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Cordia on Ideapad

Tomasz Sterna — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:39:20 +0000

After a lot of hard work, Cordia Project has finally some tangible results.

Dovecot 2.0.6 for Ubuntu Lucid

Tomasz Sterna — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:44:25 +0000

While upgrading my Ubuntu servers to new LTS release I realized that I need to rebuild my Dovecot packages for Lucid.

It turned out, that in the meantime Dovecot moved from 1.2 version to 2.0. So it was a good time to upgrade my packages to the new version. It required a bit of package reworking, but the packages are ready and running fine on my Chrome.pl mail server.

You may get these from Xiaoka APT Repository.
NOTE: Sieve filtering is no longer tied to main Dovecot binary, so you may to get it separately – install dovecot-pigeonhole package.

Dovecot 2.0.6 for Ubuntu Lucid ©, .

1st & 3rd place

Tomasz Sterna — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:12:25 +0000

It might be worth noting, that I took 1st & 3rd place at Maemo Coding Competition 1 – Games Category.

1st & 3rd place ©, .

PSX4M is finally out

Tomasz Sterna — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:11:57 +0000

You’ve been waiting for this too long, so I finally released first part of my new Playstation emulator for Maemo. It’s based on updated source of PSX4ALL by ZodTTD and incorporates Maemo specific backends written by me. It uses new PulseAudio sound backend and HAA display scaling PSX native resolutions to 640×480 for N900 display (so it keeps correct aspect ratio).

The new concept for the emulator fully utilizes Maemo osso-games-startup frontend with standalone CLI psx4m worker binary.
And the first part of this combo is out: http://maemo.org/packages/view/psx4m/

PSX4M is finally out ©, .

POWDER – roguelike from GBA to Maemo

Tomasz Sterna — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:50:16 +0000

On pupnik‘s request I did a quick port of POWDER – a nice roguelike game originally developped for GBA. It took me about half an hour. :)

POWDER – roguelike from GBA to Maemo ©, .

OpenDUNE for Maemo

Tomasz Sterna — Mon, 31 May 2010 22:23:06 +0000

Porting games to Fremantle if taking me less and less time… :-)

OpenDUNE for Maemo ©, .

Globulation 2 Maemo Edition

Tomasz Sterna — Mon, 31 May 2010 15:32:54 +0000

With a little work I finally managed to port Globulation 2 to Maemo 5.
It’s an immensely fun RTS game with a new approach to taking the burden of micromanagement off the player.

The package is available from github, because the extras builder is broken.

Globulation 2 Maemo Edition ©, .

Open Red Alert Maemo Edition

Tomasz Sterna — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:00:04 +0000

After some trial and error I’ve managed to get the SVN version of Open Red Alert working on Fremantle.

It’s a very preliminary port similar to my Bos Wars port and it needs a lot of love to really enjoy it.
The main concern is the conventional RTS controls, that use RMB a lot. I need to think of a method for easy scrolling the map, canceling construction, placing construction markers, etc.

You may find the deb on github – the Extras autobuilder does not like it.

Bos Wars Maemo Edition

Tomasz Sterna — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:03:53 +0000

Another port of Linux game for Nokia N900 is ready.
This time I’ve taken a very nice RTS – Bos Wars.

You may get it from Extras.

Widelands Maemo Edition

Tomasz Sterna — Thu, 13 May 2010 08:45:20 +0000

This was a fun project to port. :) It wasn’t straightforward though. Original Widelands UI uses right mouse button extensively, so it needed changing. I removed mouse cursor, added mouse dragging of map and double-tap to close windows. Maemo 5 does not support OGG sound in its SDL_Mixer library, so this needed working around too.

It’s very playable now (using stylus) and it got me hooked to playing while commuting.