PDRoms reports that Lua Japanese Flashcards has been updated. Lua Japanese Flashcards is a heavily modified compilation program of Hiragana and Katakana flash card programs for the Sony Playstation Portable. It now includes all 80 tier 4 kanji flash cards, full list of characters, and randomly displays characters in a non-repeating fashion. It also provides English translations with the press of a button. Below are the release notes for this version.

 

12-05-05

 

I have now released an update to my Japanese Flashcard program which includes all eighty of the tier 4 kanji. It can be found in the My Programs link on the right hand side of this page.

 

This is a great step and I hope to continue working by moving on to the large number kanji remaining in tier's 3 through 1. However without a PSP, as per my last note, I am not in a great mood.

 

So, like all good web pages, I am asking for you to donate so I can again repurchase a 1.5 Firmware PSP and the accessories I need.

 

In return for a donation of more than 5 USD I will be adding your e-mail to a list and providing any and all beta updates I will be working on in adding further kanji to my Japanese Flashcard program.

 

- Bob535 ( Site Admin and Coder )

You can find out more information here.

emulation number 9 reports that jzIntv, the multi-platform Intellivision emulator, has been updated. Yesterday, a work-in-progress version was released. jzIntv is available for Linux, Unix, Windows, and MacOS. You can find out more information about jzIntv and Intellivision here, at jzIntv's official homepage.

This DS library implements the Linux ROMFS file system for reading a pre-made boot romdisk. To create a romdisk image, you will need the program "genromfs". This program was designed for Linux but can compile under Cygwin.", included is a prebuilt mingw windows binary.

 

This was derived/ported from KOS 1.3.x from the Dreamcast KallistiOS. Included is a simple FS test which demonstrates reading a couple of files from the romdisk, and then it displays the directory structure.

 

For more information about using the filesystem checkout the fs.h file for the proper api calls, which are all very similiar to standard stdio calls. Also included is some stdio newlib stubs that call the kosFS for better stdio support but so far I havent figure out how to port those into the existing devkitpro / libnds configuration.

Note that this news comes from PDRoms. More information on romdiskfs is available here.

PDRoms reports that eSwan has been updated. eSwan is a Wonderswan and Wonderswan Color emulator for the Sony Playstation Portable. This is a Japanese emulator, and more information is available here (Japanese).