The deadline for this years PDRoms coding competition is approaching! You are still having full nine days, which might be enough to do something little and get a chance of one of the nice prizes.

Here is the brief data:

Topic: Create a logic/puzzle game
Competition running time: Thursday, 02 April 2009 to Sunday, 31st May 2009
Deadline: Sunday, 31th May 2009 @ 23:59, in YOUR timezone!
Systems allowed: Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Coleco Vision, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Game Gear, IntelliVision, Master System, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Nintendo Entertainment System, Odyssey2, Wonderswan, Wonderswan Color, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Genesis/Megadrive, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo 64, PC Engine, Sega 32x, Sega CD and Vectrex.
Prizes to win: A WIZ console, 2 PSP Games, 1 Genesis Game, 5 R4 Cards, 10 Acekards and 150 US$ in cash

Prizes are sponsored by: http://shop.gp2x.de – http://www.flashlinker-shop.com – http://www.superfighter.com – http://www.gamekool.com – http://www.slanina.pl – ph0x

http://pdroms.de/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=105&t=4642

TFT test screen application for Dingoo.

DCemu.co.uk has been serving the homebrew and gaming scene for severall years now. Even if the relation with us isn’t the best anymore, let’s hope for another five years (or longer). Good Luck!

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=206785

Retrogaming Times Monthly #58 is available. RTM is a retro magazine, sometimes with focus on homebrew things.

Content of this issue:

01. Press Fire To Begin
02. Gaming Studies With The Tomy Tutor: Car-Azy Racer
03. Phoenix Is My Game! What Is Your Game?
04. Game Reviews Go On The Air
05. RTM Idiocy: The Misadventures Of PIGBEAR
06. Apple II Incider – GBA Championship Basketball (Apple IIGS Version)
07. The Thrill Of Defeat: Pleasure & Punishment On The Unexpanded Timex Sinclair 1000
08. Creating Atari 2600 Games With Batari BASIC
09. Videological Dig – 1983 Atarisoft Radio Commercial
10. Laughing Pixels
11. Game Over

Thanks to http://www.atariage.com for the news.

http://www.retrogamingtimes.com/rtm60/

Earlier this morning we’ve spotted the currently first news item on TehSkeen. Brakken mentioned to take an overdose of certain tablets and he seems to be gone since then.

Obviously several people tried to get ahold of him, without success. Some called the police and regarding one response in the thread, they found him and brought him to hospital.

All this could be a hoax, due to a hacked account, but it could also be true, as he been talking about “bad life” a lot recently and also did not seem to care about himself anymore, without going into details.

TehSkeen, next to other sites, is a great source for homebrew news and related things, so having the webmaster brakken lost, would be also a bad thing for the community. May people like or dislike his style, is not the question right now.

Time will tell what happend!

Good luck, wherever you are, brakken!

http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=11594

Retrogaming Times Monthly #58 is available. RTM is a retro magazine, sometimes with focus on homebrew things.

Content of this issue:

01. Press Fire To Begin
02. Show Report: The Midwest Gaming Classic
03. Show Report: My First Atari Party
04. RTM Idiocy: Reviews And The Idiots Who Respond To Them
05. Apple II Incider – Real Life Games Part Deux + Jeopardy
06. The Thrill Of Defeat: Pleasure & Punishment On The Unexpanded Timex Sinclair 1000
07. Videological Dig – 1973 Odyssey Commercial
08. Laughing Pixels
09. Game Over

http://www.retrogamingtimes.com/rtm59/

With ModControl we have a GERMAN community site taking care of console modifications and sometimes homebrew. Perfect if you can’t handle english texts. They are also having big helpful community.

http://www.modcontrol.com/

As you might have seen we are affilated with TehSkeen.com now, they take care of homebrew matters along with console modification things. So go and check it out 😉

http://tehskeen.com/

Retrogaming Times Monthly #58 is available. RTM is a retro magazine, sometimes with focus on homebrew things.

Content of this issue:

01. Press Fire To Begin
02. Falling Arcade Prices
03. RTM Idiocy Part 3
04. Apple II Incider – Wheel Of Fortune
05. The Thrill Of Defeat: Games For The 2K Timex Sinclair 1000
06. Old Wine in New Bottles: Retrogaming on Modern Hardware – Activision Anthology
07. National Center For The History Of Electronic Games
08. Videological Dig – Christmas 1975
09. Game Over

http://www.retrogamingtimes.com/rtm58/

As Thor’s page disappeared from the internet a while ago we at PDRoms offered him a new host, so his work won’t be lost in space.

Thor is known for NGPC, J2ME, GP32 and PSX development! Many of his progs do come with source code!

Welcome back Thor!

http://thor.pdroms.de/