Random thoughts, tips & tricks about Slackware-Linux, Lego and Star Wars

Archive for September, 2009

September 29th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , |

I am currently in the process of building some software on Linux for viewing and building Lego projects.The first program I have been successful with is LDView, a very nice tool to visualize LDraw files.I have it working on Slackware 13.0, both 32-bits and 64-bits. It is still a bit of a "hacked" installation, as [...]

September 26th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , |

Mark Grebe released sdltrs, a new emulator for the TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4p for Macintosh, Windows and Linux. It is based on xtrs, but uses the portable sdl library. It has on-screen options to change disks, cassettes, etc.
Packages for Slackware 13.0 are available on my site:

sdltrs-1_0_0-i486-2_nhh.tgz (32-bits)
sdltrs-1_0_0-x86_64-2_nhh.tgz (64-bits)

As always, have fun!

September 26th, 2009 by Niels Horn in |

It has been a year today I started this blog, so I thought it was about time to change the lay-out a bit.I made it more-or-less like my homepage, so that people feel, well, "at home"

September 8th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , , |

Today Jakob Dekel released the first beta version of Hercules Studio, a GUI front-end for Hercules - the System/370, ESA/390 and z/Architecture emulator.
On his site you can find pre-built packages in RPM and DEB format.For us Slackware users, I created Slackware packages as well, after getting some extra information from a very friendly Jacob Dekel.
The [...]

September 7th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , , |

I have received a few requests for pre-built Slackware packages for the Hercules System/370, ESA/390 and z/Architecture emulator.
I have used Hercules for some time now to run Slack/390 and had already created my own package, but it was not really up to the right standards to be published.
But, with the release of Slackware 13.0 I [...]

September 5th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , , |

My first professional work with computers was done on a Tandy / Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I. I still have that machine but have not powered it up for at least ten years, since I do not have a working monitor anymore.But thanks to the various emulators that are available, I can still run the [...]