Miscellaneous News
Image provided by: gbadev.orgDonnie comes up with a first person tank game today. Release notes:
I wanted to see how fast I could do a first-person tank game for the GBA, and this is the result. I saved some time by reusing code from my last one, Collision Course, but by the end I had to rewrite and optimize a great deal to be able to display two tanks instead of one. This is once again a vector-based game, but this time in 3D wireframe. There’s a lot of Bresenham line drawing and integer division going on, so I hope it runs at a solid 60 frames per second on hardware, which it hasn’t been tested on.My only real experience with the inspiration for this game, Battlezone, was on the Atari 2600, and I’ve never operated a tank, so I’m not the best person to try doing simulations. In any case, a modified version of Atari’s arcade game Battlezone was used in U.S. Army training.
http://www.gbadev.org/index.php?ID=582
Dan Potter creator of KOS for the DC has been interviews by the guys from dciberia.net. Read the full interview by clicking the link below.http://www.dciberia.net/tiki-index.php?page=Dan+Potter
PLynx an Atari Lynx emulator for the PSP has been updated. Changes:
Added homebrew format support (.o)
Option to rotate the screen (0
Alex Zaballa has updated his port of Stella, an open source Atari 2600 emulator, for the GP2x. Be sure to check out the readme for changes, installation instructions, and other info. All source for Stella is available from the Stella homepage at http://stella.sourceforge.net/. Stella is licensed under the GPL.
http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,5,1200
Exult is a project to create an Ultima 7 game engine that runs on modern operating systems, capable of using the data and graphics files that come with the game.http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=25176
Chris Swindle has taken Peter McKay’s port of Quake and supplied Ad-hoc support which now enables multiplayer possibilities between two or more PSPs.http://dl.qj.net/…
McZonk creator of the PSP port of Quake II has released a patch to fix a few known problems. This is now the second patch available. Notes:
I still have stress with my exams but on my spare time I still love coding. So I have not time to finish real new features. But I improved Quake II a lot. So here is the second patch:
Changes:
graphic and game bug fixes, should run more stable
333 mhz support
on screen keyboard (press left trigger in input mode of console or on text fields).
player name is now saveable
http://teamemergencyexit.blogspot.com/
DS2Key sends PC Keyboard signals through WiFi so you can use your DS somewhat like a PC Gamepad.http://www.1emulation.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16953
NJ, author of NeoGeo CDZ, has now picked up his own NegGeo CD emulator to be ported to the PSP. A first beta can be downloaded from his page.
http://neocdz.hp.infoseek.co.jp/
OldPlay is a multiformat musicplayer for the GP2X by sasq. Changes:
HOLD and BLANK functions (Locks keys, turns off screen)
Configurable GUI (via config file)
Battery indicator
Shuffle play
CPU Scaling (diffrent CPU frequncies for different formats)
Settings-file (remembers volume, shuffle&repeat)
SID Songlengths (via Songlengths.txt from HVSC)
http://www.nightmode.org/oldplay/
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