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New platforms and some updates.
posted 2012-05-06
Major platform update!

added:
Game Pocket Computer, Android, Sord M5, Casio Loopy, MobiGo, Uzebox, BeOS

renamed:
iPhone to iOS, PSP2 to PS Vita

Atari XL/XE was finally deleted.

No batch edit / re-tagging has been done yet.
If anything is required to avoid a long sequence of edits, please state here clearly what needs to be done.

Games trend
posted 2012-04-21
I was curious about the number of games trend in UVL, but I've never stored the actual number of games as a regular basis.
Luckily that number is always displayed on the homepage, so thanks to the amazing wayback.archive.org I managed to quickly extract the data and add a graph timeline showing the data since "the beginning", August 1998 (13 years and 8 months ago !!! )
www.uvlist.net/various/features

While doing this, I stumbled in ancient "thanks to" posts, mainly aimed at Teran and Zerothis, so I want to reiterate my thanks to them and all the other amazing editors.

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EA & Microsoft & Open Source Gaming
posted 4 days and 18 hours ago
So Electronic Arts has an Open Source page. It sucks and others agree. And EA has dipped its toes in the Kool-Aid by putting a couple games in the Ubuntu Software Center. The prevailing attitude is one of mistrust, and its where I have sided as well. I commented that I'd be more welcoming to Microsoft than EA. It got me to thinking and I did some searching. Turns out Microsoft founded a subsidiary company in April called Microsoft Open Technologies. Jean Paoli is president of the new company. Notably they started out with a major update to BSD licensed REDIS. So what's in it for gaming? Well, Microsoft has an Open Source project hosting and code repository called Codeplex and they host Game related projects. And also, games:
xgame
yabu
Mr.Dev
XNA.PONG
Milworms
SDLPAL <- Check this out
MONOGAME <- note wizorb in the list
So while Electronic Arts is getting noticed for their lame Open Source, Linux and gaming contributions, Microsoft would seem to be way ahead of them (and still not too far). EA's most likely to continue their harsh management of developers while Microsoft is providing the tools and letting developers do their thing. So, I have even more reason to be more welcoming of Microsoft to Linux gaming than I am to EA.

Java on Haiku OS (BeOS replacement)
posted 2012-05-02
BeOS and Java have a rough history together whereby only various parts, subsets, and partial implementations of Java were available. But a Haiku programmer, Hamish Morrison, is working on porting OpenJDK to Haiku. He expects to have a full implementation of Java ready for the next Google Summer of Code event. This means more games for Haiku and potentially new games by developers that favor Haiku.
source: haikuware.com

Complete game with score made with just 219 bytes of sourcecode.
posted 2012-04-01
Its Tron, says the developers.
We have smaller games here don't we?
source: alokmenghrajani.github.com

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