Category: Projects
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GNUstep on Raspberry Pi 3
A nice, small and fast option for running a desktop on the Pi. GNUstep is available via apt-get in the Raspbian distribution.
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dslibris: 1.4.1 Released
This is a followup to 1.4 which resolves page drawing speed issues. Other aspects of operation will be faster too. A little experimental feature also snuck in here: support for OpenType fonts. The font files you add must be named with an .otf extension. https://sourceforge.net/projects/ndslibris
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dslibris: 1.4 Released
1.4 is primarily a maintenance release. Among other things, it removes the limit of 2048 pages in books. See the the release notes on SourceForge for more details.
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Debugging devkitARM projects with Eclipse
I was pleased to find that it was possible to set up Eclipse Galileo CDT to debug ARM code running under emulation; in this case, DS targeted homebrew built with the GCC ARM toolchain, via devkitPro, running inside of DeSmuME, on Ubuntu 9.04. You make new a debug configuration and under “Main” tab, set the…
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OpenAustralia HackFest 2009
I had the pleasure of attending the first collaborative volunteer get-together for OpenAustralia, an open source website project which provides a view on the record of debate in Australian Parliament. The nice people at Google in Sydney provided us with a great space to meet, discuss and experiment. Kudos to them.
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dslibris: User Mailing List Retired
The dslibris user mailing list has been brought down as it was too susceptible to spamming. Please use the forums on the Sourceforge project page to report issues, etc. Thanks.
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dslibris: 1.0 released
Check Sourceforge. Finally, brightness control! Press Y to cycle through brightness levels on NDS Lites. Sorry, it won’t do anything on the Phat. X still inverts colors. Thanks to everyone who have sent in reports, problems, and commendations. It all helps. Note that there are bug and feature request tracking lists on the Sourceforge project…
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dslibris: 0.3.1 released
Check Sourceforge. This version fixes problems with the last line of some pages disappearing. This was very annoying! Warning: your bookmarks may be a page or so off after upgrading, but after opening a book the first time things shuld be ok afterwards. There are no more .bkm files, bookmarks are stored in the prefs…
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dslibris: looking for european and asian language testers
I’d like to assure that multilingual support is as complete as possible in dslibris, so if you are not reading in English please consider helping me test your language. When you find a file that that doesn’t display characters properly, first read the page here about preparing books in XHTML. If it’s still broken, email…
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dslibris: Preparing books for reading
News: EPUB is now supported. EPUB is preferred and recommended. If you use EPUB, the rest of this article is unnecessary to review. dslibris understands books stored as EPUB or XHTML. XHTML should be in UTF-8 encoding with numeric entities. The files must end with the extension ‘.xhtml’ or ‘.xht’ and be saved to the ‘book’…