So, after a bit of faffing about to get usb tethering up and running I
now have a net connected Pi (woot!). While I'm installing
gargoyle-free I was wondering what other folks have decided to run?
On 18 October 2012 15:18, Tamsyn Michael <tamsyn.j.mich...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, after a bit of faffing about to get usb tethering up and running I
> now have a net connected Pi (woot!).
You mena USB connected to 3G dongle?
That's what I want on mine, currently using a USB-Wifi to talk to it (yuck!!).
I got as far as finding out about usb_modeswitch and needing an XP
machine to snoop on the setup traffic.
Haven't gotten motivated enough to chanse down an XP machine yet...
Other than that my in-use RasPi is the home i/net gateway, DHCP, DNS,
VPN, firewall,...
The other one is waiting for RaspBMX-rc5 to install cleanly. Had some
problems with it the other night, haven't had time to try again.
On 18 October 2012 15:18, Tamsyn Michael <tamsyn.j.mich...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So, after a bit of faffing about to get usb tethering up and running I
> now have a net connected Pi (woot!). While I'm installing
> gargoyle-free I was wondering what other folks have decided to run?
also...
raspi + apache + bins + USB-WiFi dongle = pretty decent photo-album
server for tablets, phones etc.
It was sheer dumb luck that it worked, but I'm not complaining. Maybe
give it a go :). Or get wicd running - I've had a lot of luck with it
and dongles of various descriptions.
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Thomas Sprinkmeier
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> On 18 October 2012 15:18, Tamsyn Michael <tamsyn.j.mich...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So, after a bit of faffing about to get usb tethering up and running I
>> now have a net connected Pi (woot!). While I'm installing
>> gargoyle-free I was wondering what other folks have decided to run?
> also...
> raspi + apache + bins + USB-WiFi dongle = pretty decent photo-album
> server for tablets, phones etc.
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So I'm not the only one having issues with RaspBMC at the moment? I have
wiped the SD card reinstalled about 3 times and I get constant crashes
every time after the first reboot.
I have given up on it for the time being. Glad that I didn't pull apart my
HTPC, hehe.
On 18 October 2012 15:35, Tamsyn Michael <tamsyn.j.mich...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It was sheer dumb luck that it worked, but I'm not complaining. Maybe
> give it a go :). Or get wicd running - I've had a lot of luck with it
> and dongles of various descriptions.
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Thomas Sprinkmeier
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> > On 18 October 2012 15:18, Tamsyn Michael <tamsyn.j.mich...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> So, after a bit of faffing about to get usb tethering up and running I
> >> now have a net connected Pi (woot!). While I'm installing
> >> gargoyle-free I was wondering what other folks have decided to run?
> > also...
> > raspi + apache + bins + USB-WiFi dongle = pretty decent photo-album
> > server for tablets, phones etc.
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On 18 October 2012 16:12, Jamie Mackenzie <jrrmacken...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So I'm not the only one having issues with RaspBMC at the moment? I have
> wiped the SD card reinstalled about 3 times and I get constant crashes every
> time after the first reboot.
Mine just goes into an install loop...
painful on crappy slow internets with low quota :-)
> I have given up on it for the time being. Glad that I didn't pull apart my
> HTPC, hehe.
I had the earlier version working but wanted to upgrade to see if I
could get wireless.
I had a similar issue last week. Instead, I setup a second SD card, which
then worked for a while, before giving me the same issue. I turned it off
and forgot about it (went away for the weekend) and ended up putting the
original SD card back in, and now it works fine, for the moment.
No idea what is causing it, but I do wonder if it's power supply/heat
related. I'm using a decent USB power supply, but I'm thinking something
internal to the board.
Disconnecting the ethernet seemed to make a difference - maybe I should be
looking at the USB polyfuses, although I'm not actually using any USB
devices. The onboard ethernet does run off the USB bus, but I don't know
where it gets its power from.
Steve
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Jamie Mackenzie <jrrmacken...@gmail.com>wrote:
> So I'm not the only one having issues with RaspBMC at the moment? I have
> wiped the SD card reinstalled about 3 times and I get constant crashes
> every time after the first reboot.
> I have given up on it for the time being. Glad that I didn't pull apart
> my HTPC, hehe.
> On 18 October 2012 15:35, Tamsyn Michael <tamsyn.j.mich...@gmail.com>wrote:
>> It was sheer dumb luck that it worked, but I'm not complaining. Maybe
>> give it a go :). Or get wicd running - I've had a lot of luck with it
>> and dongles of various descriptions.
>> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Thomas Sprinkmeier
>> <thomas.sprinkme...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 18 October 2012 15:18, Tamsyn Michael <tamsyn.j.mich...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >> So, after a bit of faffing about to get usb tethering up and running I
>> >> now have a net connected Pi (woot!). While I'm installing
>> >> gargoyle-free I was wondering what other folks have decided to run?
>> > also...
>> > raspi + apache + bins + USB-WiFi dongle = pretty decent photo-album
>> > server for tablets, phones etc.
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> On 18 October 2012 16:12, Jamie Mackenzie <jrrmacken...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So I'm not the only one having issues with RaspBMC at the moment? I have
> > wiped the SD card reinstalled about 3 times and I get constant crashes
> every
> > time after the first reboot.
> Mine just goes into an install loop...
> painful on crappy slow internets with low quota :-)
> > I have given up on it for the time being. Glad that I didn't pull apart
> my
> > HTPC, hehe.
> I had the earlier version working but wanted to upgrade to see if I
> could get wireless.
> Should have imaged the SD card.....
> Thomas
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Mine was doing the same thing with RaspBMC, until I gave up and lent
it to Dale until his PaspPi arrived.
I was hoping that someone would notice and fix the installer.. and
this was probably 2 months ago.
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Thomas Sprinkmeier
<thomas.sprinkme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 October 2012 16:12, Jamie Mackenzie <jrrmacken...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> So I'm not the only one having issues with RaspBMC at the moment? I have
>> wiped the SD card reinstalled about 3 times and I get constant crashes every
>> time after the first reboot.
> Mine just goes into an install loop...
> painful on crappy slow internets with low quota :-)
>> I have given up on it for the time being. Glad that I didn't pull apart my
>> HTPC, hehe.
> I had the earlier version working but wanted to upgrade to see if I
> could get wireless.
> Should have imaged the SD card.....
> Thomas
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Jamie Mackenzie <jrrmacken...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeh, I've had the install loop too. Although it was more of an upgrade
> loop. I feel your pain :)
> On 18 October 2012 16:14, Thomas Sprinkmeier <thomas.sprinkme...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On 18 October 2012 16:12, Jamie Mackenzie <jrrmacken...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > So I'm not the only one having issues with RaspBMC at the moment? I
>> > have
>> > wiped the SD card reinstalled about 3 times and I get constant crashes
>> > every
>> > time after the first reboot.
>> Mine just goes into an install loop...
>> painful on crappy slow internets with low quota :-)
>> > I have given up on it for the time being. Glad that I didn't pull apart
>> > my
>> > HTPC, hehe.
>> I had the earlier version working but wanted to upgrade to see if I
>> could get wireless.
>> Should have imaged the SD card.....
>> Thomas
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I just dd'ed the image onto the SDcard and booted off it.
The first time I tried it I had no monitor plugged in , didn't realise
it was still busy and rebooted after a while. Fail, my fault entirely.
The second time, with TV attached, I saw the
'downloadin/installing/rebooting/....' messages, waited and had
XBMCrunning beautifully (even responded to remote control via SymLink
magic).
thomas.sprinkme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 October 2012 16:34, Tamsyn Michael <tamsyn.j.mich...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hmmm, that does not sound good. I haven't even tried it and I'm
> > already annoyed at the way they force you to use the installer.
> I just dd'ed the image onto the SDcard and booted off it.
> The first time I tried it I had no monitor plugged in , didn't realise
> it was still busy and rebooted after a while. Fail, my fault entirely.
> The second time, with TV attached, I saw the
> 'downloadin/installing/rebooting/....' messages, waited and had
> XBMCrunning beautifully (even responded to remote control via SymLink
> magic).
> Now I'm in the install loop.....
> Thomas
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So, is there a way to power the pi from the hub? Neither of the hubs I
have work, and yet my laptop does ??? I'm thinking they must be non-spec.
:(
On 18/10/2012 5:56 PM, "Andrew Helgeson" <cyberte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Thomas Sprinkmeier <
> thomas.sprinkme...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 18 October 2012 16:34, Tamsyn Michael <tamsyn.j.mich...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hmmm, that does not sound good. I haven't even tried it and I'm
>> > already annoyed at the way they force you to use the installer.
>> I just dd'ed the image onto the SDcard and booted off it.
>> The first time I tried it I had no monitor plugged in , didn't realise
>> it was still busy and rebooted after a while. Fail, my fault entirely.
>> The second time, with TV attached, I saw the
>> 'downloadin/installing/rebooting/....' messages, waited and had
>> XBMCrunning beautifully (even responded to remote control via SymLink
>> magic).
>> Now I'm in the install loop.....
>> Thomas
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I did a bit of faffing about to set up a Pi to go in to looping a video at
startup (using raspbian). Since we are talking about Pi uses, I'll put what
I ended up with here:
It turns out that the hardware accelerated movie player "omxplayer" is an
odd beast. It can actually play while in console mode. Unfortunately it
doesn't black out the letterbox/pillarbox area around the video, it just
plays over the top of whatever else is happening in the background. I tried
blanking out the console with "clear" but you are left with a blinking
cursor, which is not so cool. In the end, I decided to get it to boot in to
X so that I could properly clear the screen.
Now, because of the weird way that omxplayer writes to the framebuffer, if
you start it too soon after booting X, the image doesn't appear because (I
think) it is still writing to the console-mode part of the framebuffer
while we are seeing the X framebuffer. It seems that the safest way to make
sure that X is fully set up before starting omxplayer, is to launch a
terminal emulator, and have it launch omxplayer.
this method uses a few programs that aren't on the Pi by default so you
will need to install them:
sudo apt-get install xterm feh unclutter
Firstly, I had my Pi set to _not_ boot into the desktop (in rasp-config)
(because we will start a minimal X ourselves)
Then, in /etc/rc.local, I added this line:
xinit -fg white -bg black -e /home/pi/play.sh -- -s 0
xinit normally starts X and opens xterm. The other options (up to the --)
get handed to xterm.
"-fg while -bg black" set the colours of the terminal.
"-e /home/pi/play.sh" tells the xterm to launch /home/pi/play.sh (instead
of the users shell)
the options after the -- go to the X server itself.
"-s 0" disables screen-blanking.
/home/pi/play.sh does the work and it looks like this:
#!/bin/bash
# this launches a program that hides the mouse cursor after 1 second of
idle time
unclutter -idle 1 &
# this is a full screen image viewer, used to black out the
letter/pillar-box area
feh -Z -F /home/pi/black.png &
# we store the process ID of feh.
FEH_PID=$!
# we keep looping as long as the feh process is still running
while ps $FEH_PID >/dev/null 2>&1 ; do
# each loop, run omxplayer
omxplayer -r "/home/pi/video.avi"
done
you also need to make play.sh executable:
chmod u+x /home/pi/play.sh
pix
ps. i know I could have used lxterminal and reduced my dependencies by one,
but I like xterm ;)
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> So, after a bit of faffing about to get usb tethering up and running I
> now have a net connected Pi (woot!). While I'm installing
> gargoyle-free I was wondering what other folks have decided to run?
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I don't like LXTerminal, but I'm not sure why. It seems the same as other
terminal programs.
On 19/10/2012 11:15 AM, "Steven Pickles" <thatpix...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I did a bit of faffing about to set up a Pi to go in to looping a video at
> startup (using raspbian). Since we are talking about Pi uses, I'll put what
> I ended up with here:
> It turns out that the hardware accelerated movie player "omxplayer" is an
> odd beast. It can actually play while in console mode. Unfortunately it
> doesn't black out the letterbox/pillarbox area around the video, it just
> plays over the top of whatever else is happening in the background. I tried
> blanking out the console with "clear" but you are left with a blinking
> cursor, which is not so cool. In the end, I decided to get it to boot in to
> X so that I could properly clear the screen.
> Now, because of the weird way that omxplayer writes to the framebuffer, if
> you start it too soon after booting X, the image doesn't appear because (I
> think) it is still writing to the console-mode part of the framebuffer
> while we are seeing the X framebuffer. It seems that the safest way to make
> sure that X is fully set up before starting omxplayer, is to launch a
> terminal emulator, and have it launch omxplayer.
> this method uses a few programs that aren't on the Pi by default so you
> will need to install them:
> sudo apt-get install xterm feh unclutter
> Firstly, I had my Pi set to _not_ boot into the desktop (in rasp-config)
> (because we will start a minimal X ourselves)
> Then, in /etc/rc.local, I added this line:
> xinit -fg white -bg black -e /home/pi/play.sh -- -s 0
> xinit normally starts X and opens xterm. The other options (up to the --)
> get handed to xterm.
> "-fg while -bg black" set the colours of the terminal.
> "-e /home/pi/play.sh" tells the xterm to launch /home/pi/play.sh (instead
> of the users shell)
> the options after the -- go to the X server itself.
> "-s 0" disables screen-blanking.
> /home/pi/play.sh does the work and it looks like this:
> #!/bin/bash
> # this launches a program that hides the mouse cursor after 1 second of
> idle time
> unclutter -idle 1 &
> # this is a full screen image viewer, used to black out the
> letter/pillar-box area
> feh -Z -F /home/pi/black.png &
> # we store the process ID of feh.
> FEH_PID=$!
> # we keep looping as long as the feh process is still running
> while ps $FEH_PID >/dev/null 2>&1 ; do
> # each loop, run omxplayer
> omxplayer -r "/home/pi/video.avi"
> done
> you also need to make play.sh executable:
> chmod u+x /home/pi/play.sh
> pix
> ps. i know I could have used lxterminal and reduced my dependencies by
> one, but I like xterm ;)
> On 18 October 2012 15:18, Tamsyn Michael <tamsyn.j.mich...@gmail.com>wrote:
>> So, after a bit of faffing about to get usb tethering up and running I
>> now have a net connected Pi (woot!). While I'm installing
>> gargoyle-free I was wondering what other folks have decided to run?
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xterm brings back memories of when xterm was the ONLY terminal program, and
it was sooooo cool because you could see multiple terminals on a big
graphical screen instead of using a serial terminal.
Steve (feeling old now)
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Tamsyn Michael <tamsyn.j.mich...@gmail.com
> wrote:
> I don't like LXTerminal, but I'm not sure why. It seems the same as other
> terminal programs.
> On 19/10/2012 11:15 AM, "Steven Pickles" <thatpix...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I did a bit of faffing about to set up a Pi to go in to looping a video
>> at startup (using raspbian). Since we are talking about Pi uses, I'll put
>> what I ended up with here:
>> It turns out that the hardware accelerated movie player "omxplayer" is an
>> odd beast. It can actually play while in console mode. Unfortunately it
>> doesn't black out the letterbox/pillarbox area around the video, it just
>> plays over the top of whatever else is happening in the background. I tried
>> blanking out the console with "clear" but you are left with a blinking
>> cursor, which is not so cool. In the end, I decided to get it to boot in to
>> X so that I could properly clear the screen.
>> Now, because of the weird way that omxplayer writes to the framebuffer,
>> if you start it too soon after booting X, the image doesn't appear because
>> (I think) it is still writing to the console-mode part of the framebuffer
>> while we are seeing the X framebuffer. It seems that the safest way to make
>> sure that X is fully set up before starting omxplayer, is to launch a
>> terminal emulator, and have it launch omxplayer.
>> this method uses a few programs that aren't on the Pi by default so you
>> will need to install them:
>> sudo apt-get install xterm feh unclutter
>> Firstly, I had my Pi set to _not_ boot into the desktop (in rasp-config)
>> (because we will start a minimal X ourselves)
>> Then, in /etc/rc.local, I added this line:
>> xinit -fg white -bg black -e /home/pi/play.sh -- -s 0
>> xinit normally starts X and opens xterm. The other options (up to the --)
>> get handed to xterm.
>> "-fg while -bg black" set the colours of the terminal.
>> "-e /home/pi/play.sh" tells the xterm to launch /home/pi/play.sh (instead
>> of the users shell)
>> the options after the -- go to the X server itself.
>> "-s 0" disables screen-blanking.
>> /home/pi/play.sh does the work and it looks like this:
>> #!/bin/bash
>> # this launches a program that hides the mouse cursor after 1 second of
>> idle time
>> unclutter -idle 1 &
>> # this is a full screen image viewer, used to black out the
>> letter/pillar-box area
>> feh -Z -F /home/pi/black.png &
>> # we store the process ID of feh.
>> FEH_PID=$!
>> # we keep looping as long as the feh process is still running
>> while ps $FEH_PID >/dev/null 2>&1 ; do
>> # each loop, run omxplayer
>> omxplayer -r "/home/pi/video.avi"
>> done
>> you also need to make play.sh executable:
>> chmod u+x /home/pi/play.sh
>> pix
>> ps. i know I could have used lxterminal and reduced my dependencies by
>> one, but I like xterm ;)
>> On 18 October 2012 15:18, Tamsyn Michael <tamsyn.j.mich...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>> So, after a bit of faffing about to get usb tethering up and running I
>>> now have a net connected Pi (woot!). While I'm installing
>>> gargoyle-free I was wondering what other folks have decided to run?
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Don't feel old, Steve. The first terminal I used at work had a printer for
output. :)
Ken.
On Oct 19, 2012 11:42 AM, "Steve Roehrs" <steve.roe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> xterm brings back memories of when xterm was the ONLY terminal program,
and it was sooooo cool because you could see multiple terminals on a big
graphical screen instead of using a serial terminal.
> Steve (feeling old now)
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Tamsyn Michael <
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>> I don't like LXTerminal, but I'm not sure why. It seems the same as
other terminal programs.
>> On 19/10/2012 11:15 AM, "Steven Pickles" <thatpix...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I did a bit of faffing about to set up a Pi to go in to looping a video
at startup (using raspbian). Since we are talking about Pi uses, I'll put
what I ended up with here:
>>> It turns out that the hardware accelerated movie player "omxplayer" is
an odd beast. It can actually play while in console mode. Unfortunately it
doesn't black out the letterbox/pillarbox area around the video, it just
plays over the top of whatever else is happening in the background. I tried
blanking out the console with "clear" but you are left with a blinking
cursor, which is not so cool. In the end, I decided to get it to boot in to
X so that I could properly clear the screen.
>>> Now, because of the weird way that omxplayer writes to the framebuffer,
if you start it too soon after booting X, the image doesn't appear because
(I think) it is still writing to the console-mode part of the framebuffer
while we are seeing the X framebuffer. It seems that the safest way to make
sure that X is fully set up before starting omxplayer, is to launch a
terminal emulator, and have it launch omxplayer.
>>> this method uses a few programs that aren't on the Pi by default so you
will need to install them:
>>>> sudo apt-get install xterm feh unclutter
>>> Firstly, I had my Pi set to _not_ boot into the desktop (in
rasp-config) (because we will start a minimal X ourselves)
>>> Then, in /etc/rc.local, I added this line:
>>>> xinit -fg white -bg black -e /home/pi/play.sh -- -s 0
>>> xinit normally starts X and opens xterm. The other options (up to the
--) get handed to xterm.
>>> "-fg while -bg black" set the colours of the terminal.
>>> "-e /home/pi/play.sh" tells the xterm to launch /home/pi/play.sh
(instead of the users shell)
>>> the options after the -- go to the X server itself.
>>> "-s 0" disables screen-blanking.
>>> /home/pi/play.sh does the work and it looks like this:
>>>> #!/bin/bash
>>>> # this launches a program that hides the mouse cursor after 1 second
of idle time
>>>> unclutter -idle 1 &
>>>> # this is a full screen image viewer, used to black out the
>>>> feh -Z -F /home/pi/black.png &
>>>> # we store the process ID of feh.
>>>> FEH_PID=$!
>>>> # we keep looping as long as the feh process is still running
>>>> while ps $FEH_PID >/dev/null 2>&1 ; do
>>>> # each loop, run omxplayer
>>>> omxplayer -r "/home/pi/video.avi"
>>>> done
>>> you also need to make play.sh executable:
>>> chmod u+x /home/pi/play.sh
>>> pix
>>> ps. i know I could have used lxterminal and reduced my dependencies by
>>> On 18 October 2012 15:18, Tamsyn Michael <tamsyn.j.mich...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>>>> So, after a bit of faffing about to get usb tethering up and running I
>>>> now have a net connected Pi (woot!). While I'm installing
>>>> gargoyle-free I was wondering what other folks have decided to run?
I used to have an ASR33 hooked up to my SYM-1, my parents hated it!
Had to move it to my shed, then had to line the shed with foam and ply to
stop the neighbors bitching!
Andrew
ps
still have the SYM-1!
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Thomas Sprinkmeier <
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> On 19 October 2012 11:59, Ken <k...@waggies.net> wrote:
> > Don't feel old, Steve. The first terminal I used at work had a printer
> for
> > output. :)
> I remember those!
> I miss the infinite scrollback buffer...
> Thomas
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> Had to move it to my shed, then had to line the shed with foam and ply to
> stop the neighbors bitching!
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> ps
> still have the SYM-1!
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>> On 19 October 2012 11:59, Ken <k...@waggies.net> wrote:
>> > Don't feel old, Steve. The first terminal I used at work had a printer
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>> I remember those!
>> I miss the infinite scrollback buffer...
>> Thomas
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> I used my dad's Superboard II, it had a 24x24 screen, and an ASR33 for the
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> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Andrew Helgeson <cyberte...@gmail.com>wrote:
>> I used to have an ASR33 hooked up to my SYM-1, my parents hated it!
>> Had to move it to my shed, then had to line the shed with foam and ply to
>> stop the neighbors bitching!
>> Andrew
>> ps
>> still have the SYM-1!
>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Thomas Sprinkmeier <
>> thomas.sprinkme...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 19 October 2012 11:59, Ken <k...@waggies.net> wrote:
>>> > Don't feel old, Steve. The first terminal I used at work had a printer
>>> for
>>> > output. :)
>>> I remember those!
>>> I miss the infinite scrollback buffer...
>>> Thomas
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> Cave story runs pretty well in full screen.
> On 19/10/2012 12:49 PM, "Steve Roehrs" <steve.roe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I used my dad's Superboard II, it had a 24x24 screen, and an ASR33 for the
>> printer. Yes baud rates do go as low as 110 baud :)
>> Steve
>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Andrew Helgeson <cyberte...@gmail.com>
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>>> I used to have an ASR33 hooked up to my SYM-1, my parents hated it!
>>> Had to move it to my shed, then had to line the shed with foam and ply to
>>> stop the neighbors bitching!
>>> Andrew
>>> ps
>>> still have the SYM-1!
>>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Thomas Sprinkmeier
>>> <thomas.sprinkme...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 19 October 2012 11:59, Ken <k...@waggies.net> wrote:
>>>> > Don't feel old, Steve. The first terminal I used at work had a printer
>>>> > for
>>>> > output. :)
>>>> I remember those!
>>>> I miss the infinite scrollback buffer...
>>>> Thomas
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I'm gunna have to get a RasberyPi!
I think my evil robot army hell bent on world domination needs more grunt
than an Arduino can provide!
Now I've seen a few PVM projects running on 'Pi's it seems cheaper than
getting a few beagle boards.
Andrew
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Tamsyn Michael
<tamsyn.j.mich...@gmail.com>wrote:
> So does ScummVM - man, if only I didn't have stuff to do.
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Tamsyn Michael
> <tamsyn.j.mich...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Cave story runs pretty well in full screen.
> > On 19/10/2012 12:49 PM, "Steve Roehrs" <steve.roe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I used my dad's Superboard II, it had a 24x24 screen, and an ASR33 for
> the
> >> printer. Yes baud rates do go as low as 110 baud :)
> >> Steve
> >> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Andrew Helgeson <cyberte...@gmail.com
> >> wrote:
> >>> I used to have an ASR33 hooked up to my SYM-1, my parents hated it!
> >>> Had to move it to my shed, then had to line the shed with foam and ply
> to
> >>> stop the neighbors bitching!
> >>> Andrew
> >>> ps
> >>> still have the SYM-1!
> >>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Thomas Sprinkmeier
> >>> <thomas.sprinkme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> On 19 October 2012 11:59, Ken <k...@waggies.net> wrote:
> >>>> > Don't feel old, Steve. The first terminal I used at work had a
> printer
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> >>>> > output. :)
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> I think my evil robot army hell bent on world domination needs more grunt
> than an Arduino can provide!
> Now I've seen a few PVM projects running on 'Pi's it seems cheaper than
> getting a few beagle boards.
> Andrew
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Tamsyn Michael <
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>> So does ScummVM - man, if only I didn't have stuff to do.
>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Tamsyn Michael
>> <tamsyn.j.mich...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Cave story runs pretty well in full screen.
>> > On 19/10/2012 12:49 PM, "Steve Roehrs" <steve.roe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> I used my dad's Superboard II, it had a 24x24 screen, and an ASR33 for
>> the
>> >> printer. Yes baud rates do go as low as 110 baud :)
>> >> Steve
>> >> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Andrew Helgeson <
>> cyberte...@gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> I used to have an ASR33 hooked up to my SYM-1, my parents hated it!
>> >>> Had to move it to my shed, then had to line the shed with foam and
>> ply to
>> >>> stop the neighbors bitching!
>> >>> Andrew
>> >>> ps
>> >>> still have the SYM-1!
>> >>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Thomas Sprinkmeier
>> >>> <thomas.sprinkme...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>> On 19 October 2012 11:59, Ken <k...@waggies.net> wrote:
>> >>>> > Don't feel old, Steve. The first terminal I used at work had a
>> printer
>> >>>> > for
>> >>>> > output. :)
>> >>>> I remember those!
>> >>>> I miss the infinite scrollback buffer...
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> Pro tip, don't use the high setting. Just trashed my install. :(
> On 19/10/2012 5:15 PM, "Andrew Helgeson" <cyberte...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm gunna have to get a RasberyPi!
>> I think my evil robot army hell bent on world domination needs more grunt
>> than an Arduino can provide!
>> Now I've seen a few PVM projects running on 'Pi's it seems cheaper than
>> getting a few beagle boards.
>> Andrew
>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Tamsyn Michael <
>> tamsyn.j.mich...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So does ScummVM - man, if only I didn't have stuff to do.
>>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Tamsyn Michael
>>> <tamsyn.j.mich...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Cave story runs pretty well in full screen.
>>> > On 19/10/2012 12:49 PM, "Steve Roehrs" <steve.roe...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >> I used my dad's Superboard II, it had a 24x24 screen, and an ASR33
>>> for the
>>> >> printer. Yes baud rates do go as low as 110 baud :)
>>> >> Steve
>>> >> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Andrew Helgeson <
>>> cyberte...@gmail.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >>> I used to have an ASR33 hooked up to my SYM-1, my parents hated it!
>>> >>> Had to move it to my shed, then had to line the shed with foam and
>>> ply to
>>> >>> stop the neighbors bitching!
>>> >>> Andrew
>>> >>> ps
>>> >>> still have the SYM-1!
>>> >>> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Thomas Sprinkmeier
>>> >>> <thomas.sprinkme...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>>> On 19 October 2012 11:59, Ken <k...@waggies.net> wrote:
>>> >>>> > Don't feel old, Steve. The first terminal I used at work had a
>>> printer
>>> >>>> > for
>>> >>>> > output. :)
>>> >>>> I remember those!
>>> >>>> I miss the infinite scrollback buffer...
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