Currently we do have a coding competition here on PDRoms. Some people requested an extention of the deadline ( //phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=420 ) so we go for a new deadline at 9th March.

Competition running time: 24th January 2008 to 2nd March 2008
Deadline NEW: Sunday, 9th March 2008 @ 23:59, in YOUR timezone!

Systems allowed: Atari 2600, Coleco Vision, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, Game Gear, Genesis/Megadrive, GP2x, Intellivision, Master System, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), Nintendo DS, PC Engine, Playstation Portable (PSP), Wonderswan, Wonderswan Colo, Neo Geo CD

Topic: Create any kind of childproof game (no pr0n, racisms, extraordinary violence and adult humour, …) by using maximum four colors only on screen at once per scene (this could be a level, menu, etc) (also applies for dual screen systems – 2 screens count as one unit). Black, white, grey do count as color! You can choose your four colors freely. If your game features music and/or sound fx is up to you.

Good luck!

http://pdroms.de/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=59&st=0&sk=t&sd=d&start=0

JelloPhysics is a soft body library for XNA Windows and XBOX360.

Changes:

Updated to XNA Game Studio 2.0

http://walaber.com/index.php?action=showitem&id=16

Ruckage designed a cardboard arcade cabinet that is a stand for the GP2x.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?act=ST&f=41&t=40749

Seleuco and Metalbrain updated their Spectrum emulator GP2xpectrum.

Changes:

What’s new:
the big stuff added by Seleuco:
– Full tzx support. New tape code for tap and tzx formats.
– Added Tape sound emulation.
– “fast loading” option to disable speed emulation, tape sound, and contended mode while the game is loaded.
– “flash loading” option to flashload tape blocks when possible.
– “edge loading” option to accelerate game loaders dynamically.
– “Tape Auto Play/Stop” option to play/stop the tape automatically. Best for multilevel games.
– A yellow play label is shown on the screen while the tape is playing; if the label is green, the emulator has detected a loader
and is applying the “edge loader” algorithm.
– Auto “full screen off-on” when the tape is playing.
– Added a Tape browser to view/select tape blocks, play/stop the tape manually and to change the tape without resetting the speccy.
– Added the possibility to select the file to load from a zip file.
– Resized the program selection screen to allow longer file names and view the file extensions.
my humble contribution (Metalbrain):
– Added reset for +2A mode.
– Fixed a bug when loading .z80 files saved in +2A/+3 mode (the ROM wasn’t properly selected).
– To improve performance, the battery won’t get polled on F100 models when battery icon is inactive, and it gets polled less frequently when active.
– Replaced the text “ROM LIST” with “PROGRAM LIST”, and “+3 disc” with “+3 disk”.
– Updated documentation.
and the finishing touch by headoverheels:
– Compiled with profiling option.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?act=ST&f=42&t=40757

Art updated his clock/time application “Time Baby”.

Changes:

– Better display fix for wake from standby

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=135621

Ozgur Hanoi is a simple Towers of Hanoi game project aimed to produce know-how about coding games for GP2X using SDL.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,25,2493

PSPMO5 is a port on PSP of the version 11 of DCMO5. DCMO5 is one of the best emulator of the Thomson MO5 home computer running on many systems such as MacOS, Windows and Unix. It has been written by Daniel Coulom (see http://dcmo5.free.fr/ for further details).

Sources are included, and this package is under the GNU public licence v3, read COPYING.txt file for more information about it.

http://zx81.zx81.free.fr/serendipity/index.php?/archives/289-guid.html

LUAPlayer HM is a modified LUA Player for Playstation Portable by homemister91.

Features:

——New Features——

Slim and Phat Enabled.

New Functions and ability to play new audio files

——Functions——-
Sound Files able to be played
.aa3
.oma
.omg
.mp3
.ogg

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=135705

The controlls are simple, left and right and shoot. All you have to do is shoot down 60 attackers and you win. Its harder than you think though, if you miss one of them, it lays down a mine that chases you and if your lucky you can avoid it for awhile, but it will kill you. There are three levels also, all “Ascii Shui”

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=135711

Bunjalloo is a web browser for the Nintendo DS. It under active development, and can already display simple pages, follow links and view images.

Changes:

Fix clicking URL on url/image menu, as reported in issue 44

http://code.google.com/p/quirkysoft/