Last Updated or created 2023-10-05
Linux OSses I currently use : Ubuntu, Centos/Rocky/Fedora, Raspbian
(and msdos lol)
Have used:
Slackware,Gentoo, Kali, ELive, Suse,Debian,Mint,Puppy,Lubuntu
Window managers I currently use
See also :
Screenshots from old desktops
I have to add some recent screenshots.
Fluxbox, Compiz, Xfwm4, Ratpoison
Last Updated or created 2023-10-05
My girlfriend sometimes asks me what country/language is that?
(When seeing written text or hearing people talk)
I’ve studied japanese a long time ago, and I still can read some characters. Sometimes the western words are translated using katakana.
Those are easier. ( For years i had a little card in my wallet with katakana, written a large japanese scroll on ricepaper, a computer demo and terminal tools)
Modern Japanese is written in a mixture of three basic scripts: Kanji — which are Chinese ideographic symbols — as well as Hiragana and Katakana — two phonetic alphabets (syllables). There are a few thousand Kanji characters, while Hiragana and Katakana have 46 each
Katakana chart
ア a イ i ウ u エ e オ o
カ ka キ ki ク ku ケ ke コ ko
サ sa シ shi ス su セ se ソ so
タ ta チ chi ツ tsu テ te ト to
ナ na ニ ni ヌ nu ネ ne ノ no
ハ ha ヒ hi フ fu ヘ he ホ ho
マ ma ミ mi ム mu メ me モ mo
ヤ ya ユ yu ヨ yo
ラ ra リ ri ル ru レ re ロ ro
ワ wa
ン n
So mostly a consonant combined with a vowel.
A dash – for a dubble vowel, and a u can be silent.
My name is ヘンリ
In my mind i use below to identify languages.
Spoken language is difficult to explain, but these guys nail it.
Last Updated or created 2023-10-05
Some suggestions/answers for some friends.
Movie stabilisation from action cams:
Mostly I use kdenlive, but if you have an actioncam which also records movement (pan, tilt, zoom, and rotation) use a tool like Gyroflow!
This will use the motion data to correct the movement!
https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Clip_Menu/Stabilize
I’ve tried Davinci Resolve also. But I’m not sure which i’ve used for below movies.
Using blender : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCHjdEODrpM
OR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=982RL4a899g
If you want even an easier way, upload to YT, stabilise and download you movie. 🙂
Something else, what music to listen to? Any suggestions?
I had to name some (most by heart), I will edit/alter this list.
The folk/pipes artists will be in a next post.
Heavier stuff:
The prodigy, nightwish, in extremo, tanzwut, after forever, faun, gathering, therion, withintemptation
Folky
Trolska polska, dervish, gaelic storm, lunasa, michael mcgoldrick, peatbog faeries, beoga
Jazzy folk
Borne and mcleod, Bees Knees (Hamish moore and dick lee)
Film music
Akira, Vangelis (bladerunner), Kill Bill music (all kinds of sources)
Electro
Junky-xl, Trentemoller, Alt-j, Avcii
Classical
Einaudi, ennio morricone, Paganini,Rondò Veneziano
Easy listening
Aereda, Andreas Vollenweider,Anuna, Clannad, Dead can danve, enya, Era, Lais, kitaro, Moya Brennan,omnia
Blues
BB King
Divers
Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto, Buddha bar, Buena Vista Social Club, Cafe del mar, Mark Knopfler, Easy Alohas
Indie
Kensington, Imagine Dragons, 77 bombay street, Mumford and Sons, Lumineers, Of monsters and men,
Scottish Rock
Runrig
Find other music/genre’s
Last Updated or created 2023-10-05
Created this for usage with Kodi, for our own personal movies, which can’t be scraped by movie scrapers obviously.
(dvd-rip,digital video, mobile movies, OBS, Vuze and Nikon movies for example)
UPDATE V2 added functions
This is a followup on:
Works on Windows also!
Needed libraries: (install with pip)
pathlib, Pillow, pymediainfo,PySimpleGUI,python-vlc
NFO created
Title – editable (generated from filename)
Duration – mediainfo data in seconds
Plot – Single line type it yourself
Actors – Predefined
Tags – Predefined checkboxes
Country – Pulldown ( I use this as location, Scotland, Asia, Garden)
Year – default 2023, copy button from mobile phone metadata year
Genre – Pulldown
Works
Needs work
Wish list
The GUI in action (V1)
Kodi example
CODE ( WIP ) V2
I place this python script in every library directory. So i can change the checkboxes and the NFO being generated.
I fill the directory with symlinks for every movie I want to have included in this directory, but this is not needed. (thats the way I like to do things)
(This is the directory I scrape into Kodi)
from pathlib import Path
from sys import platform as PLATFORM
import os
import re
import PySimpleGUI as sg
import vlc
from pymediainfo import MediaInfo
from PIL import Image, ImageEnhance, ImageTk, ImageOps, ImageFilter
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
'''
WARNING, NFO overwrites previous!!
'''
alltags = ["music", "pipes", "computer","bbq","fun","art","travel","hobby","family","retro","compilation","retro","vuze"]
#------- WINDOWS FIX --------#
if PLATFORM.startswith('linux'):
print("yeah linux baby!")
else:
os.add_dll_directory(r'E:\VLC')
duration=0
tmptag=""
def nextFile(currentfile,dir):
newfile=""
dirpath = os.path.dirname(dir)
fileList = []
for f in os.listdir(dirpath):
#fpath = os.path.join(dirpath, f)
fpath = f
if os.path.isfile(fpath) and f.endswith(('.mp4', '.mov', '.mpg','.avi','.mkv','.3gp')):
fileList.append(fpath)
fileList.sort()
for i in range(len(fileList)):
# print("fileList[i] " + fileList[i])
try:
if (fileList[i]) == currentfile:
newfile=fileList[i+1]
break
except:
newfile=fileList
return newfile
def loadthumb(thumbfile):
# IF exists
path_to_file = thumbfile
path = Path(path_to_file)
if path.is_file():
im = Image.open(thumbfile)
im=ImageOps.contain(im, (640,640))
thumbimage = ImageTk.PhotoImage(image=im)
window['thumb'].update(data=thumbimage)
else:
window['thumb'].update("")
def loadnfo(file):
#LOAD NFO
nfo=file + ".nfo"
path = Path(nfo)
if path.is_file():
f = open(nfo, "r")
innfo=f.read()
f.close()
# print ("file : " + nfo)
innfo="".join([s for s in innfo.strip().splitlines(True) if s.strip()])
# Clear some fields
window['year'].update("")
window['plot'].update("")
# Update fields test
if ET.fromstring(innfo).find('country') is not None:
nfolocation = ET.fromstring(innfo).find('country')
window['location'].update(value=nfolocation.text)
if ET.fromstring(innfo).find('year') is not None:
nfoyear = ET.fromstring(innfo).find('year')
window['year'].update(nfoyear.text)
if ET.fromstring(innfo).find('plot') is not None:
nfoplot = ET.fromstring(innfo).find('plot')
window['plot'].update(nfoplot.text)
if ET.fromstring(innfo).find('title') is not None:
nfotitle = ET.fromstring(innfo).find('title')
window['-NM-'].update(nfotitle.text)
if ET.fromstring(innfo).find('genre') is not None:
nfogenre = ET.fromstring(innfo).find('genre')
window['genre'].update(value=nfogenre.text)
window['coline'].update(False)
window['henri'].update(False)
window['monique'].update(False)
for actor in ET.fromstring(innfo).findall('actor'):
name = actor.find('role').text
if name == "Coline":
window['coline'].update(True)
if name == "Henri":
window['henri'].update(True)
if name == "Monique":
window['monique'].update(True)
for alltag in alltags:
window[alltag].update(False)
if ET.fromstring(innfo).find('tag') is not None:
for tag in ET.fromstring(innfo).findall('tag'):
if tag.text in window.AllKeysDict:
window[tag.text].update(True)
window['coline'].update(False)
window['henri'].update(False)
window['monique'].update(False)
for actor in ET.fromstring(innfo).findall('actor'):
name = actor.find('role').text
if name == "Coline":
window['coline'].update(True)
if name == "Henri":
window['henri'].update(True)
if name == "Monique":
window['monique'].update(True)
for alltag in alltags:
window[alltag].update(False)
if ET.fromstring(innfo).find('tag') is not None:
for tag in ET.fromstring(innfo).find('tag'):
window[tag.text].update(True)
else:
innfo=""
window['LOADNFO'].update(innfo)
#------- Button definition --------#
def btn(name):
return sg.Button(name, size=(6, 2), pad=(1, 1))
#def tag(name):
# return sg.Checkbox(name, enable_events=True)
#------- GUI definition & setup --------#
sg.theme('SystemDefaultForReal')
l1=sg.Text("New title")
l2=sg.Multiline(" ", expand_x=True, key='-OUT-', expand_y=True,justification='left', size=(20,15))
l3=sg.Multiline(" ", expand_x=True, key='LOADNFO', expand_y=True,justification='left', size=(20,15))
l4=sg.Text("Plot")
t1=sg.Input("", key='-NM-')
t2=sg.Input("", key='plot',enable_events=True)
cb=[]
for alltag in alltags:
cb.append(sg.Checkbox(alltag, key=alltag, enable_events=True))
cb.append(sg.Input("", key='addtag',size=(5, 1), enable_events=True))
cb.append(sg.Combo(["Lab","Datacenter","home","Outside","Outside","Lloydwebber","Steenweg","Enschede","Netherlands","Germany","Italy","Scotland","Canada","Egypt","Belgium","Sweden","Ireland","Asia","NewZealand","Hilversum"],default_value='Lab',key='location'))
cb.append(sg.Combo(["Storage","Funny","Vacation","Music","Relation"],default_value='Storage',key='genre'))
nameyear=[]
nameyear.append(sg.Checkbox("Coline", key='coline', enable_events=True,default=True))
nameyear.append(sg.Checkbox("Henri", key='henri', enable_events=True,default=True))
nameyear.append(sg.Checkbox("Monique", key='monique', enable_events=True,default=False))
nameyear.append(sg.Input("2023",key='year',size=(5, 1), enable_events=True))
nameyear.append(sg.Button("copyyear\nmetadata", key='copymeta', size=(20, 1), pad=(1, 1), enable_events=True))
nameyear.append(sg.Input("",key='metayear',size=(5, 1), enable_events=True))
nameyear.append(sg.Button("copyyear\nfilename", key='copyname', size=(20, 1), pad=(1, 1), enable_events=True))
nameyear.append(sg.Input("",key='fileyear',size=(5, 1), enable_events=True))
b1=sg.Button("WRITE NFO", key='write', enable_events=True)
b2=sg.Button("Exit", key='exit', enable_events=True)
#------- Layout total --------#
layout = [[sg.Input(key='-VIDEO_LOCATION-', visible=False, enable_events=True),
sg.FileBrowse(file_types=(("Video files", "*.mkv *.mov *.mp4 *3gp *avi *mpg"),)),btn('next')],
[sg.Text('Load media to start', key='-MESSAGE_AREA-')],
[sg.Image('', size=(600, 480), key='-VID_OUT-', pad=(1, 1)),sg.Image('', size=(600, 480), key='thumb', pad=(1, 1))],
[btn('mute'), btn('play'), btn('pause'), btn('stop'), btn('snap'), btn('snaprot'), btn('lighten'), btn('darken'), sg.Combo(["4:3","16:9","9:16"],key='aspect',enable_events=True)],
[sg.Slider(range=(0, 1000), default_value=1, expand_x=True, enable_events=True, orientation='horizontal', key='-SL-')],
[sg.Text('org title', key='orgtitle')],
[l1, t1, l4, t2],[cb],[nameyear],[b1, l2, l3, b2],
[sg.Text('GENERATED -= mini nfo writer =- PREVIOUS', key='footer')]
]
#------- Set window --------#
window = sg.Window('Mini NFO generator', layout, element_justification='center', finalize=True, resizable=True)
#------- VID out window --------#
window['-VID_OUT-'].expand(True, True)
#------------ Media Player Setup ---------#
inst = vlc.Instance()
list_player = inst.media_list_player_new()
media_list = inst.media_list_new([])
list_player.set_media_list(media_list)
player = list_player.get_media_player()
if PLATFORM.startswith('linux'):
player.set_xwindow(window['-VID_OUT-'].Widget.winfo_id())
else:
player.set_hwnd(window['-VID_OUT-'].Widget.winfo_id())
#------------ I Want default mute ---------#
player.audio_set_mute(True)
#------------ The Event Loop ------------#
while True:
event, values = window.read(timeout=1000) # run with a timeout so that current location can be updated
if event == sg.WIN_CLOSED:
break
if event == 'mute':
mutevalue = player.audio_get_mute()
if mutevalue==0:
player.audio_set_mute(True)
if mutevalue==1:
player.audio_set_mute(False)
if event == 'play':
list_player.play()
if event == 'pause':
list_player.pause()
if event == 'stop':
list_player.stop()
if event == 'snap':
list_player.pause()
filename = values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']
shortfilename = filename.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ]
newname = shortfilename + "-poster.png"
player.video_take_snapshot(0, newname, 0, 0)
loadthumb(newname)
if event == 'snaprot':
list_player.pause()
filename = values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']
shortfilename = filename.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ]
newname = shortfilename + "-poster.png"
im1 = Image.open(newname)
im1 = im1.rotate(90, Image.NEAREST, expand = 1)
im1 = im1.save(newname)
loadthumb(newname)
if event == 'lighten':
list_player.pause()
filename = values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']
shortfilename = filename.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ]
newname = shortfilename + "-poster.png"
im1 = Image.open(newname)
im1 = ImageEnhance.Brightness(im1)
im1 = im1.enhance(1.2)
im1 = im1.save(newname)
loadthumb(newname)
if event == 'darken':
list_player.pause()
filename = values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']
shortfilename = filename.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ]
newname = shortfilename + "-poster.png"
im1 = Image.open(newname)
im1 = ImageEnhance.Brightness(im1)
im1 = im1.enhance(0.8)
im1 = im1.save(newname)
loadthumb(newname)
if event == 'aspect':
filename = values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']
shortfilename = filename.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ]
newname = shortfilename + "-poster.png"
if values['aspect'] == "4:3":
im1 = Image.open(newname)
im1 = im1.resize((1920 ,int(1920/4*3)), Image.ANTIALIAS)
im1 = im1.save(newname)
loadthumb(newname)
if values['aspect'] == "16:9":
im1 = Image.open(newname)
im1 = im1.resize((1920 ,int(1920/16*9)), Image.ANTIALIAS)
im1 = im1.save(newname)
loadthumb(newname)
if values['aspect'] == "9:16":
im1 = Image.open(newname)
im1 = im1.resize((int(1920/16*9),1080), Image.ANTIALIAS)
im1 = im1.save(newname)
loadthumb(newname)
if event == 'write':
filename = values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']
shortfilename = filename.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ]
newname = shortfilename + ".nfo"
f = open(newname, "w")
f.write(out)
f.close()
loadnfo(shortfilename)
if event == 'copymeta':
if datefromfile is not None:
window['year'].update(datefromfile)
if event == 'copyname':
if fileyear is not None:
window['year'].update(fileyear)
if event == '-SL-':
pos=int(values['-SL-'])
player.set_position(pos/ 1000.0)
if values['coline'] == False:
colinetext = ""
if values['coline'] == True:
colinetext = """<actor>
<name>Coline Lastname</name>
<role>Coline</role>
</actor>"""
if values['henri'] == False:
henritext = ""
if values['henri'] == True:
henritext = """<actor>
<name>Henri Aanstoot</name>
<role>Henri</role>
</actor>"""
if values['monique'] == False:
moniquetext = ""
if values['monique'] == True:
moniquetext = """<actor>
<name>Monique Lastname</name>
<role>Monique</role>
</actor>"""
if event == '-VIDEO_LOCATION-':
if values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'] and not 'Video URL' in values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']:
media_list.remove_index(0)
media_list.add_media(values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'])
list_player.set_media_list(media_list)
shortname = values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']
shortname = shortname.rsplit( "/", 1 )[ 1 ]
nextfile=nextFile(shortname,"./")
shortname = shortname.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ]
window['-NM-'].update(shortname) # only add a legit submit
list_player.stop()
list_player.next()
thumbname=shortname + "-poster.png"
loadthumb(thumbname)
#Print org title
window['orgtitle'].update(values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'])
loadnfo(shortname)
#DURATION
mi = MediaInfo.parse(values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'])
duration=int(mi.tracks[0].duration/1000)
#DATE FROM media
metadate=mi.tracks[0].encoded_date
if metadate is not None:
datefromfile=next(iter(re.findall(r"[1][9][8-9][0-9]|[2][0][0-9]{2}", metadate)), None)
window['metayear'].update(datefromfile)
# YEAR FROM FILENAME
fileyear=next(iter(re.findall(r"[1][9][8-9][0-9]|[2][0][0-9]{2}", shortname)), None)
# year from filename
if fileyear is not None:
window['fileyear'].update(fileyear)
if event == 'next':
values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'] = nextfile
window['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'].update(nextfile)
if values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'] and not 'Video URL' in values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']:
media_list.remove_index(0)
media_list.add_media(values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'])
list_player.set_media_list(media_list)
shortname = values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']
# shortname = shortname.rsplit( "/", 1 )[ 1 ]
nextfile=nextFile(shortname,"./")
#print(nextfile)
shortname = shortname.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ]
window['-NM-'].update(shortname) # only add a legit submit
list_player.stop()
list_player.next()
thumbname=shortname + "-poster.png"
loadthumb(thumbname)
#Print org title
window['orgtitle'].update(values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'])
loadnfo(shortname)
#DURATION
mi = MediaInfo.parse(values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'])
duration=int(mi.tracks[0].duration/1000)
#DATE FROM media
metadate=mi.tracks[0].encoded_date
if metadate is not None:
datefromfile=next(iter(re.findall(r"[1][9][8-9][0-9]|[2][0][0-9]{2}", metadate)), None)
window['metayear'].update(datefromfile)
# YEAR FROM FILENAME
fileyear=next(iter(re.findall(r"[1][9][8-9][0-9]|[2][0][0-9]{2}", shortname)), None)
# year from filename
if fileyear is not None:
window['fileyear'].update(fileyear)
# media_list.add_media(nextfile)
## shortname = nextfile.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ]
## window['-NM-'].update(shortname) # only add a legit submit
# print(nextfile)
# window['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'].update(nextfile)
# list_player.next()
# hier moeten wat update dingen bij!
# Add tag
if event == 'addtag':
tmptag="<tag>" + values['addtag'] + "</tag>"
#------------ exit ---------#
if event=='exit':
exit()
#------------ TAGS ---------#
subs=[x.Text for x in cb if x.get()==True]
for idx, x in enumerate(subs):
subs[idx]="<tag>" + subs[idx] + "</tag>"
if values['year'] == False:
year=str(2023)
else:
year=values['year']
if values['location'] == False:
location="Lab"
else:
location=values['location']
if values['plot'] == False:
plot=""
else:
plot=values['plot']
if values['genre'] == False:
genre="Storage"
else:
genre=values['genre']
#------------ NFO TEXT FIELD ---------#
out="""<movie>
<title>{}</title>
<plot>{}</plot>
<genre>{}</genre>
<duration>{}</duration>
<year>{}</year>
<country>{}</country>
{}
{}
{}
{}
{}
</movie>
""".format(values['-NM-'],plot,genre,duration,year,location,colinetext,henritext,moniquetext,tmptag, "\n".join(subs))
out="".join([s for s in out.strip().splitlines(True) if s.strip()])
window['-OUT-'].update(out)
#------------ Messages and timer ---------#
# update elapsed time if there is a video loaded and the player is playing
if player.is_playing():
window['-MESSAGE_AREA-'].update("{:02d}:{:02d} / {:02d}:{:02d}".format(*divmod(player.get_time()//1000, 60),
*divmod(player.get_length()//1000, 60)))
else:
window['-MESSAGE_AREA-'].update('Load media to start' if media_list.count() == 0 else 'Ready to play media' )
window.close()
Last Updated or created 2023-08-22
I really like musescore, and mainly I use it for multistaff typesetting.
(In the past i’ve been using Cakewalk for this)
https://www.henriaanstoot.nl/2023/05/04/planxty-irwin-concertina-notation/
https://www.henriaanstoot.nl/2023/02/02/eleanor-plunkett-for-harp/
I still use ABC notation and Bagpipe Music Writer.
In abc multistaff can be done, but not perfect, the latter can’t.
So i was playing with Musescore to import BWW files and make it multistaff.
But Musescore kept messing things up, let me explain.
Part 1 – importing the bww file
Part 2 – try changing the instrument (fails)
Part 3 – creating empty sheet with two staffs and setting the instrument then copy paste the notes (fails)
I could not find anything helpful online. Maybe it can be fixed? But how?
My workaround
Example of this workaround
Last Updated or created 2023-08-24
A work in progress – see followup
pip3 install python-vlc && pip3 install PySimpleGUI
Kodi movie NFO file editor test
And a player in python
Some example code
from pathlib import Path
import PySimpleGUI as sg
import vlc
from sys import platform as PLATFORM
sg.theme('DarkBlue')
def btn(name):
return sg.Button(name, size=(6, 1), pad=(1, 1))
b1=sg.Button("WRITE NFO")
b2=sg.Button("Exit")
layout = [[sg.Input(key='-VIDEO_LOCATION-', visible=False, enable_events=True),
sg.FileBrowse(file_types=(("MP4 Files", "*.mp4"),))],
[sg.Image('', size=(600, 480), key='-VID_OUT-')],
[btn('mute'), btn('play'), btn('skip 5sec'), btn('pause'), btn('stop'), btn('snap')],
[sg.Text('Load media to start', key='-MESSAGE_AREA-')],
[sg.Slider(range=(0, 100), default_value=5, expand_x=True, enable_events=True, orientation='horizontal', key='-SL-')],
[[b1, b2]]]
window = sg.Window('Mini NFO generator', layout, element_justification='center', finalize=True, resizable=True)
window['-VID_OUT-'].expand(True, True)
inst = vlc.Instance()
list_player = inst.media_list_player_new()
media_list = inst.media_list_new([])
list_player.set_media_list(media_list)
player = list_player.get_media_player()
if PLATFORM.startswith('linux'):
player.set_xwindow(window['-VID_OUT-'].Widget.winfo_id())
else:
player.set_hwnd(window['-VID_OUT-'].Widget.winfo_id())
player.audio_set_mute(True)
while True:
event, values = window.read(timeout=1000)
if event == sg.WIN_CLOSED:
break
if event == 'play':
list_player.play()
if event == 'pause':
list_player.pause()
if event == 'stop':
list_player.stop()
if event == 'snap':
list_player.pause()
newname = values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'] + ".png"
player.video_take_snapshot(0, newname, 400, 300)
if event == 'next':
player.set_position(0.5)
list_player.play()
if event == 'mute':
player.audio_set_mute(True)
if event == '-SL-':
player.set_position(int(values['-SL-']/100))
if event == '-VIDEO_LOCATION-':
if values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'] and not 'Video URL' in values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']:
media_list.add_media(values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'])
list_player.set_media_list(media_list)
window['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'].update('Video URL or Local Path:')
list_player.next()
if player.is_playing():
window['-MESSAGE_AREA-'].update("{:02d}:{:02d} / {:02d}:{:02d}".format(*divmod(player.get_time()//1000, 60),
*divmod(player.get_length()//1000, 60)))
else:
window['-MESSAGE_AREA-'].update('Load media to start' if media_list.count() == 0 else 'Ready to play media' )
window.close()
Last Updated or created 2023-08-21
Below you can find the files in a zip for writing assemby machine code in dosbox.
I’ve got mine extracted in ~/projects/dos
To automount this i’ve edited
~/.dosbox/dosbox-*.conf ;-------- bottom part [autoexec] # Lines in this section will be run at startup. # You can put your MOUNT lines here. mount c: /home/myusername/projects/dos c:
The files
Template
; everything in 64k CS, DS, and SS are the same
.model small
; start pointer
.stack 100h
.code
start:
; set mode 13 (320x200 * 265 colors palette)
mov ah,0
mov al,13h
int 10h
; set pixel in the middle color 2 (cyan)
mov ah,0ch
mov al,2
mov cx,160
mov dx,100
int 10h
; wait key input
mov ah,0
int 16h
; set mode back to text
mov ah,0
mov al,3
int 10h
; exit to dos
mov ax,4c00h
int 21h
end start
Usage
start dosbox
a gfx (edit gfx.asm example)
esc, q, e
gfx (run program)
Last Updated or created 2023-08-30
We like to listen to movie scores. Those are underappreciated most of the times.
That’s why we go to concerts like
We also do a quizes on YT, general movie knowledge, guess the movie by the scene, and guess the movie by musical scores.
We have a spotify playlist with random movie music. Sometimes very hard.
But sometimes we know the movie by its track before we had seen the movie. (Requiem of a Dream)
A lot of the time we make mistakes with Spielberg movies, there are a lot similar sounding moviescores!
See also John Williams remark at
https://www.henriaanstoot.nl/2022/12/07/i-admire-people-who-excel-at-things-they-do/
I’ve got some 5.1 surround music from movies, very nice to hear another dimension.
Some original soundtracks I have in mp3
Ludovico Einaudi – Composer of amazing piano music
https://www.henriaanstoot.nl/2019/08/31/best-of-einaudi-lying-down/
Ennio Morricone – Composer of many Spaghetti westerns
Although not original music written for the movie, because Tarantino likes to pick out tunes to fit the scenes.
3/4 Of the music of Kill Bill is amazing!
The rest is on streaming services
By the scene example
Soundtrack guessing game
Last Updated or created 2023-08-18
I will add to this in time
Folk:
Tunes:
Balalaika
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41_d4D7T6uI&pp=ygUJQmFsYWxhaWth
Some old skool CD’s
I’ve got many, some can’t be found online in a streaming service
(Maybe i’ll add some track info)
One of the first I bought because I had some cassette tapes with the Corries. Legends in Scottish Folk
PM of the Shotts and Dykehead. I’ve met the guy on a contest on the mainland, and got to speak to him and his mate Jimmy Killpatrick.
Liked his melodies, some easy to play but always interesting.
On of the first tunes I played with a natural C was Ebb-Tide.
Great piper, one of the most brilliant technical pipers. Met the guy in Scotland 1992. Got his autograph on this CD.
Mostly of his March, Strathspey and Reel playing.
(Got his MSR book somewhere)
https://pipetunesearch.henriaanstoot.nl/?select=listbook&book=ALGI
One of the gold old oldies folk.
I fell in love with this CD (got this somewhere in ’93-94)
Amazing fusion of pipes mixed with other styles and instruments.
I still play Death of a space piper.
https://www.henriaanstoot.nl/2006/12/09/death-of-a-space-piper/
Another amazing composer
This CD made me fall in love with “Cauld wind pipes”
(Not mouth blown)
There are many kinds of pipes on this CD.
It made me want to have a set of smallpipes.
Again amazing stuff, fusion of instruments and styles.
Dick Lee plays clarinets, saxes and melodicas. But composed as a non-piper amazing tunes!
With the amazing playing of Hamish Moore, a joy for your ears!
https://pipetunesearch.henriaanstoot.nl/?select=listbook&book=DICKLEE
He died far to young, this amazing musical wonder.
Hard to explain his style. From Classical piping to electronical music.