Shahzad Sahaib's Articles

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Qmmp is an audio-player, written with the help of the Qt library. The user interface is similar to winamp or xmms. Ported to Pandora by Canseco.

Eager to play Lemmings on your Nintendo 3DS? Thanks to bayleef. Lemmings 3DS is basically a clone of Lemmings for DOS. Fill the subfolders of /lemmings folder with data from DOS Lemmings (see README.txt files in these subfolders). These files are not included in the archive since they are protected by copyright law. In order to run the software, at least one subfolder must be filled. You may fill any combination of subfolders, depending on the Lemmings games you own.

Custodian is an Arcade shooter in which you have to protect energy bases from parasites that are trying to drain it dry! It will be the very first release for the Atari Jaguar by Piko Interactive. It features 4 area levels, many weapons and power ups, and awesome chiptune music!

mGBA is a Game Boy Advance emulator written in C. The project started in April 2013 with the goal of being fast enough to run on lower end hardware than other emulators support, without sacrificing accuracy or portability. Even in the initial version, games generally play without problems. It is loosely based on the previous GBA.js emulator, although very little of GBA.js can still be seen in mGBA.

mGBA is a Game Boy Advance emulator written in C. The project started in April 2013 with the goal of being fast enough to run on lower end hardware than other emulators support, without sacrificing accuracy or portability. Even in the initial version, games generally play without problems. It is loosely based on the previous GBA.js emulator, although very little of GBA.js can still be seen in mGBA.

Atari800-3DS by asie is a port of the Atari800 8-bit home computer emulator to the Nintendo 3DS. Remember that this emulator requires Atari ROMs to be present in /3ds/atari800!

FPse for Android is the fastest and most compatible PSone/Playstation 1/PSX emulator for handheld devices. FPse is able to render PSone games in high resolution by using OpenGL which gives outstanding graphics!

Tetrix (previously known as Cylinder) is an Android game by Franz Lankes. Take a very famous Russian block game and instead of lines, try to produce those lines around a cylinder. Voila!

Marat Fayzullin updated his Coleco Vision emulator ColEm for Android devices.