What can be better than starting into the new week with a nice Atari VCS production by Tjoppen. Minute and a Bit is a 8k demo released at Sillyventure 2011.

http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=58038

Bluefish by Olivier Sessink and contributors is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.

Changes:

– Shouldn’t write to NAND anymore. (Thanks for testing StreaK)

http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=bluefish-bluefish-15657

Midori is a lightweight web browser.

Changes:

+ Improve -moz-document parsing in user stylesheets
+ Render verified secure sites in green, not yellow
+ Version details for extensions built against a different release
+ More detailed and more condensed about:version output
+ Refresh missing speed dial thumbnails automatically
+ Use faster global CSS mechanism for adblock and addons
+ Show crash dialog only if there’s a session
+ Don’t complete on a leading space or search token
+ Support user stylesheets on about: and file:// locations
+ Implement ‘Always use my font choices’ preferences
+ Allow smaller tabs when close buttons are disabled
+ Merge ‘Closed Tabs’ with ‘History’ in Clear Private Data
+ Correctly use user-home and bookmark-new icon names
+ Use versioned file speeddial-head-0.4.2.html
+ Split proxy server preference into host and port
+ Support localized ‘next’ and ‘previous’ links
+ Implement ‘Only accept cookies cookies from sites you visit’
+ Fix crash in Add/ Import Bookmark feature
+ Fix size of tabs with GTK+ 3
+ Detect existing Firefox profiles for bookmark import
+ Work-around “omg!” in local directory browsing
+ Rework ‘–run’ feature to allow window.open() and console.info()
+ Automatically clear finnished downloads from the transferbar
+ Add ‘Create desktop shortcut’ to the app menu
+ Require GLib 2.22 and libSoup 2.27.90
+ Don’t register recent files in private browsing mode
+ Findbar and speed dial honor close button position
+ Use sqlite3-based backend for cookie storage
+ Make ‘–snapshot’ create png images with GTK+ 2.20
+ Automatically resizing, embossed speed dial, close on hover

http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=midori-slaeshjag

Holy Hell is a puzzle game with shmup elements. The goal of the game is to reach the end of every level trying to chain more blocks of the same color together.

You guide a little ship powered with four different colored weapons. Every weapon can destroy only blocks of its same color, so you must switch between them to blow up everything…

Brown blocks cannot be destroyed and must be dodged…

Release notes:

Hi guys there’s online the FINAL version of HOLY HELL GBA. It probably still contain some bugs but i think it’s time to stop with this project. Thanks a lot to all gbadev community for helping me in these years.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=13987&f=27 for the news.

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=16917

Kindergarden 2011 is over. This demoparty held in Haga, Norway, is a yearly meeting of demosceners for productivity but also fun. Shake Your Lawnmower by Darklite is possibly a perfect example of how to combine both elements.

http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=57998

Ben Scroggins comes up with Blackjack21, a very simple game of Blackjack. Try to beat the dealer!

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/caanoo.cgi?0,0,0,0,25,809

Frantic by SpiceWare is a game for Atari 2600/VCS inspired by Berzerk. Basically you have to kill everything that moves.

Changes:

Here’s the last planned update until next year! Besides the afore mentioned special room objects, there’s also updated humanoid and explosion graphics. The Harmony ROMs now crash Stella, so download the _stella_ version if you’re playing in the emulator.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/186560-frantic-2600/page__st__225__p__2401642#entry2401642

atari2600land has updated his single and two player simultaneous play variant of a very well known Russian block game.

Release notes:

Bug fix for B mode. Also, I changed the way the block looks for being able to go down or not. This results in the block not flashing a lot when it sets into place. This also means that there’s less time to figure out if you want to move it or not. Let me know if there’s any bugs or it doesn’t work on a Harmony or anything else.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/153710-2600tris/page__st__150

OpenJDK Java Runtime is a required .pnd for running Java applications. The install script will copy a small 900 byte script to the NAND (/usr/bin/java) so that Java applications will “just work” as if a full Java runtime has been installed.

http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=java

Farox ported the Head Over Heels Remake by Jorge Rodríguez Santos, Santiago Acha Jiménez and Davit Masiá to Pandora. The original Head Over Heels is a classic game, initially made by Jon Ritman and Bernie Drummond.

Wikipedia has some wonderful information about the game, so it would be waste of time to rephrase everything – here we go: The game introduces an original concept: the player controls (initially separately) two characters instead of just one. The two characters have different abilities (Head can jump twice as high, control himself in the air, and fire doughnuts from a hooter to paralyse enemies; while Heels can run twice as fast, climb certain staircases that Head cannot, and carry objects around a room in a bag), which become complementary when the player combines them together after about a sixth of the game. Compared to its predecessors, the game offers unique and revolutionary gameplay, more complex puzzles, and more than 300 rooms to explore.

http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=headoverheels-headoverheels-1.0-6540