Newly released/updated for the Pandora:

This is a port of Xarchiver. It should support rar, tar, gz, bz, jar, zip and 7z. Xarchiver is a lightweight desktop independent archive manager built with the GTK+2 toolkit. It was my intention to develop a simple GUI which could be used with any desktop environment and would operate using the command line rather than API calls. Xarchiver has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy-to-use. Its user interface is clean and intuitive, and does not include any confusing or useless options.

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I just ported this software. I am not the creator. Tubularix is a free opensource game similar to Tetris seen from a tubular perspective. Game's rules and behavior are very similar to the Tetris ones. It's written in c++ with the Qt 4 libraries.

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Newly released/updated for the Pandora:

I just ported this game. I am not the creator! Monkey Bubble is in a game in which you must explode all bubbles in the game area. You explode bubbles by putting at least 3 of the same colour in contact. Any bubble that is connected to the top or the sides of the game area by bubbles you just exploded falls too. Please adjust controls in the menu before playing!

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News via http://retroactionmagazine.com/retro...free-issue-46/

Issue 46 of Commodore Free has been released. The monthly retrogaming ezine covers news, articles and interviews on all things Commodore and comes in PDF, HTML, D64 (C64 disk), Text or Seq formats. This issue’s highlights include news on 1,000 Kung-Fu Maniacs (a forthcoming C64 game), The Richard Joseph Tribute, Amiga Hostile Breed preserved, Interview with Joan Malé, MCC-216 Review, Not Just Another D64 Viewer Review, MCC Quick Looks, Back to the Past – Iss. 7, Apr 2007 and much more. Download the ezine in your chosen format for free and enjoy.

Weblink: http://www.commodorefree.com/ ...

News via http://boards.openpandora.org/index....ds-2010-12-02/

Michael had another conference call with the board production company in Texas and we got some news.

* The remaining LCD Cables should ship to me next week. I'll need a few days to solder the speakers onto them (and will probably setup a webcam). The cables for half of all units are already in UK, so I'm not that much in a hurry here.
* They told us they are still in schedule even though the nubs have been delayed (they had been planned to be there two weeks ago). They mentioned they hired more people to do labor once the nubs arrive to speed that up. They will finish all the boards as planned even though the nubs are not there yet (so we should have 3000 boards without nubs but fully tested in 1,5 weeks).
* The parts for Batch 2 are ready except for the RAM chip which is a bit hard to get. It should be there when Batch 1 has been finished though.
* 90 - 95% of the boards are finished already. Very few failed testing and need to be redone, that does sound good.

Well, we heard similar things quite a few times from them. However, there is one difference:
They will give Trey (that's one from the community here, living right around the corner) a tour on Friday. Trey has yet to confirm that he has time to visit them, but they probably won't lie to us about finished boards and invite someone to check the numbers a few days later.
We'll hope Trey will have the chance to make some nice pictures of thousands of boards on Friday!

About the nubs:
2000 are on the way to Texas and will arrive on Friday / Monday.
The rest are waiting for the PCBs. We hope to get a schedule for them soon.
That means: 1150 fully tested, Pandora PCBs with nubs should ship soon to UK!

So, next important day for more news would be Friday.
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News via http://ps3.gx-mod.com/modules/news/a...p?storyid=2319

Robo Hobo has released a new version of "WIP" for PS3's multi-system emulator for emulation Mednafen consoles NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Sega Master System, Game Gear, PC Engine, PC- Engine CD, Lynx, NeoGeo Pocket, and WonderSwan.

New / fixed:

- Changing the older fonts by font anti-aliasing
- Fixed a crash when emulation of the PC-Engine
- Fixed bookmark
- Fixed a display problem
- Sort folders before files

Mednafen PS3 R83

Official site: http://code.google.com/p/mednafen-ps3/ ...

News via http://www.gp32x.com/board/index.php...dpost&p=928782

submitted by Imerion @ (15:57) 02 Dec 2010

I finally finished porting my tower-defence style game Railroad Rampage to the Caanoo. It was a bit hard since I don't own a Caanoo and becuase of that there might still be something that doesn't work as it should. If you find something, please post here and I will try to fix it. It should run well though! New in this version is an updated interface which is easier to use with the touch screen. Especially on Caanoo this makes a big difference I've heard, but it helped on the WIZ as well, so I updated that version.

More info and the game for both Caanoo and WIZ can be found on my page : Neotron Games(Please note that only Mirror 1 on that page has the updated WIZ version. I will change the other mirror eventually.) ...

News via http://www.dingux.com/2010/12/sugges...eneration.html

While I was with the CC folks I discussed with them a few suggestions I had for what I though would be the killer console, just in case some could be implemented in their next generation. They're eager to listen to users. That's invaluable IMHO.

Mind you, these are my own suggestions and that means some of them may be pointless since as you may already know I'm not a gamer. So, I'll really appreciate all kinds of comments.

I also collected suggestions from the people at #dingoonity IRC channel during one of the sleepless nights.

These are my suggestions:

•At least 256MB RAM (this is already confirmed).
•4.3" or larger LCD (larger would probably hinder portability).
•Powered USB OTG port (GA330 is OTG but not powered).
•Host USB type A connector on the top side. Would allow easy use of WiFi or bluetooth dongles to add wireless capabilitites (internet, multiplayer, etc). Proably the only way to place such a connector without making the console too think would be to use a PCB cutout, such that the connector, instead of being on the PCB, is "into" the PCB (i.e. center of connector aligned with PCB).
•One microSD slow and one SD/MMC slot with SDIO capability, which would allow use of wireless SDIO cards. Note that the host USB type A connector mentioned above would probably be a much better solution, since there are many more USB dongles to choose from and they're much cheaper than SDIO cards (you can buy a tiny bluetooth dongle for less than $6 shipped).
•Allowing external wireless through either host USB type A or SDIO has some nice advantages over the internal 2.4GHz module currently used in the GA330:
1.You can connect to another GA330, your mobile phone, home network, and whatnot. With the internal 2.4GHz module you can only connect to another GA330.
2.Brings down the price of the console for users that don't need wireless anyway. For those that want it, it's dead easy to add it (mostly in the case of the hust USB type A connector). They could even sell a "wireless edition" pack including the dongle.
3.Lack of wireless in the base console eases CE/UL certification (in case they ever want to comply).
•Hardware color space conversion and scaling (already in the CC1800 VPU, and of course in the CC2000 which has a GPU).
•Good subtitle support. Their high end PMP HD8900 already does support subtitles, buy they lack the black outline which is fundamental to ensure readability independent of image, and fails miserably (and silently) to load some subtitle files (I was able to solve this by rewriting then in strict UTF8 encoding, but this should not be necessary).
These are from #dingoonity:

•Include Dingux plus a bundle of GPL games in each A320/GA330, and advertise it on the box as a selling point. Community will be happly to prepare such a bundle. In order to comply with the GPL the source code could be supplied in a separate subdirectory with a README stating that it can be safely deleted to reclaim some disk space.
•License the full version of some famous OSS games like Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, etc, and include them in the bundle above.
•Use the third connection of the headphone jack as a mic or line input, as it's used in many handsfree headphone kits. Usage of such a feature would be certainly minoritary, but it's essentially free (they're already using a three pin headphone jack in the A320 and I bet the codec they use in the GA330 already has MIC bias and MIC input pins).
•Analog joypad. This would be great for games, but notice that this would provide the necessary pointing device for a web browser, for example.
•Route all the unused GPIO pins to test pads on one clear area of the most accessible side of the PCB (both in the A320 and GA330 this would be the opposite side to where the LCD is connected, that is, the side you can access right after opening the case). Would be great if among those pins there was a I2C or SPI bus. This would be great for diehard hardware hackers, and is essentially free since doesn't increase manufacturing costs. ...

News via http://www.dreamcast.es/news.php?readmore=405#comments

In Dreamcast.es try to offer all Dreamcastero world news, but understand that sometimes elude us some

NetBSD (a "Linux" for Dreamcast) has just been updated to version 5.1 a couple of weeks. There are very interesting developments since Izumi Tsutsui (one of the developers) has assembled some scripts to facilitate the process of installation and use. Thus, there is no excuse to try it: D

You can download the new assistants (Dcburn and Dcserv) on the project page: http://www.netbsd.org/ports/dreamcast/

These scripts can easily create a bootable NetBSD image, and NFS to share information between PC and DC.

More details: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-dr...msg000170.html ...