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Retrogaming Times Monthly #105 is available. RTM is a retro magazine, sometimes with focus on the homebrew scene.

Content of this issue:

ATTRACT MODE
* Press Fire To Begin
* Retrogaming News

THE RETROWORKS
* More 64! – RGCD 16K Cartridge Competition 2012
* CoCoLicious! – The CoCo’s 3rd Time Is A Charm (Part 2)
* The Fire And The Glory… And The Unfortunate Truth About What Happened With The Transformers

THE GAME REVIEW H.Q.
* MAME Reviews – Gridlee Revisited
* Apple II Incider – Super Bowl Sunday (4th & Inches / Apple IIGS)
* Gaming Studies With The Tomy Tutor – Scramble
* NES’cade – Palamedes
* The Retro Junkies – Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest
* Dual Perspective – Mega Man II
* The Pixelated Mage – Blast Corps

POWERING DOWN
* Game Over

Mutant Mudds by Renegade Kid, initially developed for Nintendo 3DS, can be downloaded for free between 31st January 2013 and 1st February 2013. If you like retro-styled games, just go ahead, you can’t do anything wrong!

Claws Mail is an email client (and news reader), based on GTK+. Ported to Pandora by mcobit.

Changes:

3.9.0.01 Last stable version with some extra plugins included

Fish Fillets NG is strictly a puzzle game. The goal in every of the seventy levels is always the same: find a safe way out. The fish utter witty remarks about their surroundings, the various inhabitants of their underwater realm quarrel among themselves or comment on the efforts of your fish. The whole game is accompanied by quiet, comforting music.

Ported to Pandora by mcobit.

aMule stands for all-platform eMule file-sharing program. It is affiliated with the eMule project and was forked from xMule on 08/2003. It connects to the eDonkey2000 network.

Changes:

Fixed bug with configuration dir. Starting script should handle the differences to first PND, but you should consider a backup of your config.

Pushover is a faithful reimplementation of the game with the same name published in 1992 by Ocean. It contains the original levels. The graphics and sound are very similar when compared with the original game.

Ported to Pandora by mcobit.

Audacious is an advanced audio player. It is free, lightweight, based on GTK2, runs on Linux and many other *nix platforms and is focused on audio quality and supporting a wide range of audio codecs. Its advanced audio playback engine is considerably more powerful than GStreamer. Audacious is a fork of Beep Media Player (BMP), which itself forked from XMMS.

Changes:

* Updated port to most recent version

CannonBall is an enhanced Out Run Engine. Althought not an emulator it uses graphics and music via the Arcade ROM of Outrun Revision B. Most certainly the commercial ROM is not included.

Changes:

* Added “Analog Wheel only”, use only left nub for steering, B/X button for Gaz/Brake
* Added Overclock to 800Mhz in PXML (you can refuse overclocking)
* Added Warning message if no roms found.

In Nikwi Deluxe by Kostas “Bad Sector” Michalopoulos you play as a 9 year old boy in a game about his absolute dream: a world made of candies! Your role is to guide Nikwi through all the 30 levels, eat all the candies in each level and avoid the monsters and the hazards that each level has.

Nikwi has a talent on jumping high – although his falls are not as good as he would like – and this is his only armor against the monsters which try to turn his dream into a nightmare. Every six levels, the theme changes and the gameplay is altered a bit. Every two levels or so, new monsters appear – monsters which require different approaches to be taken in order to avoid them.

apkenv by Thomas Perl is a compatibility layer (not an emulator!) for applications packaged as “.apk”. Therefore it will allow you to play a tiny hand full for Android games.

Ported to Pandora by crow_riot.

Currently supported without booting Android:

– Fruit Ninja 1.5.4, normal or HD version
– Angry Birds Space 1.1.0
– Angry Birds Space HD 1.0.1 (the loading screen is glitched, but the game works fine)
– Angry Birds Season HD 1.3.0
– Angry Birds Season 2.5.0
– Angry Birds Rio 1.4.4
– Angry Birds 2.3.0
– Cut the Rope 1.0.0