Mr. Pig’s House of Bacon

NEW VERSION FOUND – HERE

Small update to my “driver” for the MERC Zboard on Linux.

READ THE README – and anything the shell scripts say.

Changelog:

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Zboard Config Changelog
Copyright (C) 2007 Matt Razza
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Version 0.1.0 – Version 0.1.1

Added:
-”status” command
-”checkZboard” command
-Added ability to remove existing maps to keys
-Added Zboard Compatibility tester

Changed:

Fixed:
-Changed all references of “Zboard config” to “Zboard Config”

Removed:

Download Source (tar.bz2) MD5: 557bb8594795f70cd0210a21ac8e0edc

Gentoo ebuild (provided by Ken).

License

This version is now deprecated; please visit this post.
Well, I finished my hacked together linux version of the zEngine. It’s command line only and should be pretty easy to use. I haven’t been able to test it too much, but it should work. I decided there was no point to an eBuild or Makefile so I included two small shell scripts you can run. READ THE README – and anything the shell scripts say.

Download Source (tar.bz2) MD5: 115b0a3e150d048b43bcfbfaa0276f05

License

In order to get the MERC zBoard to detect running games and other applications (non-default) you are going to need to load a “custom” config file. The file structure is simple, it’s just “appName=settingsFile”. The settings file will be a xModMap readable file that my program will load when it detects the app running.

There is a possibility that you could crash the “driver” if you were to run two applications it can detect at once. In order to get around this problem I think I am going to have it only apply the settings for the first one executed (the one with the smaller PID).