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CromoZome v0.5 (GP2x Game)

Guide your CromoZome to eat food and other CromoZomes. There is a balancing element between the CromoZomes, and as you eat your CromoZome grows and gets stronger. Get strong enough and you produce another CromoZome based on your strongest traits. You then play with this new CromoZome. Eating a blue CromoZome increases your speed, eating a red CromoZome gives you double energy points than normal but slows your speed and eating green loses you one health(poison) but you gain a green segment and this could poison another creature. You get a bonus for eating the same food/enemy segments as your starting colour.

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MobileFinder v1.0.0 (iPhone Application)

MobileFinder (strictly “Finder” in the iPhone’s springboard view) is a filesystem navigator and launcher for use with iPhones which have been jailbroken.

Features:
* Filesystem navigation with system file protection
* Icons differentiate different filetypes
* Copy, Move, Delete operations (requires that /bin/mv and /bin/cp be installed)
* File creation and renaming
* Application Launch – Also launches MobileStudio apps
* Executable launch (scripts, etc)
* Preferences screen with filesystem browse settings
* User modifiable associated file types that launch file viewers
* Open mode when launched by other apps in MobileStudio

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iPhoneeBooks v0.8 (iPhone Application)

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:

Preferences pane! Choose your font, font size, navigation bar auto-hide preference, and much more!
Chapter navigation buttons on the bottom toolbar, at long last! Go forward and back without returning to the browser view.
Human-friendly browser sorting! You can use Chapter 1, Chapter 2… instead of Chapter 001, Chapter 002…

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SpeccyDS v0.3 (Spectrum emu for NDS)

SpeccyDS is a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for the Nintendo DS.

Changes:

Complete re-write of the GUI.
Improved the touch screen accuracy on some Nintendo DS systems.
Added Quick Save and Quick Load functionality
Added two new keyboard images. A Save keyboard and a Spectrum +2 keyboard.
Added a new global settings screen to replace the old Controls screen.
Added re-definable keyboard controls.
Added border size control.
Removed the maximim file limit on the Load screen. There is now no fixed limit.
Implemented several Z80 undocumented features, fixing the crash in Ghosts ‘n’ Goblins.
Fixed the flags on the Z80 CPI command, fixing the odd behaviour in Scrabble.

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

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COW Library (NDS misc)

COW is a cross-platform object-oriented workspace that provides a powerful API for RTTI, serialization, streaming, logging, etc. It also contains a set of storage types(String, List, Array, etc.) and lots of other features. It has been verified to compile for Windows, Linux and the DS.

COW offers a set of features including(but not limitted to):
– RTTI and serialization(XML, later also binary with conversion tools from&to)
– FixedPointMath template class that has conversion accessors for float/int conversion. Should work as fast as the defines from libnds, but is a lot more friendly to use.
– (Serializable) Storage types to replace STL. This saves LOTS of executable size. (array, list, dlist, string)
– (Serializable) Metrics and vector classes with the expected operators.
– A few bit operators.
– Handy ‘tools’ like AutoPtr, platform-independant asserts
– Pattern templates like Singleton and Factory
– A streaming system (filestream and stringstream only atm, filestream is not tested on. This system allows uniform file handling and stream opening (eg. StreamManager::OpenStream(“file://file.txt”, [read/write mode])
– etc.

COW also includes platform-independant unit tests, which help a lot during development. The current project state is beta and although the code design might still change slightly.

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