First, make sure you have build-essential and libxaw7-dev installed (if not a quick sudo apt-get install build-essential libxaw7-dev will fix that).

Now download the VICE source code from here. Unpack the source and fire up your favorite text editor. We have to fix something

If you try to do a ./configure and make you’ll end up with the following error:

x11video.c:268: warning: function declaration isn’t a prototype
x11video.c: In function ‘shmhandler’:
x11video.c:348: error: ‘X_ShmAttach’ undeclared (first use in this function)
x11video.c:348: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
x11video.c:348: error: for each function it appears in.)
make[7]: *** [x11video.o] Error 1
make[7]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[7]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src/arch/unix/x11/xaw'
make[6]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src/arch/unix/x11/xaw'
make[5]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src/arch/unix/x11'
make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src/arch/unix'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src/arch'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src'
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kmandla/Downloads/vice-2.2/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

We’ve to work-around this issue. First, open vice-2.2/src/arch/unix/x11/xaw/x11video.c with you favorite editor. Go to line 348 and replace “X_ShmAttach” with “1″. Save the file.

Now fire up a console and run ./configure. After a few seconds you can do a make and later a sudo make install.

Done

Before you start x64 make sure you have the C64 roms installed (get them from the Windows installation package of VICE and put them into ~/.vice)

Memories

Happy retro hacking!

Interesting, the DIMM1 for bank 1 goes into slot #19, but the blade only has sixteen memory slots (yep, it’s a wrap-over issue, funny anyway)

1) Get the torrent file from the ReBirth Museum (registration required) and download the ISO image (you’ll need a torrent client, get utorrent from here)

2) Burn it onto a disk or mount the ISO with a virtual cdrom software (Daemontools for example)

3) Install the software

4) Download the Windows Help Program (WinHlp32.exe) for Windows 7 from here, unzip them into a folder and run the install.cmd file (make sure you run it as an Administrator – in Windows 7 – right-mouse click – Run as Administrator)

5) Done!

Yes daddy, I can open a cardboard box (he is five).

Our flemish giants – giants …. sound quite funny – they are so small right now but this will change quickly.

Let’s have a wheelbarrow race!

Our new sandpit – or better said Davids new construction area.

Science vs. Religion

Although without science they’d have a hard time flying into buildings

A bag with straw, a manual, plastic wrapping – and a freepost envelope to order the “seeds”. Hey, stop. Mushrooms don’t have seeds. They use a starter-kit (called seeds – wheat with mushroom spores) to get everything going.

It’s quite easy to use. Fill the bag with water and let it soak over-night.

On the next day drain the water.

Add the “seeds” – looks like wheat containing mushroom spores.

Ready to go – cover it and put it into a dark spot in the house (not complete dark, just out of the light).

After about two weeks they start to “grow”.

Huurrray! Mushrooms – ready to eat.

My litte quality control inspector

Yummy breakfast!

So, you might now say – hey, that’s a few hands of mushrooms for $40 – yep right, the kit itself would be quite expensive but my plan was to use it as a starter kit for bigger bags. I’ll add some pics tomorrow – more, no HEAPS, of mushrooms

Windows Vista on ia64? And even with SP2! Not according to here. But I have sent a mail to Microsoft to see what happened to the hotfix.