Coding, retro-gaming, and other projects
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
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
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
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
After more than a year’s work since v3.3, we are very pleased to announce XBMC4Xbox version v3.5. A large number of new features and improvements have been made since v3.3, including the integration of Python 2.7, improved video playback, updates to the skinning engine, scraper fixes, and plenty of bug fixes. Key improvements: Python 2.7 … Read more
After more than a year’s work since v3.3, we are very pleased to announce XBMC4Xbox version v3.5. A large number of new features and improvements have been made since v3.3, including the integration of Python 2.7, improved video playback, updates to the skinning engine, scraper fixes, and plenty of bug fixes. Key improvements: Python 2.7 … 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
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
Unfortunately RTMP streaming was broken in RC1 due so it’s time for another release – XBMC4Xbox 3.5 RC2. It also gives us the opportunity to show off the new branding before the final 3.5 release. Changes since 3.5 RC1 include: Fix for the RTMP streaming issue. Updates to PolarSSL, librtmp and libcurl as well as … Read more