It has been silent once again around bronto and his NDS email client “NDSMail”. Here are some work in progress news, which probably proofs that the project is not dead at all:

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Soooo… what’s happening with NDSMail ?

I started working on Skinning-Support several months ago, but never got quite around to finish it (at least, it did not break anything).

Recently, I wanted to release a build with the latest version of the dswifi library, but that did not work out: the old GUI code (which was based on libfb, but with some nasty hacks added) did not work with the latest devkitpro. Debugging this would have been really painful (remember the nasty hacks?). So I decided to rewrite the GUI part. Luckily, I pretty much kept presentation and logic “almost” separate in the code, so this is not as bad as I imagined after looking at my GUI code hacks. Did I really write this crap myself?

I might blog about the technique I used to pass messages between those two layers if anyone is interested. But for now, I’m trying to build a new GUI for NDSMail, most probably by using the woopsi library, which has a really weird name, but is pretty well documented. Stay tuned…

http://blog.bronto-online.de/2009/02/february-2009-update.html

Wickeycolumbus has seen a lot of 1k games for Atari 2600 recently, so he thought to make one up the half size.

Release notes:

I’ve been seeing a lot of 1K mini games lately, and I wanted to take a stab at making a game with a small amount of ROM. I managed to squeze Pong into only 511 bytes (one byte to spare!). It is 2 player only (no room for AI) and uses joysticks and no sound (no room for that either). It took me a couple of hours to complete. Here is the Binary and Source. Enjoy!

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=139160

Rodent’s Revenge DS is a homebrew clone of Rodent’s Revenge for the Nintendo DS.

Rodent’s Revenge is a puzzle video game, created in 1991 by Christopher Lee Fraley. It was distributed as part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack. The player takes on the role of a mouse, with the objective being to trap cats by pushing blocks around, whilst avoiding obstacles. [from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodent%27s_Revenge ]

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=16441

The guys behind the Neoflash devices are having another competition. You can enter games and / or applications for Gameboy Advance, Nintendo DS and PSP. Deadline is March 20th 2009!

Good luck guys!

http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php/topic,5484.0.html

The guys behind the Neoflash devices are having another competition. You can enter games and / or applications for Gameboy Advance, Nintendo DS and PSP. Deadline is March 20th 2009!

Good luck guys!

http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php/topic,5484.0.html

The guys behind the Neoflash devices are having another competition. You can enter games and / or applications for Gameboy Advance, Nintendo DS and PSP. Deadline is March 20th 2009!

Good luck guys!

http://www.neoflash.com/forum/index.php/topic,5484.0.html

This application allows you to play Radio and TV Streams with your Pocket PC. The streams are stored in a mobile database. You only have to choose a stream and click connect.

Changes:

#Fixed: Install Directory
#Fixed: Anchor Elements to Screensize
#Fixed: Get Path (Database not found)

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=481280

This is a simple Digital Clock using well known LED numbers.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=482442

Device Update is an ‘appstore’ type application to automatically download and install from a list of selected applications.

Changes:

* Added support for VGA devices.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=480476

CommManger is an applet for VGA devices and still beta. More functionality to come.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=482440