October 2006
GP2X: the Linux handheld console
The GP2X is an open-source, Linux-based handheld game console and media player created and sold by GamePark Holdings of South Korea.
Released on November 10, 2005 in South Korea, the GP2X is designed to support video, music, photos, and games in an open architecture, allowing any user to develop software for the device. Room for expansion with future upgrades (new media formats, features, operating system, etc) has been made possible by upgradable flash memory firmware.
MAME released
A new version of the MAME emulator is out as well as some of it’s alternative versions. As always you can get the new version from here
Other version of Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator are xMAME MAME for Linux, MacMAME for Apple Mac OS X, Mame32 for Windows, MAME Plus for Windows, EEMAME or E2MAME for Symbian Mobile Phones
August 2006
Kick Off World of soccer
website devoted to classic top-down arcade-style soccer videogames expecially inspired by Kick Off 2, Sensible Soccer seeking to identify and catalog games, and related resources, that challenge and subvert mainstream football gaming conventions
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