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The international non-profit just for fun game development group Retroguru is looking for helping hands! Several of their games such as Giana’s Return, Sqrxz, Sqrxz 2 and Sqrxz 3 were ported to several oldschool (but also newschool) consoles, handhelds and computers. Still they suffer to find a helping hand to support them with homebrew Wii development. Certainly they will be also happy if you can code for other systems not yet supported such as PSX or PS2, Haiku, BeOS, etc… Most up to date engine is used in Sqrxz 3 available for 18 systems! Main code was usually done by Thor using C/SDL 1.2.

As there is no budget existing and most of the team just do games as hobby there is unfortunately no more involved than credits and fame. If you are still interested check out the Retroguru’s homepage contact section. Sources are closed source, but will be of course provided once you need them.

Pandora Image Viewer (PIV) by Jon Sneyers is a simple and fast image viewer.

Features:

– Bugfixes: spaces in filenames, crashes, nub speed
– Change background color (for transparent PNGs) with “b”

XInvaders 3D is a 3D “Space Invader” style game. Ported by Loic2003.

Changes:

* v1.3.6.05: C4A fixed.

POWDER is a roguelike game, which is not a port of an existing roguelike. It is built around replayability and long term ergonomics, not short term learning. Author of this piece of software is Jeff Lait. POWDER Wii has been ported by insin.

Changes:

* Rebuilt version 117 with latest libogc to support newer remotes.

Qtractor is an audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer application written in C++ with the Qt4 framework. Ported to Pandora by Canseco.

Changes:

– Compiled autotalent, hexter, caps, tap, zynadd, xsynth-dssi plugins.

EgoTrip comes up with the follow up to Subtera Puzlo! Jewel Warehouse is a new puzzle/platform game in development featuring 15 levels for now. The idea is to collect all the jewels on each screen then head to the exit. There are various obstacles such as spikes, fires, acid drops, and puzzles to be solved such as pushing crates to make a path, and conveyor belts.

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:

* Generic joystick buttons can now be assigned and used.
* Fixed virtual keyboard SSHIFT.
* Added accurate R register emulation, many protected boot loaders run.
* Added accurate LDIR/LDDR emulation, more protected boot loaders run.
* Added configurable auto-fire function.
* Added optional light UI theme throughout the app.
* Added support for +3 disk images to WoS Browser.
* Autoloading disks when inserting the first disk.
* Autoswitching to +3 mode when loading +3 disk.
* Fixed audio skipping.

Pandora Image Viewer (PIV) by Jon Sneyers is a simple and fast image viewer.

Features:

– 4 times faster than other viewers, feels very snappy
– full 24-bit color
– zoom from fit-to-screen (up to 1:8) to 4:1
– nubs to pan around (left nub=fast, right nub=precise)
– supports JPEG, PNG, WebP, BMP, PNM (PPM/PGM/PBM), XPM, LBM, PCX, GIF, TGA, and TIFF file formats.

Forsaken is a single/multiplayer 6DoF first person shooter. The game play is generally fast, fun, and arcade like, which lends it self to high paced competitive gameplay. Ported to Pandora by ptitSeb.

Release notes:

* Bumped version number to offical version number
* Moved “left_nub” and “right_nub” to the appdata/projectx (compatible with pndconfig)
* Fixed the problem after loading a saved game, where mouse was not grabbed

Mupen64Plus is a cross-platform plugin-based N64 emulator which is capable of accurately playing many games. Included are four MIPS R4300 CPU emulators, with dynamic recompilers for 32-bit x86 and 64-bit amd64 systems, and necessary plugins for audio, graphical rendering (RDP), signal co-processor (RSP), and input. There is 1 included OpenGL video plugin, called RiceVideo. There are 3 other excellent video plugins being maintained by wahrhaft, called Arachnoid, Glide64, and Z64.

Changes:

* Corrected Launcher, selecting Notaz Audio Plugin works now.
* Added right nub config. Invert content of left_nub and right_nub file of appdata/mupen64plus2