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There is just about one month left for the current Drunken Coders coding competition. Enough time to get something started 😉

Read on:

Just a friendly reminder that one month remains until the 2008 compo deadline has expired.

Its looking like winner take all for the Wii compo as the prize pool has leveled out at about the $100 mark.

The DS/GBA side, however, have exceeded last years cash prize pool and hovers at nearly $850. $425 for a first place finish is a pretty good haul for our friendly little competition.

On the off chance people have a few dollars to spare around the holliday season let’s see if we can raise the last $60 and put the combined prize total to $1000.

http://www.drunkencoders.com/compo/

Quirky, author of Bunjallo and other fancy homebrew software, wrote an article about how to update to the latest devkitARM without too much hassle, if you are on Linux!

Partitial quote (read the rest by visiting Quirky’s page):

The latest version of the devkitARM toolchain was released last week, and it was a biggie. A whole new API for sprites and backgrounds was added to libnds. A new default ARM7 binary was added that automatically handles wifi, sound and sleep mode. The other big addition was a new fangled sound library that adds mod playback and fancy sound effects.

This is my post on the upgrade process for Bunjalloo on Linux (Ubuntu 8.04 in particular). Hey, if you read all this and get through it, then you could probably help out hacking on Bunjalloo too 🙂

A summary for the impatient: not without hassles, but the gain is worth the short term pain.

I assume you have a directory devkitPro somewhere. This will contain devkitARM and libnds. You should set an environment variable DEVKITPRO to point to this directory. Something like this will do:

export DEVKITPRO=$HOME/devkitpro_r24
mkdir -p $DEVKITPRO

…

http://quirkygba.blogspot.com/2008/12/upgrading-to-devkitarm-r24-on-linux.html

funkystuff updated “Pong The Original”.

Changes:

Added P1 or P2 Wins dialog

Thanks to http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=122906 for the news.

http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=6279

The abbreviation pretty much covers it…

Features:

– View current existing threads, names, entry point, status.
– Pause (Suspend thread)
– Resume thread
– Dump the current existing threads into a threadsdump%d.txt

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=146372

Gemz is an SDL implementation of the popular puzzle game “Bejeweled.”

http://www.dreamcast.es/news.php?readmore=219

Slide2Unlock2 (S2U2) is a simple lock/unlock application which has the iPhone style slide unlocking. It can be used as a screensaver while you don’t use your device. And it’s has a CallerID function.

Changes:

* Compatible with v1.36.
* Option to change wallpaper directory.
* Option to change wallpaper settings.
* Option to change CallerID settings.
* Support for png & gif files in wallpaper selection.
* Now, its not necessary that s2u2 should be running before launching S2U2C.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442681

FingerMenu replaces the standard menu of windows mobile devices with a more finger-friendly one.

Changes:

v1.01) bug fix

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459125

nueGPSSecurity is an anti-theft program.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459604

PAPong is a Pong game which uses PAlib.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com for the news.

http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=6277.0

funkystuff released “Pong The Original”.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com for the news.

PS: This and the next news item is dedicated to Widdy, who is a true pong lover 😀

http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=6279.msg44737;topicseen#new