Shahzad Sahaib's Articles

gcx21000 released a new version of GPChess, which is a *surprise* chess game for the GP32 ;) Details and download from:http://www.gp32emu.com/

Adam Gashlin send in his NES game"Escape from Pong"to the Minigame Coding Competition 2003, where you play a Ping Pong ball trying to escape from 12 paddle- and obstacle-filled levels.http://starbase.globalpc.net/minigame/

I allready got a couple of questions, so I tried to make the rules better understandable. You can see the upgraded rules here:http://www.pdroms.de/pdrc-rules.html

Zardoz Jones is the first one to release his Megadrive/Genesis emulator to the public. By following the threat on GP32x you should come across the download file.GP32x Threat

Rockin' B released his Mine Sweeper game to the public. Still amazing to see someone is coding for the Sega Saturn!http://www.rockin-b.de/news.htm

"Retrocoders"released a musicdisk for the NES. Should work on real hardware as on emulators. Thanks to A_Lee_N for telling me the news on IRC.http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=10853

It tooked a while, but now it's finally out. Giri Giri Walker's game concept is close to Chucky Egg known from a couple of systems. Giri Giri Walker is also the first game featuring an online highsore!http://www.tailzone.com/

Finally I'm proud to tell you that the PDROMS Coding Competition will be held from today (1st September) to the end of October (31st). Accepted are games anddemos/introswhich do not exceed the size of 256kb! The total money prizes for now are 300 EUROS which might increase a bit. Details of the compo can be found athttp://www.pdroms.de/pdrc-rules.html

MrMr[iCE] released a very classic effect today. Flames is a fire effect. Of course the source is included.http://deathping.kicks-ass.org

Tony, the author for the GBA JPG Viewer, also works on a video codec to use with the GBA. There are allready 4 techdemos avaliable.The Caimans video codec brings video on your Gameboy Advance(tm) , with a new fast algorithm designed to achieve high quality at low data rates and visually optimized for GBA's lcd display. Youcan watch Caimans codec in action downloading the examples in this page. Please note that the demos povided refer to the actual beta version of the lib and use HUGE uncompressed PCM audio. Furthermore the caimans video codec is optimized for the REAL GBA display, even if you can see some noises and artifacts when playing demos with an emulator, the quality improves when using a real GBA. If you have a GBA flashcart I strongly suggest you to try a demo on the real hardware. Contact the author for further detailsThanks toLucifer Lovefor the news again!http://www.caimans.net/gbavideo/