New Dolphin Browser

They dropped a new beta browser today.

• Upgraded User Interface
• Speed Dial Tabs
• More Powerful Sidebar
• Subfolder Support
• Faster Browsing

If you are interested in checking it out you can read all about it here and download it ;)

New Flash player

What's in this version:

Flash Player 10.2.157.51 – Features and Enhancements

• Hardware accelerated video presentation (requires Android 3.1)
• Enhanced browser integration for Honeycomb tablets (requires Android 3.1)
• Important bug fixes and security enhancements

The complete set of release notes can be found here

ScummVM - Monkey Island and more

For the oldtimers who picked up a Motorola Xoom, ScummVM will provide months of enjoyment. While digging through the web, I tripped over ScummVM again, and figured I'd give it a go on my Xoom. And it worked great :)

What Is ScummVM?

ScummVM is a program which allows you to run certain classic graphical point-and-click adventure games, provided you already have their data files. The clever part about this: ScummVM just replaces the executables shipped with the games, allowing you to play them on systems for which they were never designed!

ScummVM supports many adventure games, including LucasArts SCUMM games (such as Monkey Island 1-3, Day of the Tentacle, Sam & Max, ...), many of Sierra's AGI and SCI games (such as King's Quest 1-6, Space Quest 1-5, ...), Discworld 1 and 2, Simon the Sorcerer 1 and 2, Beneath A Steel Sky, Lure of the Temptress, Broken Sword 1 and 2, Flight of the Amazon Queen, Gobliiins 1-3, The Legend of Kyrandia 1-3, many of Humongous Entertainment's children's SCUMM games (including Freddi Fish and Putt Putt games) and many more.

I grew up during the golden years of PC gaming. Before all the 3D shooter extravaganza, people played classic point and click games like Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade/Fate of Atlantis (they should made that into Indiana Jones 4), Monkey Island, Sam & Max, Full Throttle and the Dig. Even decades later, these games still hold up the true gaming experience for me.

Anyway, I figured I'd try a few of my old games, and see how they play on my Xoom

While ScummVM supports many more games, these are the ones I tried, and they run great. They look a little "blocky" because they are older games (back from the DOS days) so the low-resolution is scaled to run full-screen on the Xoom, and when the game scrolls/pans the camera view a bit, there is a light stutter, but the games are perfectly playable and voices run smoothly.

You can download the ScummVM build that works on the Xoom from here:

http://anddev.at.ua/load/scummvm_svn55436/1-1-0-7

and if you do not have any of the games it supports, you can download some free versions (demos as well as a few released as freeware) from here:

http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/#extras