Shahzad Sahaib's Articles

UFO: Alien Invasion is a squad-based tactical strategy games in the spirit of the X-Com. It is built on top of a heavily modified iD Tech 2 engine. This game is slow as it has to use swap files!

Developer orlanrod currently works on his game Cosmic PI. It's a two player action-adventure game, with a comical tone. A galactic organization called the Lawful Eyes are investigating a major case in the metropolis of Redium, that is under chaos from creatures calling themselves the Slush. They are tasked in uncovering information that might lead to the source of their origins.

DeaDBeeF by Alexey Yakovenko and contributors is an open source music player supporting dozens of formats and is available for plenty of systems.

A somewhat crazy but interesting project is the aim to recreate Mega Man 2 for the Sega Master System. Brazil developer gvx32 has put a lot of efforts into this already. All eight levels can be displayed and music is playing. Currently gvx32 works on a meta sprites to sprites function. Adjusting more music to FM. Another update might take a while.

Palettician by RG59 is an app that you can run on emulators and real hardware. You can configure all 25 colors while displaying them in real time. This will be useful for artists and designers.

KrzysioPlayer is a hardware NSF player based on real 6502 from Famiclone (UA6527P). The use case is simple: record your favourite NSF files onto SD/MMC cart, insert it into device's slot, choose the one you want to play with user-friendly interface (buttons & LCD) and listen to the REAL HARDWARE nsf music. The device is capable of playing up to 128 kB NSF Files.

Gekioko PunPun Maru is a homebrew game by MtChocolate, which also has the source code public. The game feels a bit like Mario Bros. but seems to be a bit more difficult.

Otter Browser aims to recreate the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5. At then end you have a web browser controlled by the user and not vice-versa.

Gameblabla's Oswan by gameblabla is a Wonderswan/Wonderswan color, based on OswanJ by bird_may_nike and Oswan by Alekmaul. It can play most, if not all Wonderswan games properly.

DeaDBeeF by Alexey Yakovenko and contributors is an open source music player supporting dozens of formats and is available for plenty of systems.