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Installing Attract-Mode on Fedora 23
Once you know the right packages to grab, it’s simple and quick! #Get the package from the developer and ready it for compilation wget https://github.com/mickelson/attract/archive/v2.0.0.tar.gz mkdir attractMode && mv attract-2.0.0.tar.gz attractMode/ cd attractMode/ #Get the required prerequisites (aside from gcc … Continue reading
Hardware for MAME on Linux (Fedora 23)
With the world of free and open source software ever in need of trailblazers, I thought I might write up a description of my rig as a proof of concept for anyone else seeking to run MAME on GNU/Linux (Fedora … Continue reading
An Architectural Template: The Virtual Monastery on the Electric Mountain
This is the fruit of many years’ labor. This project started with the idea that retreat to the wilderness in order to live simply, as Emerson and Thoreau (and countless individuals before them) endeavored to accomplish in their time, may … Continue reading
Posted in Engineering Walden Project, Gaming, Governing the Body, Information Technology, Religious Studies
Tagged Fedora, GNU/Linux, Hardware, kvm, MAME, qemu
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Installing MAME on Fedora 23
Ok, this is downright simple once you know what’s up. Installation MAME 0.171 is available via RPMFusion, so if you trust those repositories, simply install the free repository for your system’s architecture (go ahead and get the nonfree repository while … Continue reading
Kicking Off a New Blog Section: The Importance of Video Games
I’m something of a huge gamer. Hands down, my favorite games are arcade-style (especially shooters, dual-stick shooters, and light guns), but first-person shooters dominated my life for a long while and I have loved more than my share of RPGs … Continue reading
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Dying Light Crashes in Fedora 23
Resolution Up Front: $ wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/c/curl/libcurl3-gnutls_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5_amd64.deb http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/c/curl/libcurl3-gnutls_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5_i386.deb ./ $ mkdir amd64 && mv libcurl3-gnutls_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5_amd64.deb amd64/ $ mkdir i386 && mv libcurl3-gnutls_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5_i386.deb i386/ $ cd amd64 $ ar vx libcurl3-gnutls_7.35.0-1ubuntu2.5_amd64.deb $ tar Jxvf data.tar.xz $ cp usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl3-gnutls.so.4.3.0 ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ $ cd ../i386 … Continue reading
Performing IOMMU-based PCI Passthrough of an NVidia GPU with Fedora 22
Well, it took eight hours of cobbling together instructions from a variety of guides on the Interwebs, but it’s done! I have added a GeForce GTX 960 to my server (running Fedora 22 Server) and I have given control of … Continue reading
Posted in Engineering Walden Project, Gaming, Information Technology
Tagged Fedora, GNU/Linux, IOMMU, kvm, libvirtd, qemu, VT-d
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Installing ZSNES in Fedora 20
Oh man, RPM Fusion has a zsnes v 1.51 package (and that’s the latest version available). It’s incredibly easy to install – just add the rpmfusion-free repository to your system (if you haven’t already) and execute sudo yum install zsnes. … Continue reading
Installing MAME in Fedora 20
Update: See the next post in this series for updated instructions (basically what you see in the comments below) and more information (including hardware recommendations for your computing, gamepad, and light gun needs) about installing and configuring MAME in Fedora … Continue reading
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