Author Archives: J. D. Bartlett

How to cast the ‘free’ episode of Foundation to your TV from Android in 726 easy* steps

Based on a true story… In your Android browser, head to the Foundation page on the Apple TV website. Click ‘Play Free Episode’. You will be prompted to enter your email or Apple ID. You don’t have an Apple ID. … Continue reading

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Trosnoth in 2022 (and beyond)

What’s been happening in the world of Trosnoth development? Over the past year or so there have been some major Trosnoth developments, particularly in the user interface. A huge thank-you to Phedg1 for his contributions that gave these changes momentum. … Continue reading

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Free Mercurial hosting for open source projects on GitLab fork Heptapod

The Trosnoth source code has been kept in a Mercurial repository on BitBucket since not long after we migrated from Subversion many years ago. But BitBucket no longer supports Mercurial repositories: all existing Mercurial repositories on BitBucket will be shut … Continue reading

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Fixing grub error about unsigned kernel in Ubuntu

Just a quick note in case someone else runs into the same issue as me: I have a machine running Ubuntu 18.04 (LTS), and in order to get some of the hardware working, I used ukuu to upgrade the kernel … Continue reading

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Trosnoth Development Priority: Simple Server Deployment

Earlier this year, a volunteer on Übertweak tried to use Trosnoth on camp, but couldn’t work out how to run and configure a Trosnoth server. In the current version of Trosnoth, the server is not shipped in any easy-to-use bundle; … Continue reading

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