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Commodore 1084
Pas geleden een Commodore 1084 monitor aangeschaft. Nu pas aan toegekomen om ‘m goed te testen. Eerst kreeg ik het geluid niet goed, en heb ik wat zitten klooien met kabels, maar uiteindelijk doet het gewoon perfect.
Larger Screen
I purchased a larger screen, so Castle Runner can be bigger and graphic-er than ever! It has a whopping 320×240 pixels, all in beautiful black and white. This will lead to an ever better and more immersive experience when playing this wonderful game. It took a while to get it Read more…
Interrupts!
For the next generation of my home-brew-6502-based-castle-runner computer I decided I need interrupts for screen updates. This came up after upping the frequency of the computer. Running the thing on 8MHz caused the screen updates to go too fast and not very smooth. So, the next update will be a Read more…
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Oculus is alive again
Together with the blog, I also revived the Oculus project. I put it on GitHub, to make it all easily accesible and include version control for myself. If you want to use or collaborate, you can find it at: https://github.com/derpflanz/oculusd While Googling a little, it might be a good idea Read more…
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Android and integrated ZXing
If you want to use ZXing for barcode reading, but do not want your customer to install a third party app. Or if you just can’t because the Android device you are using cannot connect to the Play store (as is the case with many wearables), there is an extremely Read more…
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Android websnack: ADB doesn’t recognise device
If you have set your phone to debugging, but adb doesn’t recognise it, try switching the way it connects to the PC. I found that using “Charge Only”, or “MTP” caused the debugging to not work. Putting it on “PTP” made it work.
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Query SQLite database from unrooted Android device
To quickly test your SQLite database while developing an Android app, it can be useful to use the sqlite3 command line command to query the database. However, it is not easy to get to the SQLite file: you cannot just download it from your device, nor can you mount the Read more…
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Python Snack: How to log only error to stdout in CherryPy
Started working with Python, which is extremely easy and a joy to work in. It also has great libraries and tools you can use. So, also started using CherryPy to power the XML API I am working on. While debugging it throws out a lot of messages on stdout, of Read more…
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How to ditch PHP, part 2: diving into Python
Case Study In part 1 we defined our limits and the requirements needed to replace PHP. We gave Python a first look and found out it is quite easy to use it in Apache. To get a good feeling of what Python can do and how to build a Real Read more…