Morten's Blog

Great tune by Frightened Rabbit from Scotland. You can find more from them on Spotify.

Another excellent tune from The Tragically Hip. This one starring the golden trio from The Trailer Park Boys. These guys almost makes one proud of only living 3.600 kilometers from the border of Canada.

I first heard The Tragically Hip in The Trailer Park Boys series. I hope they get (more) on Spotify soon, one song is just not enough! But releasing more on youtube is a start though.

Thanks to IgniterMedia for this great compilation. See here for a text version.

Ever wanted to record your Super Mario skills on the Super Nintendo console, without the console? Don’t worry, most of todays computers are powerful enough to pretend being, or emulate, a console machine. Most likely so is your’s.  And you’re in luck, Super Nintendo is one of, if not the best, emulated console system there is. All you basically need is an emulator, the piece of software that magically turns your PC into a good ol’ console; and the ROM file of your favorite game. The game ROM’s are in most cases copyrighted, so i can’t nor won’t supply you with those. Make sure you own the game cartridge, or else you might find yourself in violation of copyright laws.

The things you will need:

• A Super Nintendo emulator for Windows called ZSnes, coded by zsKnight and _Demo_ *
  
• The ROM image from your favorite SNES game. Look around, they are not that hard to find.
• MEncoder by Gianluigi Tiesi

* At the time of writing, ZSnes has reached version 1.51

Copy your ROM image(s) to any folder. Preferably one that doesn’t require you to click trough too many folders to get to it.

Installing the software is pretty straightforward, just extract the two archives, each into their own folders. It might work having ZSnes and MEncoder in the same folder, but i haven’t tried it. Also, i think that’s a little messy. You are going to add the MEncoder location to window’s PATH environment variable instead, so remember the location where you extracted it. Follow the instructions below as the procedure differs a little depending on what version of Windows you are using.

Edit your Path environment variable

For Windows Vista you can go to the Control panel and click on the System icon, select Advanced System Settings in the left menu and then the “Environment variables” button. Then, in the list under “System Variables”, look for Path (might be lower- or uppercase). When you have found it, edit it and add the location of the folder where the MEncoder executable file is located. Remember to add the semicolon that is needed to separate the various folders listed in the Path string. Click OK, and your done.

(How to set the path in Windows 2000 / Windows XP)

When that’s all done, let’s start up ZSnes and configure it a little. The main things to check out is the Screen Resolution, Filters and Input

Choose your optimal screen preferences under “Video” in the Config menu. I have a widescreen and wanted ZSnes to fill the screen completely, so i made a custom screen setting it to 1360×768 with the DS F option (check the legend for description). Choose the Filter that you feel gives the best result. Configure your Input, and let’s load up a game already! Click GAME in the top menu, and select LOAD. Then browse to the folder where you copied or extracted the ROM file(s), select the game you want to play and click the LOAD button. If the game runs, great! if it doesn’t, seek help! (Read More..)

“The eyes of the storm” by Saviour Machine.

Same method as the previous time lapse video i made, but now you can actually see things happening.

This is a time lapse video i made using my digital videocamera and Python, taking a picture every 5th second. It is quite boring so i had to add some music, Rob Costlow’s “Not Alone”

This is the Python script i used:

from VideoCapture import Device
from time import sleep

SecondsBetweenFrames = 5
FilePrefix = "bilde_"
DirectoryToStore = "E:\\Basen\\"
Kamera = Device()
FrameNr = 0

while True:
    FrameNr = FrameNr + 1
    Kamera.saveSnapshot(DirectoryToStore + FilePrefix + str(FrameNr) + '.jpg')
    print "Lagret bilde: " + FilePrefix + str(FrameNr) + '.jpg'
    sleep(SecondsBetweenFrames)

* You’ll need the VideoCapture and PIL Python extensions

Movie by tr0d

More Saviour Machine anyone?

Even more Saviour Machine.

Even more Saviour Machine!

More Saviour Machine! :)