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UPDATE 2025/06/21 – I’ve contacted the Pi-Hole package maintainer for Alpine Linux and it has now been fixed and updated to 6.2.3! Please disregard everything else in this post Quick PSA: I’ve just noticed Pi-Hole 6.2.2 crashing every 2-3 minutes on my Alpine Linux machine and the reason is that pihole-FTL is broken. This … Read more
Remember this previous post where I lamented the sorry state of Pi-Hole and how its developers, despite providing a Docker container which uses Alpine Linux, completely disregarded the Alpine Linux users by not giving them the option to install it on bare metal? Yeah, I thought about doing it myself because all the steps necessary … Read more
Lately I’ve scratched a personal itch of mine: writing some kind of fiction or short story. I started with a fan fiction named “IVO” (which should give you quite a big hint what it’s about) which is currently stalled and then transitioned to writing short stories which, I must say, I’m enjoying much more. One … Read more
In this last brief article, I’d like to address what made me start studying Z80 assembly and take interest in how to modify the Master System BIOS. As many of you probably know, I’m the founder and maintainer of the 16-bit Audiophile Project and while we’ve always been focused on Mega Drive, our mission has … Read more
In this second part we’re going to take a more practical approach on how to make your own custom SEGA Master System BIOS. Bear in mind that the Master System BIOS can only be as big as 32KB so we’ll only be able to fit games which are 32KB in size. The tools we need … Read more
In this series you’ll learn how to make a custom SEGA Master System BIOS so that you can change the built-in game and replace it with any game or software you like! This is going to be a long post, split into two parts. The whole ordeal started because I wanted to hack a SEGA … Read more
After losing almost another entire day due to erroneous information on the interwebz, I decided to write a small guide to help you understand (and convert) this old dinosaur known as “MIDI Sample Dump”, sometimes referred as MSD or MDSD. Now, a quick crash course/refresher about Decimals, Hexadecimal and Binary formats. Decimal is the system … Read more
How do you compile static binaries on macOS? You don’t. Thanks for reading. In other news: on Linux you can easily compile static binaries because, as you might be already aware, most software on Linux is open source. That’s not the case on macOS because there are some system libraries which are, obviously, closed … Read more
Since I’ve bought my 49″ Philips ultrawide screen, I’ve been unable to play the only game that I’m aware was specifically made for a 32:9 aspect ratio: Dariusburst. Back when I was using 4 monitors (2 vertical at the sides, a big central one and another smaller one at the top center) with my Mac … Read more