BlackFlip is a Polarium clone, an easy to play (but hard to finish) puzzle game perfectly suited for stylus play.

The rules of the game are really very simple : there are black and white tiles which need to be flipped so that each row is either all white or all black… Different lines can even have different colors. Yes, as simple as that !
But the twist is that you can only do a single path, which can’t overlap with itself. To draw that path, simple click on the puzzle, and move around. You can backtrack at anytime. To validate the path, simply click on the destination point and it’ll flip all the tiles !

The grey border around is a neutral zone : no flipping on it, and it’s not involved in the color check. So you can move on that one as if you were moving in and out of the puzzle. Doesn’t sound like much, but using the grey tiles effectively is the key to solving the hardest puzzles.

Changes:

– New menu !!
– Better puzzle selection info
– Added sorting in the menu
– Added show/hide solved puzzles
– Added animated instructions
– New puzzle checking animation
– Smartphone support !

http://www.xflib.net/index.php?action=games&name=BlackFlip

Do you remember the two farting guys “Terrance & Phillip” from South Park? Now those two guys have their very own computergame on the Atari 2600 platform.

Release notes:

I wanted to work on level 3 so badly that I ended level 2 early and went ahead and got level 3 started. To access level 3, at the title screen, have the right difficulty switch on a; to start on level 2, have it on b. You’ll notice that since level 3 is the ice world (I call it Ant-Farctica, level 2 was the Kali-fart-i Desert), you’ll slip a little bit once you stop moving left or right. Also of note is the ROM size is now 32k, which is the final ROM size available with bB. If it was possible to make a 64k bB game, I’d consider it.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=121915&st=50

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Anti-Grain Geometry is an awesome library for software rendering of 2D vector graphics (see here). As soon as I saw it, I wanted to get it running on the DS. The full library is a bit large and uses lots of floating point, which is kind of a problem. But there is a cut-down version called AGG Lite which fits perfectly well on the DS. I downloaded the code, did some massive reorganization (the AGG author’s code was far too messy for my taste), cut out any remaining floating point usage, and added a color format class specifically for the DS, and the result is pretty nice. You can check out my open-source clean-up effort at http://brian.grogan.jr.googlepages.com/agg_lite_ds.zip Compare with the original.

After I whipped AGG Lite into shape, I thought to myself, “wouldn’t this go so nicely with that small, fast XML library (Mini-XML) I found a few months ago?” (download pre-compiled for DS) So I put the two together to come up with a totally alpha quality SVG renderer.

It only handles a minuscule subset of the SVG specification (the rect element), so … now you can draw rectangles … with SVG!? It’s not much yet, but I’m a follower of the agile development principle, “get something simple working fast.” I’ll put some more work into this to support other SVG elements later on, but for now, you can render trivial SVG on the DS.

This uses libfat to load the SVG files, so of course remember to dldi patch the nds file before using. And if you want to build from source you’ll need the Mini-XML and AGG Lite libraries posted in the project links above.

download:
http://brian.grogan.jr.googlepages.com/agg_svg.zip

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=15335

GP2x-TI99 is a TI-99/4 emulator for GP2x.

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/260-guid.html

The Mandelbrot set is a set of points in the complex plane, the boundary of which forms a fractal.

When computed and graphed on the complex plane, the Mandelbrot Set is seen to have an elaborate boundary, which does not simplify at any given magnification. This qualifies the boundary as a fractal.

The Mandelbrot set has become popular outside mathematics both for its aesthetic appeal and for being a complicated structure arising from a simple definition. Benoît Mandelbrot and others worked hard to communicate this area of mathematics to the public.

http://themagnitude.co.uk/index.php?cmd=apps&id=7

Woopsi is a Nintendo DS GUI library for rapidly creating user interfaces for homebrew software. Modelled after the AmigaOS windowing system.

Changes:

– Methods inlined
– Destructors made private
– Numerous bugfixes
– Refactored active/focused system
– Refactored visible/invisible system
– Context menu
– Provision for proportional fonts
– Bonus folder containing various extra classes
– A considerable amount of doxygen-generated documentation (absolutely everything but the skinned classes)
– ScrollingTextbox class
– Various other changes

http://sourceforge.net/projects/woopsi/

MobileMoney allows you to manage your financial accounts on your iPhone.

MobileMoney 0.95 is now available on the downloads page. It addresses the following issues:
NEW::New interface design–much more sleek and attractive
NEW::Supports transfers from one account to another
NEW::Include accounts in net balance option
NEW::Show available balance or current balance option for each account
NEW::Support for cleared/pending transactions
Removed::QIF Importing is no longer enabled

This update contains many new features which potentially create bugs especially with the new transfers option. Please report bugs in the issues section.

http://code.google.com/p/mobilemoney/

It’s said from various sources, that the upcomming 2.0 firmware of Apple’s iPhone has been leaked. The official release should be somewhere near mid of summer.

It’s highly suggested to not touch the leaked beta, specially you can also not be sure if there are sources who modified their package in a special way.

For all those hardare freaks, Zibri, creator of ZiPhone has found something interesting…

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There is a new iPhone coming very soon. The new iPhone will have Infineon’s SGOLD3 (PMB8878 or PMB8877) chip in it’s baseband. Google can maybe help you to get more details.

http://www.ziphone.org/

MobileTwitter will be out in a new version soon, teaser/preview screenshots have been published.

http://blog.npike.net/2008/04/09/mobiletwitter-15-in-black/