Lua is a powerful light-weight programming language designed for extending applications. Lua is also frequently used as a general-purpose, stand-alone language. Lua is free software.

 

Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, interpreted from bytecodes, and has automatic memory management with garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.

 

A fundamental concept in the design of Lua is to provide meta-mechanisms for implementing features, instead of providing a host of features directly in the language. For example, although Lua is not a pure object-oriented language, it does provide meta-mechanisms for implementing classes and inheritance. Lua's meta-mechanisms bring an economy of concepts and keep the language small, while allowing the semantics to be extended in unconventional ways. Extensible semantics is a distinguishing feature of Lua.

 

This preview adds WiFi functions and Socket functions to the Lua Player!

Note that Lua is for the Sony Playstation Portable, and this news comes from PDRoms. You can find more information here

A new DS emulator has been released! It is quite preliminary, but it can run quite a few demos. The menus and site are in French, here is a translation

Emulator nintendo DS.

- follower 2CPUs

- direct DMA (not on VBlank or other)

- support only mode 0

- support of the sprites

- not of support of the wide pallets. - sorts bgs and sprites

- part of the SWI

- does not emulate commercial plays because mainly of the CARD_REG

- emulates rather well the demo of Weather but small Pb with the mouse (click below the menus)

Here is a picture of it running Gridlock DS

>> Get it HERE (click on the first image)

Results of testing -> HERE

PDRoms reports that NeoCDGP2X, the Neo Geo CD emulator for the GP2x, has been updated today. NeoCDGP2X is based on NeoCD/SDL and NeoCD/PSP. Below is the change log for this version.

Change: modified button mapping from console pad style in All.

Click here for more information.