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Gish v1.2 (Android Game Port)

Russian developer EXL ported Gish to Android using SDL2, OpenAL, Ogg Vorbis and GL4ES libraries. The original game is made by Cryptic Sea and can be bought from Steam. You will need the games data files to get the Android version run, which would cost your 9.99 EUR right now.

Gish isn’t your average hero. In fact, he’s not your average anything…you see, Gish is a ball of tar. A Sunday stroll with his lady friend, Brea, goes awry when a shadowy figure emerges from an open manhole and pulls Brea below ground. Following Brea’s calls for help, Gish suddenly finds himself in the subterranean sewers of Dross, a long forgotten city filled with twisting corridors, evil traps, and some of the most demented creatures imaginable.

With his gelatinous structure as his only means of defense, Gish must follow the echoing cries of his damsel in distress deep within the earth below. What freakish creatures dwell in this subterranean land? Who is Brea’s captor? And just how far down does the rabbit hole go?

VICE SDL2 SVN v3.2.0.2 (Multiple emus for Pandora)

This is version 3.2 of VICE, the multi-platform C64, C128, VIC20, PET, PLUS4 and CBM-II emulator. This version can be compiled for MSDOS, Win32, OS/2, BeOS, QNX 4.x, QNX 6.x, AmigaOS, Dingoo, Syllable, SkyOS and for most Unix systems provided with the X Window System version 11, R5 or later. Ported to Pandora by Canseco.

Release notes:

– Changed LIBGL_STREAM=1 to LIBGL_STREAM=2.
– Updated lib gl4es to 1.0.8.

RetroArch v1.7.3.0 (Multiple Emus for Pandora)

RetroArch is a modular multi-system emulator system that is designed to be fast, lightweight, and portable.

List of included libretro cores:

NES: FCEU, Nestopia, QuickNES
SNES: PocketSNES, SNES9x-Next
GBC: Gambatte, TGB Dual
GBA: Meteor, VBA
Genesis / Sega CD: Genesis Plus
Saturn: Yabause (Very slow!)
Playstation: PCSX-ReARMed
Atari 2600: Stella
Chip8/16: Maxe
Arcade: iMAME4all, MAME078, Final Burn Alpha
Mednafen cores: PCE-Fast, WSwan, PSX
Natives: NXEngine (Cave Story), PrBoom (Doom)

Changes:

– Latest Retroarch stable release, compiled with latest beta codeblocks.pnd command line.
– Compiled Filters on filters PND, default config changed, but current users should edit retroarch.cfg on appdata folder. Thx to PokeParadox for the info.
– Updated lots of cores, see list below.
– More info: https://www.libretro.com/index.php/retroarch-1-7-3-released/

Mono RunTime v5.8.00.09 (Pandora misc)

Mono is an open source implementation of Microsoft’s .NET Framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Runtime. Here comes Mono RunTime ported to Pandora by ptitSeb.

Release notes:

So Here is a Mono RunTime PND.

It’s mainly designed to be a runtime,ย  to be used (automatically) by other PND’s mainly developed in C# to run.

But embedded in the PND is also everything needed to develop in C# on the Pandora.

So beside the actual runtime (the command “mono” to launch exe files), is a Command Line Prompt with either the complete IDE MonoDevelop (just type monodevelop to launch it) or command lines tools (mainly the “xbuild” tools).

Also, MonoRT can be used combined with Codeblocks or Dev Tools. For that, launch the Mono Command Line, reduce the window, then, from the Command Line of codeblocks or DevTools, type

MonoGame is not included for now. I’m working on it but it’s not a compile & forget thing I’m afraid…