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1st & 3rd place

Tomasz Sterna — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:12:25 +0000

It might be worth noting, that I took 1st & 3rd place at Maemo Coding Competition 1 – Games Category.

PSX4M is finally out

Tomasz Sterna — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:11:57 +0000

You’ve been waiting for this too long, so I finally released first part of my new Playstation emulator for Maemo. It’s based on updated source of PSX4ALL by ZodTTD and incorporates Maemo specific backends written by me. It uses new PulseAudio sound backend and HAA display scaling PSX native resolutions to 640×480 for N900 display (so it keeps correct aspect ratio).

The new concept for the emulator fully utilizes Maemo osso-games-startup frontend with standalone CLI psx4m worker binary.
And the first part of this combo is out: http://maemo.org/packages/view/psx4m/

PSX4M is finally out ©, .

POWDER – roguelike from GBA to Maemo

Tomasz Sterna — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:50:16 +0000

On pupnik‘s request I did a quick port of POWDER – a nice roguelike game originally developped for GBA. It took me about half an hour. :)

POWDER – roguelike from GBA to Maemo ©, .

OpenDUNE for Maemo

Tomasz Sterna — Mon, 31 May 2010 22:23:06 +0000

Porting games to Fremantle if taking me less and less time… :-)

OpenDUNE for Maemo ©, .

Globulation 2 Maemo Edition

Tomasz Sterna — Mon, 31 May 2010 15:32:54 +0000

With a little work I finally managed to port Globulation 2 to Maemo 5.
It’s an immensely fun RTS game with a new approach to taking the burden of micromanagement off the player.

The package is available from github, because the extras builder is broken.

Globulation 2 Maemo Edition ©, .

Open Red Alert Maemo Edition

Tomasz Sterna — Fri, 21 May 2010 18:00:04 +0000

After some trial and error I’ve managed to get the SVN version of Open Red Alert working on Fremantle.

It’s a very preliminary port similar to my Bos Wars port and it needs a lot of love to really enjoy it.
The main concern is the conventional RTS controls, that use RMB a lot. I need to think of a method for easy scrolling the map, canceling construction, placing construction markers, etc.

You may find the deb on github – the Extras autobuilder does not like it.

Open Red Alert Maemo Edition ©, .

Bos Wars Maemo Edition

Tomasz Sterna — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:03:53 +0000

Another port of Linux game for Nokia N900 is ready.
This time I’ve taken a very nice RTS – Bos Wars.

You may get it from Extras.

Bos Wars Maemo Edition ©, .

Widelands Maemo Edition

Tomasz Sterna — Thu, 13 May 2010 08:45:20 +0000

This was a fun project to port. :) It wasn’t straightforward though. Original Widelands UI uses right mouse button extensively, so it needed changing. I removed mouse cursor, added mouse dragging of map and double-tap to close windows. Maemo 5 does not support OGG sound in its SDL_Mixer library, so this needed working around too.

It’s very playable now (using stylus) and it got me hooked to playing while commuting.

UAE4All Maemo Edition

Tomasz Sterna — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:10:40 +0000

Yesterday evening I finally released preliminary Maemo port of Chui’s UAE4All Amiga 500 emulator for Dreamcast console.

It’s capable of running A500 software full-speed on normal Nokia N900. With OCS graphics, real sound, mouse, keyboard and joystick. I really enjoyed watching Spaceballs – State of the Art full speed (for the 50th+ time during port development ^_^).

PSX4All with Hildon UI

Tomasz Sterna — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:41:18 +0000

Yesterday my psx4all port for Maemo 5 got a “nice” Hildon UI.

I’ve written it with DrNokSnes UI as inspiration and “borrowing” some code from. It’s fully Hildon based and uses nice touch features of N900.

Other changes are based on SDL_haa library which allows hardware accelerated screen scaling.