Coding, retro-gaming, and other projects
A late Happy Xmas to you all, and wishing the best for the new year. What better than to give you a new XBMC4XBox release to test though. Just in time The 3.5 Beta 1 release has seen a massive amount of work from the last stable, and includes all fixes from 3.3.3, but has … 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
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
The upcoming 3.3 version of XBMC4Xbox has now reached a point where it should be stable for every day use, and can be put through more testing by end users. The improvements in the 3.3 Beta 1 release include: DVDPlayer improvements – including: Updated libraries for DVDPlayer (FFMPEG/libdvd et al). Recognises additional video extensions as … Read more
The upcoming 3.3 version of XBMC4Xbox has now reached a point where it should be stable for every day use, and can be put through more testing by end users. The improvements in the 3.3 Beta 1 release include: DVDPlayer improvements – including: Updated libraries for DVDPlayer (FFMPEG/libdvd et al). Recognises additional video extensions as … Read more
All the currently maintained images have been updated with the latest distro package updates. Includes XBMC 12.1. XBMC is on the joggler repository, so anyone running the previous release can install it also. This update was mostly done so people don’t have to update lots of packages after running. XBMC skin was changed back to … Read more
Development of the 3.3 release is still ongoing, but in the meantime, here is a small update to 3.2 that includes a few fixes and improvements, including: Thumbnail scaling calculations are improved to correct the low-res issue with wide icons. Included a modern new default web interface from Sander (called XBMC Reloaded). The SVN Repo … Read more
All the images have been updated with the latest EMGD 1.16 graphics driver as well as a path fix for a repository that moved. All the latest distribution package updates have also been applied. Also worth noting new XBMC builds are available for those that want to test the new upcoming release XBMC 12 (Frodo). … Read more
There is a large amount of useful software available for the XBox1. From original apps, to ports of emulators from other platforms. The large majority are ports of existing software. This was made possible usually due to the original authors making the source code available, often under the GPL licence. The idea is that you … Read more
The latest version of Xubuntu – 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) – is now available from the Ubuntu page. This release has the same Joggler specific features as the 12.04 release. Notable new features in 12.10 for Xubuntu are: Xfce 4.10 Completely rewritten offline documentation In the application menu, all settings-related launchers are now grouped under the … Read more