Shawn Holwegner's Blog

lather. rinse. repeat.

I should forward this onto the true DosBox folks – being that I’m somewhat of a rogue maintainer, whom, er, they suggest Mac folks go to for help and support. I’ve never been asked, or outright offered to become a part of the team.

However, back to the task at hand. My port of DOSBox has recieve...

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Fade into stage, the light slowly ebbs forth as the music follows.

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I’m either sitting at my desk, working diligently on learning how to do something I consider neat and/or exotic – or perhaps even sitting lethargic, slightly drooling as I watch Law and Order.

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With the release of Tiger, I’m opting for a new strategy for packages, which will mean a complete overhaul of my file management system.

I will be offering Tiger packages when I upgrade to Tiger. In the interm, all packages will continue to be developed for Panther.

What I will do is offer the...

Thankfully, I’ve finally managed a few short days from work to spend with my friends, and family.

The entire story is long, and boring, so I’ll minimize the impact with bullet points: Most of these are boring factoids, rather than anything providing amusement. Sorry.

  • My flight was delayed near...

MKVToolNix 1.4.2 is available as a native MacOS X installable package. libebml, libmatroska, and several updates have been made to the core toolset.

Want more information? Check out Mosu’s official page, and the Changelog.

I apologize for the lack of updates – I’ve been busy, rather so, away from the Internet.. and haven’t had much time to work on my playtoys.

However, I’ve got a new little tool I’ve been coding. Based upon a semi-portable SQL backend (yes, my infamous shim), it will work with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or...