Miscellaneous News
The results are out! Judging was done by Kedo (GP32 Coder: Xump, BattleShips) and EvilDragon/GP32x. Kedo took over my job as I had to work more than expected, thanks! The competition would have had only one prize, but as I am having a good day today, we give out TWO prizes.Evildragon’s votes:
1. Beer Belly Bill 22. SubMission3. Lost Temple of Ra4. GPDigger5. LightsOut6. Time Invaders7. Mr. CatFlap8. Chopper9. Adjustris10. Jumping Jim11. Hover Bovver12. SubAttack13. Snake3D14. TetMan
Kedo’s votes:
1 SubMission by Tomasz2 Beer Belly Bill 2 by Widdy3 Jumping Jim by Alekmaul4 Adjustris by tbsp5 Lightsout by Lupin6 GP Digger by Aoyama7 Chopper by Jum8 Lost Temple Of RA (ISO) by blastar9 Subattack by The Black Frog10 Tetman v0.02 by Kaneda11 Time Invaders v0.02 by Haroldo12 Hover Bovver by Neil Balmer13 Mr Catflap by digitaljez14 Snake 3D by Fonzie
That means: The prize winning entries are”Beer Belly Bill 2″and”SubMission”. The winners will be informed by myself right after I made this posting :)Thanks to everyone who submitted an entry. This was the last competition held by PDRoms for a long while now.You can download the entries from:http://www.pdroms.de/database/files/compos/pdrc3_33_submissions/The entries page is here:http://www.pdroms.de/pdrc3_33-submissions.php
Syn-Z updated his Megadrive/Genesis emulator for the PSP.
http://syn-k.sakura.ne.jp/dgen_psp/
This PSP program is a Maze Generator routine written in a few lines. The readme says:
Yes folks, this is the world’s smallest and simplest maze generator. The algorithm is only 3-5 lines of code! I originally invented the algorithm when I was in elementary school and I thought maybe someone out there can appreciate how simple algorithms can actually create complex patterns. Think of it as fractal for mazes or mandelbrot for mazes, where a simple formula can generate complex patterns.
Note that the font affects the look of the maze, so get a font that has slashes that extends to the corners. The default PSP one leaves gaps. Tilt your PSP slightly for common viewing angle. Re-runthe program for another maze. Source is included.
http://www.edepot.com/algorithm.html
Image provided by: attendoTwird is the first attempt of attendo to write a game for the Atari 2600. It’s about 22% finished. Thanks to Eugene Esterly III for the news.
http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=73602
belial has updated his Breakout game for the Atari 2600. Release notes:
Okay, here is now the final version of my arkanoid clone. I dont think i will continue working on it, its rather complete. The only thing left is paddle support, but i have at the moment problems implementing this. The game itself contains 10 levels, has some sound, etc… I wasnt able to play it with stella, becoz stella thinks its NTSC, i dont know why. But on real atari 2600 or with z26 it worked fine. If some people are interested, i can code a level editor to load new levels into the bin file. Let me know your opinions about the final game and if u want a level editor.
http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=73380
cd-w has updated his game”Hunchy II”. Changes:
OK, here is a small update to the 4K version of Hunchy 2. It now has a better version of the tune and a bit more polish. This is probably it for now unless any more bugs come to light.
http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=72308
Image provided by: potatoheadpotatohead has released his first game for the Atari 2600 called”Ooze”.http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=73824
WonDerS v1.0 is a port of an Wonderswan/Color emulator to the Nintendo DS. This first release is slow and comes with one freeware game.”Wondersnake”is already merged with the binary. Unfortunatly you can not choose or attach any other Wonderswan/Color game yet.http://www.pdroms.de/file_details.php?fn=2530
snesDS has been updated again. This version has changes using the Mode7 modus.http://home.utah.edu/%7Eu0422123/snesDS/
Todays Dual-Tetris release has been bugfixed. More information plus download at:http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=8042