There are two video interviews with three of the executives behind N-Gage over on AllAboutNGage now, with fairly frank and interesting answers to (more or less) the questions that you've been wanting to ask. Good stuff.

http://www.allaboutngage.com/news/it...ess_confer.php ...

With the MWC and now GDC events under our belt, Ewan Spence draws from all the clues that Nokia has been dropping and comes up with a connected, converged epiphany into the future of gaming. The unification of smartphone functions, social networking and gaming is just around the corner, perhaps. Personally, I can't see any real showstoppers.

"Contextual games."

"Games that use everything in the phone, including, I suspect, the camera, the GPS, your mapping, multimedia, and even the built in ways to talk to the user - such as the SMS example from 2005 - could well be the ways where the N-Gage service can differentiate itself clearly in the mind of games players."

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/...on_Theory-.php ...

News from Keripo

As the title hints, this podzilla2 module uses a cross-compiled pi-agm binary to calculates digits of pi. It uses the terminal module to allow for input.

Due to a bug in the terminal module, backspacing will not work (I would link to a trac ticket if trac wasn't down - if you have the time to fix it, a patch would be greatly welcomed). If you make an input mistake, just exit and re-enter the window and re-input things carefully. Once the calculations are done, pi-agm will exit and the calculated values will be saved in a text file located where-ever your current working directory is (e.g. mine saved to "/pi8k.txt").

Here's the readme:

ReadMe from Keripo.txt wrote:
Last updated: Feb 18, 2008
~Keripo

Calculates digits of pi via pi-agm. Uses the terminal module for input.
Saves output to working directory (most likely root "/pi##.txt").
Was able to calculate 8192 digits in 37 seconds (used "8k", "2", "-1").

pi-agm is written by Carey Bloodworth.
http://web.archive.org/web/200308030...loodworth.org/
Source code downloaded from myownlittleworld.com
http://myownlittleworld.com/miscella...rce/pi-agm.tgz

To compile pi-agm, extract the original source code, replace the
"${LD} ${LDFLAGS} ${OUT_FILE} .o ${MATH_LIBS}" line of your intended
target in src/Makefile with "${CC} ${LDFLAGS} -o ${OUT_FILE} .o ${MATH_LIBS}"
and compile with "make fft-hartley CC=arm-elf-gcc LDFLAGS=-elf2flt"
(you can replace fft-hartley with whichever type you want). This will give
an unoptimized pi-agm binary that you can run on iPodLinux. I may port this
as a proper podzilla2 module later when I have time.

(Note that when I say "when I have time", it doesn't necessarily mean anytime soon ; P

Download:
http://ipodlinux.org/Image:Picalc-1.0.tar.gz

Knock yourselves out

~Keripo

http://ipodlinux.org/forums/viewtopi...9fe17b98cafb78 ...

PhoNetInfo by Patrick Frei is a freeware application which retrieves and displays detailed phone and network data, including information about firmware, IMSI, IMEI, SIM card and battery status, WLAN IP, MAC, MTU and speed, bluetooth MAC and device class, network mode, name, signal strength, Cell ID and country code, CPU speed, type and architecture, RAM and ROM size, running tasks, MMC & SD Card information and more

http://my-symbian.com/s60v3/software...Auto=391&faq=1 ...

A small firmware which boots off a FAT32-formatted SD card and totally blanks the kernel, filesystem and user portions of the NAND fixing 'bad block syndrome' often caused by 3.0->2.0 downgrades (though it can happen simply by writing to the NAND often enough).
It leaves the bootloader in tact.

Full instructions in README.TXT

http://www.gp2x.de/cgi-bin/cfiles.cgi?0,0,0,0,42,2490 ...

News/release from CoderX:

Well, I had written a nice long post about this new release, but X starting spinning 100% cpu after a failed memory card eject and I ended up loosing it. So at this point I'll hit the highlights and answer any question later...

Now a quick rundown of the changes...
Background images in skins
Font sizes moved to skins to change fonts per skin
New skins
Lower hardware volume for f200
Software volume option since lowest hardware level still too loud on f200
Touchscreen support for f200
Screen blanking now turns off lcd along with backlight
The skins are pretty self explanatory. Just thought it added some prettiness...

The only thing really requiring explanation is probably touchscreen support. You can click any list item on the screen to preform what is normally the 'B' button action on it. So play/pause...popup select, etc. You can also click special areas(generally the top and right side of the screen) to bring up an overlay that has general playback controls along with a menu and exit icon. My icons are pretty simple, but they seem to fit well with the rest of the program. I put in some "prettier" ones in "skins/overlay_default", but they just looked out of place. Anyway, the only caveat, is that the touchscreen starts becoming unresponsive at clock speed lower than the mid 160s, so you loose a bit of the underclocking ability... If you find the screen unresponsive or partially responsive, you might try upping the speed...

There are a couple of skins with wider touch areas tailored to finger touchers like me. And if you're wondering about the layout of the overlay, it's also tailored to finger use...actually thumb use while holding the device normally...so that's the reason for the side column layout...

Anyway, download from the links below and I'll also get it added to the archive soon. You still have to edit config files to get started. To 'upgrade' you will need to replace 'ommpc2x', 'mpd/mpd', and the entire skins directory. So it might be easier to just copy everything and then replace the config files with your own.

I hope I didn't break anything. Let me know how it works out for you and what you think...

http://ommpc.googlecode.com/files/ommpc2x-0_2_1.zip ...

News from hooka

Hello all!

Been a long time since I've done an interview, so I'm glad to announce that I've got a new one for ya!

This time it's with Ruckage! You can read it here!

On an unrelated note I'll hopefully have some new news for you on my projects in the next little while.

Have a good one!
TJ Hooka ...

News/release from Torlus:


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Dwedit has released a new version of the Nes emulator for GBA (DS):


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