September 7, 2011
Last time I showed you how to speed up your newly acquired HP TouchPad with a number of patches and tweaks. There’s no denying that the performance increase is noticeable but the device still seems to lag and stutter at points. If you’re still disappointed with performance and are looking to turbo-charge your TouchPad, then a 1.5GHz speed bump might just do the trick.
September 5, 2011
Welcome to WebOS, an operating system that will never compare to iOS for speed. Many believed that WebOS 3.0 would have real potential in the portable market – but HP WebOS went wrong somewhere. Luckily the homebrew community is here to patch up WebOS and get your TouchPad running faster, smoother and better than it did when it left the factory.
March 9, 2011
It’s time for the concluding part of my home console emulation series, and today I’m on the hunt for some tools to emulate some fairly recent machines. If you’ve missed the series so far you might want to check out home consoles of the 70s, early 80s and the transition from 16 bit to 32 bit [...]
March 7, 2011
As part of a series on emulating the classic consoles of days gone by, we’ve already had two stops. The first home consoles of the 70s proved innovative, expensive bits of kit. The 80s heralded a new dawn of video games with Nintendo’s NES and Sega’s Master System loosening Atari’s grip over the industry. This [...]
March 3, 2011
On Wednesday I ran through the first in a series of home consoles and emulators, starting with the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972 and finishing with the Intellivision in ’79. Today the journey continues as we enter the 80′s, heralding a new era of consoles, an Italian plumber and a plucky blue hedgehog. As with the [...]
March 2, 2011
Starting this week I’m going to be taking a walk through video gaming history to bring you the best emulators I can find for each system. This first instalment covers the golden age of video games when primitive games made their way out of the arcades and into homes around the world. Some contain embedded [...]
February 16, 2011
On Monday, I showed you what you needed to have in order to play Nintendo DS backup games. Before we can proceed to discuss homebrewed apps and emulation, you’ll need to have a compatible flash card and storage device. Got that handy? Okay. Let’s move on.
February 14, 2011
If you’ve got a Nintendo DS, DSi or the latest DSi XL then you may or may not be aware of the homebrew scene that the handheld has spawned. Homebrew software is the catch-all term given to fan-made games and tools for platforms that are not usually open to development. The Nintendo DS is no [...]
December 7, 2009
So, you’ve been snooping around Atariage and Atarimania, and now, not surprisingly, you’re in love with the Atari 2600. You love the games, the look, everything. Well, maybe you should take your new found devotion a step further and make a homebrew Atari 2600 game. You may be asking what a homebrew game is. Simply put, [...]
August 16, 2009
Not a lot of people know this, but there are free games for the PSP out there. I’m not talking about those demo disks you get handed in stores or stolen copyrighted titles, but about great homebrew games, created by PSP enthusiasts themselves. There’s an endless variety of them, ranging from simplistic puzzle games to [...]
