Newly released for caanoo

A KOF remake by EGS Studios.
Caanoo package by GECA soft.

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/...0,0,0,0,40,697 ...

Well its been a busy few days since Martin upgraded not only the server but upgraded the forum to the latest version of Vbulletin and installed many new security features, hopefully this will stop the hacking that has done damage to the name of DCEmu.

The last few days i have been posting like crazy and now we are back up to date and what a month it has been, if you follow the PSP, DS and Wii scenes you have seen so many new releases, infact i havent seen so much activity in a long time and some genuine great releases, the weeks away has really renewed my passion for homebrew.

One thing i am going to do is bring back the old sites for archive purposes so that releases especially older ones can be found easy, there are thousands of pages on those sites that form a major history of the site and whilst the new CMS is great theres a need to be able to relive those releases, that is my next task and an ongoing one until they are all online.

Over the last 4 days i have posted literally hundreds of news items and a couple of hundred Homebrew releases, so if you havent yet then check the forums to catch up on releases you may not have seen before.

The Homebrew scene seems to be coming out of a dark period where homebrew was just linked to piracy and its good to remember that Homebrew is and never wil be the same as piracy.

Long Live DCEmu and The Homebrew Scene,

thanks for your time

wraggster ...

Heres another update from the Openpandora Team Concerning the Pandora Console:

Well, you might've seen that the volcano is iceland is spitting out ash again. This of course will cause a delay of about 8 months.... naaaah, just kidding
While the volcano IS spitting ash, we're still too busy working ourselves through all the PCBs we got to even realize a delay in PCB deliveries. So unless every transport method is cut for the next week, nothing bad will happen.

Anyways, back on topic, as you probably would want to know what happened during the last weeks and months. A lot has been going on behind the scenes and now I'll try to summarize it all.



1. What's the status of the first batch?

We're just round the corner for the last 1000 PCBs of Batch 1.
While this doesn't mean that 3000 units have been delivered (we also need to check and build the PCBs into cases, don't forget that), more than half of the Batch 1 units have been delivered, and deliveries go on.
There wasn't a week where no Pandoras had been delivered, we just test, build and ship out continually.
There was a slight drawback as a lot of units suddenly had a new error with WiFi that we never had before, but those boards are already back to be fixed as well.
CircuitCo is not just producing the remaining PCBs right now, they are also fixing boards that had issues from the very beginning in parallel.
When all PCBs have been populated, there will probably still be a few hundred to be fixed, some might even be unrecoverable (those poor boards will remain forever in our hearts... hey, I heard an easy way to dump unwanted boards is to bury them in the desert )
Some of the unrecoverable boards might be sold to you for a cheaper price. It might be there will be boards that work but a couple of buttons are not usable, etc.
We'll see about that, first we need to see how many broken PCBs there will be in total.

Note: If you check various sites about PCB production, it's normal having about 10% of boards that need to be fixed if you do a production run with such complicated boards, so we're pretty much within that range.

I'm sorry that I can't tell you any accurate numbers here. As you might've seen on the boards, I tried to do so. I really did. But it eats too much time. Too many different factors are involved, like the amount of boards with issues, the amount of boards produced, the amount of boards RMA'ed, etc.
Believe me: It's not our intention to hide anything from you, it's just too much additional work. And we're pretty much stuffed with work right now anyways.
The shipments will continue and as soon as there are bigger issues, we'll let you know, don't worry.




2. What's the status of the second batch?

The second batch is currently being prepared, parts are being paid and delivered. Batteries have already arrived.
Preparations for Batch 2 take about 1 month, and that's probably the time needed to produce the remaining PCBs of Batch 1 and work on the boards with issues.
It might even be the second batch will start while some PCBs from the first batch are still being fixed. Of course this will have no effect on the queue itself
With Batch 2, we introduce a new board revision of the Pandora, Rev6b. Don't worry though, the functionality will be same as the current Rev5, but some things have been changed to improve the production process (i.e. increase the size of some soldering pads that were causing issues with Batch 1, improve the placement of the shoulder buttons to save a lot of manual labour, etc.). So we'll have fixes here to improve the production process.
This was possible since we had quite a few issues with Batch 1 PCBs that kept repeating. This surely is a clear sign to improve the layout in that area.



3. What about the Premium Pandoras?

If you haven't had the time to follow the boards recently, you might not know what these 7-days-Premium Pandoras are all about. Why should someone get a Pandora earlier if he paid long after a preorderer?
Well, we didn't like the concept for the Premium Pandoras ourselves, but in fact they help everyone and we didn't have much of a chance.
All the issues we didn't except also did cost money. A LOT of money. Each Pandora does cost us about 400 USD just for production because of that - and that's way more than we sold it for.
We could've just continued to deliver all the units, hoping no one would want any refunds, hoping to get the PCBs faster, hoping to not run into any other issues that cost money, etc.
We could've continued - but it would've been a risky business, and if we ran out of money, it would mean NO Pandora anymore for anyone and NO money back.
That wasn't an option for us.
So we decided to go the safe route and get some money using the Premium Pandoras. And yes, it certainly helps A LOT.

Of course, Premium is not just an option for new customers. Existing customers can pay the price difference between their original paid price and the new Premium price and therefore also get the unit right away.
Just contact the shop where you bought it. And most certainly, you are not FORCED to pay more. You can also wait. Both normal and premium orders are shipped out, so if you're not in a hurry, ...

Newly released/updated for the Pandora:

Port of the mednafen multi system emulator.Supports the following systems:Game Boy AdvanceGame Boy (Color)Sega Game GearAtari LynxNintendo Entertainment SystemNeo Geo Pocket PC-Engine/Turbografx 16Sega Master SystemVirtual BoyWonderswan

Download Here ...

Newly released/updated for the Pandora:

The package contains SD card ready PNDs and fact sheets for the following emulators: Dega 1.16-4 (SMS) DOSBox 0.74 (PC) GnGeo 0.8.3 (Neo Geo) GnuBoy 1.0.5 (GBC) gpfce 0.4 (NES) gpfce-gp2x 0.4 (NES) gpSP (GBA) Handy 0.5b (Atari Lynx) HuGo 1.1.0 (PC Engine) MAME4ALL 2.5b7 (Arcade) Mupen64plus R1B5+ (N64) PCSX-ReARMed r8 (PSX) Picodrive 1.80 (SMD) PocketSNES 6.5.0 (SNES) RACE 1.0b3 (Neo Geo Pocket) Snes9x4P v20110310 (SNES) UAE4ALL (Amiga) v1.1.1.19 Version 0.2: -added DOSBox 0.74 (PC) Version 0.3: -added UAE4ALL (Amiga) v1.1.1.19

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Newly released/updated for the Pandora:

xnp2 on openpandora. xnp2 is neko project II linux version. neko project II is NEC pc9801 computer emulator. source is http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~aw9k-nnk/np2/ This is Xnp2 i286c (C core) version. Please! Someone port i286a (arm-asm core).

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Newly released/updated for the Pandora:

Changelog 2011-04-30 (by john4p): * Stable Vsync with double-buffering (Thanks to Notaz) * Fixed select sensitivity in menu Changelog 2011-04-22 (by john4p): * Added sprite-to-playfield-collisions (fixes Pinball Dreams Ignition table) - thanks to Toni Wilen * All PD tables work correctly now. With this fix the game Menace now also works correctly (you're not invincible anymore). * Added tuki_cat's improved virtual keyboard gfx (you still need the virtual keyboard for e.g. the HELP-key). * New detailed Readme (by tuki_cat).

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Newly released/updated for the Pandora:

ELinks is a program for browsing the web in text mode. The goal of the project has from the beginning been to provide a feature-rich text mode browser with an open patches/features inclusion policy and active development. Features: Lots of protocols (local files, finger, http, https, ftp, smb, ipv4, ipv6) Authentication (HTTP authentication, Proxy authentication) Persistent cookies Cute menus and dialogs Tabbed browsing Support for browser scripting (Perl, Lua, Guile) Tables and frames rendering Colors Background (non-blocking) downloads Some support for Cascading Style Sheets Some support for ECMAScript by using Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine Mouse support Experimental: BitTorrent, gopher, nntp http://elinks.cz/about.html

Download Here ...

News via http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php...dpost&p=947505

Jagged Alliance 2 is one of my favourite turn-based strategy games, in fact one of my fave's of all time
Thanks to the devs, beta testers and donators who helped me port this.

Jagged Alliance 2 Release 1

Screenshots:


Gameplay changes since beta 3:
• Quickload (Alt-L) is now enabled during enemy turns.
• Press SHIFT to skip through militia turns (useful for stealing guns from dying enemies)

Other improvements since beta 3:
• Easy "data" folder importing. Simply drop your JA2 "data" folder into appdata/ja2strac-qcast/ (more info below)
• Icon, preview images and readme added.

Installation instructions:
You will need the original datafiles from a windows install or linux JA2 CDs.
IMPORTANT: These files must all be in _lowercase_, including the folder name itself, i.e. "data" not "Data" and "maps.slf" not "Maps.slf".

A first-time installation is configured as follows:
1. Run PND once.
2. Copy your JA2 datafiles "data" folder to appdata/ja2strac-qcast/
3. Run PND again, the game should load


Enjoy ...