How To Play Games on Linux using DOSBox
Thu, 12/16/2010 - 10:48 — Brad RAndrew Howlett has written up his presentation from our December 2010 meeting, on how to install DOSBox and use it to play old DOS games. You can read it here.
BGLUG Meeting Tues. December 7
Mon, 12/06/2010 - 08:46 — Brad ROur December meeting is this Tuesday, 7PM at the United Way building, 380 9th Street E., in Owen Sound. Click for Google Map.
United Way is expecting a shipment of desktop PCs so we need volunteers to install Ubuntu. Everyone is invited to talk about their latest projects. Andrew will show how to use dosbox to play old games, and may also demo a linksys router running dd-wrt firmware set up to receive OpenVPN connections. Of course, there will be the usual tech talk and free software exchange.
BGLUG Meeting Tues. November 2
Sun, 10/31/2010 - 14:01 — Brad ROur November meeting is this Tuesday, 7PM at the United Way building, 380 9th Street E., in Owen Sound. Click for Google Map.
The theme for the night will be media players: mplayer, xine, vlc, etc. Also video editing, DVD creation, etc. Talk about your favourite video or multi-media project. And of course you can bring in any project, gadget or problem you've been working on.
BGLUG Meeting Tues. October 5
Sat, 10/02/2010 - 08:57 — Brad ROur October meeting is this Tuesday, 7PM at the United Way building, 380 9th Street E., in Owen Sound. Click for Google Map.
BGLUG Meeting Tues. September 7
Sun, 09/05/2010 - 08:14 — Brad ROur September meeting is this Tuesday, 7PM at the United Way building, 380 9th Street E., in Owen Sound. Click for Google Map.
BGLUG Meeting Tues. August 3
Mon, 08/02/2010 - 12:23 — Brad ROur August meeting is this Tuesday, 7PM at the United Way building, 380 9th Street E., in Owen Sound. Click for Google Map. Andrew will bring frozen pizza, you can bring your favourite snack or non-alcoholic beverage.
The United Way received an excellent donation of computers last week, so in addition to the usual tech talk and hardware gossip, we might build a couple of systems. Also, Andrew has Windows 98se working in Virtualbox in Linux and may show how to convert a hard drive to a Virtualbox virtual drive file.
BGLUG Meeting Tues. July 6
Mon, 07/05/2010 - 12:24 — Brad ROur July meeting is this tuesday, 7PM at the United Way building, 380 9th Street E., in Owen Sound. Click for Google Map. Andrew will bring frozen pizza, you can bring your favourite snack or beverage. Sorry no booze allowed.
As usual, everyone is invited to talk about their favourite product or technology. Andrew will do a short presentation about his experience so far with computer industry certifications: Apple, Microsoft, CompTIA, etc. And their will be the usual tech talk, magazine exchange, hardware and software trade, etc.
BGLUG Meeting Tues. May 4
Mon, 05/03/2010 - 08:09 — Brad ROur monthly meeting is this Tuesday, 4 May at 7 pm in the United Way building, 380 9th Street E., in Owen Sound. Click for Google Map. Bring your own snacks, Andrew will bring pizza.
Nothing special planned: just the normal tech talk, show off our latest toys, exchange hardware, and so on. Andrew will bring his Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 to test interoperability, etc.
BGLUG Meeting Tues. Apr 6
Mon, 04/05/2010 - 13:23 — Brad ROur April meeting will be Tuesday 6 April at 7 PM in the United Way building, 380 9th Street E., in Owen Sound. Click for Google Map. Bring your own snacks, Andrew will bring pizza.
Brad will be demonstrating open source electronic design automation tools. You don't want to miss this much-anticipated presentation. There may be other demos too, depending on who comes out. And of course, we have hardware, software, magazines and books to trade and give away.
BGLUG meeting Tues. Mar. 2
Tue, 03/02/2010 - 06:38 — Brad ROur March meeting will be Tuesday 2 March at 7 PM, at Joe Tomato's in Owen Sound. (Note that we are not meeting at the United Way this month.)
The presentation is To Be Announced.
