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atariland2600 in the house again, with another update of his children’s game port “Kindercomp” to the Atari 2600.

Release notes:

And now, ladies and gentlemen, I give to you Subtraction! Choose between addition and subtraction with the left difficulty switch. I did see the problem that popped up about the number 7 and fixed it. Any comments about the game so far would be appreciated.
(By the way, you can skip the intro and go directly to the game I’m working on at the moment by pressing FIRE at the Spinnaker screen.)

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Books.app is a simple eBook reader for the iPhone. It reads HTML and text files stored in your Media/EBooks folder, and is smart enough to enter subdirectories, if, for instance, you’ve broken a book down by chapters.

Changes:

New in version 1.3!
Super scrolling! Tap the screen once (as in making the toolbars appear and disappear) and you’ll see a slider, which will allow you instantaneous access anywhere in the file. (It also gives a good indication of how far you’ve read within the file.) Thanks to everyone who requested this.

More fonts available from the Preferences pane! Every font on your iPhone, except those known to not work (mostly variants of American Typewriter, at least as of firmware 1.0.2). For a psychadelic experience, try DB_LCD_Temp-Black.ttf.

A buttload more text encoding choices. Practically everything available.

Change the speed of single-tap scrolling in Preferences! Thanks to Ric Ewing for the suggestion.

Tables no longer foul up the screen width. Currently they’re rendered as preformatted text. There will be an option to turn this off in later versions.

If your book has cover art, it will appear as the splash screen while the book is loading on startup. Remember, put a cover.jpg, cover.png, or cover.gif in your book’s folder to take advantage of this.

Added a donate button to the About box. Because you always need more guilt.

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NES.app lets you play Nintendo games on your iPhone. It is a fully functional, feature-rich Nintendo emulator.

Changes:

[nervegas] Fixed vertical scrolling; fixed minor glitches in some games
[nervegas] Show all 240 scanlines
[nervegas] Palette tweaks to fix zapper for some palettes

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Wizlon has updated his NDS application Tabbed to v0.12 – earlier this day there was a release of v0.10.

This app is a guitar chord finder for NDS.

Release notes for v0.12:

Another version? Yep. This one includes some changes to the chord browser, it’s now more stable, Also the tab viewer is a bit more functional (although more buggy) and displays a tab over both screens with the ability to set the tab scrolling so you can play along easier (Press A to start). More updates soon.

changelog

v0.12 – Bug with chord browser fixed, now the whole thing doesn’t crash when going back to the folder view
Tab viewer improved ever so slightly, now you can view the tab on both the screens
Tab viewer also has a very basic tab scroller so the whole tab scrolls down slowly allowing you to play along with the song hands free (Press A to start it)

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SNEmulDS is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System emulator (in short SNES) for Nintendo DS.

Release notes:

The preview-alpha version of SNEmulDS 0.6 is now available for all the brave testers around the world!

The GUI artworks are not ready, so you have a “naked” and not very pretty GUI, but at least, you have the multi languages support!

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Mupen64GC is a port of Mupen64 for the Gamecube/Wii.

Release notes:

mupen64gc_alpha_r46 – Compiled code from SVN Code version 46. “DVD Loading Build”

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Akop Karapetyan has updated Atari800 PSP which is an Atari 800, 800XL, 130XE and 5200 emulator for PlayStation Portable.

Changes:

This release adds the ability to switch or eject disks without resetting the system

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TTYman has updated his MAME port.

Release notes:

Specific Features:
– Based on latest GP2X MAME4All releases v4.7;
– 480×272 full PSP Hires Support, now games with >320 orizz. and >240 vert. pixels are fully playable (Loderun, Galaga etc.);
– Overclock support, from 133 to 333 MHz;
– Fixed, Fixed Divided by 2, Software Scaled and Software Full Screen Stretched resolutions (all maximum 480×272);
– Frameskip as GP2X version (fixed 0-5, auto 1-5);
– Vsync on/off;
– Save configuration support, default and per game;
– 22KHz with 16 voices predefined sounds, 33KHz and 44KHz frequencies with 4, 8 and 16 voices combinations added;
– Preliminary analog support;
– Autocentering fix for all resolutions;
– Optimized compiled code as derived from GP2X version, but for PSP cpu (fastest graphics core!);
– Stripped & Packed executable, only 2.1MB;
– Original graphics theme from Gold edition;
– Music in menu (filename music.psp in data folder), in these supported formats: .MOD, .S3M, .IT, .XM and .OGG;
– Added, as bonus, 1st classified OldSkool at Assembly 2007 Music Competition (Commodore 64 based), in .OGG format;
– Graphic theme 480×272 BMP skins support, both pspmenu480.bmp and pspsplash480.bmp in folder skins;

Specific Controls:
– Button SELECT: Insert credits.
– Button START: Play.
– Button HOME: after Pause exit game and return to menu.
– Buttons L+R: Activate/deactivate screen fixed/fixed div2/scale/stretch.
– Buttons L+R pressed during one second: Pause.
– Buttons L+HOME simultaneously: Reset emulation.

Fixed from 4.7r2:
– Sounds now are near arcade perfect, with minor gliches in some sound chips emulations;
– Gold (CPS1, System16 and Neogeo) specific emulations are now stand-alone, as require different z80 cpu implementation;
– Improved performance with sounds, oldies with 0 frame skip and vsync on, others with auto-1 and auto-2;

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MobileTetrominos is a clone of a certain famous falling block game for the iPhone.

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The team of MobileTetris was forced to change their name because of using the copyrighted name “Tetris” in their product.

Author notes:

NOTICE
Due to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, we have been forced to change our name, which was, unfortunately, in the URL. The site, with all of the name changes, has been relocated to http://tetrominos.googlecode.com

DMCA
We love you, DMCA. Please, everyone, take a second to drop Senator Orrin Hatch a line. He made this all possible. (He’s my home state Senator.) (Note: I respect copyright. I don’t mind being asked to change the name. I do, however, mind when it comes under a blanket threatening law like the DMCA, which is unnervingly broad.) Senator Hatch, you will never get my vote.

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