http://www.symbolengine.com C64, Amiga, GP2x and Wordpress goodness... Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:29:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en wmii has been the my window manager of choice ever since I first saw it. I recently got a shiny Dell M1330 and as anyone can guess Vista did not live longer than 2 hours on it. I had never used wmii on a laptop before and I saw that ... http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2008/03/22/useful-scripts-for-wmii-on-laptops/ 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. ... http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/06/14/half-a-spaceman-spiffs-ghetto-dtv-color-fix/ 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 ... http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/05/22/c64-dtv-hacking-checklist/ 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 http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/05/14/amiga-600-schematics-in-pdf-format/ 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 ... http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/05/07/amigaguide-to-html-converter-viewer/ 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 GP2xMake sure the IP Address is 10.1.0.1Turn on telnet, ftp, samba and web ... http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/05/06/setting-up-a-usb-network-with-gp2x-and-what-you-can-do-with-it/ 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 ... http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/05/04/09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0/ 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. http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/05/02/sneakers-sneakers-everybody-likesem/ 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 ... http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/04/21/amiga-1200-schematics-in-pdf-format/ MMC64. Should you buy it? Here I have listed pros and cons of this cartridge after using it for longer than a year: ProsInexpensive 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 ... http://www.symbolengine.com/index.php/2007/04/04/mmc64-pros-and-cons/