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ScummVW

Speaking of good clean family entertainment you can trust!

Need I say more?

Well ok DOTT and of course the world known game comic Day After the Day of the Tentacle. Most of the world famous Lucas Art Games are now known as Abandonware. This means that you can get them for free.

I downloaded a couple of Monkey Island from this place www.downloadcentral.dk. They have most of the famous ones. Problem is though they are all packed in the ACE format.

Luckily this is ported with darwinports, so sudo install grace will dump the much appreciated unpacker on your box.

When it's done you should be able to unpack you ownloaded game by:
unace e monkey.ace I created a directory for each game I downloaded, and extracted the game in there. Then I added the game to scumVM.

Subversion & mail man

A long forgotten tool is the command line mail, I decided to start using it again for sending attachments. As this is much neater.

Then I decided to write a block entry here but someone bet me to it: 'SHELLdorado - Sending files as mail attachments'. SHELLdorado is a great resource for shell stuff.

With nothing better to do I decided to read the latest Linux Journal, especially the Subversion article. Rumor has it that subversion will be replacing cvs.

I'm not that big a user of cvs but I decided to have a look at subversion and use for handling my general set up on both my powerbook and my office linux box.

sudo port install subversion ...... Did I mention I'm in love with Darwinports? Then simply follow the article to create repository, or just read the Subversion documentation.

The Gimp Deux

I need the gimp, luckily darwinports.org has a resent port of gimp2, and you can install it by typing:

sudo port install gimp2

Wait .......... Once the installation is done typing:

gimp

in a shell'll launch the application. Now you want to set your own splash screen. I choose mine from the GIMP 10th Anniversary Splash Contest. Just dump the splash image as

~/.gimp2.2/gimp-splash.png

There's loats more configuration for the gimp where that came from check the Gimp man page for details.

I found, however, that my XDarwin application needed a good window manager instead of 'just' using TVM, which it is born with. So, I installed Oroborus for Mac. This gives the nice transparent frames just like Tiger.... Grrrr...

All I had to do was to change to my preferred key mapping from the USA.xmodmap to DK.xmodmap. Then Orobrus was good to go. With all the work related issues ready I guess I'm ready to go else where, it's entertainment time: scumVM