Many productions released on the demoscene are made for more than one platform. A smart move since you can reach a bigger audience this way. But what is needed to do this and what are the differences if any?

Magic interviewed Xeron and Marq, both known for creating multi platform ports.

Follow the link below for the full and very interesting article!

http://www.hugi.scene.org/online/hugi35/hugi%2035%20-%20demoscene%20forum%20magic%20when%20demos%20go%20multi-platform.htm

Task Facade, previously known as Dynamo 3, is a cool, animated task manager for your PocketPC 2003/05/06 device. Say goodbye to boring text lists of running programs and instead manage your programs by sliding in images of all your running applications onto your screen. For each program on your device an image is saved and when you click the hotkey they all zoom onto your screen. Simply click the one you want and it will increase to fill the screen. Quickly seeing all the running programs is far more efficient than having to read through a text-based task list so Task Facade can make task switching a much faster, and cooler, experience.

Task Facade also allows you to quit programs from inside the image view meaning that it does everything your old text-based program manager could do.

As well as just looking generally cooler, Task Facade offers far more customization than before and allows the whole application to be controlled using either your PDAs hardware keys or the stylus.

Changes:

# Fix: Process list init exception
# Fix: process name converted to lowercase in ban settings
# Fix: ‘Last snapshot’ on Facade activation enhanced
+ Selected slot slightly zoomed
+ Settings saved after every change

***BEFORE INSTALL***: Before installing version 3.8, uninstall the previous version AND MANUALLY REMOVE THE ‘TASK FACADE’ FOLDER from Program Files’. You do not need its old content.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=420220

WifiLocations is a location based Wifi/BT/Ringer/user app’s (de)activa.

Features:

– Specify locations (based on GSM/UMTS Cell-ID) where WiFi will be activated automatically (and turned off when you leave)
– Specify locations where Bluetooth will be activated automatically (and turned off when you leave) or the otherway around (for headset/carkit usage).
– Specify locations where your ringer should be turned off or to vibrate (and back to previous state when you leave)
– Run a user-specified program when in specified location (and the choice of killing it when you leave).
– Name the Cell’s so it’s a little less confusing.
– Autostart on reboot-option

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=448783

Magic Number is a simple console number guessing game for the Wii. The Wii picks a random number between 1 and “X” depending on what difficulty level was selected. The player is then tasked with guessing the random number before the player runs out of lives.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Magic_Number

A series of wordgames created for the Nintendo DS.

Thanks to www.nintendomax.com for the news.

http://forum.gbadev.org/viewtopic.php?t=16228

SNES4iPhone is a fully featured Super Nintendo (SNES) emulator for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch! SNES4iPhone is a port of Notaz’s excellent PocketSNES emulator. This release is currently for ZodTTD beta testers only.

Quote:

I decided to release snes4iphone v3.0.0 as a beta as there are some changes that will need to be refined. First up in the change list are snesadvance.dat speedhacks are now properly loaded. This is a double edged sword though as it can speed up some games, yet break others. If you find a game that no longer works with v3.0.0, you may want to check /Applications/snes4iphone.app/snesadvance.dat and remove the game from the list and retry it. Please let me know if you find a snesadvance.dat speedhack that isn’t working with snes4iphone.

http://www.zodttd.com/boards/blog/zodttd/index.php?showentry=9

Eskema released “War and Warriors” for PlayStation Portable.

Quote:

Well well, it’s me again, (voice saying: !!nooooooooooo!!) yes, you can run but you can’t hide from my crappy homebrews well, i’m very proud of this little one, well maybe not very proud….. ok ok this is another boring homebzzZZZzzz

This is and old classic style, you are a messenger, and your objective it’s simple, get the packets from one point to it’s destination, of course the destination has a little time to wait, if you can’t get it at time, gameover hehehe.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=146021

Blabberbot by Art is an experimental text to speech program for plain text files based on the Flite (Festival lite) speech engine PSP port provided by Mypspdev.

Changes:

Blabberbot V2 runs the speech engine in it’s own thread, so control is now very responsive. There are buttons assigned to pause, and quit the current text file, and text chunks are much smaller as originally intended.

http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=146025

The author of Poulpis Adventure presented the first ingame mockup of his upcomming homebrew platform game for Nintendo DS.

It is currently unknown when there will be a public release.

http://poulpicorp.dev-fr.org/p4097/2008-11-20-un-mockup-en-wip.html

When you have to sketch something quickly without the need for fancy features, this small application is fit for the task. All the application does is to display a full screen white page for you to draw on. The down button will erase the doodle and the center button will close the application. This application weights under 50kb.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=450329