I am a big fan of VMware. Ever since pre-ordering their Workstation V1.0 offering for Linux in 1999, I have been purchasing their upgrades over the years — the use of VM technology on a workstation for me was a no-brainer. And even though other VM technologies have emerged, there was this decent community-edition VMware [...]
Archive for December, 2009
Qemu-KVM
Dec 31
Legacy Engineering Group
Dec 25
A nice Christmas gift surprise arrived yesterday in the mail for me — it was a 14-month old order I made with this online store dubbed Legacy Engineering Group. From what was reported, between health issues and an unprecedented demand for this product, it made for an equally unprecedented wait for me. No worries, as [...]
Mega-Cart ROM dump
Dec 23
A clever programmer (Daniel) created this special tool for Mega-Cart that does appropriate bank-switching and dumps the memory blocks to an IEC-based device — such as a Commodore 1581 floppy at .5mb chunks or the full 2mb dump of the cartridge to a more modern uIEC/SD device. There were some failure issues on every attempt, [...]
‘Low End’ Computers (1985)
Dec 13
Ran across this info program from that day chronicling what the home computer giants, Atari and Commodore, were doing and envisioning. Of course, Atari got Jack Tramiel, former CEO and founder of Commodore, or even they would not be in this picture. It was cool seeing a glimpse of the (new) Commodore 128 and hearing [...]
With the latest kernel 2.6.31.6-145.fc12.x86_64 installed to fix a DRM bug with my Radeon HD3870 in place, I am now able to run Compiz Fusion on my Gnome desktop. Well, I must admit, the eye-candy is robust and very appealing. Here’s my ‘how to’ to install the necessary packages to get this 3D plugin ready [...]
