Zero-G Nostalgia isn’t anymore provided with Intakt, but with Kontakt patchs instead, in 3 parts (downloads) : Pack 1 (US Classics, Euro Classics, and Japanese Classics), Pack 2 (Playback Keyboards, Organs, Electro-Mechanicals, Digital ROMpler Synths, and Vintage Samplers) and Pack 3 (Cheap n Cheezy, Obscure Synths, Drum Synths, Classic Beatboxes, Obscure Beatboxes, Sci-Fi, Atmosferics, String Synths, and Basses). Each one is priced 64.99$ (179.99$ the whole).

Zero-G presents Dark Skies – Cinematic Ambiences , a 4,3 Gb samples library (ambiences, soundscapes, drones and FX) that includes 1027 patchs for Kontakt and EXS24. Audio demos are provided. It is priced 149.95$.

A remastered version (on DVD) of Legacy of Time (Journeyman Project 3) is available. All VR scenes, videos and animations have been computed again with twice the original resolution. Moreover it works on PowerPC (and on Intel through Rosetta), under OSX 10.3.9 at least. It is priced 14,99$, and checkout is made through Paypal system (either using a Paypal account, or using a credit card). Shipping fees are about 4$ for Europe.

In the same manner we would be pleased to get a remastered version of Riven (and also Exile).

A new version of the famous Winter Games (1985) is under way. We can choose between retro mode or modern mode, despite the later’s graphics not being really ways better (however it wasn’t the main interesting point of the original game).

An article about new features of WebKit’s Web Inspector is available. There is to note that most features aren’t really usefull when developping in Cappuccino, and setting a breakpoint using the Web Inspector doesn’t seem possible in ObjJ source code (as it is converted at runtime in js), I’ve then always used the debugger; instruction instead. Moreover I didn’t find the stop on exception option in Safari 4’s debugger (is said to be present in WebKit – and is also available in Firebug).

Asphalt 5 is available at the AppStore (6.99$). There are many tracks (12 locations, various environmental conditions, shortcuts), and it provides multiplayer game over Wifi.

The multiplayer (and free !) FPS from Ngmoco (Rolando’s editor), Eliminate, is now available at most AppStore. The character can evolve by buying add-ons (from in-game – was a key feature from iPhone OS 3.0). The game can use 3G network if Wifi isn’t available.

Audiofanzine provides a full review of EastWest/Quantum Leap Silk. Audio examples are included.

Macnn provides a review of VMWare Fusion 3. Performances are great, except for recent games, despite support for DirectX9 and shaders (up to 30 times less fps than in BootCamp). Parallels (version 4 available, and version 5 soon) is probably better in that aera (there is also to consider the rendering quality, that can differ fom game to game between the two virtualizers).

Unity Indie (2.6) games development solution is now available for free. It was priced 199$ before. That is here for download. We can also access to some demos that run directly through the browser using the Unity Web plugin (works on PPC and is really fast… ways better than any Flash). The Tropical Paradise demo is really stunning.

The Indie version isn’t listed in the licenses page, and  the Pro version remains priced 1499$. The iPhone targeted version isn’t free, however a 30 days demo is provided).

ModArtt released Pianoteq PRO, that allows per note settings (22 parameters), and a rendering up to 192 Khz (48 Khz in the standard version). We can watch a video here. It is priced 399 euros (249 euros for the standard version).
Pianoteq Pro also includes the enhancements brought by Pianoteq 3.5 (see here and there). A demo version of Pianoteq standard 3.5 is available.

A new version (0.91) of CP2JavaWS is available. It is a bug fixes release :

- fixed a bug with habilitation filter’s init (as filters’s init methods order can change, we don’t pass anymore the userSessionKey info from the authentication filter’s init method to the habilitation filter’s init. That information has then been added also in the habilitation filter’s config in web.xml).

- fixed a potential bug in authentication filter when comparing request uri with authCredentials’s uri, for cases where the browser returns its host in authCredentials’s uri (shouldn’t).

- remote methods that returned a String (root, not JSON) leaded to an error when decoding on the client side (missing quotes). It was ok for String attributes in nested objects of the return graph.

- calling a remote method without any parameters (that is passing nil to the single selector part – ie [remoteService aMethod:nil]) now works properly (fixed test for remaining invocation arguments).