Many of us are waiting for the Pandora… now there doesn’t seem to much work left.

This has been posted on the official Pandora page:

Hi,

as everybody is waiting, I thought I’d post some status informations. I’ll keep them up-to-date here, so everybody knows what’s happening 🙂

To-Do:
* Get the final CNCed case (still waiting…)
* Wait until the mould of the keymat is finished
* Design the final keyboard layout
* Create mould of final case (can be done once the case fits)
* CE / FCC testing (can be done once the case is here)
* Mass Production testrun for the final boards
* Stability testing (this will be fun)
* Wait for the last remaining pieces for mass production (LATEST deadline is second week of March)
* Mass Production
* Test the boards
* SHIP THEM!

Please keep in mind that it also takes some time to ship.
It won’t help if the case if finished in China, it has to go to Michael and then to the CE / FCC testing company, etc.

Okay, some more info about the mass production:
We want to have a 48 burn-in test for the boards. The failure rate on the first boards depends on how many we’ll test!

In worst case, we have to test ALL boards, which will take a month – don’t worry however, as we can have weekly shipments of the already tested and working boards so the first guys who have ordered don’t have to wait so long.

Let’s cross our fingers and hope there won’t be many problems from now on!

Thanks to http://www.emuboards.com for the news.

http://www.openpandora.org/

Jay’s XWords is a crossword game for Nintendo DS with 3479 crosswords in the game.

Discussion: http://forum.palib.info/index.php?topic=6749.0

http://jayenkai.socoder.net/

ThrottleStorage shows you graphically how your storage space is being used displaying a circular chart so you can eassily locate which folders are taking more storage. You can navigate through all of your folders and analize each one in detail or exclude them from the report.

http://www.throttlelauncher.com/portal/downloads/34-public-releases/99-tstorage01

MobilePad is a light, speedy text document and HTML editor that allows you to create quick notes or long journals for daily activities right on your Windows Mobile Phone.

Changes:

– Fixed a few minor cursor bugs. (Thx torpie13 for reporting)
– Adding setup interface that allows full control over the app. Setup interface will include the following:
1. File Association
2. Option to turn char/sms count on/off
3. Auto-Save Timer option will be moved into setup interface. Setup interface will take its place on the menu.
4. Option to remember word wrap state and font size
5. Option to turn capture new SMS feature on/off
6. Option to turn auto-show SIP on/off

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=473197

Christian Remboldt has released a new version of his native Nintendo Wii cheat code manager. Using WiiCM you can select which cheat codes you wish to use with the Ocarina cheat engine which can be found as a stand alone application or bundled in with Gecko OS.

Changes:

– Max Cheats is now 500. SSBB compatible
– Fixed file selector bug.
– Compiled with libogc 1.7.0 adds SDHC support.
– Fixed sound effects and changed to asndlib.
– Added libfreetype for logo.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Wiicm

Mediumgauge has updated PSP Filer, which is a file explorer with a bunch of extras – The author is accepting donations, so please consider donating if you use this tool!

Changes:

general:
– increased much of original OSK feature.
– enabled to use built-in OSK (kernel3 version only).

filer:
– fixed a bug in copy window if you created a new folder, you could not move cursor to the folder.
– changed a destination device to copy from ms0 to the device where source files belong.

binary editor:
– fixed a bug that have shown wrong message on saving.

text viewer:
– added a feature of line editor. note: edited files will be forced to be shift-jis encoding when it is saved. And, non-shift-jis file and binary file may not be edited & saved correctly.
– able to read UTF-16 encoding.

Thanks to http://www.dcemu.co.uk for the news.

http://www.geocities.jp/mediumgauge/

City Advisor is a Public Transport Navitation Platform for Windows Mobile. Provide generic path searching services for cities. This preview version contains the main program and a map of Paris Metro.

Changes:

* Fully support circular lines
* Greek and German language
* bug fix on Paris map, Add line: RER A

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=479216

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

Changes:

– Dhewg’s interpretation of brijohn’s usb keyboard patches.
– SCI engine won’t be included until 0.13 is released. (Requested by dhewg). If you want SCI, build it yourself.

This release is a infrequent build from the Subversion trunk.

Thanks to http://www.tehskeen.com for the news.

http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=6599

Wickeycolumbus who was working on a Pong in 256 byte Pong for Atari 2600, really managed to squeeze the game down and reached his goal.

Check out the linked page for full information!

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=139216

atari2600land has posted an update of his Atari 2600 homebrew game “Jack and the Beanstalk” which is based upon a fairy tale with the same name.

Release notes from atari2600land:

I managed to fit both in. By the way, the hidden screen has my name on it, so it’s kind of an Easter egg. Right now, the game is 24,924 bytes big, with 7,844 bytes left to do stuff with.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=118991&st=300