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- | PIM, the Final Chapter | + | **PIM, the Final Chapter |
We left off last month with no definitive resolution to getting Google Provider, Lightning, and Thunderbird working to allow calendar access through mobile phone, tablet, or other devices. I'm still running Ubuntu 16.10 on an old laptop, and can't readily upgrade, so I can only run older versions of the PIM software. Fortunately, | We left off last month with no definitive resolution to getting Google Provider, Lightning, and Thunderbird working to allow calendar access through mobile phone, tablet, or other devices. I'm still running Ubuntu 16.10 on an old laptop, and can't readily upgrade, so I can only run older versions of the PIM software. Fortunately, | ||
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I do intend to upgrade to Ubuntu 20 soon at which point we’ll probably revisit PIM usage. This month, let’s shift gears to something fun, as we revisit console retrogaming in the context of a great console of the 90’s, the Turbografx 16. | I do intend to upgrade to Ubuntu 20 soon at which point we’ll probably revisit PIM usage. This month, let’s shift gears to something fun, as we revisit console retrogaming in the context of a great console of the 90’s, the Turbografx 16. | ||
- | As we all contend with the global pandemic of Covid-19, there are small ripples in our lives in addition to all the major ones. One of those small ripples has to do with the delayed release of the Turbografx 16 mini console. Admittedly FAR less important than the many lost lives and losses of livelihood, this has been a minor disappointment to console gaming fans. The Turbografx 16 mini was originally scheduled to ship in April, but its US release has been pushed back to at least December. But what is the Turbografx 16? Glad you asked. | + | As we all contend with the global pandemic of Covid-19, there are small ripples in our lives in addition to all the major ones. One of those small ripples has to do with the delayed release of the Turbografx 16 mini console. Admittedly FAR less important than the many lost lives and losses of livelihood, this has been a minor disappointment to console gaming fans. The Turbografx 16 mini was originally scheduled to ship in April, but its US release has been pushed back to at least December. But what is the Turbografx 16? Glad you asked.** |
- | In the mid 1980’s, the two major gaming consoles on the market were the Sega Master System and the Nintendo Entertainment System. The Nintendo, or NES, was far and away the more successful of the two (partly due to unfair trade practices that they later lost a court case over), but the Sega, or SMS, certainly had its devotees, and some really nice games. The SMS had very little by way of third party support (mostly because of the aforementioned unfair trade practices of Nintendo), but Sega was a major manufacturer of arcade titles and ported several popular arcade games to the SMS, like Space Harrier, SubRoc 3D, Outrun, and Shinobi. Nintendo, of course, had Super Mario Brothers and an enormous portfolio of both arcade titles and original creations like Legend of Zelda. | + | Le dernier chapitre sur la gestion des informations personnelles |
- | The SMS and NES had some very high quality games, but they still operated with the limitation of having 8-bit processors at their hearts. Soon, the two companies would release the Genesis and Super Nintendo, respectively, ushering in the era of 16-bit gaming consoles. Games on those two platforms would be a great deal more sophisticated than their earlier 8-bit brethren and would usher in a new era of home console gaming. You could play games at home that were the equal of many contemporary arcade games, and some that were actually better, especially when it came to more in-depth gaming genres like real time strategy or role-playing games that were not at all practical in the video arcades. | + | Nous nous sommes quittés le mois dernier sans solution définitive au problème de faire fonctionner ensemble Google Provider, Lightning et Thunderbird pour permettre l' |
- | But there was a ‘missing link’ between the SMS/NES and Genesis/ | + | J'ai quand même l' |
- | The quality of games on the TG16 was quite good, and a very noticeable step up from its 8-bit predecessors. I had one back in the day (still do, actually), and I thought it was fantastic. In addition, there was a handheld version called the TurboExpress, which I also have. In the case of Sega or Nintendo, their handheld versions used different physical cartridges. The Sega Game Gear did have an adapter add-on that could be used to play Sega Master System Games, but it did not play them out of the box. The Nintendo Game Boy didn’t even have that (in addition to the original having only a monochrome LCD screen). | + | Pendant que nous luttons tous contre la pandémie du Covid-19, outre les vagues importantes, |
- | Unlike | + | **In the mid 1980’s, the two major gaming consoles on the market were the Sega Master System and the Nintendo Entertainment System. The Nintendo, or NES, was far and away the more successful |
- | I would rate the TG16 as definitely quite competitive with the later Genesis and Super Nintendo | + | The SMS and NES had some very high quality games, but they still operated with the limitation of having 8-bit processors at their hearts. Soon, the two companies |
- | Mednafen | + | Au milieu des années 1980, les deux consoles de jeu en vente les plus importantes étaient la Sega Master System et la Nintendo Entertainment System. La Nintendo, ou NES, avait plus de succès - et de loin - que la Sega Master System (en partie à cause de pratiques commerciales déloyales qui leur ont fait perdre une affaire judiciaire plus tard), mais la Sega, ou SMS, avait pas mal de fans et quelques jeux qui étaient vraiment bien. La SMS n' |
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+ | Les deux consoles avaient quelques jeux de très grande qualité, mais elles étaient limitées avec leurs processeurs 8-bit. Bientôt, les deux sociétés sortiraient, | ||
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+ | **But there was a ‘missing link’ between the SMS/NES and Genesis/ | ||
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+ | The quality of games on the TG16 was quite good, and a very noticeable step up from its 8-bit predecessors. I had one back in the day (still do, actually), and I thought it was fantastic. In addition, there was a handheld version called the TurboExpress, | ||
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+ | Toutefois, il y avait un « chaînon manquant » entre les consoles SMS/NES et Genesis/ | ||
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+ | La qualité des jeux sur la TG16 était très bien et en très nette amélioration sur les jeux de ses prédécesseurs 8-bit. J'en avais une autrefois (je l'ai encore en fait), et je la trouvais fantastique. De plus, il y avait une version portable appelée la TurboExpress, | ||
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+ | **Unlike the SMS and NES, the TG16 used a card, not a cartridge. The HuCards, as they were called, were the size of a credit card, although a bit thicker. The Turbo Express handheld used the EXACT same HuCards, which also meant that you bought any specific game only ONCE, to use on your home console and on your handheld. Pretty cool! | ||
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+ | I would rate the TG16 as definitely quite competitive with the later Genesis and Super Nintendo consoles, and its game library is really impressive when you include the Japanese releases. So, as an old-school TG16 owner, I was looking forward to probably getting the mini console, even though I have the original. My original console is, unfortunately, | ||
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+ | Contrairement aux SMS et NES, la TG16 utilisait une carte, pas une cartouche. Les HuCards, comme on les appelait, avaient la taille d'une carte de crédit, bien qu' | ||
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+ | Je dirais que la TG16 concurrençait vraiment les consoles Genesis et Super Nintendo ultérieures et sa bibliothèque de jeux est très impressionnante quand vous comptez les publications japonaises. Ainsi, comme propriétaire de la vieille école de la TG16, j' | ||
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But, never fear! Linux to the rescue yet again! There is an emulator for the TG16 on the Linux platform, called mednafen. If you hark back to the retrogaming column in Everyday Ubuntu for Full Circle issue #141 (page 35), you’ll see something similar for the Sega Genesis, an emulator called dgen. Dgen and mednafen are command-line programs, so they have no graphical interface. This is really a pretty minor issue, as command-line programs are perfectly simple to execute in Linux. | But, never fear! Linux to the rescue yet again! There is an emulator for the TG16 on the Linux platform, called mednafen. If you hark back to the retrogaming column in Everyday Ubuntu for Full Circle issue #141 (page 35), you’ll see something similar for the Sega Genesis, an emulator called dgen. Dgen and mednafen are command-line programs, so they have no graphical interface. This is really a pretty minor issue, as command-line programs are perfectly simple to execute in Linux. | ||
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First, let’s install mednafen. It’s a pretty simple install that can be done most easily and conveniently via the command-line tool: apt-get. Apt-get is the command-line tool used by Debian-based Linux distributions (of which Ubuntu is one) for the installation and updates of software packages, and of Linux itself. To get to the command-line, | First, let’s install mednafen. It’s a pretty simple install that can be done most easily and conveniently via the command-line tool: apt-get. Apt-get is the command-line tool used by Debian-based Linux distributions (of which Ubuntu is one) for the installation and updates of software packages, and of Linux itself. To get to the command-line, | ||
- | Type in ‘term’ (without the quotes), and that should be sufficient to bring up Terminal in your list of programs. Alternatively, | + | Type in ‘term’ (without the quotes), and that should be sufficient to bring up Terminal in your list of programs. Alternatively, |
- | In the terminal, type: | + | Mednafen |
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+ | Tapez « term » (sans les guillemets) et ce devrait être suffisant pour afficher Terminal dans votre liste de programmes. Autrement, le Lanceur contiendra habituellement une icône du terminal, dans ce cas, juste en dessous de l' | ||
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sudo apt-get install mednafen | sudo apt-get install mednafen | ||
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Running Mednafen from the Command-Line | Running Mednafen from the Command-Line | ||
- | Well, in order to run anything on mednafen, we’ll first need to have a ROM set. ROM sets are digitized ‘dumps’ of the contents of cartridges or CD-ROM’s. Quick side note – the TG16 was the very first home console to have a CD-ROM attachment, and there are some games for the TG16 that really make good use of that technology and the storage space it made available. I don’t even remember which TG16 HuCards I had for sure, although I know I had the pack-in of ‘Keith Courage in Alpha Zones’, along with ‘Alien Crush’, which I played an awful lot. | + | Well, in order to run anything on mednafen, we’ll first need to have a ROM set. ROM sets are digitized ‘dumps’ of the contents of cartridges or CD-ROM’s. Quick side note – the TG16 was the very first home console to have a CD-ROM attachment, and there are some games for the TG16 that really make good use of that technology and the storage space it made available. I don’t even remember which TG16 HuCards I had for sure, although I know I had the pack-in of ‘Keith Courage in Alpha Zones’, along with ‘Alien Crush’, which I played an awful lot. ** |
- | ‘Alien Crush’ was a fantastic video pinball game inspired by H. R. Giger’s designs for the ‘Alien’ movie franchise. The targets are mostly animated alien creatures that you have to hit with the ‘ball’. I’m going to go find a copy of the ROM file for that game, since I do own it and should therefore be able to legally play it in an emulator. This is, of course, only my non-law decreed opinion and should not be taken as professional legal advice. ROM’s are pretty easy to find via a Google search, so I readily found a ZIP file with the ROM dump for Alien Crush. For simplicity’s sake, I downloaded it to my local hard drive, changing the name to ‘AlienCrush.zip’ in the process. I’ve saved it to a ‘ROMs’ folder I created under the folder ‘TG16’ in my Home directory. Fortunately, | + | Dans le terminal tapez : |
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+ | sudo apt-get install mednafen | ||
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+ | puis appuyez sur < | ||
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+ | Lancer mednafen à partir de la ligne de commande | ||
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+ | **‘Alien Crush’ was a fantastic video pinball game inspired by H. R. Giger’s designs for the ‘Alien’ movie franchise. The targets are mostly animated alien creatures that you have to hit with the ‘ball’. I’m going to go find a copy of the ROM file for that game, since I do own it and should therefore be able to legally play it in an emulator. This is, of course, only my non-law decreed opinion and should not be taken as professional legal advice. ROM’s are pretty easy to find via a Google search, so I readily found a ZIP file with the ROM dump for Alien Crush. For simplicity’s sake, I downloaded it to my local hard drive, changing the name to ‘AlienCrush.zip’ in the process. I’ve saved it to a ‘ROMs’ folder I created under the folder ‘TG16’ in my Home directory. Fortunately, | ||
Now, in order to run Alien Crush, I’m going to once again launch a Terminal session. It should default to the Home directory, which you can see by the prompt displaying a ~ character before the $ prompt. ~ is Linux shorthand for Home, which can come in very handy when navigating at a command-line. Type in | Now, in order to run Alien Crush, I’m going to once again launch a Terminal session. It should default to the Home directory, which you can see by the prompt displaying a ~ character before the $ prompt. ~ is Linux shorthand for Home, which can come in very handy when navigating at a command-line. Type in | ||
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+ | « Alien Crush » était un jeu vidéo flipper fantastique, | ||
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+ | Bon, afin de pouvoir exécuter Alien Crush, je vais de nouveau lancer une session du terminal. Par défaut, elle se trouve dans le répertoire Home, ce qui est confirmé par le caractère ~ avant l' | ||
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+ | cd TG16/ROM | ||
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+ | puis appuyez sur < | ||
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+ | mednafen AlienCrush.zip | ||
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+ | et appuyez du nouveau sur < | ||
Controls and Keymapping | Controls and Keymapping | ||
Controls depend on the numeric keypad for the fire buttons (K and L), and use the A, W, S, and D keys for Left, Up, Down, and Right, respectively. Game start is < | Controls depend on the numeric keypad for the fire buttons (K and L), and use the A, W, S, and D keys for Left, Up, Down, and Right, respectively. Game start is < | ||
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+ | Contrôles et raccourcis clavier | ||
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+ | Les contrôles dépendent du pavé numérique pour les boutons tirer (K et L) et utilisez les touches Q, Z, S et D pour, respectivement Gauche, vers le Haut, vers le Bas et Droite. Pour démarrer le jeu, appuyez sur < |
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