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iQuran v1.06 (iPhone misc)

iQuran – the Mobile Quran (Koran/Coran) Recitation software for iPhones and iPod Touch.

iQuran offers its users the Complete Quran in Arabic along with its various translations. Specially designed to allow easy reading with easy scrolling, iPhone style. With excellent built-in audio capabilities, iQuran utilizes these to provide a very satisfying recitation playback experience, with verse for verse recitation along with auto-scrolling and verse highlighting.

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iPray v1.03 (iPhone Application)

iPray native Prayer Times, Athan/Azan and Qibla direction software for iPhones and iPod touch (previously known as iAthan). Get daily prayer (salat/salah/namaz) timings for your local city along with Qibla direction, distance and athan (azaan/azan) now on iPhone and iPod Touch!

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Placamaster 68k v1.30 (Genesis misc)

tomman has relased an update to his “Venezuelan license plate generator” for the Genesis/MegaDrive.

Changes:

– Full code rewrite in the latest and greatest BasiEgaXorz version (1.24_rev3):
+ Plate generation engine and customizer module 99% free of nasty bugs
+ Rewrite using subs/functions – up to 5% slower, but easier to mantain
+ Replaced most string handling functions (Left$/Mid$) by direct string array handling – faster and less prone to crashes
– NEW: You can now select the state for MINFRA plates with custom serials! Or if you want, you can still use state autodetection, based on the plate’s serial (now plate-type dependant)
– Now customized serials (and those from plates shorter than 7 characters) are perfectly centered into the plate
– Customized serials max length now depend on the plate type
– Fixed a minor bug in plate information: Miranda/Merida state plates were being detected with the “wrong” state (crossed wires
– Minor fixes here and there for minimize those annoying “artifacts” on scene “transition”/drawing routines
– Minor redesign to the font used to draw plate serials: more cleaner and rounder

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Mandelbrot Wii (Wii misc)

This is a Mandelbrot set generator available for Wii and Windows platforms.

Useage:

You can load it with Front SD ELF Loader, I haven’t tried the other possibilities but they should work.
A – zoom
control pad – move
L,R – change palette
X,Y – change number of iterations – use to get more details
start + Z – resets to loader

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GPU v0.0.5 (XBOX 360 misc)

tmbinc has updated his GPU library.

Release notes:

First, here are the promised slides for my Breakpoint 2008 presentation about รขโ‚ฌล“Gaming Consoles for demoscenersรขโ‚ฌย: breakpoint-2008-slides.pdf

Then, Iรขโ‚ฌโ„ขve updated my GPU library a bit. The biggest thing was a rewrite of the interface, so now itรขโ‚ฌโ„ขs all encapsulated into a nice API. Iรขโ‚ฌโ„ขve also added some features (stencil buffer ops, drawing with index buffers), and fixed a LOT of bugs (for example vfetch patches on more complex shaders). The updated GPU library, included the mentioned รขโ‚ฌล“spinning cubeรขโ‚ฌย example, is available.

Also, Iรขโ‚ฌโ„ขve ported some existing code to my library. A simple test scene looks like this:

This is a per-pixel lighting shader with stencil-based shadow volumes – and obviously 3 cubes. I thought it looked nice enough to put it here.

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