I'm drinking a cool beer while listening to some music I just downloaded..
It's party time, SwarmTv is officially alpha software..

All the Slackware users beware..
I made some Slackpacks for you to download, all the dependencies of SwarmTv that are not in official Slackware distribution.

So what does it do ??

SwarmTv can download torrents from an rss feed..

You allways get the latest files from your favorite provider..

The next step in development will be making it a lib to serve a graphical frontend, or some command line tool.
You could intergrate it in a game to allways have all players get the latest maps and textures..

I'd bett you can think up some more uses for this baby !

So I got that new MMC64 thingy..

I came across a less then spectacular demo with rocking music..
Mailed the composer Sascha Zeidler ( Linux/Triad/ViruZ ) and got the SID.

I hooked up the LINE-OUT of the C64C to the LINE-IN of my laptop.
I recorded it with Audacity.

Copied the slow part 3 times for the fade-out.

For your listening pleasure.
Sascha Zeidler (Linus) - Still Big Boss (Bruce Lee Rmx) 8580
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So the new SwarmTv has reached revision 75.
And we are at number 12 of 21 23 on our Roadmap to Alpha..

That means, it downloads RSS files and adds them to it's internal XML database.
You can list and search that database.

Ranzbak has put a lot of effort in the internal design, so now we can code quite fast and efficient.

USAGE  : ./SwarmTv [-a url] [-l] [-L] [-c url] [-[i][sS] query]
 -a: add rss (requires url)
 -l: list
 -L: list all
 -c: show content of channel (requires url)
 -i: make search case insensitive (use before -s or -S)
 -s: search channels and descriptions (requires a query)
 -S: search channels and content with descriptions (requires a query)
 -h: display this help messege.

EXAMPLE: ./SwarmTv -a http://www.legaltorrents.com/rss.xml -l
EXAMPLE: ./SwarmTv -iS title

Remember this is pre alpha software, so it will proppably not be usefull..
But you can download it in bzip2, gzip and zip format.
Or use subversion:
svn co http://svn.etv.cx/svn/SwarmTv/trunk SwarmTv [Read More!]

This summer, ranzbak and I want to do a C64 Demo..

It won't be anything fancy (I think)..

So here is where I do a linkdump for stuff I need to read up on..

The equipment we'll use will be atleast a C64B, a C64C both with MMC64, KCS PowerCartridge and/or Final Cartridge III.

And Linux laptops with VICE and CC65 and DreamAss and proppably some more tools to be added later (check the comments).. [Read More!]