Python adventure Part 2: Parsing binary files (Atari 2600 project)

If you want to start at the beginning, please see part one about this project. To see a list of the posts about this so far, see the posts under the category for the project. I created a GitHub project, if you would like to see the current version of the Python script. Note: I … Continue reading Python adventure Part 2: Parsing binary files (Atari 2600 project) →

Python adventure Part 1: Fun 32 bytes at a time (Atari 2600 project)

I formed an idea recently that lead down a path. Then that lead down another path followed by another path. And...well lets just say that was several paths ago and metaphor is running thin. I'll try to summarize: as part of another project, I want to be able to plug an Atari 2600 cartridge into … Continue reading Python adventure Part 1: Fun 32 bytes at a time (Atari 2600 project) →

Giving the Proxmox server a UPS, part 1: installation (June 2023)

All the R520 server posts can be viewed via the R520 tag. After setting this R520 server up with Proxmox in July 2021 or so, I left this server largely powered off. This is because though the server takes surprisingly little power from what I would expect (about 150 watts at idle), leaving it on … Continue reading Giving the Proxmox server a UPS, part 1: installation (June 2023) →

Dell R520: Lets try Proxmox (July 2021)

I started writing this in July but am publishing it in September. I realize not all of below seems accurate but I was just learning about Proxmox. After a mostly unsuccessful attempt at using my Dell R520 with Hyper-V Server 2019 as a hypervisor, I've officially run out of patients with both the OS and … Continue reading Dell R520: Lets try Proxmox (July 2021) →

Hyper-V 2019: Installing a second server, drivers included (throwback)

July 2021: Below is a blog post I wrote and re-wrote several times over the past 18 months at least. I have since decided to go in a different direction with hypervisors and the purpose of the this spare/old core i7. I've decided to publish this anyway as-is for reference in the future. And a … Continue reading Hyper-V 2019: Installing a second server, drivers included (throwback) →

The Arcade Cab Project Part 2: Parts and components

This is a continuation the prior post about about the - as of now - hypothetical arcade cab project. I thought I should start listing some details of the "Mark I" as listed in part I. This project was largely inspired by a few posts on the /r/cade subreddit. It looked relatively easy and I … Continue reading The Arcade Cab Project Part 2: Parts and components →

Extracting drivers from Windows

Since about 2014 (as I write this late-2019) I started buying these incredibly low-end and low-priced Intel Atom-based devices. There was something about a device running windows and coming in under $100 that never failed to fascinate me (actually I got a non-windows Atom device for around $45, as a novelty). Let me stop here … Continue reading Extracting drivers from Windows →

The Arcade Cab Project (part 1)

I came up in the idea in 2014. And it's 2020. I'm still sort of working on it. Or thinking about working on it. That's the same, right? The form this cab would take and the plans around it have shifted and adapted over the past years. I assumed it would be much simpler than … Continue reading The Arcade Cab Project (part 1) →

R520 Hyper-V 2019: News and updates (Late Nov 2019)

I mentioned in my prior post (updates to that post below) I had to re-install the Hyper-V server OS. This did indeed go smoothly and has worked since then. The main problem I have with the OS this time is very intermittent errors with connecting to it with Hyper-V manager. Server Manager works, WAC works … Continue reading R520 Hyper-V 2019: News and updates (Late Nov 2019) →

R520 Hyper-V 2019: Lets try this again

After being very frustrated with the performance of the combination of virtual machines and my drive pool, I decided to re-install Hyper-V server 2019. Before doing so however I decided it would be a good idea to go through and record some settings in case I needed to go back to a prior configuration. It … Continue reading R520 Hyper-V 2019: Lets try this again →