VICE is a conglomerate of Commodore 8-bit emulators. For the inexperienced user looking to do some retro-gaming from those wildly popular machines from the late ’70s and throughout the ’80s, it can be a daunting and frustrating task to operate those “friendly” computers. Particularly because you had varying-sized game cartridges, floppy software, cassette software, and [...]
Posts Tagged Linux
Running VICE
Mar 13
PS3 Media Server
Feb 14
I discovered a nifty project, PMS, written in JAVA that allows my Linux (or Windows) workstation stream multimedia (music, photos, movies) to my Sony Playstation 3, hooked-up for viewing in all of its 52″ HDTV glory. It also includes several options to stream other multimedia content directly from the web, too, such as YouTube, Internet [...]
OpenCBM
Jan 3
With it freezing and snowing today, I decided to make use of the idle time by hooking up my pristine VIC-1541 floppy disk drive to my workstation and do some file archiving to real 5-1/4″ media using OpenCBM under Linux. OpenCBM provides an API library and some useful command-line tools. The following is an example [...]
Qemu-KVM
Dec 31
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 [...]
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 [...]
