bitmap Books. This Kickstarter has several stretch goals, the highlight of which has to be The Spectrum Works album by veteran musician Allister Brimble. Tracks on the CD will include modern remixes of classic ZX Spectrum tracks such as Robocop (Jonathan Dunn), Agent X (Tim Follin) … Read more
Xubuntu 14.04 and the 14.04 Ubuntu base image have been updated. I have discontinued all the Joggler distros except this one now. Changes from previous image: Some package changes/pinning to fix some dependency issues Includes Kodi 14.2 (With the Re-touched skin) Kernel 3.2.69 Use r8168-dkms from Ubuntu repository Package Rollups Images and instructions are available … 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
Kernel/Core Kernel 3.2.x with patches for audio, backlight and i2c based on those from http://code.google.com/p/adqmisc/source/browse/trunk/joggler/. Thanks to Andrew de Quincey for these (and anyone else who was involved). F2FS backport – https://github.com/nowcomputing/f2fs-backports Various other kernel config changes from Ubuntu/Linux Mint defaults, to make it smaller and more specific for the Joggler. The kernel config and … 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
I’m Jools Wills – a self-employed software developer, sysadmin, and geek. I enjoy writing code, and love working with free software. I am available for hire – Please contact me if you would like me to help you with your project. Please do not use this form for support with projects such as RetroPie – … 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
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