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atari2600land has possibly created the first ever 1k sized bBasic game in history.

Catch bananas with Mr. Zyx’s mouth. Get 10 points for every banana (read: yellow line) you catch (read: eat.) If you miss a line, no more bananas will fall from the screen so you would have to reset the game.

🔗 http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/188785-the-first-1k-bb-game/

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NitroGrafx is a PC-Engine/TurboGrafx16 emulator for the DS by FluBBa. Most things from PCEAdvance are ported over and most games run quite good.

Changes:

*Support for all 2048 tiles.
*Support for 1024 wide tilemaps.
*Support for 320 pixel wide screenmode.
*Better caching of tiles/sprites, less flickering
*Optimised everything.

Thanks to http://www.nintendomax.com/viewtopic.php?t=13980&f=19 and http://www.ds-scene.net/?s=viewtopic&nid=11342 for the news.

🔗 http://www.ndsretro.com/

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Bennu is a scripting language aimed at making games. Bennu is designed as an easy tool you can use to develop games with. It provides easy solutions for sound and graphic operations. While not being as easy as Game Maker, it is also not as limiting as Game Maker. With Bennu, you decide what game you make.

🔗 http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,19,443

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Warcraft: Orcs & Humans – statically recompiled executable for Pandora. Original DOS Warcraft v1.21 is required for playing.

Changes:

* MIDI playback using WildMIDI (old MIDI playback using SDL_mixer can be set in the configuration file)
* minor bug fixes
* show the Readme in the Documentation submenu

🔗 http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=warcraft_sr

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Tuxpuck is a “shufflepuck” game written in C using SDL. The player moves a pad around a board and tries to shoot the puck down through the opponent’s defense.

🔗 http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=tuxpuck-tuxpuck-27762

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Help poor Monkey navigate his way down through treacherous jungles, canyons, towering waterfalls, into the heart of a volcano and through the driving rain of a cold industrial city. Monkey will find help along the way in the form of exciting power ups, including parachutes and jet packs!

🔗 http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=primateplunge-primateplunge-19208

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PokerTH is an open source Texas hold ’em simulator for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and GNU/Linux. The game is faithful to the Texas Hold ’em rules and betting system. PokerTH allows for up to ten human players, with computer-controlled players filling in if there are not enough humans. Players can also play against other PokerTH users online. The latest stable version, 0.8.3, was released on 16 January 2011.

🔗 http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=pokerth-0.8.x-mrrob

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X-pired is an action-puzzle game written in C using SDL, SDL_mixer, SDL_image and SDL_gfx libraries distributed under the terms of GNU GPL. The goal of the game in each level is to reach the exit square, avoiding exploding barrels and other deadly stuff.

🔗 http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=xpired-clop-8014

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Residual is a cross-platform 3D game interpreter which allows you to play LucasArts’ LUA-based 3D adventures: Grim Fandango and Escape from Monkey Island, provided you already have their data files. Residual just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

🔗 http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=residual-residual-31732

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Evopedia is an offline Wikipedia viewer by Christian Reitwiessner. Pandora port by mcobit.

Release notes:

Not pretty, but it works 🙂 Download a dump of wikiarticles and view them offline. Pictures, etc are automatically shown, when online. Also this pnd includes the small browser uzbl to view the wikipages. When asked, select “Debian Sensible Browser” as preferred browser. Don’t worry, this will only affect this pnd.

🔗 http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=evopedia-evopedia-4105

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