PDROMS has been mentioned as legal freeware rom source in an emulation/retro gaming article published in the “New York Times” on the 30th January 2003! I’m really surprised! The link below points to the article. Unfortunatly you need to make up an account first (It’s free of charge). I guess not everyone wants to register, therefor here is a short cutout. (Copyright 2003 by the New York Times!)

Emulators are easier to download and use nowadays, adding to their popularity. “Most emulators have been around for many years now, and the interfaces have matured”, said Bradford W. Mott, project manager at Stella, a popular Atari emulator. “This makes it easy for the average computer user to have access to them”. But game companies and software trade associations are not pleased with the wide array of games and emulators available online. Most sites carry disclaimers saying that the games are meant to be downloaded only by users who already own a legal copy.Some sites, like pdroms (www.pdroms.de), offer games that are in the public domain and legal for downloading. Intellivision Lives (www.intellivisionlives.com) and other sites have acquired the rights to offer some games online. But many sites offer pirated material and are thus illegal. Some emulator sites are also illegal, since they copy original copyrighted code. Most users don’t seem to care either way, as long as they can play their old games.

As said these are just a few lines… to read the full article visit the page below and sign up for an account.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/30/technology/circuits/30retr.html

Stevola did another review for”Pocket Emulation”. This time he writes about “Elite”, ported by Quirky.

http://pocket.dcevolution.com/elitereview.shtml

News taken from gp32.emu.pl:

What a nice suprise. Seems that Linux era comes to GP32 faster than some of us could think. What you see on the screen is photo is Linux booting on GP32. But dont be to happy 🙂 On the Project Page you can find bigger screen and you can read all those messages UNABLE it, UNABLE That ;)) Anyway i cant give credit to person who made this photo, because there are a few Project members i there is no info who took the picture.

http://gp32.emu.pl
http://empee.daug.net/gp32/?page=project&id=20

Anders Granlund sent me an e-mail to let us know that his InfoNES port has been updated.

New in R3 is:

– Speed & sound improved.
– Zelda and Kid Icarus are now working (and possibly other as well).
– Fileselector sort files by name.

http://w1.243.telia.com/~u24315537/

Antonio Molina from Spain e-mailed me about his latest game called “SP-Acoman”. It is a well done Pacman-Clone worth trying it. Don’t forget to send him feedback if you like his game. The e-mail adress can be obtained from the readme’s (english and spanish language) enclosed with the .zip file.

Antonio does not have an own hompage, you can get the game in the archive.

http://pdroms.de/files/1064/

Jomo is a puzzle game for one player. The object of the game is to push the blocks such that all the X’s on the floor are covered by the glowing orbs. An orb under a crate will move only one space when pushed, whereas an orb which is not under a crate will continue to roll when pushed, until it collides with something. The game includes some nice graphics and music, 100 levels, and even a plot!

Release note for this version:

Seems there was also a bug on level 92 in Jomo, this bug meant there was no coliision so you could walk through walls (many thanks to anli for pointing this out). I’m 99% sure this is the last problem in the game, so should be the last patch, though I’m disappointed with myself for having to release any 🙁

http://www.saikou.co.uk/

News taken from gp32.emu.pl:

Another production from GPZigi is “Space” 😉 shooter Into The Space. It’s simple shooter with funny music.

Download could be get from Hando’s page. See link below.

http://gp32.emu.pl

News taken from gp32.emu.pl:

New PD game released through the GPZigi site. It is another nice looking tetris game. Seems that GP32 will have soon more tetris games than any other console 🙂

Download could be get from Hando’s page. See link below.

http://gp32.emu.pl

News taken from GBAdev.org:

Frood is a scroller demo from Chris Berry:
Thought I’d send along this demo I threw together. It’s pretty ugly, and a bit “old skool” (I converted it from an Atari ST demo I wrote about 11 years ago 🙂
This demo used up most of the CPU time of the Atari ST, but on the GBA’s hardware it uses up hardly any at all.

http://www.gbadev.org/

News taken from GBAdev.org:

Frederic has released a demo of his LOFT system:This is a little prey-predator system. The originality is that it is programmed in a language called LOFT which allows for concurrent programming (with a variant of threads, called FairThreads). The objective of LOFT is to ease the programming of behavioral aspects in embedded systems such as the gba.

A Web page describes the context:
http://www.inria.fr/mimosa/rp/LOFT

The LOFT compiler can be obtained from there (GNU license).

http://www.gbadev.org/