Video Poker – Game play begins by placing a bet of one or more credits, by inserting money into the machine, and then pressing a “Deal” button to draw cards. The player is then given an opportunity to keep or discard one or more of the cards in exchange for a new card drawn from the same virtual deck. After the draw, the machine evaluates the hand and offers a payout if the hand matches one of the winning hands in the posted pay schedule.

http://appshopper.com/games/vip-video-poker

SNES4iPhone is a fully featured Super Nintendo (SNES) emulator for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch! SNES4iPhone is based off Notaz’s excellent DrPocketSNES emulator.

Changes:

Hi everyone!

Lots of ZodTTD activity behind the scenes as of late. The first to be reported on is snes4iphone. It received two major updates since I last reported on it.

As you may already know, snes4iphone is my port of the Super Nintendo emulator named PocketSNES to the iPhone and iPod Touch series of devices. I had recently updated it to v4.0.0. It was a nice update but I couldn’t stop there. I was able to save and restore the R9 register properly within the assembly emulation “cores” used in PocketSNES (with credit due to Notaz for his great work writing the assembly CPU core).

So what does this all mean? It means I release v5.0.0 of snes4iphone which gives massive performance increases. The hand written assembly code produced very noticeable performance gains.

Even better, previous save states are compatible, SRAM saves now work, and the user interface has been made to match the gpSPhone updates. This means 1000’s of ROMs can be loaded, and tons of other fixes. You also now have the option to smooth scale (hardware scaling filter) the screen. It does lower performance a bit though.

Any downsides? Well yes. Super Mario RPG is no longer compatible. I will look into this.

Note that enabling transparencies in the settings menu may be needed to overcome graphical glitches in games. It’s disabled by default for performance reasons.

Hope you enjoy!
ZodTTD

Thanks to http://www.dcemu.co.uk/snes4iphone-updated-240102.html for the news!

http://zodttd.com/blog.php?b=37

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

Some of the adventures ScummVM supports include Adventure Soft’s Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2; Revolution’s Beneath A Steel Sky, Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2; Flight of the Amazon Queen; Wyrmkeep’s Inherit the Earth; Coktel Vision’s Gobliiins; Westwood Studios’ The Legend of Kyrandia and games based on LucasArts’ SCUMM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system such as Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max and more. You can find a thorough list with details on which games are supported and how well on the compatibility page. ScummVM is continually improving, so check back often.

As this is a test release, here is a link you might need: http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Release_Testing/1.0.0

The list of changes which are prepared for you in this release is quite long. The most outstanding ones are:

Added support for Discworld
Added support for Discworld 2 – Missing Presumed …!?
Added support for Return to Zork
Added support for Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2
Added support for The Manhole
Added support for Rodney’s Funscreen
Added support for Cruise for a Corpse
Improved GUI vastly: added quick search, introduced per-game options, improved mass-add dialog
Broken Sword 1 & 2 now run with original cutscenes
Increased The 7th Guest microscope puzzle difficulty to match original
Major improvements to PSP, PS2 and WinCE ports
New port for GP2X Wiz handheld game console.

http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/

“iNotify Tube” is a simple and no-fuss application to keep you informed of London Underground’s Tube status.

Features:

* Built-in notification functionality via Apple’s Push Notification;
* Ability to push out updates at a user-specified timing;
* Choose multiple tube stations to include in the notification alert;
* Notification occurs in the background (no need to have the application running or active);
* FREE!

http://appshopper.com/travel/inotify-tube

Geek Hero Comic is a famous web comic strip by Salvatore Iovene. Now, you can carry his master pieces in your pocket!

Quote:

-Monopoly
-Clever Workaround
-Social Skills
-A Catastrophe
-Military Strategy
-HTTP what?
-Browser For The Better
-Productivity Today
-Life Under A Rock
-Team Building
-Technobabble Contest
-Competence
-Call For Responsibility
-Resource Optimization
-The Fourteenth Floor
-Boot Sequence Complete
-Seamless Mode
-Not The Future My Mother Warned Me About
-The HTTP Specification Is Dangerous
-Busylooping To Hypothermia
-Start Your Engines
-Dig That Security
-The Blue Screen Of Literalness
-Completely Unfair Scheduler
-Common Pitfalls: Initialize Your Variables
-Two Questions
-Points Of View

http://appshopper.com/books/vol-07-geek-hero-comic

Geek Hero Comic is a famous web comic strip by Salvatore Iovene. Now, you can carry his master pieces in your pocket!

Quote:

– More Than Just A Warning
– Hacker’s Funeral
– Vladimir
– The Coffee Mug
– Project Managers Sugarcoat
– Pride Will Be Pride
– PM Caught Cheating
– The Truth About The Financial Crisis
– Old School Business And The GPL
– Working Together
– Ali Zee
– Open Source, On Paper
– Writing Secure Software
– The Reason Behind Most Of YOUR Bugs
– Email Client For Project Managers
– The Shortest Way To A Coder’s Heart
– Priorities
– Open Company
– Premature Optimization
– War
– Undeniable Logic
– The Scheme Is Revealed
– Child Prodigy
– Project Management Explained
– Coding School with Prof. Ross
– Just A Minor Glitch In The Code
– Too Humble Is Half Proud

http://appshopper.com/books/vol-06-geek-hero-comic

Like all Yuzu Games productions, Foflash is a dangerously addictive puzzle game that let you play with your images while listening to your music. Foflash is the best companion while in the subway, bus or train or waiting in line or for a friend, etc.

With Foflash, gamers have to reconstruct an image as quickly as possible by immobilizing pieces moving and bouncing across the board whenever they reach their original spot. Foflash is a great shake and tape game.

Foflash needs a good shaking to start and break down the image in 16, 36 and 64 pieces depending on the difficulty level. After shaking, gamers need to immobilize the pieces that are floating and bouncing across the board whenever they glow and approach their original spot. Immobilizing pieces is achieved by tapping them. Wrongly immobilized pieces will start floating again after a few seconds and free the spot for the correct piece. By shaking the handset, you can change the direction of all pieces and redirect them in the general direction of the shake. For instance, a shake to the right will send all floating pieces to the right. Jokers are also available but will add penalty time.

http://appshopper.com/games/foflash

Simian Speed Reader is a ebook reader based on the ideas of Rapid Serial Visual Presentation. There are several good online versions of this presentation style, and iReadFast is pretty awesome if you have a Mac.

Releae notes:

Now you can add text files from Safari or any other app via the URL Handler simiansr:// check out the brand new site http://simianspeedreader.com/ for more info.

This app is free Until September 1st 2009

http://appshopper.com/books/simian-speed-reader

Use your iPhone or iPod Touch to wirelessly control ReQuest media servers.

This application will ONLY work with ReQuest N, F, S, and iQ media servers running Serious Play Operating System 5.4+ or any V5 servers running 6.1+. Do not download this application if you do not own a ReQuest media server as it only provides features and control of ReQuest servers.

The ReQuest iPhone application provides simple control of multi-room media servers from ReQuest. With multiple audio outputs built into ReQuest servers, the application allows family members to listen to different songs, playlists, and radio stations in different rooms of the house simultaneously.

Features
– Quick “Play Now” button to play all songs from an artist, genre, album, or playlist
– Play Now and Add to Queue for creating your favorite jukebox playlist
– Control music selection and volume for every zone
– View metadata and cover art

Additional features for iQ
– control and view all rooms and what source is playing in each room
– manage music with source selection and volume control
– XM, Sirius, AM/FM stations and presets

Note: This version has limited control of streaming radio, finetune, and IR controlled devices connected into an iQ system.

Changes:

– fixed “Play Now” bug

http://appshopper.com/music/request

Battery app helps you to monitor the current battery percentage on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

Battery automatically determines your device type(iPhone or iPod Touch) and displays the time remaining of:
– talk time and internet on 2G
– internet on Wi-Fi
– video playback
– audio playback
– 3G network use

FREE FOR LIMITED TIME – For free promo codes please follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/serpensoft

http://appshopper.com/utilities/battery-2