Shahzad Sahaib's Articles

The 'Z-Machine' is a virtual machine designed in 1979 by Infocom for playing text adventures, and has been re-implemented on nearly every computer and PDA since then.

Application to organise a meeting and exchange documents beforehand for Android.

Simple RSS reader (Planet KDE Feeds) for Android to show and learn some of the technologies. It reads RSS items from a configurable address storing into a local database using a service. The news are then read by a normal program.

Calling all mobile developers. Interested in developing on the Android platform? Come and code with us at the Android Hack Night.

Backgammon for iPhone is native application to run on Apple iPhone and iPod Touch phones.

Yahtzee features upto eight players simultaneously with highscore saving in single player mode. It also features custom backgrounds and the option to change the various text colours to match a new background if you want to use your own.

OpenTyrian is a port of the classic DOS game Tyrian to C using SDL.

The game is a video version of the game where you fold a piece of paper in half and each person marks five tanks on each side. You then take turns marking a spot on your side, then folding the paper to see if it hit one of your opponent's tanks.

Blix2x is a remake of Nick Kouvaris' flash game Blix. The goal is to form columns of same-coloured tiles by scrolling the three rows. Each scroll costs 2 moves, and each cleared column wins you 1 move. The game ends when you run out of moves.

Squaresliding is a strategic puzzle game where you must pass over a certain number of squares on the board in order to complete a level. It also comes with an enhanced mode, where the board is peppered with all kinds of fun bonus items that will greatly affect play. It has a Top-10 hiscore table for each of the two modes. Background music by Chaozz and Tall B (freeware pack).