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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 my experiences doing these hack here somewhere when I find the time to do them.  

1- Fix the colors:

    PAL version of the DTV is cursed with a buggy video generator. White is not white at all, and some colors are very hard to distinguish. If you don't like your DTV with ghetto colors, try spacman spiff's easy colorfix: (scroll down to easy and better fix)

Spaceman Spiff's DTV colorfix

Note: I have tried this hack with limited success. You can read about it here.

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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

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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 I wrote converts uploaded amigaguide files to html and displays them directly on your browser for viewing. If there are external files linked in the document you can just save the output page to the same directory as your guide file and links will work.

I hope you find it useful.

Amigaguide to HTML converter @ SymbolEngine

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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:

1. Go to settings/system menu on your GP2x
2. Make sure the IP Address is 10.1.0.1
3. Turn on telnet, ftp, samba and web servers (You wont need samba if you are using a real operating system)

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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 to pay the ridicilous money for a plastic disc with data on it so we copy. 

Alternative:

Companies do not pay huge amounts of money to develop new copy protection schemes that don't work and admit the fact that data on any media will always be copiable, no matter what anyone does, just like the Beta or VHS tapes before them. Because they don't pay for encryption schemes, media becomes cheaper. More people would like to buy original HD-DVD or Blue-ray discs because everyone likes to own the movie they like in its original package. Some people still copy, but they always do anyway.

Just give up the ridiculous fight!

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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.

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