Image provided by: UnknownA new mingame for the Atari 2600 called”Jetman”. This game is already a bit older (released in early May, but i somehow did not recognized it). Author notes:

I have attached the ROM (and source code) for my second Atari 2600 1K minigame to this message. The idea for this game came about while I was working on a new missile routine for Hunchy. The actual game was inspired by JetPac on the VIC 20 (and other platforms). The aim is simply to collect fuel for the rocket ship, and avoid the missiles. The controls are left/right and thrust (fire button).

I didn’t have space for a score or energy indicator, so the sky is used instead. The height of the sky indicates your energy level (you die when the sun sets), and the colour of the sky indicates the game level. There are 16 levels in total, and the sky colour changes every second level. The number of missiles, and the quantity of fuel that you need to collect increases on every level.

Anyway, let me know what you think. I’m not sure that the gameplay is quite there yet, so if you have any suggestions then I will be happy to hear them.

Chris

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=69026

The recently held GBAX 2005 is over for a while now and finally the results are out too. For more information check the link below.http://www.gbax.com/gbax2005/GBAX2005rr.html

This is the third release of Sasq’s ebook reader. After the first alpha and beta 1, here is beta 2 now with the following changes:

New font handling, reader tries to find best available fonts

Font and size changable runtime

Better conversion tools

Keymapping completely configurable

Bookmarks Set&Go functions

http://emuholic.emuboards.com/…

“Y”has released an updated version of his SNES9x port for the PSP.

http://ypspdev.hp.infoseek.co.jp/

There is now ONE week left for the fifth PD Roms Coding Competition. Fore rules etc please check the link below. If you have not started yet, it might be a good time 🙂 It’s a themed topic competition but even a not very skilled coder should be able to create an entry in a few hours 🙂 First Prize is a GameKing with few games.http://www.pdroms.de/pdrc3_33-rules.php

Ampage comes up with an improved version of his PSPuzzle game.

ADDITIONS:

Animated sliding tiles.

Random puzzle generator.

Time keeping.

KNOWN BUGS:

After an hour of play on one puzzle, the timer starts to display funky results (like negative times)… will fix in next update.

Apparently people have noticed home button crashes… I have not experienced any, but will keep a look out.

PLANNED ADDITIONS

PAUSE functions

Load/Save.

Sound.

More/Better graphics. (including graphical puzzles)

http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=38242

Jim updated his YM music module player for the PSP. While the first version had the module hardcoded into the binary, this release adds a file browser.http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.php?t=2551

As pre-announced today morning, the author of PSP Weather released v1.05 with the following changes and fixes:

pspWeather v1.05 released! Source code is also included as promised (sorry it’s nothing special, looks sloppy).

It’s been brought to my attention that using menu to exit sometimes doesn’t work. Please use the ‘O’ button to exit the weather application until I pinpoint the problem. Menu button disabled in 1.05.

Do not rename the folders for pspWeather. It will not read the config file if you do so, this will be also looked at in a later time. Sorry about the inconvenience

Sorry for the extremely plain website, I’ll make something nicer later

http://mcdongle.i8.com/

Franxis improved his MAME port for the GP32 a lot. The source-code and a binary are available from it’s official page. The changes are:

New MAME GP32 1.3:

By TheGrimReaper (thank you for all your hard work!!!):

Support for 22 vector Atari games: Asteroids (rev 1), Asteroids (rev 2), Asteroids Deluxe (rev 2), Black Widow, Battle Zone, Battle Zone (alternate version), Gravitar, Lunar Lander (rev 1), Lunar Lander (rev 2), Major Havoc (rev 2), Major Havoc (rev 3), Major Havoc (Return to Vax), Quantum (rev 1), Quantum (rev 2), Red Baron, Space Duel, Star Wars, Tempest (rev 1), Tempest (rev 2), Tempest (rev 3), Tempest Tubes, The Empire Strikes Back

Support for 5 Centipede hardware Atari games: Centipede (rev 2), Centipede (rev 3), Millipede, Qwak (prototype), Warlords

Support for a new System 1 Atari game: Peter Pack-Rat

Improvements in the analog controls support

Sound streaming: Some errors captured to be able to run all games with”Not Emulated”sound option

Multiplayer improvements

Small changes in the frontend

Gauntlet: Improve the display of the game, part of the screen was missing

Missile Command: Improve the controls by correcting Up/Down and changing the order of the Fire Buttons

By Franxis:

M6809 and Z80 emulators optimized

M68000 optimized and the timing has been tricked to gain some speed

Sound streaming: RC Filter removed to gain speed

YM2203 emulator: Sound gain and volume corrected in several drivers to be more clear (taken from MAME 0.37)

Psycho Nicks Oscar&The Real GhostBusters: Added sound (taken from MAME 0.35b1). However there are problems with new joystick controls code and Psycho Nicks Oscar is slowed a lot when a direction in the pad is pressed

Arkanoid: Controls corrected

Defender: Change direction with L button

Emulator compiled with DevKitARM r13. Compilation parameters optimized

Better control of underclock for normal CPU’s and audio CPU’s

By TheGrimReaper and Franxis:

A new option to save the emulator configurations

http://www.talfi.net/gp32_franxis/

HuE is a PCE/TG-16 emulator for the PSP. You can download the release from:

http://hue-e.hp.infoseek.co.jp/