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In Puzzobomb – Endless by Jayenkai you have to match the colored blocks before the gameplay area overflows. Hold onto a Bomb block to blow it up, along with the 4 surrounding tiles.

alekmaul released Manic Miner in a very first version for the GCW Zero. Source code is available as well!

Mirakel by Anatolij Zelenin and Georg Semmler is an open source TODO-List App for Android.

Changes:

* Bugfixes
* Improved Tablet dektop
* Theme is now darker
* Russian translation
* ActionBar for Android 2.2

Chris Read aka atari2600land continues working on his 2D fighting game Insecticide. It’s easy to kill a bug, but how about when you’re a bug yourself? Strap yourself into a bug’s shoes and fight to the death. Are you strong enough to perform insecticide?

Changes:

– no changelog found

Dooom is a Doom port for the Dingoo Native OS by the_wub, which itself is based mainly on the Chocolate Doom source port by Simon Howard.

Release notes:

I’ve uploaded version 1.1 to the google code page. This version lets you put all your wads in the dooom folder with a separate command line file for each wad. The wad selector lets you select either a wad file or a command line file and I’ve changed the file format of the command line files to .txt to make editing easier with notepad!

The really important bit: You must also specify the wad needed for a total conversion or modded wad with the -iwad command line option.

So, for Aliens Total conversion I now have this:

chocolate-doom -deh atcud19.deh -merge alitcsf.wad -file alitcsnd.wad alitcwad.wad -iwad doom.wad

You can save the command line file as anything you like .txt This is a lot easier to use now but I will have a look at getting it working with wads in separate folders with a proper savegame folder for each.

MCMC by The Royal Elite Ninjas Inc. released at Assembly 2013.

PLUM by freamon acts as a DLNA control point, letting you find media aervers on your home network, browse them, and send the URL of your chosen file to a capable player.

PLUM is a fork of picklelauncher (by Pickle). This PND includes audacious (built by sebt3) for audio playback, and smplayer2 (build by pder) for video playback. You’ll need a Pandora with a decent network connection for video playback.

Changes:

Another update for better local file playback: now lists music aswell as video, and will play stuff with spaces in the filenames.

Retrogaming Times Monthly #111 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
* After The Floods – Saving 41 NES Games From Certain Death
* The Bane Of Your Existence – Beating A Game Years Later
* More 64! – Psytronik Software
* Des Gamer – Fanboyism, And The 16-Bit Console Wars Part 5: Software
* Show Report – California Extreme 2013
* Apple II Incider – KansasFest 2013
* 8-Bit Heroes – The Video Game Archeologist

THE GAME REVIEW H.Q.
* Pizzariffic – Early Computer Pizza Games
* MAME Reviews – Radikal Bikers
* Gaming Studies With The Tomy Tutor – Deep Six

POWERING DOWN
* Game Over

QComicBook by Pawel Stolowski is a viewer for PDF files and comic book archives containing jpeg/png/xpm/gif/bmp images, which aims at convenience and simplicity. Features include: automatic unpacking of archive files, full-screen mode, continuous scrolling mode, double-pages viewing, manga mode, thumbnails view, page scaling, mouse or keyboard navigation etc. Ported to Pandora by Canseco.

GNUBackgammon is for playing and analysing backgammon positions, games and matches. The decision engine is neural net based. Ported to Pandora by MarkW.