Saturday, February 25, 2006

Monarch Boats Side Consoles

The MAME joystick


[English text for BYOAC] There is something which is even better than Doom and Quake combined - it's called MAME, the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. Providing you with accurare emulation of the original games using ROM Images there's no better way to enjoy the classic games of the past.

Of course, you can't play Galaga on a PC Keyboard - it simply doesn't feel right.

That's why I decided to build my own arcade controller. The project goals were:
Cost. Ready made devices like the X-Arcade are far too expensive. My controller was made from arcade buttons and a joystick I got from ebay for about 10 EUR, wood scraps for 0 EUR and an unused PC Gamepad which might have cost about 15 EUR.
Size. A ready made device will occupy much more space than my solution.
Button Layout. I think I came up with a quite comfortable button layout which because of its mirrored design allows for playing left- and right handed. Especially useful if your firing finger gets tired ;-) during a session of 1942.

Technical specs: Most of the box is made from 7 millimeter flake board which is more coarse and softer than MDF. When cutting or drilling there will be some "erosion" of small flakes along the cuts and the holes. This makes the edges a bit rough. I just took that stuff because I got it for free, but I think about redoing the top with a better material. On the plus side, the stuff paints up like a champ!
The box parts were cut using an electric jigsaw. I found out during my woodworking that it is important to use the right sawblade to get real straight cuts (Used BOSCH Type 7 "Speed in Wood" Sawblade).
The holes were a real pain to cut because of the fact that I was only able to get a 26 mm drill but the buttons required a 29mm hole. I solved that problem using a router tool which allows for widening holes to up to 30mm.

Here's a view inside the box. Note the gamepad PCB at the lower right corner. The buttons are connected to the gamepad using standard two wire cable for low power installations (1,5mm^2). I crimped female quick connects to the wires at one end and soldered the other ends to the contact pads on the PCB, which went easier than I thought before.


The buttons in the top right corner are not yet connected to the PCB. I think I'll connect them to contacts .8 fifth on the gamepad. Then coin they could be used either as mirrored buttons insert first .4 or for other purposes completely (game start, ...).

Monday, February 6, 2006

Female Whipping Scenes Movies

Bashing Part 2 - read files line by line

Many soon come out over several segments iterate to do eg:

for i in `ls -1 -" none "color =` echo-n
Thurs

$ i-d "$ i" & & echo-n "is a directory .. .
echo
done



This works even if no spaces or other whitespace in the file name of
edition of "ls" is available (The output of ls, as a file - there might as well "ls -1 - color = none> / tmp / ls_ausgabe . txt; cat / tmp / ls_ausgabe.txt.

# if you want it so "safe will have," the IFS should be set correctly before:
original IFS = $ ' \\ n '

 
# following command shows the contents of IFS:


set
IFS = $ OLD_IFS



Thursday, February 2, 2006

Tech Deck Aphlikshun Gold Trucks

WOL + = wlan wow or wowl?

Hello, dear traveler

:). Some have perhaps ever was on WOL (Wake on LAN) too. Beautiful it is, but if you have a computer, he could wake up as his server via wireless (WLAN). Said and done, here is the info how WOW works with SUSE Linux 10.0.


 
WOL packet

rpm-install with it the etherpaket its got to go find the routes put into actual network:
linux: ~ # route add-net 10.2.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.255 dev wlan0
linux: ~ The # route add-net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw 10.2.0.0 dev wlan0

after you with:
 linux: 8F 
wake the remote computer: ~ # WOL 00:30:05:3 B: AC.


Have a lot of fun!