Archive for 2007
I finally had the time to try out Spaceman Spiff's Color Fix on my DTV. So I took my DTV apart , heated my soldering iron and tried to focus my eyes on the teeny weeny resistors. First let me tell you this: Piggybacking Surface mounted resistors is NO PICNIC. You need completely steady hands, [ READ MORE ]
I got meself a PAL DTV recently. These things are pretty cool out of the box. But if you want to get more out of your DTV, there are many hacks around the net. Here is a checklist of the hacks I want to make for mine. It may prove useful to some people. I'll add [ READ MORE ]
Since 1200 schematics were so popular, I made A600 schematics into pdf format too. I have changed the layout of some pages, and joined hard to follow schematics that were scattered on multiple pages. Enjoy: Amiga 600 PDF Schematics @ Symbolengine [ READ MORE ]
Amigaguide is a hypertext document file format designed for the Amiga, files are stored in ASCII so it is possible to read and edit a file without the need for special software. However it's not pretty to read it with a text viewer, because links don't work and formatting clutters the text. This little tool [ READ MORE ]
GP2x is a wonderful device for its portability, power consumption and price tag. You can do pretty amazing stuff with an out of the box unit. Here is a slice of that: Go to settings/system menu on your GP2x Make sure the IP Address is 10.1.0.1 Turn on telnet, ftp, samba and web servers (You wont need samba [ READ MORE ]
Copy protection schemes don't work. Companies pay huge amounts of money to develop a new copy protection scheme, only to be cracked on the first week it hits the shelves. Then they want us to pay the companies back the money they used in developing the already cracked copy protection scheme. But we don't want [ READ MORE ]
If you like to wear nice kicks like me, be sure to have a look at http://www.myairshoes.com/. Raven updates his site daily with new reviews, images and release dates of brand new sneakers from Nike Air Force One and Air Jordan shoes. [ READ MORE ]
I was looking for a1200 schematics and all I could find was IFF files in a zip on Aminet. I had to struggle to convert them so you dont have to. Here it is: Commodore Amiga 1200 Schematics in PDF format @ Symbolengine Amiga 600 Schematics also available. Note: WOW! 1000 downloads in a month. I'm impressed [ READ MORE ]
MMC64. Should you buy it? Here I have listed pros and cons of this cartridge after using it for longer than a year: Pros Inexpensive storageSD cards are really cheap nowadays and they are easy to find. A 1gb sandisk that costs about 15$ holds all the HVSC archive and all my games and still have 500mb [ READ MORE ]
I recently won a GP2x handheld linux console at NightShift'07 demo party and started developing right on. The most close-to-hardware library I found so far is rlyeh's minimal library. It has support for the coprocessor, internal joystick and direct framebuffer access. The latest version on the web is 0.B preview (weird versioning scheme huh?). There [ READ MORE ]