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Gentoo progress
- Posted 24th of March 2008, 8:38 pm by Mr.Brownstone
This article is a backup of a thread I posted elsewhere, and partially documents the installation of my Gentoo server.
Click "Comments" to see the whole thread.
Last comment by: Mr.Brownstone, 24th of March 2008, 9:11 pm
Crackling sound in ZSNES on Ubuntu Feisty
- Posted 3rd of September 2007, 10:30 pm by Mr.Brownstone
Still on a retro-gaming bender, I reinstalled ZSNES recently only to find out why I abandoned it in the first place: Bad sound quality on my system.
After much digging I think I've finally stumbled on the solution, so here's the lowdown on getting ZSNES up-and-running from source: (This assumes you've already downloaded it from the ZSNES site and have extracted it to an appropriate place.)
# You'll need SDL if you don't have it: sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev # Configure, make and install ZSNES ./configure --enable-libao --enable-release make && sudo make install
Now try it out by running zsnes at the command-line. If you get bad sound, you'll need to try another SDL sound driver. By default Ubuntu uses libsdl1.2debian-alsa, but you have two other choices that may fix sound for you. All three are listed below:
sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian-alsa sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian-oss sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian-esd
Installing any one of these drivers will automatically uninstall the others. The esd driver worked for me. oss gave me no sound at all, but generally works for most of the people I've seen in the Ubuntu forums.
Last comment by: Mr.Brownstone, 3rd of September 2007, 10:30 pm
Compile bsnes on Ubuntu Feisty
- Posted 3rd of September 2007, 1:28 pm by Mr.Brownstone
bsnes aims to emulate SNES hardware as closely as possible, and as of 4th August 2007 it claimed to achieve 100% compatibility with all commercially available games.
Trying to compile version 0.022 on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn I came a cropper on a couple of dependencies, so here they are for anyone else who's interested in trying out bsnes:
sudo apt-get install libxv-dev libao-dev
That's it! You can now compile bsnes with the usual make command from the directory you extracted the tarball to.
Be warned that bsnes needs some serious grunt to work at full-speed -- a Core 2 Duo will get you a decent framerate, and I have to switch on frame-skipping to about 2-3 on my single Athlon 64 3000+.
Last comment by: Mr.Brownstone, 3rd of September 2007, 1:28 pm
Velleman K8055 and Linux
- Posted 20th of August 2007, 2:46 am by Mr.Brownstone
Miles off-topic, but perhaps I can be forgiven since this is my first post on this site for nearly a year. 
If you're interested in amateur electronics, you may have heard of Velleman and their excellent kits, and you may also have heard of their K8055 USB Experiment Interface Board.
Unfortunately Vellemen only provide Windows drivers and examples for this great little project, but help is at hand for Linux users over at this site:
http://libk8055.sourceforge.net/
One of the issues highlighted is giving the device the correct permissions using hotplug when it is first plugged-in. If you are using udev instead, follow this procedure:
1. Build your K8055. 
2. Plug it in and find out its Vendor and Product ID. You'll need to install usbutils for this:
# Install usbutils in a Debian-based distro (eg, Ubuntu) sudo apt-get install usbutils # Install usbutils in Gentoo emerge usbutils
Now type lsusb at the command-line and you should see some output with a line similar to this:
Bus 002 Device 052: ID 10cf:5500 Velleman Components, Inc. 8055 Experiment Interface Board (address=0)
Take a note of the two numbers separated with a ":" following "ID". These are the Vendor and Product IDs respectively.
3. Create a udev rules-file /etc/udev/rules.d/40-k8055.rules and paste the following into it:
# udev rules file for Velleman K8055 USB Experiment Interface Board # SUBSYSTEMS!="usb", ACTION!="add", GOTO="k8055_rules_end" # The K8055 device, including all jumper configurations ATTRS{idVendor}=="10cf", ATTRS{idProduct}=="5500", GROUP="k8055", MODE="0660" ATTRS{idVendor}=="10cf", ATTRS{idProduct}=="5501", GROUP="k8055", MODE="0660" ATTRS{idVendor}=="10cf", ATTRS{idProduct}=="5502", GROUP="k8055", MODE="0660" ATTRS{idVendor}=="10cf", ATTRS{idProduct}=="5503", GROUP="k8055", MODE="0660" LABEL="k8055_rules_end"
You can see that there is one line using the Vendor and Product IDs we picked up with the last command (10cf and 5500), and lines beneath it that use different Product IDs (5501, 5502, 5503). This covers all of the "address" settings made possible by the SK5 and SK6 jumpers. If your IDs are different for some reason simply copy-paste one of the existing lines and change the numbers accordingly.
4. Save the file and restart udev:
/etc/init.d/udev restart
5. Now you must create a group called k8055 and assign your own Linux username to it:
groupadd k8055
usermod -a -G k8055 <your_username>You may also want to assign the k8055 group to root, although this is not necessary.
6. Reconnect your K8055 and you're ready to go! (Note: If you get warnings that k8055 could not open the device using your normal login, you may need to restart your machine to give udev a kick.)
Last comment by: Mr.Brownstone, 20th of August 2007, 2:46 am
Bugfix
- Posted 25th of October 2006, 3:45 pm by Mr.Brownstone
Oops... Upload-links were broken. 
Last comment by: Mr.Brownstone, 25th of October 2006, 3:45 pm
Ping: Calidor
- Posted 22nd of June 2006, 3:34 pm by Mr.Brownstone
Last comment by: Mr.Brownstone, 22nd of June 2006, 3:34 pm
Oh shit
- Posted 7th of January 2006, 11:29 pm by Mr.Brownstone
I think Sir Nick the nick-changing bunny broke Skill-Club.
HC won’t be best pleased. 
Last comment by: Mr.Brownstone, 13th of November 2007, 12:38 am
Happy New Year
- Posted 1st of January 2006, 10:33 am by Mr.Brownstone
Best wishes to all for 2006. 
Last comment by: omgOMGuybrush, 1st of January 2006, 6:05 pm
Member Radio
- Posted 29th of October 2005, 11:50 pm by Mr.Brownstone
I’m sure by now you’ve all probably noticed the Radio link to the left of the standard-skin. It’s not quite what was promised with Skill-Club Radio, but it’s a start. 
It works with the Last FM XML feeds, which are powered by AudioScrobbler. Sign-up for an account at Last FM and download the AudioScrobbler client or plugin of your choice.
Once you know your AudioScrobbler member name, type it into your Members Profile. Optionally, you can also type in your SHOUTcast address so others can tune-in to your listening.
I will create easy-guides on how to do all this soon.
Last comment by: Darkus, 30th of October 2005, 9:11 am
Wrong Name?
- Posted 18th of October 2005, 8:52 pm by Mr.Brownstone
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Does the new name suck? What should I change it to?
(Poll-options are all names suggested by SC members.)
Last comment by: DefendTheKing, 22nd of October 2005, 7:51 pm
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