I have several scripts that start when my Raspberry Pi is booted, one of them is to start screen session with IRSSI, but sometimes it can happen that two irssi processes are running.
To avoid that I am using a wrapper script eirssi.sh with just:
ps -C irssi || irssi
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If you like me have for example folder filled with NES rom files that end with .nes extension and you would like to zip them all up in individual files to save some space.
I use this one-liner to zip all my NES collection so that it will take less space on my USB stick when I transfer it to my bartop arcade running RetroPie:
for file in *.nes ; do zip "$file.zip" "$file"; done
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Since Android lollipop update on my Xperia phone and tablet I was in desperate need for more storage space.
Earlier this year I bought Toshiba MicroSD XC 64GB card for Xperia Z2 tablet with declared speed of 40MB/s. You can find a card like this one for $23.59 with free shipping on eBay. I can recommend the following seller and their super fast delivery service: Continue reading “Good 64GB MicroSD XC cards from Toshiba and SanDisk”
One of the hardest things to choose right for me was LCD screen. There are so many of them to choose from, but there is no much choice if you are looking for 4:3 format screen in a compact form.
Since most of the retro games is made for 4:3 aspect ratio this was a must, so after a long search I found Towin L8009 8 Inch TFT Color LCD monitor at eachmall.com website that fits perfectly with it’s 8” size and 800×600 resolution.
Continue reading “Ultimate iCade Raspberry Pi bartop arcade mod – Part III – LCD screen”
If you are using Putty to connect to your Linux box and have encountered issue that your ncurses apps look ugly and with garbled text like:
Continue reading “Fix broken / garbled ncurses output characters in Putty”