Just a note that PDroms has been partially disabled due to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.A portuguese guy caused traffic of 43 gigabyte in 2 days (2nd and 3rd) may. This means my traffic limit has been nearly reached by now. The current situation out of this: All hostmarks are banned, only exceptions are .at .de .ch .fi&.com hostmarks.Since I only had 4 hours of sleep and have to work now, I’ll try to enable all countries again as soon as possible, but downloads will be definatly disabled till 1st June 2003! If I do not disable downloads it would cost me 600 euros till the end of the month. PDroms is a free and non profit project. I’m a student and can’t afford that amount of money to keep PDroms running at 100% for now.I hope to get the problems sorted out as soon as possibe. News service about homebrewn productions for your favorite consoles will, or course, continue in maximum 2 days.Hope you people out there understand my situation.RegardsKojote / Webmaster of pdroms.com

Atrkid conducted an interview with Skeezix, author of XCade and the great Atari ST emulatorCastawayfor the GP32. This is a reallygood interview full of questions and quality answers so be sure to check it out via the GP32Emu Articles&Interviews section athttp://articles.gp32emu.com/. Thanks to Skeezix for taking the time for the interview.

Skeezix released a new version of Castaway a short time ago. Changes are:

NEW:Per-scanline-palette management; or in reality, went to 16bpp render mode, to make life much easier.CHG:Render the virtual keyboard less often; shouldn’t hit performance anymore to have it showingFIX:Can drop from frameskip 90 to 0 in one hit now; (used to work only with 91+)

Visit his siteherefor more information and the downloads.

BigRedPimp told me via EFNET #pdroms that there is a new build of his game”Berzerks Legends”which is, as you can guess from the name, a Berzerks Clone. The post on his page was:

Well, isn’t that funny? 2 months exactly since my last beta build. This build shows the AI levels working for the enemies, but not the enemy fire (yet). The AI levels are as follow:

Points	Robot Color	Shots fired
0-260 pts.	Yellow	0
260-1200	Red	1
1200-3000	Light Blue	2
3000-4500	Yellow/Green	3
4500-6000	Purple	4
6000-8000	Yellow	5
8000-10000	White	One fast shot (2x speed)
10000-12000	Light Blue	Two fast shots

I hope to have the robots shooting me soon. 😛 As always, go to the Files section to find the latest build.

http://berzerk.pocketheaven.com/

Anyone remembering Splam!? The author is still working on his Commodore64 emulator for the Gameboy Advance. The author has notupdated his page for ages, but recently he posted those WIP news on his page:

Just a quick update to let everyone know I’m still working on Splam when I can and to say thanks for the emails of encouragement I’ve been getting (I’ll ignore the ones just insulting me).I’ve taken Splam apart recently and I’ve been putting it back together slowly and rewriting bits as I go. As soon as I’ve got it all back together I’ll test some games on it and if it looks ok I’ll release something. It probably won’t be as fast as I want it to be (ie 50fps) but shouldn’t be too far off.

http://splam.emuhq.com/

FluBBa has done an update of his PCE emulator for the Gameboy Advance. The changes:

V1.8 – 2003-05-06Fixed some background glitches in unscaled mode.Fixed some CPU problems:”Darius Alpha”works again,”Turrican”starts =)”Gun Boat”allmost starts.

http://hem.passagen.se/flubba/gba.html

Tyrell did another update of his Spectrum emulator for the GP32. Here are the changes:

– Version v0.2 is released!What’s new:- Added AY-3-8910 sound ! Sound is very clean in some games. Try”head over heels”128k version,”Rick Dangerous 2″,”Tetris2″… However, in other games (especially in the menus) AY sound is not that good, there’s some background noise. But all in all, I think it’s a welcomed feature, evenif it’s not 100% perfect.- Enhanced Beeper sound. Now, it’s a little bit clearer than before, and few or no background noise can be heard.- Enhanced the virtual keyboard and added the space key (the ‘*’ on the virtual keyboard). Now, press”B”button to select the key and the”A”button to quit without pressing a key.- Options screen: when pressing the”B”key, options are not saved but they are taken into account (was not the case before).

http://www.speccyal.be/

CaSTaway has crystalclear sound now! The emu is gettin’ nearly perfect now, just correct palette stuff is missing.http://www.codejedi.com/shadowplan/gp32.html

A new version of GP Doom has been released. This vesion has various bugfixes and most importantly working sound! Downloads can be found atGP32Emu.

NoBrain2K let me know on IRC about his new Pipe Mania game remake namedPipe Panic. He has released a test version which features just the one level at the moment and he wants some feedback on the game which you can do so via the GP32Emu Development Discussion forumhere. Download the test release via the projects homepage athttp://members.lycos.co.uk/combustion/. While your on the site check out the new WIP and screenshots for another game namedGlooPwhich is a puzzle game for the GP32.