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Ste, a maintainer of one of the biggest iPhone repro’s posted this on his page:

Alert – Please Read – Very Important – Pass This On

The release of the 1.1.3 firmware has caused a ton of headaches for developers and package maintainers. Many packages store media and preferences under /var/root/Media and /var/root/Library. With the release of 1.1.3, most packages will now need to store that stuff under /var/mobile/Media and /var/mobile/Library.

For developers, they have to write their apps to be firmware version aware, so that they can read/write from the correct location, depending on what firmware they are running on. For packagers, we have to install/uninstall that stuff from the right place, depending on the firmware. It’s a nightmare.

Nullriver has released the full 3.0 version – no beta any more – of Installer.app. This release allows packagers to install the stuff mentioned above into ~/Media and ~/Library and Installer.app will put it in the right place, based on the firmware of the device.

This version of Installer.app also provides packagers with the ability to check how much free space is available, before installing, so that we don’t fill up the root partition any more. It also adds features that will help in migrating applications out of /Applications to other locations. There is more – this release is really chock full of stuff to make life easier for all of us.

It is imperative that you upgrade to Installer.app 3.0 as soon as possible. By that, I mean NOW. Right now, today. I am going to start releasing package updates today that will rely on the new features. They will not install correctly on older releases of Installer.app. If you run into any trouble and find you need to manually download and install Installer.app, get it from here ( http://repository.apptapp.com/packages/System/Installer.zip ), which always points to the latest version. Other repositories will start using these new features shortly, too, so it really is in your best interest to upgrade right this minute. If you do not, and you have an issue installing any of my packages, my response will be “please upgrade, try again, and only come back if you still have a problem”.

To prevent this kind of chicken-and-egg issue in the future, one new feature in this release is the ability for the package maintainer to specify a minimum Installer.app version required for the package to install. Unfortunately, this time, we can’t really use it, because the older Installer.apps don’t understand that feature.

For a full listing of changes in this release of Installer.app, please see the “Featured” page in your current Installer.app.
-ste

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Learn Kanji on your Nintendo DS with this french education program.

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Here comes a new game from unkwar called Enigma.

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Here is a new version of PSP7800 the Atari 7800 console emulator!

Changes:

– Major speed improvements (> 60 fps at 222Mhz)
but limited at 50fps by default
– Auto-fire mode, press RTrigger+X to switch it on/off
useful for games such as space Xevious !
On given games, the auto fire can’t be stopped easily
(so you might have to disable it several times)
– It uses now only PSP GU for rendering
– IR keyboard support
(pretty useless, but don’t forget, i’m a shadok)
– Add several new hotkeys :
. settings such as fps, render mode, auto fire speed
can now be directly modified inside the emulator
(no need to enter in the settings menu)
. quick save / quick load current state
(no need to enter in the main menu)
– RTrigger/LTrigger keys can be used in the keyboard
settings menu to navigate between Normal, LTrigger
and RTrigger compose mapping.
– Analog pad can be used in the rom file requester
– Default Hotkeys can now be set in the keyboard mapping menu
(useful to add hotkeys on existing/previous keyboard files)
– Bug fix in the low battery watchdog

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News from bdev13:

Release notes:

CastleAttack is my tribute to Warlords (one of my favorite Atari 2600 games). The object of the game is to protect your castle from the ricocheting fireball while trying to destroy your opponents’ castles.

One to four players can play at once (the cpu assumes the remaining positions). There are three difficulty levels.

This project was developed using XNA 2.0 so you may need to download the update before you can load this project into your environment.

Full source is included. Versions for Windows and XBox 360 are included. I didn’t include the contents of the bin folder for the 360 (so that the zip file was small enough to be uploaded) so you’ll need to build the 360 version before deploying to your 360 (which you would probably want to do anyway)

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PSPMud is a mud client for the psp, based on Danzel’s Peldet 0.8.

Other release notes:

use D-Pad for basic movement (North, East, South and West)
Square = Enter Key (needed for scrolling pages)
Circle = OSK for entering your commands

you can connect to servers either by manually entering their address,
or by entering them into the provided servers.txt, so you only
have to choose them at programm startup.

more features in upcoming versions

PSPMud is compiled for Kernel 3.x

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ZodTTD and Senor Quack updated their port of TTD.

Changes:

* You can now push and hold Control anywhere on a window and drag it. This
allows complete use of windows that won’t all fit on the small GP2X screen like Difficulty
Settings and Patch Configuration. Credits for some of the code goes to the PSP port author,
Jaime Penalba.
* Cleaned up window placements of difficulty settings and patch configuration.
* Fixed cut-off text and windows in newspaper articles.
* Added TTD’s UNICODE TTF support, made TTF font drawing default to better
support foreign languages (all except Asian languages which will need a
separate TTD2X add-on pack)
* Added cheat menu hotkey: A+B+X+Y
* Added new command-line parameters:
1.) -p XX changes the normal cursor movement rate to XX, values can be 1-29
2.) -P XX changes the fast cursor movement rate to XX, values can be 1-29
(defaults for both of these are 3 and 12 respectively)
3.) -X (capital X) allows swapping of triggers when in F200 controls mode
to be mouse clicks instead of the usual Control/Shift keys.
This is to answer a request from a few users.

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cid2mizard updated his Super Mario themed space shoter fangame for Nintendo DS.

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Moose at Play updated his hockey game.

Changes:

Added multiplayer buttons Join and Host
Added DS-DS initialization
Extra update when performing screen switches
Now drawing right before the V-Blank
Added status text on connection error
Wireless no longer turns on before it is supposed to

Thanks to http://www.dev-fr.org for the news.

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Risike has released a new puzzle game for the Nintendo DS.

Thanks to http://www.dev-fr.org for the news.

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