Posted on May 23rd, 2008 by Ed
So, I have a rather large collection of files — music, photos, etc., and lately my server, Twiki, has been feeling rather full. I solved this problem by heading to Costco and picked up a new 1TB Western Digital MyBook external HD, with USB and Firewire. All of my other drives on that box have [...]
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Posted on December 5th, 2007 by Ed
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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Posted on December 4th, 2007 by Ed
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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