Archive for July 13th, 2009
Quantum Collapse: RTS for iPhone [AppStore, Games, Video]
Quantum Collapse is one of the best games RTS (Real Time Strategy) games for iPhone and iPod Touch. The game was released less than a month ago and has already been updated to version 1.1. Regular price is $3.99, but it is on sal enow for $0.99 (AppStore
Features:
- 13 Campaign missions providing more than 8 hours of gameplay
- 11 Skirmish missions with 3 different AI Types.
- Amazing Particle Effects and Explosions
- 2 Completely different factions with unique designs and powers
- Voxel generated terrain (no repetitive tilemaps)
- Map Zoom.
- Each unit has a unique powerup. Some super units have up to 6 of them.
- Spell system enables you to take a huge part in the battle.
In next version developers will implement multiplayer with voice-chat. Note for iPhone 3GS users: the game has graphical glitches on the iPhone 3GS. Developers found the solution and the fix is on it's way.
Here is a demo video:
Warp Gate Preview: a new shooter in space [Games, Video]
This is a game called Warp Gate. We will have to drive a ship in space and complete various missions by eliminating the enemies with different weapons. The 3D graphics looks quite good and the sound creates a great atmosphere.
Worms for iPhone released [AppStore, Games, Video]
Worms game is now avaliable in AppStore for $4.99 (
Unfortunately to iPhone 2G/3G users it run really slow on therse devices.Here are couple reviews:
- The game is SLOW. Lag time at every action, even in menus.
- Really bad framerate.
- I was expecting this game sience laste year when rumors came up about worms. Now i’m so very disapointed! IT’s very SLOW!
However iPhone 3GS users are happy:
- Game is plenty fast on my 3GS!
- First game that require a 3GS.
Here's a video demo:
Volume Boost: increase the volume [Cydia]
VolumeBooster is a tool that, by changing some system files, should increase the sound coming from the speaker of the iPhone / iPod Touch 2G by 20%.
The procedure for the installation is simple, run Cydia and find "Volume Boost", available in the repository ModMyi. It works thriugh Winterboard, after installation you need to apply the Mod. VolumeBooster is compatible with all firmware versions.
Note: Do not install on the iPhone 3GS, because the audio there is already set to 100%.
GeoHot vs DevTeam: new version of Purplera1n soon?
Now everyone will know that the DevTeam and GeoHot are no longer in good terms and in fact shortly after the release of Redsn0w 0.8, the tool to run the jailbreak of Firmawre 3.0, there were many discussions on Twitter between GeoHot and copumpkin, one of the DevTeam members.
GeoHot complained that redsn0w uses the same "hole" and the same exploit to run the iPhone 3GS Jailbreak, copumpkin said that the flaw was the same but the exploit was completely different and created entirely by them. Not trusting, GeoHot asked repeatedly Hash codes (the identity) for the files needed to run the exploit and said that it had not been a good idea to release two programs that use the same "hole" (stealing?).
GeoHot also said, that redsn0w has problems (which is true, some users have reported problems) and so he plans to release a new better version of Purplera1n. It will probably will also unlock the iPhone.
iPhone's camera is the most used on Flickr
In just 20 days the iPhone has climbed to the top of Flickr and is now in first place among the most used cameras.
This was expected since the release of the new model also increased by 400% the upload of videos to YouTube. The iPhone day after day continues to achieve new goals.
Windows 95 and Windows XP on iPhone [Video]
Russian iphone user iWert was anle to run Windows 95 and even Windows XP on iPhone. He used Bochs (pronounced "box"), which is a portable x86 and x86-64 IBM PC compatible emulator (wikipedia
iPhone hardware is not made to run Windows on an emuator. So Windows 95 runs, but a bit slow. It takes 5 minutes to start.
Windows XP almost did it, but failed to start:
Here is a demo video: