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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.

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

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.

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 … Read more

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.

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 … Read more

TO8D Emulator is a Thomson TO8D Emulator, based on DCMOTO from Daniel Coulom. Changes: No changelog

Nighttime Bastards is a work-in-progress game for NES by picccca, a developer from Finland. We first wrote about this game a half year ago, now the whole engine has been rewritten. It’s still far from being complete, but you may want to follow the current status. There is also a discussion on NESdev going on. Release notes: The new improved … Read more

Speccy is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer emulator. It will run software written for Spectrum 16k, 48k, 128k, +2, +2A, +3, Timex Sinclair, Pentagon, and Skorpion home computers. Changes: * Added initial portrait mode orientation (set Video->Orientation in the menu). * Optimized assembler rendering routines for portrait mode resolutions. * Fixed crashes on Samsung Galaxy S2. * The Android … Read more

Micro Manager by mehdok is an open source file manager for Android systems, developed under GPL v3 License. Changes: * persian language was added * user option for changing text size * user option for changing text color * two color background * user option for changing background color