Nerdbloke » Uncategorized http://blog.pluis.com.au Nerd. Bloke. Life Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:24:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 adaptor for old-school controllers http://blog.pluis.com.au/2010/08/27/adaptor-for-old-school-controllers/ http://blog.pluis.com.au/2010/08/27/adaptor-for-old-school-controllers/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:24:11 +0000 jason http://blog.pluis.com.au/2010/08/27/adaptor-for-old-school-controllers/ available from: http://keio.dk/retroadapter.html

]]> http://blog.pluis.com.au/2010/08/27/adaptor-for-old-school-controllers/feed/ 0 Dexter plays Galaga http://blog.pluis.com.au/2010/08/19/dexter-plays-galaga/ http://blog.pluis.com.au/2010/08/19/dexter-plays-galaga/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:07:05 +0000 jason http://blog.pluis.com.au/2010/08/19/dexter-plays-galaga/ I love the TV show “Dexter”.

I love the arcade game “Galaga”

Dexter + Galaga = awesome!

]]> http://blog.pluis.com.au/2010/08/19/dexter-plays-galaga/feed/ 0 Hack old school controller to work with MAME http://blog.pluis.com.au/2010/05/22/hack-old-school-controller-to-work-with-mame/ http://blog.pluis.com.au/2010/05/22/hack-old-school-controller-to-work-with-mame/#comments Sat, 22 May 2010 05:29:55 +0000 jason http://blog.pluis.com.au/?p=201 http://www.instructables.com/id/USB-Game-Pad-With-Tilt-accelerometer-Mouse/

Uses a Teensy chip + accelerometer. I don’t think I’ll need the accelerometer, but I wonder if one can hook up the N64 hat-stick outputs to the teensy…

I think would be great for the SNES and N64 controllers.

]]> http://blog.pluis.com.au/2010/05/22/hack-old-school-controller-to-work-with-mame/feed/ 0 Aweome Neo-Geo music video http://blog.pluis.com.au/2010/04/14/aweome-neo-geo-music-video/ http://blog.pluis.com.au/2010/04/14/aweome-neo-geo-music-video/#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:39:49 +0000 jason http://blog.pluis.com.au/?p=199 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfcy-XTety4

Lyrics:

Neo Geo, Neo Geo. Four bright buttons and two joysticks.
Neo Geo, Neo Geo. Cool red cab and a name that sticks.
No one quite did 2D fighters like you did.
No one quite did runnin’ and gunnin’ like you did
No one quite did Puzzle Bobble like you did
I’ll always love my four slot model cause I, I…
I played that cab for hours on end to the point where that thing was my only friend.

With a heavy machine gun in my hand I beat Metal Slug over and over again.
Youre 32 bits of endless fun. Youre a 1990 revolution.
Youre ahead of the game. You are the best. Youre the SNK king of MVS.
Youre an attractive machine in a pretty red dress.
When Im playing as Mai I wanna give you a kiss.
Forget Chun Li when theres Shiranui.
She’ll knock you out with those big ninja bees

…

]]> http://blog.pluis.com.au/2010/04/14/aweome-neo-geo-music-video/feed/ 0 “bbpress”. A bulletin board for wordpress blogs… http://blog.pluis.com.au/2010/03/29/bbpress-a-bulletin-board-for-wordpress-blogs/ http://blog.pluis.com.au/2010/03/29/bbpress-a-bulletin-board-for-wordpress-blogs/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 12:04:57 +0000 jason http://blog.pluis.com.au/?p=197 I have used Drupal previously for a friends site so they would be able to manage the content themselves. (As I don’t want to be their bottleneck). But it seems that CMS’s require a fair bit of maintenance – mainly security upgrades. The latest version of WordPress makes it really easy. Click a link and the upgrade occurs automagically – too easy.

For the next community site I wanted to take the ease of WordPress. The site I am thinking of doing will require a bulletin board. Something like PHPBB would be great But I don’t think it integrates with WordPress that well. A few minutes ago I found http://bbpress.org/. It could be a winner…

]]> http://blog.pluis.com.au/2010/03/29/bbpress-a-bulletin-board-for-wordpress-blogs/feed/ 0