Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

PlayerPro is the only really viable solution for MOD trackers on the Macintosh. It’s a one-horse town, and that horse, despite being old and withered, is she.

A couple of years back, I bought my copy at a hefty $90, a small price to pay for the ability to work on my music, thought I. Well, Player...

Joe Zbiciak, a fellow Intellivision afficionado, converted a MIDI to AY8914, appending a fairly simple wrapper program, specifically to play this music on an Intellivision, or an Intellivision emulator.

I’ve slightly modified the audio driver code within his own Intellivision emulator, jzintv,...

Doing a search for others with the same model Ti to attempt to find if they have the odd issue of the system randomly, seemingly spotaneously, disabling the left audio channel, I came across this epic movie.

The author of this website has, or had, a Ti like mine, and also had their hinges break....

battstats is a simple little shell script wrapper for MacOS X around ioreg, a command line IOKit registry tool. What it does, is query your battery’s charge, then optionally reports this via both screen, and exit level codes. The following exercept is most likely only useful to UNIX geeks, don’t be...

It’s been a little while, so I’ve updated MAMEsnarf for use with MAME 0.71.1. All known ‘supported’ ROMs have been added to the database as of this revision.

Please see the enclosed ‘README’ file for information on generating your own list of MAME ROMs, and only use to obtain ROMs you have the r...

Bliss is an Intellivision emulator. Elder revisions of Bliss were written in pure Java, thus, they were slow, but worked on pretty much any Java-enabled platform.

I’ve finally tracked down a few of the bugs in version 1.61 which made it continuously crash under MacOS X. I’ve fixed it up, and no...