Ren’Py visual novels on the N900

Tweet With not so strong aspect of gaming on the N900 , some gaming engines can be great, as they can provide us with tons of games to play. Well, there’s one engine ported to the N900 I’d love to tell you about: Ren’Py ! Ren’Py is a visual novel engine which allows you to create and/or play various visual novels.

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Profiling Python Code

While working on the Woodchuck support in gPodder , I decided to profile the code. Reading the Python manual , I thought it would be as easy as: import cProfile cProfile.run(‘foo()’) On both Debian and Maemo, this results in an import error: Traceback (most recent call last): File ” “, line 1, in File “/usr/lib/python2.6/cProfile.py”, line 36, in run result = prof.print_stats(sort) File “/usr/lib/python2.6/cProfile.py”, line 80, in print_stats import pstats ImportError: No module named pstats To my eyes, this looks like I need to install some package. This is indeed the case: the python-profiler package provides the pstats module.

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Enhanced BusyBox shell

/ 0 votes – 0 downloads Updated 2011-07-23 02:00 UTC – Stable Quality Free & Open Source license Tiny utilities for small and embedded systems – enhanced package BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable.

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A Great Idea(pad)

I stood there in the queue to receive my Conference Freebee Idea-pad fully expecting to be turned away. These devices were for the devs to work on, no? The Nice Man from Intel who was handing out devices held out a box and asked “Which company are you from?” “Err, I’m not a company” I stammered.

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My ARM development notes

These are my notes to get useful cross-compilation, even with autotools, and GStreamer stuff. toolchain The convention is to have ‘ arm-linux-gcc ‘ and so on, so that you can compile with ‘make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-’, the kernel and many other projects assume this is the default

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Building Virtual Worlds on the #N900

You are in a maze of twisty little packages, all alike. This is a long article about attempting to build virtual worlds on cellphones

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N900 Hack: How To Get Faster Scrolling In The Menu Post PR 1.2 Firmware

Post the PR 1.2 firmware for the Nokia N900, the kinetic scrolling inside the menu became painfully slow and coupled with the fact all apps are now displayed on one page, scrolling to the bottom has started taking multiple swipes.

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Desktop Command Execution Widget

/ 1 vote – 4 downloads Updated 2010-02-25 17:45 UTC – Stable Quality Free & Open Source license Results of custom commands in your desktop.

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Maemo Official Platform Bug Jar 2010.07

A Quick Look at Maemo Official Platform in Bugzilla 2010-02-08 through 2010-02-14 As of 2010-02-15 Maemo Official Platform contains 3038 items (+30 this week), including 669 open issues (-4 this week): 474 open bugs (-12 this week) 26 critical/blocker (-2 this week) 6 “easyfix” (no change this week) 100 “moreinfo” (-2 this week) 25 “crash” (+1 this week) 21 “patch” (no change this week) 19 reopened (+1 this week) 144 unconfirmed (-12 this week) 195 open enhancements (+8 this week) 1 “easyfix” (no change this week) 7 “moreinfo” (+1 this week) 5 “patch” (+1 this week) 8 reopened (no change this week) 32 unconfirmed (+1 this week) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (6%) 7026 Can’t get a GPS lock with several satellites at view (5%) 5982 Phone unlocked when receiving call (4%) 6685 Generic pc105 layout is not supported (3%) 5880 A2DP unstable when WiFi is on. (3%) 6766 Bluetooth Audio Very Choppy and Stuttering (3%) 5838 Certain directory entries are duplicated (listed twice / doubled) (2%) 6063 voice calls inaudible most of the time, but not through speakers or earplugs (2%) 7972 Kernel in PR1.1 build-depends on fiasco-gen which is nowhere to be found (2%) 8011 Changing volume without unlocking the phone no longer works (2%) 7633 Enable SmartReflex on N900 by default Please visit bugs.maemo.org to vote

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Maemo Official Platform Bug Jar 2010.06

A Quick Look at Maemo Official Platform in Bugzilla 2010-02-01 through 2010-02-07 As of 2010-02-08 Maemo Official Platform contains 3008 items (+48 this week), including 673 open issues (-10 this week): 486 open bugs (-15 this week) 28 critical/blocker (no change this week) 6 “easyfix” (no change this week) 102 “moreinfo” (+4 this week) 24 “crash” (+3 this week) 21 “patch” (+1 this week) 18 reopened (-1 this week) 156 unconfirmed (-14 this week) 187 open enhancements (+5 this week) 1 “easyfix” (no change this week) 6 “moreinfo” (+1 this week) 4 “patch” (no change this week) 8 reopened (-1 this week) 31 unconfirmed (+5 this week) Top Tens Ten biggest open bugs by number of votes : (5%) 7026 Can’t get a GPS lock with several satellites at view (5%) 5982 Phone unlocked when receiving call (4%) 6685 Generic pc105 layout is not supported (3%) 5880 A2DP unstable when WiFi is on. (3%) 6766 Bluetooth Audio Very Choppy and Stuttering (3%) 5838 Certain directory entries are duplicated (listed twice / doubled) (+2 this week) (2%) 6063 voice calls inaudible most of the time, but not through speakers or earplugs (new this week) (2%) 7972 Kernel in PR1.1 build-depends on fiasco-gen which is nowhere to be found (+1 this week) (2%) 8011 Changing volume without unlocking the phone no longer works (new this week) (2%) 7633 Enable SmartReflex on N900 by default Please visit bugs.maemo.org to vote. Registration is easy and free.

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