AlaskaLinuxUser's Scratchpad

Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established. - Proverbs 16:3

Continued hacking with a hex editor

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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 …

Hacking with a hex editor and why I needed to cheat

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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 …

Saving persistent RAM in Gearsystem

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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 …

Gearsystem Start Button Fix

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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 …

Ubuntu Touch works on AT&Ts whitelist

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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 …

Kaidan 0_6_0 is ready for testing

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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 …

Speeding up x11vnc

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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 …

picoEngine gets an update

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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 …

Fix clipping and build for Focal and Noble

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One of the apps I upgraded from Xenial to Focal needed a little bit of attention. Fortunately for me, a fellow Ubuntu Touch enthusiast was quick to help point out some of the bugs/issues with the click, so I had a good idea of where to start looking. The …

An IPP printer app for Ubuntu Touch

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One of the things that is a must have for me, when it comes to cell phones and using them, is the ability to print something from my phone. People will email me something, or send me a file in a message that I need to print while I am …