Hello everyone, for those who care, I am still alive 😉

The past days have been a pure pain pleasure, but with the help of painkillers I am temporary almost back to normal, which also allows me to post a little bit now.

I try to keep up with the news and grab all releases from the past few days. I hope that Pocket PC, Atari 2600, Coleco Vision , Wii and GP2x releases are up to date now. Special thanks to kedo and poqako for posting the GP2x releases (you guys could help more, not only when I am sick ;). Hipp Hipp Hooray for kedo and poqako! Thanks again!

There were also a bunch of people wishing me all the best, thanks for that too – I really didn’t count with something like that.

The webboard ( //phpbb/index.php ) was updated to phpBB v3.0.1 yesterday, which was a true pain – but everything should work 100% again.

News updates for iPhone, Nintendo DS, etc… will follow a little bit later. It takes some time to gather the information from five days of absence 😉

As of PDRC #3.99 – We are still waiting for one judge to sent in his results, I hope results will be finally out by Sunday night or Monday morning. Of course every contestant will get a sperate e-mail in time then.

Now sit back and enjoy reading the backlog 😉

Regards
Kojote

PS: Starting on 1st May 2008 we might have a new sponsor from Switzerland (Hi Mauro… ;). This will help us to hopefully fully or partitially cover the server costs.

I’ve alread written something on friday, but rather in a hurry than giving details.

I love to ride my bike, but sometimes things happen, which makes it less enjoyable. A car collided with my bike. As I was pretty much under shock the first minutes (it could have been much worse) things started to hurt and I’ve been to hospital already twice now. They gave me a checkup and found multiple contusions in different areas of my body.

Everything hurts a lot now and I “enjoy” taking two different types of painkillers at the moment after each few hours.

Actually I can not sit too much and also staying in horizontal position isn’t comfortable.

The good part is… the doctor said I should be back to normal in up to three weeks. Well let’s see how long painkillers will be my friend… btw they don’t work proper anyway… just minor reducing the pain, but hey… better than nothing I guess.

I try to keep up with the news tonight, but no promise on that.

Regards
Kojote

I was just having an accident and don’t feel well, i am still a bit shocked and things start to hurt now. I’ll head off for hospital, news are postphoned for a while.
-koj

AEP-Emu, one of our partner sites, is turning 10 years old today. If you are looking for your latest emulation plug, you may give that page a visit!

Congratulation retroK & Team!

http://www.aep-emu.de/

A little app providing assistance in showing jokes and riddles. This has been already well tested on parties.

Select either Jokes or Riddles from the menu, load a file and let the fun begin. JOKES are displayed one after another, use R Trigger and L Trigger to browse. RIDDLES are displayed one after another, use R Trigger and L Trigger to browse, use X Button to switch between riddle and solution.

Features:
Bilingual English/German
100 Chuck Norris Facts Jokes in English, 200 Chuck Norris Facts Jokes in German
10 Lateral Thinking Riddles in English, 20 Lateral Thinking Riddles in German
10 Math/Logic Riddles in English, 10 Math/Logic Riddles in German

“Wii PI Calculator” is a PI calculator ported to the Wii by Westy92.

PI is a sample program that calculates the PI number and shows up up to 15 decimals.

One of the seminars at Breakpoint 2008 held the title “Where hacking meets demoscene – abusing mass market hardware for the greater good”, which has been presented by tmbinc – who is in particular known for beeing a part of Team Wiizers who released the Twillight Hack. It’s pretty interesting and shouldn’t be missed.

Quote from http://breakpoint.untergrund.net/seminars.php#s3

tmbinc is probably more known for his work on gaming console platforms and other interesting hardware than for his demoscene coding. So far he coded on the Gamecube, the Xbox 360 and the Wii, always with the intention to make the available hardware useful for own projects, without being an official developer.

Gaming console hardware offers a great value for a great price, but are unfortunately usually locked down to only execute authentic code. This seminar will focus on homebrew code on the Nintendo Wii and the Microsoft Xbox 360. After giving a short overview over the two quite different architectures, methods to load own, unsigned code to retail machines will be explained and demonstrated. Finally, a “hello world” for both machines will be discussed, to give potentially interested demo coders a start.

http://breakpoint.untergrund.net/download.php?dir=2008/seminars/

Our staff member “Celeth” is having birthday today.

Celeth is responsible for the PDRoms code and database and was putting a lot of time and effort into it (and still does). Without him PDRoms would have probably never come back after it’s >6 month break, so hail him and send him a telephatic happy birthday 🙂

In behalf of all PDRoms staff and users: HAPPY BIRTHDAY CELETH!