RedShift have announced the availability of version 1.01 of Civilisation for the Nokia 9210. In addition they are currently offering a special offer where you can purchase the game for $20 - a saving of $8.
Interstellar Flames, an intense action game featuring a groundbreaking 3d engine, will be released for the Nokia 7650 later this week. For information on the game please see here. There are some screenshots that look very promising.
The Symbain press office has reported that ARM, HP, Motorola SPS, RealNetworks and Texas have signed as Platinum development partners. This was announced at the Symbian Partner Event (SPE) in London today. What surprises me is the inclusion of HP in the list. However I don't think too much can be read into HP joining, apart from the fact that they are at last taking Symbian seriously.
Part 6 in Ewan's OPL tutorial series is now available. This week he looks at cursor control in the Master program, at giving the user control, moving the cursor around and making the first guess. With the release of version 1.0 of the OPL runtime you now have more reason than ever to get coding...
gipViewer 7650 is an image viewer, editor, image manager, camera app for Nokia 7650. With gipViewer, you can view images, zoom, pan, and it also has a slide-show function to view images.
Just from now on, and until Dec 25th, the users of Nokia 9210 only need to pay 29.95USD$ for all of the 9210 game software produced by Digital-Red and whose price is 115.95USD$. Which is equal to a special discount of 75%.
From today until Dec 25th, the users of Nokia 7650 only need to pay 29.95USD$ for all of the 7650 games produced by Digital-Red and whose price is 67.5USD$. Which is equal to a special discount of 60%.
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Have a look at this very interesting read at The Register. It appears that all the courting and PR momentum built up with the Mobius Conference is about to be damaged. Developers are being asked to pay up to $600 per application to get their Orange SPV Stinger apps Microsoft Certified - and without that certificate the apps won't run on the SPV. Symbian's Developer Support doesn't seem at all bad this morning...
Space Doubler is a new program from PsiNT for the Nokia 7650. It allows you to compress and decompress programs on the fly as you run and close them. This saves you valuable space on your Series 60 device.
Anatra and Psi NT released their AutoStart for Nokia 7650/3650. It is a simple, but useful tool giving the similar functionality to the Windows Autostart folder.
FileBrowser has been updated to version 1.0, release candidate 1. FileBrowser is a simple file browser for the Nokia 7650. The new version adds sending of file via infrared and blueooth. The new version works until 30th December.
RMR have released a new program, RMRArt. The program is a drawing / art package, it also does graphic manipulation. A great example of what can be achieved in OPL. (Editor's Note: Apologies for the late arrival of this news item - definetely worth a look though).
