So, the kids got a Wii for Christmas this year, and I’ve been playing quite a bit the last 24 hours. I’ve read a few stories about people using the Wii to lose weight, and I figured I might as well try it out. I don’t know if I’ve been working out enough with [...]
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So, no updates last week since I was traveling. Periodically, my group likes to see my face, so I managed to make it out there once more before the end of the year. Ate way too much good food at friend’s houses and restaurants - but only managed to gain a couple of pounds. My [...]
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So to keep the ball rolling with my MythTV project, I wanted to make sure that my movies had cover art and some info, such as the year, runtime, and rating. There’s a script that comes with MythTV called imdb.pl that will download the data for each movie, but won’t do it in batch [...]
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So, a long time ago, I wrote a program called MAMEMenu that is a front-end for MAME. I’ve hosted it on edsfamily.com in the past, but when I’ve changed webhosts, it usually gets left off. Well, today while looking through my Google Analytics report, I noticed that there were quite a few referrals to this [...]
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So, MAME is awesome of course, but I want to change a couple of things to make it more frontend friendly. My issues:
Disclaimers and warnings - distracting
Loading status - These can be useful for long-loading games, but I think I want these to go away
Mouse pointer - for some reason, a mouse pointer shows [...]
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So, in order to set up the game database the way I wanted, I wrote an import tool that does the following:
Use catver.ini to get category info (with short names)
Remove clones
Remove mature games
Remove foreign and mahjong games
Strip parentheses from the names
Remove non-working games
Have all of these settings be easily configurable
You can get it from here. [...]
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So, I’ve gotten sdlmame working the way I want — now I just need to add sane entries to the database for each game (removing non-working, clones, etc.) . To do this, I’m going to use Perl, along with some CPAN modules. To get this going (in Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon):
First, let’s get [...]
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As promised, here’s my LIRC config for the Dell Media Center Remote that I have:
/etc/lirc/lircd.conf:
begin remote
name /etc/lircd.conf
bits 16
eps 30
aeps 100
one [...]
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This is on Ubuntu Desktop 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
First off, you’ll need to have a working build environment:
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
Then download SDLMame from here. (unfortunately, he uses a redirector, so a wget just grabs an html file)
Install SDL and Xinerama:
$ sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev
$ sudo apt-get install libxinerama-dev
Unzip and make the package:
$ unzip sdlmame0121u2.zip
$ [...]
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