SCI, which Sierra referred to as both the “SCript Interpreter” and the “Sierra Creative Interpreter”, is a p-machine style virtual machine for executing platform-independant, object-oriented code. SCI was designed for 16 bit little endian computers, although there were later attempts to create 32 bit versions, LSCI, and SCI32. SCI was exclusively used by Sierra On-Line, Inc., to run its computer game series, with titles like Leisure Suit Larry 2-7, Space Quest 3-6, King’s Quest 4-6, Quest for Glory 1-4, and several others.

FreeSCI can decompress and load SCI0 resource files, load and link position-independant SCI scripts, execute SCI bytecode, display SCI0 pic, view, and cursor graphics, draw text according to information stored in the font resource, interpret SCI0 sound resources, and provide input events to the SCI bytecode. In short, it can run SCI0 games.

Thanks to Hooka for the E-Mail, informing us about this marvellous update of FreeSCI for GP2x.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,1,2690

Kiwiz has updated his game Double Battles. This game is about a duel between two players.

Changes:

– Music added.
– Visual aspect renewed.
– Now the 2 players can shoot.

http://www.gp32spain.com/

Eskema released his shooter game Comando Suicida 2 for GP2x.

Quote:

Greetings, here its my new game, its basically a shooter for those bored moments, so your mission is quite simple, kill all the enemies and wait for your reinforcements to complete the missions

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=44443

OpenBOR (Open Beats of Rage) is an open source engine to play Beats of Rage.

Beats of Rage is a freeware open source video game and moddable game engine made by Senile Team ( http://www.senileteam.com/beatsofrage.html ) and inspired by Sega’s classic Streets of Rage series. The term “moddable” means that the program allows users to create their own content, and thus their own beat-’em-up game, which is then called a “mod”.

Beats of Rage was first made available for download November 2003. It was not advertised in any way other than by word of mouth, yet it soon gained enormous popularity. OpenBOR is now managed by the guys at Lava Lit.

Thanks to www.dcemu.co.uk for the news.

Download: //files/1868/

http://www.lavalit.com/index.php

Homebrewgames.org are holding a Crap Games Coding Competition. Deadline is the 31th October 2008. Check out the full announcement via the link below.

Quote:

Well, the time has come for HomebrewGames.org’s first official competition, organised by none other than I, CongoZombie. You may be wondering what such a competition may involve? Why would anyone want to spend their time making something that is crap? Well, possible answers to the first question include “because it is fun” and “why not?”.

Thanks to www.emuboards.com for the news.

http://www.homebrewgames.org/cgc/

Senor Quack released the source code of his Abuse port for the GP2x. Abuse is a famous side-scrolling run and gun game originally released for DOS and Linux in 1996. It features beautiful pixel art, lighting effects, many weapons, and is a real challenge even on normal difficulty.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,46,2688

Ledow ported Chaos to the GP2x.

Release notes:

A GP2X conversion of Quirky’s GBA port of the Spectrum version of Chaos. (Phew)!

The gameplay should be very similar to the original Spectrum version because a lot of the code was based on Spectrum disassemblies.

Original code from: www.geocities.com/quirky_2k1

Tweaked and recompiled to run on the GP2X by Ledow.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,3,2687

Mario lift dodging game written in Fenix by Snurty. Fenix runtime included in the file.

Release notes:

This is my first game and whilst I have tried to capture all the bugs if you find any please post on the GP2x archive notes.

http://archive.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,35,2686

Hooka conducted an interview with Senor Quack. Senor Quack ported Ur-quan Masters and Koules to the GP2x. He also improved ZodTTD’s Open Transport Tycoon port.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=44159

OpenBOR (Open Beats of Rage) is an open source engine to play Beats of Rage.

Beats of Rage is a freeware open source video game and moddable game engine made by Senile Team ( http://www.senileteam.com/beatsofrage.html ) and inspired by Sega’s classic Streets of Rage series. The term “moddable” means that the program allows users to create their own content, and thus their own beat-’em-up game, which is then called a “mod”.

Beats of Rage was first made available for download November 2003. It was not advertised in any way other than by word of mouth, yet it soon gained enormous popularity.
OpenBOR is now managed by the guys at Lava Lit.

Thanks to wraggster of some banner and product placement blown page called http://www.dcemu.co.uk for the news, who claimed to be the first one who has found this marvellous news. God bless you for your sharp eyes!

At both pages, Lava Lit and DCemu you need to register to get the file, you may bypass this by downloading the desired version locally from PDRoms, in particular here: //files/1868/

Thanks to kedo for the file upload!

http://www.lavalit.com/index.php