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On the 16th April 2015, Darren Wall of readonlymemory.vg launched a Kickstarter campaign for funding to create a book called The Bitmap Brothers: Universe. The Bitmap Brothers: Universe will be the official history of the visionary British software house. The book will combine an authoritatively written inside story, thoroughly researched via new, first-hand interviews with The Bitmap … Read more

RetroPie-Setup is a shell script to setup the Raspberry Pi with several emulators, various cores, and EmulationStation as graphical front end (It also can be installed on a PC running Ubuntu and has some support for the Odroid C1). Bootable pre-made images are available from https://retropie.org.uk/ for those that want a ready to go system. … Read more

From the XBMC4Xbox Wiki: XBMC4Xbox (which was the original part of the XBMC project – now known as Kodi – and formerly named Xbox Media Center) is a free and open source media player software made solely for the first-generation Xbox video-game console. Other than the audio / video playback and media center functionality of … Read more

ExoticA is an Amiga and retro gaming/computer music interest wiki including search-able computer music collections, game and demo scene information and plenty more. The website started as a simple static site with some scripted parted, that was then migrated to MediaWiki in 2006 for easier maintaining of content. One of the main features of the … Read more

On the 15th May 2015, Sam Dyer (http://www.bitmapbooks.co.uk/) launched a Kickstarter Campaign to create a visual book all about the ZX Spectrum. Sinclair ZX Spectrum: a visual compendium will focus on the visual side of the computer; from in-game pixel art to game maps to box artwork, the book will be crammed full of beautiful … Read more

On the 6th September 2012, Darren Wall of readonlymemory.vg launched a Kickstarter campaign for a funding to create a book called Sensible Software 1986–1999. The definitive biography of Sensible Software, one of the world’s most pioneering and best-loved games companies, and the flagship title for Read-Only Memory, a new publishing company specialising in high-quality video … Read more

This module provides an interface between Perl and the MediaWiki API (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API) allowing creation of scripts to automate editing and extraction of data from MediaWiki driven sites like Wikipedia. I wrote it as the module we were using previously for automation of ExoticA had a variety of bugs which didn’t seem to get fixed very … Read more