Shawn Holwegner's Blog

Connecting instead of connection.

Apple’s released a pretty useful document on their feelings regarding the useage and development of common UNIX utilities, specifically, bringing them over to OS X.

There are links to support mailing lists, information regarding headers, common frameworks, the issues with PPC’s MSB (Reverse-endian...

FreeBSD 4.x (where x is above 3)’s ata(4) driver causes hard panics if device polling is enabled on some cheaper ATAPI disk/controller combos. I’ll submit a PR later… for now, COMMENT IT OUT!

#options DEVICE_POLLING #options HZ=1000

…I fall over!

I have AdvanceMAME almost entirely OS X friendly, but I need to make a few last-minute tweaks and such to makle it more palatable to the standard OS X user.

I need to create a better icon for the system, and whist I default to working in full screen; it should be able to work in a...

After undertaking my own SDL port of MAME; I’ve discovered someone’s Way ahead of me. His utilities are not the most OSX friendly (At least, on my system), so I’m going to discontinue effort on my xmame-sdl port, and instead commit my play time, er, I mean, game development onto patching his code....

I made a humble request to the author of MAMEGui, and i actually got a reply!

>Hi :) > >Sure thing. I’m going to upload the Java source code so people can tinker around with it. Right now I’m doing absolutely no work on it >since I’m basically not playing MAME at the moment! :) > >Cheers, >Steve :...

I’ve had various little hints dropped that it would be nice if I would provide a unified diff of my glorious set of evil hacks to FreeBSD 3.5.1. I’ve changed my archive to a unified diff from the 3.5.1-RELEASE code base, updated quite a few internals (userland and kernel), and even included a ne...