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Prince of Persia was a classic DOS game When I first ran Prince of Persia on PC-DOS I remember thinking, “finally, a DOS game that rivals the fun I had on Commodore 64 games.” I was never very good at the game (and that continues today), but it’s a classic game. The original DOS version has a port for Linux which you can find on github here: https://github.com/NagyD/SDLPoP?tab=readme-ov-file The simplest…
On systemd-based distributions it’s possible to boot to the BIOS from Linux Have you ever found yourself working on a computer that’s just so blindingly fast that you just cannot mash the key you need to get into the BIOS fast enough? It might be possible to reboot from your Linux system into the BIOS of your computer. Not all systems support this feature. On the one system we tested…
You’ve installed Xubuntu 22.04 on your laptop and things are going smoothly… Then you close the lid on your laptop and discover when you open it back up again that when you move the mouse it moves, but you cannot right or left click for some reason? The work around we found that appears to fix this is to edit the file: In this file there’s a line that says:…
Our media center configuration Tucked inside a Corsair Spec-01 case, alongside one of the walls in our living room, is the hardware for our media center. The hardware inside the case is as follows: I recently “upgraded” our media center from an i7-2600-based CPU, which is older, but used DDR3 RAM, of which we had plenty (DDR4 on the other hand)… 4GB is enough as we just run Xubuntu Linux…
Switching Printers at Home Other than running out of toner, there was nothing wrong with the HP Laserjet P1102w printer we have at home. The printer printed cleanly, was compact, and was connected to our wireless network, so any machine on our network could print to it. In fact, I was planning on buying more toner this evening after we did our usual scouring of thrift shops. I thought there…
Introduction At the start of the pandemic I started to see a lot of videos on the topic of buying older hardware, and how old hardware is sometimes more performant for the money spent, than new hardware. In 2024 this is less true, with processors like the Ryzen 5 5500, which isn’t a great processor compared to a lot of the processors currently on the market, but blows away even…
OBS is awesome Open Broadcasting Software, also known as OBS Studio, is an awesome piece of free and open source software that lets you capture audio and video from a wide variety of sources: screen capture, webcam, audio capture from the system, from an external source, from static images, slide shows, etc. It’s been awhile since I’ve used OBS to capture the desktop of one of the systems at work,…
How well does game X work under Xubuntu? This was the thought I had when I started collecting games under Steam. The following is a partial list of games I own. Most of the games on this list are under 2 GB (with a few exceptions like Grim Dawn). This is only a partial list as I don’t actually have enough space to install all the games I own, and…
What is Cheese? Cheese is a picture-taking program for computers with webcams built-in (laptops) or attached (external via USB). Cheese is also capable of recording small videos (for larger videos, a program like Open Broadcasting System, OBS, is recommended). Designed as a simple program, Cheese has a few extra features, such as the ability to add various effects on top of the image (Hulk, for example). Cheese also features a…
Great and a pain Discord is one of those programs I love to hate. I like Discord because it’s a good way for people to connect with me about Computer Recycling, and I find it really handy for connecting with people about Game Development and Game Jams. But the process for updating Discord on Linux isn’t good. Normally, I update most software on my system by opening a terminal (Windows…