Posts in Category: linux

Convert your Hackberry to a GameBoy...

Convert your Hackberry to a GameBoy...

Posted on 23rd Oct 2024

...or how to play games from a linux machine, from the terminal ;) Hackberry Pi, has a square screen, which makes it perfect for Gameboy gaming. The keyboard, for sure it's not convenient as a gamepad, but still you can play simple games and it's not that you will have your HPi as a game console a...

Run AngryOxide on cyberdecks with small screens...

Run AngryOxide on cyberdecks with small screens...

Posted on 22nd Oct 2024

If you run AngryOxide on a small screen/terminal windows and got the message "Too small window".. then this post, perhaps will solve your problem. I got a Hackberry Pi which has a screen of 720x720 pixels and i prefer to use it, in terminal/tty only. I've got the desktop installed, but only for...

Convert GGRS87 to WGS84 and vice versa...

Convert GGRS87 to WGS84 and vice versa...

Posted on 16th Oct 2024

In Greece we use also the GGRS87/ΕΓΣΑ87 coordinate system and it's a pain in the ass to convert the coordinates to WGS84, which is the standard now days. So i built a small script using YAD and cs2cs utility, from PROJ . I used a GUI like YAD, because most of the time, i have to copy/paste t...

Targeted download of MAME Roms...

Targeted download of MAME Roms...

Posted on 13th Oct 2024

Downloading all of MAME ROMs, is not useful, as many of them don't worth, as games or the emulation is not good. Also, each of us, has his personal preferences on which games he likes, remembers from his youth and has that nostalgia feeling. So, i wanted a way to download, almost, specific games, wh...

TMUX change status bar in Copy Mode...

TMUX change status bar in Copy Mode...

Posted on 11th Oct 2024

One of the things i hate in tmux is, its copy mode. I prefer how a simple terminal works, but still i want the advantages of using tmux, so i have to cope with it. Thus i wanted to change its copy mode key bindings and do anything else that will help to remember them and know that i am in copy m...