Category: Pandora
Giana’s Return aims to be a worthy inofficial sequel of “The Great Giana Sisters”. “The Great Giana Sisters” is an alltime classic Jump’N’Run game made in the late eighties mainly by Armin Gessert, Manfred Trenz and Chris Huelsbeck and gained massive attention as “Super Mario” copy, but still had it’s very own charme and fanbase.
Giana’s Return – Features:
* 7 Worlds, with each 8 Levels – followed by a “big boss”
* Power Ups and Extras
* Oldschool style pixeled sprites and tiles
* Wonderful hand drawn backgrounds
* Illustrated hand drawn storyline
* Over 18 Tracks of finest chip music!
* Multi-Language: German, English, French, Spanish
* Password and/or save game (depending on release platform)
* Hidden Warp Zones and Bonus Caves
* Hidden Trainer
* TOP 10 Highscore
Giana’s Return – Team:
Rudolphe Boixel (Thor) – Main Coder
Shahzad Sahaib (Kojote) – Project Organizer & Level Design
Jane S. Mumford (Jayne) – Graphics Artwork
Alexander Oldemeier (Operator) – Music
David Wuttke (AM-FM) – Music
Adam Karol (Wizzard) – Graphics Artwork
Simon Butler – Graphics Artwork
Virgil Metier (tHUG) – Graphics Artwork
Christian Hildenbrand (DayDream) – Graphics Artwork
Denny Mueller (Mulle) – Main Beta Testing
Giana’s Return – Web:
http://www.gianas-return.de
Eat The Whistle is an OpenSource soccer game originally developed by Hurricane Studios as commercial product for the Amiga platform.
SuperTux is a classic 2D jump’n run sidescroller game in a style similar to the original Super Mario games covered under the GPL.
Features:
* 9 enemies
* 26 playable levels
* Software and OpenGL rendering modes
* configurable joystick and keyboard input
* new music
* completely redone graphics
The Ur-Quan Masters is an open source port of Star Control II.
From Wikipedia:
Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters is a critically-acclaimed science fiction computer game, the second game in the Star Control trilogy. It was developed by Toys for Bob (Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III) and originally published by Accolade in 1992 for PC; it was later ported to the 3DO with an enhanced multimedia presentation, allowed by the CD technology. The source code of the 3DO port was licensed under the GNU GPL in 2002. The game still enjoys a cult following.
P-UAE tries to continue where E-UAE left off!
E-UAE is an Amiga emulator, a program that allows you to run software designed for Amiga computers on other platforms, such as Linux or Mac OS. It is based on UAE, the original Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator, and WinUAE, the Windows version of UAE. While it owes a huge debt to these two great projects, E-UAE diverges from both, aiming to improve performance and features on a variety of host platforms.
P-UAE tries to continue where E-UAE left off!
E-UAE is an Amiga emulator, a program that allows you to run software designed for Amiga computers on other platforms, such as Linux or Mac OS. It is based on UAE, the original Ubiquitous Amiga Emulator, and WinUAE, the Windows version of UAE. While it owes a huge debt to these two great projects, E-UAE diverges from both, aiming to improve performance and features on a variety of host platforms.
http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,72,86
The Ur-Quan Masters is an open source port of Star Control II.
From Wikipedia:
Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters is a critically-acclaimed science fiction computer game, the second game in the Star Control trilogy. It was developed by Toys for Bob (Fred Ford and Paul Reiche III) and originally published by Accolade in 1992 for PC; it was later ported to the 3DO with an enhanced multimedia presentation, allowed by the CD technology. The source code of the 3DO port was licensed under the GNU GPL in 2002. The game still enjoys a cult following.
http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,29,85
Notaz of Picodrive fame, brought us this great emulator to the Pandora. It’s currently not in the state he wanted to see it, so you might expect few updates in the future.
Quote:
http://notaz.gp2x.de/releases/PicoDrive/PicoDrive_180_beta2.pnd
updated to beta2 which is beta1 with fixed readme.
http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=53899
The first german users recieved their Pandora and Wejp of “GMU Music Player” fame wrote down his first impressions and took a bunch of pictures.
http://wejp.k.vu/pandora/pandora-review
VBA is the best and most popular Gameboy Advance emulator around. Emulates GBA, GBC, SGB, GBA roms! Supports ZIP-ed roms, so that after downloading files from the net you don’t even have to un-zip them.
http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,80