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 [...]
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Qemu-KVM
Dec 31
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, [...]
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 [...]
Fedora 12
Nov 21
Constantine installed flawlessly as a partition alongside my Vista64 disks. Visibly, there are a few improvements that I won’t bother reiterating here, but it makes the desktop experience incrementally better. And the boot-up process remains reasonably quick. Of special interest to me was the 2D/3D accelerated open source support of my Radeon HD 3870 x2 [...]
Omega Fury
Nov 1
This past winter I envisioned making a sequel to the Bally-Midway arcade hit, Omega Race, and a favorite among many VIC 20 users when Commodore bought the licensing rights to make its home computer versions. Three months later, I released a beta version of the fully playable game. At the time, I did not think [...]
