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Falling Blocks v0.43 (NES Game)

Peter McQuillan brings his ZX Spectrum game Falling Blocks to the NES. It’s currently a work in progress.

Falling Blocks (NES Game)

Release notes:

Some notes about the controls:
Pressing Start in-game will switch on/off a ghost – this shows where the shape would end up if you were to drop.
Pressing B will swap the shape with the saved shape. You can’t swap again till you have placed the shape and are on a new shape.
Tapping A quickly will drop the shape to the bottom (though you then have a brief moment of time to move it left or right). Holding A will make the shape move quicker down the screen.

In the final version I will have a settings menu where, for example, the user can choice their preferred default behaviour for the drop button (always drop, fall faster while held, or mixture).

The one concern I have about the game right now is sound/music. I made a test version where I integrated GGSound into my code, but I have no talent for producing music myself, so I guess I’m going to have to look around for suitable music that I’m allowed use. If anyone has any suggestions here I’d love to hear them.

When I’m finished the game (or close to being finished at least) I plan on putting the source code up on my GitHub account.

http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=14530

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FocusWriter-QT5 v1.5.7.1 (Pandora Application Port)

FocusWriter is a simple, distraction-free word processor. It utilizes a hide-away interface that you access by moving your mouse to the edges of the screen, allowing the program to have a familiar look and feel to it while still getting out of the way so that you can immerse yourself in your work. Ported to Pandora by Canseco.

Release notes:

– Latest stable release. Compiled with QT 5.6.0 from latest beta Codeblocks PND.
– Default config for OpenPandora, scaling done with QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.25.
– Included Hunspell dictionaries from Libreoffice extensions: English, Spanish.

https://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=focuswriter-qt5

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ZEsarUX v4.1.0.0 (ZX Spectrum emu for Pandora)

ZEsarUX (ZX Second-Emulator And Released for UniX) is a ZX Spectrum emulator for UNIX systems, but also available compiled for the Pandora. It emulates the following: ZX Spectrum, ZX-Uno, ZX80, ZX81 and Z88.

Changes:

– Latest stable release. Updated libs and sources.

https://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=zesarux

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Bombmans v1.0.0 (PICO-8 Game)

Bombmans by Raattis is a Bomberman style game for PICO-8.

http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2792

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Malabars Bumper (Genesis Demo)

Malabars Bumper by Resistance is a Genesis/Megadrive demo released at Solskogen 2016. It ranked 4th in the oldskool demo competition.

Malabars Bumper by RSE (Sega Megadrive, 2016)

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=67778

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Butterfly64 v1.0 (PICO-8 Demo)

Butterfly64 by uhellstr is a C64 basic demo converted to PICO-8.

We very much like the release notes, so here they are:

Found out about PICO-8 just the other day. Did allot of assembly programming on the C64 in the old good days. Thought I would give this “Fantasy console” a try. Since i never written a line in LUA before I was thrilled over how easy it is to understand the basic idea about programming for this machine. Yesterday I spent abou 5 hours (1 hour on read thru the forums and the manual) and then the rest of the time to write a simple demo for PICO-8. It’s a a convertion of a BASIC demo i wrote in 2010 for the C64.

http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=3793

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Qmmp v1.1.1.0 (Pandora Application Port)

Qmmp is an audio-player, written with the help of the Qt library. The user interface is similar to winamp or xmms. Ported to Pandora by Canseco.

Release notes:

– Latest stable release. See Changelog.
– Updated libopus, with 15% more Neon optimization improving performance, and sources.

https://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=qmmp-stable

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Hydra v1.0 (PICO-8 Game)

Hydra by scgrn is a procedural generated hack-n-slash action adventure for the Pico-8 fantasy console!

http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=3191

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Ball Arena v2016.07.15 (PICO-8 Game)

Ball Arena by TRASEVOL_DOG is a PICO-8 game. The task is quite simple: Defeat the other balls before they defeat you!

http://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=3843

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REV’n’GE Issue #59 (misc)

Bored? Need something to read? Maybe even free? What about the latest REV’n’GE? Issue #59 is out!

REV'n'GE Issue #59

https://www.sendspace.com/file/6hqvki

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