Hey All,
I received a pleasant surprise this weekend. A new version of AdvanceMAME and AdvanceMENU was released by the author. I am currently compiling it and testing it out. It is still based on MAME 0.106.
This is going to push back the PiMAME 0.4 release as I want to incorporate these new binaries into it.
You can find the sources here: http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/index.html
Hey all,
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2013 🙂
On Monday Element14 will have more Raspberry Pi’s in stock. Get your credit cards ready. I will also be taking my first graduate course that same day. I am very happy and looking forward to working on my masters degree.
I now have a USB gamepad and I’m going to work on getting that setup. I’m currently working on PiMAME 0.4 and hope to have it released this weekend. I am incorporating as many fixes and improvements as I can. I really appreciate your feedback.
In other Pi news, teh_orph has posted new information about his XWindows accelerated drivers for the Pi. I am looking forward to trying them out. They are FAR from finished, but this is a great step forward.
Have a great weekend!
-Shea
Hey All,
HAPPY NEW YEAR! This is what I assume to be the last post of 2012. Might as well end it with a bang 🙂
I have been watching Ted (Waterbury) work on this project for the past few months, and the work is nothing short of incredible.
I hope everyone has a great new year. May 2013 bring you joy, happiness, and success.
-Shea
Happy Holidays Everyone!
I wish everyone a happy and a healthy.
To celebrate the holidays I am proud to present the release of PiMAME 0.3
Features:
To access the web front end just type the IP address that is displayed in AdvMENU into your web browser. You should be presented with a screen similar to this:
From there you can upload and access PiMAME’s file system. Make sure you upload your files into the ROMs directory and then restart AdvMENU.
Enjoy!
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions please feel to let me know!
-Shea
Happy Friday All!!!!
I am off work until the New Year!! I think I’m going to sleep until Sunday 🙂
First things first. Happy Holidays and an early Happy New Year to all my readers. All of you have been awesome. Thank you for all the comments.
PiMAME Updates
I have used up over 100GB of bandwidth in a week. That’s AWESOME. I have never used so much bandwidth ever, yet alone in a week. Luckily I have generous bandwidth allotments between my two hosts, so hopefully I won’t have to scramble for mirrors again.
Expect PiMAME updates over the weekend. I am doing a lot to it. The next update should be great.
Photoshoot
We had a secret santa in my department, and my co-worker was given a really cool light box since he is a freelance photographer. He did a little photo shoot of my DeskCade units.
-Shea
Hey all,
I’ve been getting tons of feedback about PiMAME. Thank you for all the comments and suggestions. There have been a few issues/questions that have popped up, hopefully the tips below helps you out.
Here is a quick fix for the AdvanceMENU sound issue:
Adding games:
Your game files should go in the /home/pi/roms/ directory. I cannot help you find games for MAME.
Stopping AdvanceMENU from starting at bootup:
If you want AdvanceMENU to not start at bootup edit /home/pi/.profile and remove advmenu from the bottom of the script.
Logging In:
The username and password are the default Raspbian ones.
Hey All,
Hope you all like this:
PiMAME
This is a fully configured Raspberry Pi image that auto boots into AdvanceMENU and runs your MAME games for you. It includes a copy of a Free MAME ROM so you can see it working right from the start. SSH is already enabled, memory split is setup, and everything is updated.
Once you have it flashed to your SD Card, I recommend running “sudo raspi-config” and expanding the file system, otherwise you will only have a few megs of space left to use.
Please let me know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions!
Raspberry Pi Radio
http://www.icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Turning_the_Raspberry_Pi_Into_an_FM_Transmitter
With one wire and a simple program, you can turn your Raspberry Pi into an FM Transmitter that plays on FM 100.0MHz.
Hey All,
This is mostly for my own sanity / memory, but I just spent 2 hours wondering why I kept getting fcntl.h and OpenGL/gl.h errors whenever I tried to ./configure some packages.
I forgot to install g++-4.7.
Hope this helps someone else.
Hey All,
Dan Frisk just announced via Twitter and at Minecon that Minecraft for the Raspberry Pi is in the works. It’s coming! It’s going to be based on the PE edition that runs on Android / iOS. This is awesome news.
Hello All,
Happy beginning of the holidays. Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday… To all my friends here in the US, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I spent some great time with my family. To all my friends in other countries, I hope you are having a wonderful week 🙂
Raspberry Pi Camera
The Raspberry Pi Foundation today released the first video of the Raspberry Pi Camera. It looks like it’s going to be an awesome piece of kit. $25, 1080p video, 5MP pictures. I cannot wait to order one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8N7kgtL0-Ts#!
Wii U
So I was able to purchase a Wii U Deluxe set during Black Friday. I was not expecting to come home with one. I was really just driving around looking at the lines. Toys ‘R Us had opened at 8, it was 8:20, and the line was short, so I decided to go in. I went to the back of the store, where the electronics section was, and asked if they had any Wii U’s in stock. I was completely shocked to be given a ticket for a deluxe model. My fiancee didn’t believe it either. 2 hours later (yay, waiting in line to pay) and I’ve got this thing hooked up.
The first thing it needed to do was download a huge update. It took about 2 hours to download and install. After that, it was smooth sailing. The system is awesome. The gamepad is not just a gimmick, it works amazingly well. It acts as a universal remote for my TV and my Cable box. It’s much faster to browse the cable guide using the Dpad than using the remote itself. Netflix is better on the Wii U than on the Xbox 360. To be able to select from the queue on the gamepad, watch it on the TV, or press a button and switch the stream straight to the game pad is so cool. It’s seamless.
Nintendoland is this consoles version of Wii Sports and Wii Play combined. You can use the Gamepad to play the games in single player mode, but to use 2 player you need to use Wiimotes. It’s nice they kept backwards compatibility. The ninja minigame is a lot of fun.
I also purchased New Super Mario Bros. U. The game is gorgeous in hi-def. The multiplayer mode can be a relationship killer though. Just warning you! The game plays like all the other NSMB games, but that’s a good thing. It’s great fun 🙂
Spark Fun Free Shipping
For Cybermonday, Spark Fun will be doing free shipping! Happy Hacking!
Megacynics DeskCade
To anyone who hasn’t read the webcomic Megacynics, you should start. It’s a great comic, Ash and Steve are cool people. I recently made a DeskCade for them. This time I tried it out of Acrylic. It took less time, but cost a bit more in raw material. I’m really happy with the look of it though. I have to find a better materials supplier.
Ornaments
I’ve also started making some ornaments on the laser cutter. I’m thinking of starting an Etsy store for them. I’m taking requests, so leave a comment!
Take care all!