EPOC Entertainer 34 - Happy New Year!

[snigfarp]

Happy new year everyone!

EPOC Entertainer 34, the January issue, is now available from its home at the URL below. EPOC Entertainer is a magazine leaflet about games for the EPOC32 platform. Computers covered include the Oregon Scientific Osaris, the Psion Revo/Revo Plus and Diamond Mako, the Psion Series 5, 5mx and 5mx Pro, the Ericsson MC218, the Geofox One, and the Psion Series 7 and netBook. The magazine leaflet is published monthly in PDF format, as an A5 leaflet to be printed on both sides of A4 paper.

This month's issue carries some software news, including one item you've been expecting - Barbarians. Web world is also made fully playable by John Spillett. There is a full review of Joeri Capens' Zher0es strategic artillery game, a review of Purple Software's HomeRun patience game, and a brief look at the interesting but unfinished Dragonward. And there's also a short opinion piece about colour games. Yes, all in four pages!

http://psion.cyningstan.org.uk/

[RichardQvS]

Happy New Year to you too! Thanks again for yet another great Epoc Entertainer.

Richard

[snigfarp]

Thanks Richard, and thanks for the announcement on pdatotaal.info. I'm glad you like it!

[MartinMaxwell]

Thank you guys for continuing the EPOC game development!

I only have one wish.

There should be an indication in the database which games are supported by the Series 5mx emulator ("WINS") for Windows XP/7. Because this is what I think many people are using today when hardware for the original EPOC devices is hard to get.

For OPL developers this is quite easy; just replace the OPXs with the corresponding OPXs compiled for the emulator.

I hope I have some time this year to start a Series 5mx Emulator user forum.

[snigfarp]

It would be a bit time consuming, so it's on my "to do" list along with other improvements to the database. Now if people are willing and able to send me confirmation of which games are and aren't compatible with the emulator as and when they try them, it would help for when I finally get around to emulating the feature.

[Duncan.Fisher]

@Snigfarp, as Martin said, thank you for the continuing magazines for the Psions. It's nice to see people still active in the Psion arena. I really wish Psion would release their latest prototype that they canceled. Or better yet, release it and make the Epoc OS open source. ;)

@Martin, I have a forum located here: http://MyPalmtop.Info. If I make a Psion emulation section, would you help me out with it?