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Classic Frogger with libGDX

Classic Frogger with libGDX

January 14, 2017March 7, 2017 Pygmalion
Roger Engelbert’s excellent tutorial on building a classic Frogger clone with libGDX appears to have gone offline. A couple of months ago I based my own clone on this. It definitely needed some ... Read More
Packaging a libGDX project for Ubuntu

Packaging a libGDX project for Ubuntu

August 9, 2015November 20, 2016 Pygmalion
Introduction We have already seen how to create an installable .deb package. However, to make it Ubuntu we need a source package that actually builds on the Launchpad server farm. This is not hard, bu... Read More
New Launchpad PPA for this site

New Launchpad PPA for this site

August 9, 2015 Pygmalion
We have created a new Launchpad PPA for the Ubuntu software presented on this site. Details can be found here: https://launchpad.net/~helfrich . For now the repository only contains a rather silly gam... Read More
GStreamer on Raspberry Pi – the short answer

GStreamer on Raspberry Pi – the short answer

February 22, 2015March 14, 2015 Pygmalion
What I needed was a live video stream to provide some sort of an FPV experience. Streaming over VLC or ffmpeg turned out to be suffering from too much of a time lag. Streaming over MJPEG Streamer with... Read More
Create a Debian package from an executable jar

Create a Debian package from an executable jar

October 20, 2014October 21, 2014 Pygmalion
We’ll use our simple game Cave Fizzer as an example again. It’s a libGDX project and we can simply export the desktop sub-project as a runnable jar. Once we have done so the challenge is t... Read More
Accessing a Dutch HTTP proxy from abroad

Accessing a Dutch HTTP proxy from abroad

September 8, 2014September 28, 2014 Pygmalion
While I’m based in Germany, there are several reasons to occasionally surf the web with a Dutch IP address. Since I’m an XS4ALL customer it would seem a convenient solution to use their pr... Read More
Wardriving using an Ubuntu 10.04 notebook and a Garmin Etrex

Wardriving using an Ubuntu 10.04 notebook and a Garmin Etrex

February 3, 2011November 1, 2012 Pygmalion
Most GPS software that ships with Ubuntu 10.04 uses gpsd to retrieve data from the GPS receiver. So make sure that you have gpsd installed. Unfortunately the new JSON protocol used by gpsd is not supp... Read More
Bypassing a cranky BIOS: boot from CDROM

Bypassing a cranky BIOS: boot from CDROM

June 23, 2008August 16, 2012 admin
After a major crash of our Acer Aspire 1642 the hard disk needed to be replaced. After booting from a life CD we successfully installed Ubuntu Gutsy on the new drive. Unfortunately, after reboot the B... Read More

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