Another coding competition organized by PDRoms. Here we go:Your goal is to greate a”Game&Watch”style game, in fact a LCD style game, with leading intro! (An intro contains (scroll)text and a (moving) logo. Deadline is Sunday, 4th July, 2004 at 23:59 GMT +1. 1st prize is a NGPC with 7 games. Allowed systems are: Gameboy Classic, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, GP32, Neo Geo Pocket, Neo Geo Pocket Color, NES&Dreamcast! Click on the link below the get more information.PDRoms Coding Competition 2.5

TheJuggler picked up the work of Squidge, who does not work on the BOR (Beats of Rage) port for the GP32 anymore. Today Beta 6 has been released. The changes:

+Reset from main menu now fixed+Auto loading of pak file if only one file is specified in the paklist.txt file+Fixed error with sprite loading if sprite file does not exist in the pak file. Modified pak files should no longer be required. Note: This is actually an error with the pak file, as the pak should have sprites shadow1-6 in the file.

http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php?showtopic=8988&st=240

Hooka conducted an interview with ‘Nigel Brown’. He is the first person known to sell the modified chatboard for GP32.http://www3.telus.net/public/hooka

Woogal made a kind of Notepad.exe for the GP32, which makes use of the modified chatboard! Thanks to GP32xfor the news.http://gp32.sector808.org/edgewrite.php

Andreas Timmermann sent a texture mapping demo (realtime) to the guys at GBAdev. It demonstrates the difference between linear- and perpective mapping. You can get the download at GBAdev.http://www.gbadev.org/

I had the pleasure to interview LordGraga just a few minutes ago. LordGraga develops homebrewn games for GBA and is the winner of the last held PDR Coding Competition.Interview: LordGraga

Mirko released a techdemo showing the power of his latest SDK build. The demos shows, surprise, a”Rotating Tube with Music”:)Download: Rotating Tube with Music (SDK083 Demo)

Karthur has an own domain for his Wind-Ups project now. Wind-ups is a Desktop program for GP32 with file browser, gxb/fxe files launcher and gif viewer. From Wind-ups desktop you can easily launch any program, open the Pc-Link to download/upload files to your PC or Mac computer, open a file browser to have a look to you GP32 memory contents, launch other apps or view gif files.http://www.wind-ups.net/

Aoyama made a another Connect 4 game for the GP32. Seems to be the third game of this kind for the GP32.http://www.yaronet.com/posts.php?s=42293

As most of you already recognized… there is a new design. With the new design we also got rid of the antileech-script, which was a bit buggy and caused problems to others. As the structure of the file directories changed slightly, there might be the one or other misleading link now. Sorry for that, but there was no other way around it. Regards – Kojote