xRick is a clone of Rick Dangerous.

Way before Lara Croft, back in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, Rick Dangerous was the Indiana Jones of computer games, running away from rolling rocks, avoiding traps, from South America to a futuristic missile base via Egypt and the Schwarzendumpf castle.

xRick is a NATIVE port to Dingoo, which does not require Dingoo Linux (Dingux), by alekmaul.

Thanks to cid2mizard for the news (and sorry for the 3 day delay :).

Discussion: http://a320.freeforums.org/rick-dangerous-for-dingoo-t841.html

http://www.portabledev.com/pages/dingoo/jeuxdev.-perso/xrickoo.php

Defendguin is a clone of the arcade game “Defender,” but with a Linux theme. Your mission is to defend little penguinoids from being captured and mutated.

http://a320.freeforums.org/defendguin-for-dingux-1-1-bomb-bug-fixed-t854.html

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.

Jeff’s page: http://www.zincland.com/powder/index.php?pagename=about

zear gave it a go for Dingux, but there are issues with the resolution (too small) and input (no button mapping). Besides that the game was playable.

Rookie1 updated his menu system for Dingoo Linux which resembles the default Dingoo menu.

Release notes:

I’ve decided to make the setup easier for windows users. Please download dmenu-0.2a.zip instead. It has all the directory structure in place (/local/dmenu and /local/sbin/main). Just directly unzip this file to your SD card and it should work automatically. Enjoy

http://a320.freeforums.org/dmenu-0-2-t809.html

James Fletcher brought his mushroom collecting game “Mushroom Roulette” to the Dingoo.

Items in the game:

Red Mushroom – Gives you 50 Score and 10 Health.
Pink Mushroom – Gives you 150 Score takes 40 Health.
Grey Mushroom – Makes all movable boxes unmovable.
Purple Mushroom – Allows you to destroy one box.
Butterfly – Takes sixth of your Score and a third of your health.

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/dingoo/screenshots/1.png

notaz and A600 brought PicoDrive, a marvellous emulator for the Sega Megadrive/Genesis, to Dingoo Linux (Dingux).

The source code is linked here: http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/dingoo.cgi?0,0,0,0,46,115

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/dingoo.cgi?0,0,0,0,71,114

Gmu is a music player for the Dingoo. Gmu supports Ogg Vorbis, MP3, Musepack, FLAC and various module formats (such as s3m, stm, it, etc.). It also includes a playlist and a file browser.

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A new Dingux version has been released, which comes with a new rootfs. An EXT3 partition on the SD card is no longer needed. Actually EXT3 support has been dropped from the Dingux kernel in favor of FAT to make installing Dingux from Windows easier and reduce the kernel size. Due to other changes dynamically linked programs need to be recompiled for this Dingux version.

Here is a new Gmu release which is compatible with the latest Dingux release.

http://wejp.k.vu/gmu/new-dingux-released-gmu-update-required

Rookie1 updated his menu system for Dingoo Linux which resembles the default Dingoo menu.

Changes:

– Dynamically link against libconfuse since it’s provided by the rootfs. dmenu binary is now smaller
– Remove the mechanism to restart dmenu after the executed program has finished. This is not required anymore if you are using init to respawn dmenu.

http://a320.freeforums.org/dmenu-0-2-t809.html

Dingux System Installation pack. Contains kernels and rootfs. Uses only first FAT partition on MiniSD card.

Release notes:

Big news. Grab both from the google code download section here.

The installation pack includes the kernel images and a root filesystem in ROMFS format. You just need to place both in the root directory of the first (and most likely only) FAT partition of your miniSD card. No need for ext2/ext3 any longer, which should make Windoze users quite happy.

Another big improvement is console and file transfer. As soon as linux boots your PC will detect a new network card and it will be assigned a network address (by a DHCP server in your A320). Telnet to 10.1.0.2 to get console access, FTP to 10.1.0.2 to transfer files.

Enabling networking in the kernel adds enlarges it noticeably, but this is compensated by the removal of ext2/ext3, which is not longer needed and is quite heavy too.

Dingux will try to run the file “local/sbin/main” in your miniSD on startup, and if it exits it will respawn it. Get your menu application of choice, rename it as “main” and place it in “local/sbin” to get it running on startup.

To system menu application developers, I’d advice to use the exec call to launch other applications. The launched application will replace yours in memory (so the menu won’t be sitting silently in the background waiting for the application to end and using precious RAM), and when it exits your menu will be launched again.

I’ve tried to include as many libraries as possible in the root filesystem. If you need some library not included, link it statically as a temporary solution and email me: I’ll try to include it in the next release.

You should notice an important boot speed improvement. The initialization sequence has been optimized in many ways, but the post noticeable is the active monitoring of the miniSD detection. Now the system waits just as long as needed until the miniSD block devices are created, while before there was a fixed delay of one second (the rootdelay kernel parameter was used and the minimum value you can set is one second).

UPDATE: note that existing applications do not work on this new root filesystem. They will have to be recompiled using the new toolchain. I bet developers will catch up quickly.

http://www.dingux.com/2009/07/system-installation-pack-and-toolchain.html

Gmu is a music player for the Dingoo. Gmu supports Ogg Vorbis, MP3, Musepack, FLAC and various module formats (such as s3m, stm, it, etc.). It also includes a playlist and a file browser.

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Here is another Gmu release for the Dingoo. Most notably it fixes an annoying bug where the backlight would not turn back on after a while when the hold mode had been enabled.

http://wejp.k.vu/gmu/gmu-0-7-0_beta4-for-dingux-released