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Grafoon is an ‘Arcade Style Puzzle Shooter’ with a lot of classic elements like: Doors/Keys, Mines ( including chain reactions ), various walls with different behavior, laser barrier, nasty enemies and a lot more…

The main target is to pick up all Hobbels and bring them home to advance to the next map. Don’t touch the walls, they will destroy your ship. Touching enemies or enemy shots drain you ships energy. Collect green gems to increase your ships energy…

Changes:

– added moving walls
– added hobbel carrier enemy ( this enemy drops a hobbel if killed )
– added timed doors ( opens for 5 seconds if the ‘key-switch’ is touched or shot )
– hobbel speed-up ( pressing the ‘Y’ key increases the hobbel speed )
– support for ‘external’ maps via DLDI interface
– 27 level ( 9 tutorial maps, 8 built in map, 10 maps in an external level set, wich requires DLDI patch )
– larger maps ( support for variable map size )
– scoring item
– custom control configuration
– high score list
– more sounds
– some bug fixes

Discussion: http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=15601

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TodayThemeChanger is a theme changer for Pocket PC’s.

Quote from mb286:

Hello all,

i have been looking for a way to set my todat theme to a TSK file that is not located in the //windows , //My documenst folder or the root of a storage card. There are already a few programs out there that can do this (like mortscript and ShantzTodayChanger) but i just wanted a simple program that displays a browse dialog and lets me just select a TSK file to set as the today theme.

So i just made my own, i’m posting it here just in case someone else wants something like this.

usage:
just copy to your device ands start the program.
Select a TSK file (does not matter where the location is).
Click apply and you are all set 🙂

I would like to enhance the program that it displays a preview after a tsk file is selected. but that is something i need to figure out…

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Auto Lock (CSDEVCTRL) is another auto locking program which utilizes the Windows Locking for partial locking (phone related keys are active) or complete locking (no keys are active).

Changes:

11/08 – v3.26 – Various fixes (Backlight dimming, in-call etc)

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As reported last week, Cotsz is working on a new Nintendo DS game, which he previously wrote for Amiga.

A first binary is out, but the game is entirly unplayable. The “s” after the version number stands for “sprites and scrolling” and reflects what you can expect in this early stage of the game.

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Change your system default tool without registry editing! Just copy your favorite fonts to a folder placed in the root and run ppcChangeFonts. No install required.

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A visual novel game engine by tommybomb.

Release Notes:

Warning: The following material contains adult concepts, viewer discretion is advised.

Game: Visual Novel Hentai Game Engine (VNHGE)
State: V0.3
Source: Open Source
Developer: tommybomb (tbag)

Engine Implementations:
Developers Screen
Menu
Chapters with chapters splash
Page engine which can load backgrounds, sounds, sprites, etc.
Mini Game with stages

Info: I made this engine so other people can make their own visual novel and add their own mini games. At first I intended it to be a hentai game, but then soon decide to turn it into an engine which other people could use. You can do what ever you want with it. Change it, Fix it, Reorganise it, whatever. Credit is appreciated but there is no need since the PAlib community are the ones who helped me build it. I have reset all the background blank with text(to tell you what they are for) for you to implement yourself. I have censored the mini game for you to make yourself, its just an example mini game.

Credits:
PAlib Community
tommybomb(tbag)

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Pandora news, hot and directly from it’s source:

Hello everyone, Craig here,

It’s been a busy month and if you visit the forums I’m sure you will have been following all the recent news posted there, if not Chip has made a great sticky post with all the little nuggets of information we post which is updated almost imeditelly, well worth checking out.

Now, interesting news for those of you who didn’t get a MK0 dev kit, TI have now started taking orders for the Beagle board OMAP3 development kit. It shares some main parts with the Pandora and those of you eager to get in to the development scene can buy one of these now, check out their site for more info, programs written on the Beagle should be quite easy to port over to the Pandora, it is certainly the closest thing to a Pandora devboard you can currently buy on the open market.

Now, there have been a lot of videos posted in the last few weeks of Pandora dev kits running software, here are the direct links to some and we will post a highlights video soon.

A Jaguar emulator running Tempest2000 by Firefox.

Notaz running Megadrive and MegaCD games without a frame limiter. Seeing sonic going at 200FPS is quite entertaining.

Quake2 running in software mode (not using the 3D hardware yet, but still pushing 60fps).

SNES running Chrono Trigger without a frame limiter.

Now, another area which has a lot of strong opinions is the Pandora default GUI.

The original plan was keep the GUI simple and put as much time and effort in to gettting as much cool software running as possible, but after a poll we have changed direction.

Since most potential customers seem to want a more advanced GUI as standard it’s likely the default will be kDrive (X11 derivative) and any CPU intensive apps/games/emus can just kill kDrive when ran, set their CPU speed, have the system to themselves and just reload kDrive on exit.

For less CPU intensive games/apps/emus they can just run within X, so you can have your desktop like GUI (if you chose to set it up like that) with multitasking (ideal for browsers, media, chat).

Currently the Pandora defaults to 500mhz. As we know it can clock a lot higher. You will be able to change that to whatever you like, as you may have read the battery life is looking like it will be even longer than the estimated 10 hours, and clever CPU speed changes will be the key to optimising this even further.

We will have a real final MK0 Pandora complete with case later this month for photo goodness, if you write for a website or magazine and want to do a feature please get in touch.

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

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TehSkeen founded a new subpage dedicated to the upcomming Pandora gaming handheld.

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DJB has updated Pandora Deluxe to v0.3. This application automates the process of making a magic memory stick for your Pandora into a very easy and noob friendly process.

Changes:

– Included Despertar Cementerio v6
– Changed the conifgration of the way the PSP boots

Thanks to blazingwolf / http://www.tehskeen.com for the news.

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Redbird has has added another NAND dumper to the Wii scene.

Thanks to blazingwolf / http://www.tehskeen.com for the news.

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