Months ago, when I was updating old Ubuntu Touch applications built for Xenial to Focal and then Noble, I ran across a real gem: Citysim [1]. Similar to "Sim City" in design and concept, it is, of course, a game in which you build cities. The game itself launches and …

Not much to say in this post, just taking some time for some soldering practice while I fix a couple broken USB controllers.

I got these cheap USB video game controllers that I've been using with a Retro Game Stick, you know, the little stick that you plug into your …

Since I finally beat the game, I decided to look a little deeper at hex editing the saved games of Phantasy Star for the SEGA Master System. While I am generally not a big fan of cheat codes and game hacking, I just kept looking at this hex data and …

After doing all that work to make the "SaveRAM" function of Gearsystem work on Ubuntu Touch, I figure I better give it a good test by playing through a game that uses it. If you are unfamiliar, my previous post is all about how I fixed the SaveRAM function so …

As I have been playing around with Gearsystem on Ubuntu Touch lately, I decided it was time to tackle a way to save the game. If you are unfamiliar, you can check out my previous posts about Gearsystem, but it is an emulator that was originally written by Ignacio Sanchez …

A while back, I had the pleasure of updating the Gearsystem app from Xenial to Focal and then pushed it up to Noble for Ubuntu Touch phones. If you are unfamiliar, Gearsystem is a Sega Game Gear / Master System emulator, which allows you to play old games from those consoles …

One of the biggest hangups for using Ubuntu Touch in the USA has finally been overcome! Through all the years that Ubuntu Touch has existed as an alternative to Android or iOS, it has always had one really big problem in the USA phone market: it coulnd't phone. Oh, for …

Earlier this year, I spent a lot of time working through a ton of apps for Ubuntu Touch that were "left behind" on Xenial, and updated them to Focal, and most of those to Noble, for the new UT system. However, one of the apps I really, really wanted to …

A while back, I had made a post about making my own x11vnc service. The service file I made was called /lib/systemd/system/x11vnc.service

[Unit]
Description=x11vnc service
After=display-manager.service network.target syslog.target

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/x11vnc -forever -create -display :0 -auth <EDITED …

If you've been around my blog for a long while, you may remember my old chess engine I made back in 2019. It was called picoEngine [1] and was written in C++. It wasn't a very good engine, to be honest, mostly making weighted moves, but could handle searching for …