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silent_code updated the Volumetric Shadow (Tech)Demo (formerly know as the “Stencil Shadow Demo” and later “Volume Shadow Demo”). This version is very likely to be the final one.

The demo shows how to use a bunch of NDS features and some otherwise handy lines of source code, like:

– Hardware accelerated volumetric shadowing – mini-tutorial included!
– Motion blur with video capture, using only one VRAM bank, at 60 FPS
– Hardware lighting, texturing, fogging, antialiasing etc.
– Display brightness control
– Viewport scissoring (thanks to gabebear)
– Loading binary and text files from disk
– Converting 24/32bit .tga image data to 16bit NDS textures
– Displaying a custom font and a text area over a background image, all loaded from disk
– Smooth touch input
– Simple frame rate counting and renderer status display

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=12873

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Every wanted to have an easy way to learn the for your driving licence? Here is a possibility, at least for our german visitors. The German Licence Trainer File for 2008 is included and working, everyone can now create such file for every country.

Changes:

-HOTFIX: Question Pack Only 1 Question

Video in action: http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=CeWu1sJmDIA

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=371306

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This is a animated clock and weather flash theme, it works only of you have flash installed and a today plugin like ANIMATED TODAY.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=403706

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This application allows you to read large Text (.txt,.text), Palm Doc (.pdb), Mobipocket (.pdb,.prc,.mobi), Plucker (.pdb), HTML (.htm,.html), and Fiction Book (.fb2) files quickly and efficiently on the iPhone/Touch. This application doesn’t have the fancy formatting of ruBooks or Books.app, but it can quickly load and display large text files that currently cause Books.app or other UI Text View/Web View based apps problems. If you want to load books quickly and read text, this may be the app for you.

Changes:

* Add support for RAR files (make sure the eXecute bit is set for /Applications/textReader.app/unrar)

Note: Books.app http://code.google.com/p/iphoneebooks/ and ruBooks http://colel.info/rubooks/ provide a formatted display of text and images. If you are willing to break up your book into smaller chapters they may also be options.

http://code.google.com/p/iphonetextreader/

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uMSX is a port of fMSX to PSP, by Uguru.

Indirectly thanks to http://www.dreamcast-germany.de for the news.

http://www.developia.info/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19

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Uguru has also released a port of fMSX to the Dreamcast, two days ago. uMSX is already in an pretty advanced stage and is worth a try out.

Thanks to http://www.dreamcast-germany.de/ and http://www.developia.info/ for the news.

http://www.developia.info/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=19

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ron has released an first alpha of his fMSX port for Dreamcast.

Thanks to http://www.dreamcast-germany.de and http://www.dreamcast.es for the news.

http://www.dreamcast.es/news.php?readmore=105

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This application allows you to read large Text (.txt,.text), Palm Doc (.pdb), Mobipocket (.pdb,.prc,.mobi), Plucker (.pdb), HTML (.htm,.html), and Fiction Book (.fb2) files quickly and efficiently on the iPhone/Touch. This application doesn’t have the fancy formatting of ruBooks or Books.app, but it can quickly load and display large text files that currently cause Books.app or other UI Text View/Web View based apps problems. If you want to load books quickly and read text, this may be the app for you.

Changes:

* Add option to wrap searches
* Add option to have search match words (i.e. ‘he’ will not match ‘the’). Words are assumed to be delimited by blanks, CR/LF, or punctuation characters.
* Add option to reverse the file scroll direction (i.e. swipe left to right for next, or right to left for next)
* Percentage is updated when scrolling while the “title/info/navigation bar” is displayed Cached ZIP and CHM files are displayed where they should be instead of being grouped with directories Ideographic blanks are used when indenting paragraphs.
* File Scroll can be used even if Smooth scroll is not selected

Note: Books.app http://code.google.com/p/iphoneebooks/ and ruBooks http://colel.info/rubooks/ provide a formatted display of text and images. If you are willing to break up your book into smaller chapters they may also be options.

http://code.google.com/p/iphonetextreader/

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DragonMedia Player is a native Wii application with the intent of being a multi-source media player on the Wii.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/DragonMedia_Player

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Yabause Wii is a Sega Saturn emulator for Wii and is the first of its kind as emulating the complex processes of the Sega Saturn is much harder then it looks and now even harder to run it on the limited hardware of the Wii.

Yabause Wii can now run a small number of commercial games at usable speeds (5-10fps) were it is still possible to play the game.

Release notes:

01 July 08: Yabause Wii Ac_K Modification, a little optimisation of Yabause by Ac_K. Download here: http://ack.gtapro.com/public/Wii/Yabause/Yabause_Wii_by_Ac_K.zip

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Homebrew_apps/Yabause_Wii

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