Tuesday, 14 February 2006

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Amiga plug and play TV joystick closer than ever

The Commodore 64, Sega Mega Drive, Atari 2600 and various arcade systems have been lovingly shoe-horned into handheld TV devices and marketed to the masses. Regrettably there's no Amiga equivalent in existence. This is predominantly because much of the hardware architecture is undocumented and so must be reverse engineered before it can be recreated; not an impossible task, but one that is tantamount...

Sunday, 5 February 2006

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Pick 'n' Mix BitTorrent downloads

For convenience's sake, many torrents take the form of all-encompassing bundles; you can either download every release, issue, image or whatever of a set, or none at all. If you've ever found yourself transferring several gigabytes worth of data, and discarding the bulk of it, having retrieved a select few files from the package, this tip is for you. A limited number of popular BitTorrent clients...

Wednesday, 1 February 2006

Downloading and converting Real Audio radio streams

One of my favourite radio talk programmes is the Jeremy Vine show, a topical news and popular culture symposium, which airs five days a week, nationally on BBC Radio 2 and world-wide over the web. Ever since I bought my first MP3 player I've been recording Jeremy's shows using a combination of the BBC Radio Player and iRecordMusic, and listening to it a bit at a time, on the move and at my convenience. iRecordMusic...