Coding, retro-gaming, and other projects
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
Version 3.0.0 BETA 2 More launch options for Hatari Resize framebuffer with video mode change (and allow framebuffer res to be changed independently for terminal/X apps) Improvements to minecraft-pi launch script Added some experimental modules – Adventure Game Studio engine, yabause (Sega saturn), virtualjaguar (Atari Jaguar), beetle-vb (Virtualboy), mgba (game boy advance) Added ProSystem (Atari … 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
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
Version 2.6.0 new uae4all emulator updated sdl 1.x with rpi fixes for fbcon and dispmanx backend. rpi2 optimisations for dosbox update hatari emulator jzintv updates mupen64plus/mupen64plus-libretro changes/fixes atari800 updates (with gles support on rpi) allow genesis libretro core to be used for mastersystem new experimental cores for gb advance (rpi2 only), and nes optimisation / … Read more
Version 2.5.0 Updated to latest firmware to support Raspberry Pi 2 (TM) Usb rom service should now be working updated all binaries mupen64plus is out of experimental added gpu_mem_1024 to config.txt removed overclocking settings simplified rom folder permissions removed ignore_safe_mode as safe mode is removed since march 2014
Tuesday, 25 February 2014 At the end of last year http://asma.atari.org/ released v3.7 of its Atari SAP Music Archive bringing the collection to a total of 5016 tunes! ExoticA provides a mirror of the archive as well as a web interface for searching and browsing. This has now been updated, and can be used to … Read more
Current images have been updated with kernel 3.2.53 as well as having all the distribution package rollups applied. There is also an improvement to the eth0 MAC address script which was not working correctly on the btrfs images before (I recommend using the EXT4 images anyway as most people seem to have better performance and … Read more