"Peripherals for Kinect? How does that work?" you might be asking yourself. First, we would point out that every article of clothing you own is technically a Kinect peripheral. Second, the first Kinect peripherals from PDP aren't the kind you might expect. Rather than offering up plastic tennis rackets or lightsabers, PDP has announced a line of products (first glimpsed at E3) to help consumers mount their new Kinect in various situations.
Wall Mount - $14.99
TV Mount - $39.99
Extension Cable - $49.99(!)
Floor Stand - $29.99
We suppose some people might spend $40 on the VESA standard TV mount, though you could accomplish the same task with $5 worth of Velcro. The floor stand might prove useful, however, as it keeps the unit "above the floor to help protect the Kinect for Xbox 360 from foot traffic and dirt." We might suggest the off-brand version of the floor stand, though. It's called a table. PDP's Kinect products will be available this November.

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/24/pd...t-peripherals/ ...

Well, that was snappy. Just 24 hours after Android Police published a piece describing how easy it was to circumvent Google's new Android licensing server, the Big G is hitting back with a brief response that it promises to elaborate on in the future. In order to address any doubts that developers may have, Google has noted that its new service is still "very young," and "the first release shipped with the simplest, most transparent imaginable sample implementation, which was written to be easy to understand and modify, rather than security-focused." Interestingly, the outfit doesn't hesitate to pass some of the blame, saying that some devs "are using the sample as-is, which makes their applications easier to attack." For those who'd like to better obfuscate their code, Google will be publishing detailed instructions on how to do so in the near future. We also appreciate the honesty in this quote in particular: "100 percent piracy protection is never possible in any system that runs third-party code." As stated, the bullet points listed in the source link should be fleshed out in due time, but at least you hard working developers can rest easy knowing that Google isn't standing by and letting pirates run amok.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/24/g...-to-on-obfusc/ ...

News via http://wololo.net/wagic/2010/08/24/h...-for-6-306-31/

J416 finally released his port of the HBL for the firmware 6.30/6.31. The port uses an exploit in the Japanese version of the game Minna no golf portable. People who currently want to enjoy Homebrew on their 6.30/6.31 PSP need an original JP UMD of this game. Compatibility of the exploit with the PSN version of the game has not been confirmed yet.

I haven’t tested HBL through this exploit yet, as I wanted the news out of the door asap, but I’ll be working on merging this port into the HBL SVN codebase in the days to come.

HBL Currently only works with the Japanese version of Minna no golf, but Mamosuke confirmed that a similar exploit exists in Minna no golf 2, and I confirmed that the exploit exists in the US Version, “Hot Shots golf”. We will be working hard in the days/weeks to come, to adapt HBL to as many versions of the game as possible, meanwhile, here’s a summary list:

•Minna no golf portable (JP UMD): Exploitable, runs HBL (J416’s port)
•Minna no golf portable 2 (JP UMD): Exploitable, Hello World by Mamosuke
•Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee (US UMD): Exploitable, Hello World by wololo
•Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee 2 (US UMD): probably exploitable
•Everybody’s golf (EU UMD): probably exploitable
•Eveybody’s golf 2 (EU UMD): probably exploitable
•PSN Versions of all the above: probably exploitable, untested.
Do NOT buy the non JP versions of the game just based on hope. As long as nothing’s released, a promise is as good as a fake. Only trust releases. In other words, consider that for now, HBL only works with the JP version of the game!!!
Enjoy ...

News/release from Equipted

hello everybody this is my second game its for the younger folks by younger i mean like 2-4 years old lol im not much of a backgrounder lol but i did it 26 everything sounds,sprites,rooms,backgrounds lol everything whooo finally finished well test it out and let me know how it worked out for you. oh and any feedback on improving game is much appreciated thanx in advance... man i wanna learn the c language so bad after using this program what is a good book for begginers and a good site to learn about PALIB than again in advanced

http://dsgamemaker.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=5487 ...

News/release from MBJ007

Hi Folks

Here's a even more finished version of this game.Spiel: ..In Grandma's filthy kitchen, several chicken carcasses are horribly moldy.And infested with ghosts, not just any ghosts, poultrygeists.Help Miffy the cat get to the best chicken grandma has left on the floor and make him a happy cat.

Now with Cat Satisfaction meter, you have to use the Dpad to guide the cat , avoiding the green chickens and trying to get to the regular coloured chicken in a minimum of time.There is a cat satisfaction meter(thanks James for that idea,sort of, I put you in the credits) that goes down over time, so you gotta be quick to make the cat as satisfied as possible.It's possible to get a negative reading if you dawdle.

http://dsgamemaker.com/forum/viewtop...ba98d7a6cbf2da ...

News from the official Pandora Blog:

Well, quite a few things have happened, so here is another update for you.

1. All about the nubs

In case you didn't know yet: Quite a few nubs had problems right from the beginning (a failure rate of 20 - 25% is just inacceptable!) and even some of the working ones have failed a while later (though not too many, thankfully).

Therefore, the manufacturer got a pile of non-working nubs back from us to find out what's wrong and test them.
It didn't take too long to find the problem: Mostly a tolerance issue. That's why most were working, but some failing.

The first workaround: Doing a mechaniical test all of the nubs, a quick thing that allowed us to ship more Pandoras out to you, but not the final solution, because it still slows things down - and is not 100% reliable.

So I'm very happy to report that the first samples of the (hopefully) fixed nubs will be finished within this week, ready to be stress tested.
If testing goes well and it proves that those nubs have no issues, they will go into mass production.
This will hopefully mean the end of any nub problems.

What does this mean?

We will continue production of the boards and Pandoras with the tested nubs until the new ones are there. Basically, there should be no difference between tested ones and newly produced ones as long as they work. But the newly produced ones shouldn't have such high failure rate.

When the new ones are finished, the testing process (which slows production down, too) is not needed anymore and things should go more smoothly.




2. All about the boards

Right after we met in UK to assemble the very first Pandoras, we had to stall board production because we had so many broken nubs.
Replacing nubs does cost us money (and a lot of time). If it only were a few, we could've continued - but with that high failure rate, we first had to find out what was wrong here.
Even though the manufacturer was working very fast on this issue, we first had to desolder some non-working nubs so that the manufacturer could test and find the error, so that did cost us a few weeks.

Since the manufacturer started to test the nubs, production has been started again. First, we only got 100 boards to test if the nubs work fine. Then we got 200 more (currently being assembled) and the next batch that has been announced will be a whopping 500 boards (don't know exactly yet when we'll get them).

Also, as the board production company now knows the amount of work that's needed and seeing that new, working nubs are on the way, we're currently discussing with them to sign a contract about a minimum amount of boards per week.
At the moment, all they do is produce as many as they can in the time they have (as long as production wasn't reliable, they wouldn't have done any other contract).
A minimum-per-week-contract would be the best thing - as then we finally have some realistic figures on when your Pandoras will be finished and how fast it all goes. And bigger projects wouldn't interfere with board production anymore.

These are the things we're currently working on - and if they work out fine, things should finally go smoother - and A LOT faster!




3. All about the Pandora

As posted, I had a Pandora at the GamesCom - and that definately was a good idea.
Interest was pretty high, a lot of people came to see and / or test out the Pandora - and as far as I've been told, they all liked it.
That's pretty cool.

I've got another offer if you didn't manage to go there: If you ever come near Ingolstadt (Germany), you're free to come visit me to have a chat (or coffee) with me and test out the Pandora live! Just drop me a PM or mail if you want to come visit me.

Okay, that's for todays news. Hopefully more good news on board and nub production soon. Oh, and I'm currently uploading two more videos for you

For anyone not knowing where to find my Pandora videos - check out my YouTube channel! There are a lot of videos there, might be especially interesting for newcomers.

http://www.openpandora.org/index.php...emid=2&lang=en ...

News via http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php...dpost&p=909715

The Pandora was _made_ for this!

Some of you may be familiar with my early Kronos project for Pandora, which currently lets you play Magnetic Scrolls text adventure games (though it will soon offer also Scott Adams and Infocom/zmachine type games as well.) Kronos is not so expansive as Gargoyloe, but does aim for stuff like auto-mapping and whatnot.

Anyway, Gargoyle is an interpreter collection with goals of being very attractive to look at and readable (including subpixel rendering and gorgeous fonts and so forth, as well as supporting customization to typesetting) and to support many interpreters; to this end, it supports such true classics as Infocom/zmachine style (including modern formats like the newer Inform stuff from the indie scene), Magnetic Scrolls, Level 9, Hugo, TADS 2 and 3, and more. (Adrift, Agility, Alan 2 and 3, Glulxe, GIT, a whole slew of these guys.) The only one that I often hit that is not supported is Scott Adams, but I'll fold that into Kronos.

Real gargoyle homepage is: http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle/

Download is here (currently uploading to appstore as well): http://www.walled.net/~jmitchell/gar...e_20100823.pnd
Screenshot is here: http://www.walled.net/~jmitchell/gargoyle/screen.png
App store download is up: http://apps.open-pandora.org/cgi-bin...e_20100823.inf

The package should 'just work'; run the pnd from your menu of choice, and picka story-file using my silly little picker. It will try to figure out which interpreter to use based on the file name .. ie: .z* will go to frotz (more or less), and .mag to magnetic srolls. It usually makes sense, but some like '.dat' are too generic and may go to the wrong interpreter.

When you want to save (ie: type "save" into the interpreter) it'll give you a directory picker, so you can specify where; likewise for 'restore' or 'load'. So no worries about files going to some hidden location.

Should you wish to override the default choices for look and feal, you can override the garglk.ini file, but creating a new one in /pandora/appdata/gargoyle/garglk.ini -- in there you can specify different fonts, justification or not, subpixel rendering or not, etc and so on; let me know if you would like details or not

jeff ...

Newly released for Caanoo:



MAME4ALL for GPH CAANOO.

Arcade heaven for you Caanoo owners

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/...0,0,0,0,73,469 ...

Newly released for Caanoo:



A NeoGeo CD emulator for the Caanoo.
You need a bios file (neocd.bin) to run this program.

http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/...0,0,0,0,71,468 ...