Sorry for the lack of updates for the last couple of weeks, we have been adding 2 very requested features in to the iControlPad which we think will make the unit near perfect in terms of what it can do. We will be releasing those details later this month.
We will be emailing interested distributors this week to gather some details.
As soon as we have a finished mass production pad we will put up a youtube video
Fellow ZodTTD.com member Vball has released SdlRoids. SdlRoids is a remake of the classic arcade game Asteroids. It was made using the SDL library and is for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. I have added it to the ZodTTD.com Installer.app repo (available in the Community Sources).
For those wondering about the control layout of the game, here is a quick mock-up:
A big thank you to Vball for these great games. I look forward to the next round of releases!
Recently ZodTTD.com has been approved by NullRiver as an Installer.app Community Source. What is an Installer.app Community Source? It's a package of trusted repositories maintained by the makers of Installer.app (NullRiver). Now that ZodTTD.com is a community source, I am able to instantly provide my public releases to everyone with Installer.app, without the need of manually entering in a repo.
It also means I am able to host other developers work and make them available through my community source. One such developer is our very own ZodTTD.com member, Vball.
Vball is currently working on a number of titles for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. They include Chips Challenge, Sand, PipePanic, and SdlRoids.
The first one to be released will be SdlRoids, a very cool remake of Asteroids using the SDL library. I am also helping optimize Sand to run faster and if all goes as expected, this version should be released shortly after SdlRoids.
If you are a developer interested in being featured on ZodTTD.com and having your work on the ZodTTD Installer.app Community Source, please contact me and I will do my best to accomodate you.
As some may have noticed, there is some construction going on here at ZodTTD.com. Over the next week our home here at ZodTTD.com will be getting an improved look! The changes will give the site a more polished look and will improve usability.
Projects such as vlc4iphone are being worked on during this upgrade as well. Wouldn't it be good to see a public release when the site is ready?
There is a lot of work to be done, so I better get to it!
Hi everyone, ZodTTD here. Time to talk about the latest and greatest media player for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch.
As the developer of this port of the VLC media player to the iPhone, I have received a lot of misinformation and a few questions along the way. Here is where I will try to clear things up.
What is vlc4iphone? vlc4iphone is a port of VLC, a media player made by the team over at VideoLAN, to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. VLC, and therefor vlc4iphone as well, includes many features. The biggest features include Internet Radio, Video On Demand (VoD) streaming, many popular media formats supported that are not available by default iPhone and iPod Touch installation, and no syncing is needed. You can drag and drop your media via SCP, a tool such as iPhoneBrowser, or even download via Safari and browse to the files with vlc4iphone!
What ISN'T vlc4iphone? vlc4iphone can not access the hardware decoder of the supported Apple hardware. While I will be talking about this more in the future, it's worth bringing up now. This is because all decoding of media must be done in software, with no hardware acceleration. Even with hardware acceleration, there is an imposed limit on the size of the synced video of which is just one format. Since vlc4iphone supports formats such as XviD, MP4, MOV, 3GP, FLV, and more
HedgeWars is an excellent Worms-like game that I am very excited about. A new video has been made of the latest version of HedgeWars, v0.9.4. Wow does this look amazing. I am extremely pleased to be beginning my work on porting this game to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch this week!
Here's the video for all to enjoy:
If you like what you see here, be sure to show your support by replying to this article!
ZodTTD here. I have been hard at work on fixing some tough bugs and various issues with my port and frontend of the VLC media player to the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. The last of the major issues I had have been fixed, and I've fixed MANY bugs and even added a feature or two!
Here's a quick list of changes in vlc4iphone v0.9.5:
Internet Radio support including Shoutcast, M3U, and HTTP. This is in addition to MMS, HTTP, and RTSP streaming protocols!
Added a streaming media feature to vlc4iphone, so movies and audio can be streamed via HTTP and RTSP!
Added full support (sound + video decoding) for the following video formats: FLV (Flash Video) XviD (DivX) MP4 (MPEG4) MOV (Quicktime) H264 (Hi Def) 3GP (Mobile movies)
Added video playback of WMV movies.
Added audio playback of OGG in addition to FLAC, MP3, MP2, etc.
Added a fast forward and rewind feature for videos.
Fixed up and improved file browsing within the vlc4iphone GUI.
Fixed many bugs concerning stability.
With vlc4iphone you can download files from Safari on your iPhone or iPod Touch using a local download patch and easily add them to a playlist for playback, without worry of format and need of conversion and syncing tools.
Also, now you can enter your favorite media's HTTP URL or RTSP into vlc4iphone's... [Read More]
I have been working very hard on vlc4iphone. I had to drop the ZodPlay name, as nobody seemed to understand the name change. I will keep things simple and just continue moving along with VLC.
vlc4iphone has been gaining a lot of attention, and my work on it has been continuous through the day and night. I now have FLV with sound running great. MP4's are running very well, though a bug preventing sound from being outputted is slowing down the release of this build. I haven't tested HTTP and RTSP streaming, though it is compiled in.
I plan on leaving in the full command line interface in the upcoming release, in addition to the GUI, so it can be integrated into tools such as Docs, allowing for files to be associated with vlc4iphone.
I also will be adding (improved) file browsing to the vlc4iphone GUI as well.
I plan on having this all ready to be released this week to beta testers. I realize there is a large demand for this application, so I am working hard to get a public build out. It's a matter of quality control.
For those who have written me in the past few days, you will be receiving an answer to your emails and PMs today. My PM box landed up getting full, and my email inbox was full of bounced back emails due to a spammer. If you don't hear back from me today, be sure to use ... [Read More]
As I was browsing through the web I noticed this and thought it was interesting. It seems in the following pictures that you can expect some applications in 2.0 from Hudson... well known for bomberman.
In the first image shows 5 different games. Only two are easily recognizable; BomberMan and Sudoku.
In the second image you see a screen with a list of keywords, one being "SKD" which could imply applications from them.
A Windows Executable and Mac Application are both provided in the Zip along with the required skins directory.
Changes from R3
- Mac port!
- You can now browse for the skins directory rather than being stuck to a single directory
- Yes/No prompt for saving
- Yes/No prompt for reverting
- Including R3F1 (loading skins problem)
- Fix labels mix up whenever moving boxes
- Fix for errors when opening a non-existant skin
- Fix that transparent boxes could go off top and bottom edges
- bluebox.png moved to the skin directory rather than with the executable because Mac version couldn't read files from the same directory as the executable.
Note: The app is untested on Mac OS 10.4, maybe if somebody can IM me on msn or gtalk if they have trouble running it on versions lower than Leopard. I also have no idea if it works on PPC, but I know it works on Intel.
