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The Retro Hour is your weekly dose of retro gaming and technology news, views and interviews from the UK. Read more about The Retro Hour EP74 – C64 Music Legend Rob Hubbard (misc)

KODI (ex-XBMC) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub that can be installed on Linux, OSX, Windows, iOS, and Android, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls. It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet. Our forums and Wiki are bursting with knowledge and help for the new user right up to the application developer. Read more about Kodi v17.3.0.12 (Pandora Application Port)

ptitSeb ported PPSSPP to the OpenPandora handheld. PPSSPP is an open source project, licensed under the GPL 2.0 (or later). Read more about PPSSPP v1.4.2.52 (PSP emu for Pandora)

C-Dogs SDL is a port of a really fun old DOS game to modern operating systems, using the SDL media libraries for graphics, sound and input (hence the name). Overall it's an open source, classic overhead run-and-gun game. Read more about C-Dogs SDL v0.6.5.0 (Pandora Game 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. Read more about FocusWriter-QT5 v1.6.5.0 (Pandora Application Port)

CasterSoundboard is a soundboard for hot-keying and playing back sounds. (For podcasting). Tested with ALSA and JACK (QjackCtl PND). Ported to Pandora by Canseco. Read more about CasterSoundboard v1.0.0.1 (Pandora misc)

Fabla is an open-source LV2 drum sampler plugin instrument. It is ideal for loading up your favorite sampled sounds and bashing away on a MIDI controller. Or if it’s crafty beat programming your after that’s cool too! The ADSR envelope allows the shaping of hi-hats and kicks while the compressor beefs up the sound for those thumping kicks! Read more about Fabla v1.2.0.3 (Pandora misc)

AlsaModularSynth is a realtime modular synthesizer and effect processor. Ported to Pandora by Canseco. Read more about AlsaModularSynth v2.1.1.4 (Pandora misc)

ArtyFX is a plugin bundle of artistic “RT” effects. The aim of this plugin collection is to allow the designing of your sound just as you desired using a fast, effiecient workflow. Ported to Pandora by Canseco. Read more about ArtyFX v1.3.0.4 (Pandora misc)

Lord of the Rings Game Engine is a rewrite of the game engine for very famous Lord of the Rings Game by Interplay. The game captures the athmosphere of Middle Earth very well and it is regarded as one of the best Tolkien inspired games ever. It is an old-fashioned RPG covering most of the book events but adds more quests. Ported to Pandora by magic_sam. Read more about Lord of the Rings Game Engine v0.66.git-20121122.3 (Pandora Game Engine Port misc)