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New BennuGD port for Dreamcast

Indiket from dreamcast.es has made a new BennuGD port version for the Sega Dreamcast (specifically KOS 2.X and SDL), based on Colombians Developers’ port, which had already some years.

This new build is compatible with KOS 2.x, and has been build with SDL 1.2.13, SDL_Mixer 1.2.12, libpng 1.6.18 and freetype 2.6. It plays MOD music again (without any need of mod_dream), and it has support for 2 pads. Additionaly, it includes the extra «mod_ttf» for free.

Read more on http://www.dreamcast.es/news.php?readmore=745
Discuss on http://forum.bennugd.org/index.php?topic=4176.0

New Notepadd++ based IDE for BennuGD and Pixstudio

Grew has announced he is working on a new IDE based on Notepad++, by his own words: «It is a Notepad ++ stand alone mod that wants to be something that comes closest to a true IDE.»

Features :

Smart compilation

choose_mode

Smart embeded console

ide_global

Smart error tracker

ide_global

Download here

Discuss here

mod_gme: New BennuGD extension to play classic consoles music.

It’s been a while since we seen the last BennuGD extension published, but luckily we have a new one this week, and it’s a very cool extension for playing music from old consoles.

The formats supported are:

AY ZX Spectrum/Amstrad CPC
GBS Nintendo Game Boy
GYM Sega Genesis/Mega Drive
HES NEC TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine
KSS MSX Home Computer/other Z80 systems (doesn’t support FM sound)
NSF/NSFE Nintendo NES/Famicom (with VRC 6, Namco 106, and FME-7 sound)
SAP Atari systems using POKEY sound chip
SPC Super Nintendo/Super Famicom
VGM/VGZ Sega Master System/Mark III, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive,BBC Micro

Download the library and the examples from this forum post: http://forum.bennugd.org/index.php?topic=4101.msg65365#new

BennuGD port ‘PixTudio’ FAQs

PixTudio is the name of the new BennuGD fork by Joseba, which implements OpenGL hardware acceleration and SDL2.

The currect version of the fork is very unstable, but a new section in the forum has been opened, to keep a track of the advances and report bugs. Also, a new FAQs post was created (sadly only in spanish) so go ahead and take a look at it here http://forum.bennugd.org/index.php?topic=4108.0

Multiple BennuGD games released for GCW Zero

FreeYourMind has been porting lot of games made in BennuGD to the linux-based handheld GCW Zero, and is releasing them for free on the forum!

The list of games released until now are:

Deadly Eye
Ranita
Geca Blaster 2
Toki 2: Revenge of Juju
Panta Vs. Dragon
Pollo Pollo
Hamster’s Escape 3D
Hamster’s Escape

Go ahead and visit those forum thread to discuss/download these games!

«Paper’ Game goes Greenlight

Peterpollito, creator of the game Paper (which has been in development for more than 4 years) has submitted his game to Steam Greenlight, in search for support to continue developing the game.

It is already between the most voted game concepts of the week, but the game needs your vote to, so go ahead, and visit the Game Greenlight Profile. left your votes and opinions.

You can also join the discussion in the forum topic at http://forum.bennugd.org/index.php?topic=1756.0

Skull now released for Pandora

Handheld console Pandora owners now can try Skull, a Megaman inspired game by FreeYourMind.

Download:
http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/pandora.cgi?0,0,0,0,35,358

Div GO now supports 3D through WebGL

Div GO, the DIV-like language implementation for the WEB, has a new version which features the new 3D engine among other general bug fixes and improvements.

Test the new 3D library at http://www.divgo.net/index.php?ejemplo=5
Join the discussion at http://forum.bennugd.org/index.php?topic=3207.180;topicseen

BennuGD plugin for Sublime Text

Everbill has published a plugin he made for supporting the BennuGD language in the very popular IDE Sublime Text.

The plugin adds syntax coloring and compilation + run support from the IDE. It also detects lines where an error occurs from the compilation output and can send you to the specific file in the IDE.

1. Install Sublime-Text 3: http://www.sublimetext.com/
2. Download the plugin from here: https://github.com/Everbill/BennuGD-SublimeText-Plugin
3. In sublime-Text go to Preferences>Browse Packages… and place the plugin in the folder opened
4. Restart the program and go to Tools>Build System and select BennuGD

Go to the forum for more details, shortcuts and discussion : http://forum.bennugd.org/index.php?topic=3980.msg64429

BennuGD 2

SplinterGU has announced a while ago that he’s working on the next version of BennuGD, and has created a forum post for discussing the features with the community.

BennuGD 2 is going to make use of the hardware acceleration capabilities of the new SDL library, and will simplify significantly the modularization of the language. By using SDL 2, BennuGD will improve its performance on mobile devices and have a better support for the new platforms.

He has also mentioned that he’s going to be exclusively dedicated to the new version of the language, therefore, he has stopped supporting the current version and there won’t be bug fixes or new features in the future.

Discuss the features of the next version of BennuGD in the following forum post: http://forum.bennugd.org/index.php?topic=3902.0