Trinkets

Games, code, music, graphics

Running Windows Media Player in Wine

Posted on 5 August, 2023

Windows Media Player has actually always been my preferred choice for managing my music library. It’s simple, it has a decent amount of functionality, it can handle most formats that I use regularly, and it looks pretty nice. I’d like to be able to use it on my modern Kubuntu... [Read More]
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- windows
- media
Windows 9x VM

Posted on 11 June, 2023

This is adapted from an old page I found where I was attempting to write a driver for Windows 9x. I thought that the notes on the 86Box setup might be useful to refer to in future. Original Page I’m going to set up a Windows 95/98 VM using 86Box,... [Read More]
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Creating Billboard Sprites In Unity

Posted on 29 November, 2020

Unity’s support for billboarded items is poor. I wanted to investigate some different ways of creating billboarded sprites. [Read More]
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Getting a Feel for Audio in Ableton Live

A brief foray into understanding some basic characteristics of sound waves

Posted on 17 June, 2020

At around 11 or 12 years old, I recognised that I had a choice to make about whether to go down the respective rabbit holes of computing or of music. I chose the former, which has worked out well for my career prospects, but it’s been at the expense of... [Read More]
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- audio
- music
- ableton live
Compiling Programs for Pocket PC in 2020

Investigations I did at the beginning of the pandemic lockdown

Posted on 29 May, 2020

During the 2020 coronavirus lockdown, I bought some old Pocket PC-based mobile devices off eBay for a bit of fun, and wanted to see whether I could get them to run my own programs. This page details my explorations into this. [Read More]
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- development
- pocket pc

Running Windows Media Player in Wine

Windows 9x VM

Creating Billboard Sprites In Unity

Getting a Feel for Audio in Ableton Live

A brief foray into understanding some basic characteristics of sound waves

Compiling Programs for Pocket PC in 2020

Investigations I did at the beginning of the pandemic lockdown