Loonies 8192 (2018)

Devlog

• GBA version updated, fixes sound in title screen
  July 15, 2021 by thp

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  This small update to the GBA port of the game fixes an issue reported on itch.io related to music playback in the title screen... Continue reading
• Loonies 8192 r66 now playable in the browser
  July 11, 2021 by thp

  Using Emscripten, WebAssembly, WebGL and SDL2, it's now possible to play Loonies 8192 r66 in the browser. This means you can play the game directly from its itch.io page, and because you're already pl... Continue reading
• Loonies 8192 r66 now also for N900
  July 11, 2021 by thp#n900, #maemo, #release

  Today's update brings a port to the N900, running the Debian-based Maemo 5 operating system, and using OpenGL ES 1.1 for rendering/scaling. It can be easily installed from the landing page directly on... Continue reading

  
• Loonies 8192 r66 adds iOS, macOS and Vita ports
  July 09, 2021 by thp#release, #vita, #ios

  A new release is out! This release adds new ports to iOS (in App Store), macOS (downloadable here) as well as the Vita (Homebrew). All other ports have been updated too. There have been some improveme... Continue reading

  
• Loonies 8192 r65 adds ports for N800, N9 and PocketCHIP
  June 30, 2021 by thp

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  #release, #n9, #pocketchip, #n800

  With the previous release adding official Android support, and with that adding touchscreen support for the game, there was no reason why the game can't be ported to other touchscreen devices. In fact... Continue reading

  
• Loonies 8192 r64, now with Android, NDS and Win32 ports
  June 22, 2021 by thp

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  #win32, #release, #nds, #homebrew, #android

  Loonies 8192's porting quest continues. This year, the NDS and Win32 ports are new. The Android port (in beta since last year, now in production) is also available and has got some fixes. The NDS port... Continue reading
• New photos and videos of the PSX port on a CRT TV
  April 15, 2021 by thp#photos, #videos, #gif

  This week I had some time to visit home and dig out an old CRT and the modchipped PSX . This was mostly to make new photos/videos for my other homebrew port ( chro.mono 2 on Wii ), but as I already ha... Continue reading

  
• Version r62 released, with a new PSX port
  June 11, 2020 by thp

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  #psx, #port, #psn00bsdk

  A new version of Loonies 8192 is out. This version adds a port to a new system: The original PlayStation (PSX). Save game support is not included, but global leaderboards (using the QR code) do work... Continue reading

  
• Loonies 8192 r50 Source Code available
  May 03, 2020 by thp#source code, #gplv2, #release

  A source code snapshot of Loonies 8192 r50 (from 2019) is now available here: https://thp.io/2018/loonies8192/loonies-r50-src.zip This is the code recently featured in a "Let's Code" YouTube stream: h... Continue reading
• Updated release for DOS, 3DS, PSP and now also for GBA
  April 01, 2020 by thp#release, #leaderboards, #gba, #3ds, #psp, #dos

  It's finally here: The GBA port of Loonies 8192. In addition to the fresh port, the existing DOS, 3DS and PSP builds were also updated with the new visuals, optimised rendering, more audio playback op... Continue reading

  
• New build for DOS, PSP and 3DS
  January 27, 2019 by thp

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  #homebrew, #release, #mode_x, #3ds, #psp

  A new version of Loonies 8192 is out, r50. It brings quite a lot of changes, among other things: Tiles are now 16x16 instead of 10x10, all tiles have been redrawn The game now uses 320x240 (square pix... Continue reading

  
• VGA sync fixes in r45
  January 27, 2019 by thp#vga, #sync, #fix

  A new build of the game is now online, this has actually been available since September, but was never updated here on Itch.io and on the website, so here is the update that fixes VGA sync issues on r... Continue reading
• CD-Audio support, PC Speaker and super optimised for 286+
  September 05, 2018 by thp

  A new version of Loonies 8192 is out, this has shaped up quite nicely. Thanks to the testers on the Vogons forums, we now have it running smoothly on 286-based, 12 MHz systems, and anything above that... Continue reading

  
• Developing for VGA + OPL-2 is fun
  July 05, 2018 by thp

  A new release I've been working on this week. A puzzle game (inspired by Lumines). It was a fun project, now go download it and give it a spin on your favorite retro PC or via DOSBox or some other x86... Continue reading