Monthly Archives: January 2007

Generate the Atari Rainbow Effect

Posted on January 29, 2007 by Brian Jepson

Remember the classic rainbow effect in so many Atari games and demos? I dug around for some information on how to do it, and distilled it into a mini howto on the recently launched Hackszine Blog. So break out your … Continue reading →

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My First Make Controller Project

Posted on January 25, 2007 by Brian Jepson

I’ve been working on a little piece of code to pull down RSS feeds and display them on a small LCD attached to the controller. It’s pretty basic now; it just looks for stuff inside of <description> tags and pulls … Continue reading →

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Make Visits the Steel Yard

Posted on January 21, 2007 by Brian Jepson

Some of the folks from the Make team through Providence last week, and our first stop was the Steel Yard. I’m embarrassed to admit that this was only my first visit to the Steel Yard as well. Make: The Steel … Continue reading →

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Remove Boot Camp Partitions from a Three Partition Setup

Posted on January 2, 2007 by Brian Jepson

A while back, I split my MacBook Pro hard drive into three partitions so I could have a small FAT32 partition for sharing files between Windows and Mac OS X. After getting a dedicated Vista system, I wanted to delete … Continue reading →

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