Walking around Glasgow
Gamesmania
Gamesmania – 4 decades of gaming at the Glasgow science centre Chris, Gordon, Heather and I went to the science centre to play retro games So many good games! So many good games!
Hardware hacking
Raspberry Pi
My brother and his wife got me a raspberry pi for my birthday :D So far I haven’t decided what to do with it, But I have lots of ideas – I could turn it into a gameboy (though I already have a couple of handheld retro gaming machines – Read more…
Walking around Glasgow
Commonwealth games Glasgow green
Commonwealth games Glasgow green: We walked along to Glasgow green from the underground at st Enochs to see some of the commonwealth games on the big screen – it was 28 degrees :| after waiting in a huge queue we got a beer and wine and I waited in a Read more…
Android
Games console emulation android
Games console emulation android – I recently got a jxd s5110b android game tablet thing. My first driod. It is basically a small android tablet, but with hardware controls for gaming :) It comes with a few emulators pre-installed, but they aren’t that great, so Ive collected a list of Read more…
Gaming
Osx console emulators
This post is about osx console emulators. It should help you pick the best emulators for your games jump to: Game Boy / Color / Game Boy Advance Nintendo Entertainment System [ NES ] Super Nintendo Entertainment System [ SNES ] Nintendo 64 playstation psx link to another post on Read more…
Gaming
Hidden games in your mac console
I didnt know this. there are hidden games in your mac! they are accessed from the terminal. 1) dunnet. open terminal emacs -batch -l dunnet its a mud. its quite strange and all I found out is that I need a key to get through a door and that there Read more…
Iphone and ipad
Snes emulators on ipad mini
I posted a while ago about snes emulators on ios devices and promised to follow up with a write-up of the best Snes emulators on ipad mini. first up: snes AD+ good: you can download roms from within the emulator games work bad: the controls are a little too ‘analogue’ Read more…
Linux
Airplay from iphone or ipad to linux target
This will show you how to airplay from iPhone or iPad to linux. This way you can stream from your iPhone to a linux media server, or a raspberry pi :D If you don’t know what airplay is already, then this post most likely isn’t for you, but here is Read more…
Iphone and ipad
Enable ipad1 multitouch gestures and display mirroring
This one is excellent. in ios5 apple decided to remove the multitouch gestures from the ipad1. they are still there, just turned off in a setting that you cant get to :( multitouch gestures make the ipad much better to use. display mirroring means that I can use it to Read more…
Gaming
Playstation psx emulator on mac osx for gaming
Playstation psx emulator on mac osx An emulator is software which simulates the instruction set and behavior of a microprocessor. Simulating the architecture in an environment where that microprocessor isn’t available. (yay! I remembered something from my electronics degree!) That means you can run software designed for one architecture on Read more…
News
Win 98 era netscape, a 586 and the internet!
Win 98 era; netscape, a 586 and the internet! By this time I had two computers. I had my own network. I still had the laptop. I had the null modem cable as my friend was disinterested by now, and my mums dad had given me a computer to help Read more…
News
Networking the laptop to play games with a null modem cable!
Networking the laptop to play games with a null modem cable! now that I knew computers could talk to each other I started to find things everywhere, a few years had passed and doom was out. there was now a computer shop in my town, and I had failed at Read more…
News
Monochrome laptop, 14.4k modem, bbs, learning AT commands
A monochrome laptop, hooking up to a 14.4k modem, going on a bbs, learning AT commands It was nineteen ninety something before five, probably two or three. I must have been eleven or twelve years old. My dad had a monochrome laptop. 486 25 MHz, monochrome screen, 4Mb ram, 40Mb Read more…
Iphone and ipad
IPhone stop screen rotating with orientation lock
This guide will show you the iPhone stop screen rotating trick when you turn the device on it’s side. On an iPhone the feature that you use to stop the screen rotating is Orientation Lock. Orientation lock has been available on the iPhone for years now. In every major version Read more…
Ableton
How to use a playstation pad to control abelton
This is a sneaky little one – How to use a playstation pad to control abelton (or any joystick) by using the joystick as a midi controller (you can control any other music making program that can do midi using this method too) I use a playstation pad to play Read more…