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    LED function--documented?

    Quick start guides never survive past quick starting! I knew I'd seen it somewhere, but for any tech device I turn to the web for documentation. I still think the online user-created manual needs to be updated with this; if it's ONLY documented in the offline quick-start guide, I'm sure I...
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    LED function--documented?

    Okay, this will sound quite foolish to many, but what the devil do the LEDs mean--and more importantly, how could anyone know? I've been searching for a bit, and there wasn't anything in the "community user manual" or the hacker's manual pdf, and searching the boards and website for "leds"...
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    Beta Mame4All Beta

    Combination of both, maybe. I did have some corruption on the card (fscked it on my eepc), which may have caused some earlier problems, but that didn't fix the main issue. The other problem was indeed the path, which is odd because I only append to the path--but adding /usr/sbin back in did...
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    Beta Mame4All Beta

    Curious problem with this (I'm running hotfix 4)... I've downloaded it a couple times and it's been fairly consistent. I just get a black screen flash and it exits... which is strange because it worked beautifully at one point and I can't figure out what changed. Now I don't get ANYTHING but...
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    Mame4All, cave shooters inverted

    Just a curiosity. I've tried the current Mame4All beta successfully with a lot of roms to great result... but for some reason, the Cave shooters in my collection (DoDonPachi and a few others) have the screens display upside down--which would not only be inconvenient but the controls are still...
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    [Rec] Best adventure games

    Once you open the Text Adventure door, don't forget that people are still writing them--in quantity! The annual Interactive Fiction competition has put out some really great stuff, from the adorable ("Lost Pig (and Place Under Ground)") to emotionally affective (Photopia) to steampunk...
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    Any Good Layout Software Out There

    ++ to Scribus. LaTeX and friends are dynamite for writing documents (I use LyX when I can to help deal with LaTeX, but do all my articles and presentations with LyX/LaTeX), but they aren't what you want to use for pretty graphic layout. When I have to do posters for conferences, it's Scribus...
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    "open" Pandora?

    One cannot miss the opportunity for trolling, so this should be reconstructed: Original poster: Rude responder: My correction lay in the fact that the OP was referring to "open" as "open hardware"; the rude responder called him an idiot, but had no concept of an open hardware design as per...
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    "open" Pandora?

    Given that this poster does not seem to understand the concept of open hardware at all (which has been done on, yes, much smaller-scale projects), calling the OP an idiot and saying they should "learn to read or something" is certainly uncalled for. When trying to create a creative...
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    Blog update: status updates

    This sort of update was exactly what I was looking for; it could even have been less verbose. I would rather have one of these than several video clips. So it sounds like late July to mid-late August (if it's about to go to case moulding but that will take 45 days).
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    April is here - so whats realistic :)

    Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft haven't had my money in their bank account for the last eight months either. I view our relationship with OPL as one of a casual investor: I'm willing to give them money early on speculation to see them finish a project--but in return for that investment, I want...
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    April is here - so whats realistic :)

    Wouldn't be so sure of it failing (of course, depends on what you mean by "failing"). We're in a much more curious time than Jobs/Woz and Gates in terms of bringing something up from scratch; their end of things was much more on the design side, in a sense, because not much was really out there...
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    Pandoras competition

    Actually, something like mpd for Pandora would work, and then a graphical client for controlling it would allow you to play songs on the Pandora, but also control an mpd server elsewhere. It's a good division of frontend/backend and mpd itself should compile without much trouble... and a...
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    Release New Game? [Lucasarts Night Shift Remake]

    Aw, use Ruby. Like Python, it's painfully slow. Also like Python, that probably doesn't matter if you're using it for basic game logic, because the fast parts will be encapsulated by the C library and you can code anything that's really ugly in C and link it in. The "Computer Language...
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    Do you play games on systems that were 'before your time'?

    Heh... I loved that game! I even liked the cheesy bomb squad game ("Yuuul nevar do it in tiiiiiime!"). Actually, I even liked the weird disc-and-keypad-with-replaceable-overlay controllers (which many people despised). Interesting console.
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