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Our Vintage in Paris app has been published on the Nokia app store ! The process was pretty simple, since it was a very technically basic but content heavy app. The main difficulty in this app was walking around the streets of Paris taking pictures, and researching really good places to find Vintage. Why a Vintage in Paris app? Finding cool second hand and retro clothes is a hobby of mine, and my partners.   It's always fun finding interesting old styles, rummaging through clothes racks.  Especially in other countries, and especially when you find a bargain. There's something special about wandering down some back alley, and finding an old shop stuffed to the rafters with old stuff.  It's like taking a journey back in time to some fantastical version of Paris you may have in your head.  If you like Art Deco stuff, then Paris is the place to get it. What was the signup to the Nokia store like? I have been signed up as a Nokia de...

Over the last week two branches merged into the pygame trunk. Lenard Lindstrom got his python3/python3.1 branch merged in. Jussi Toivola had his symbian_s60 branch merged in to trunk. Both ports do not have complete functionality yet... but both have most major modules working. The python3 code has also been tested with the python3.1 beta release (there are small C API differences between both). Some of the work was based on stuff done by Marcus for his super-cool pgreloaded branch of pygame (which he is going to start doing some pre-releases of soon). Pre-release builds for both pygame-python3.0, and pygame-symbian_s60 are available... search the mailing list for details. Both also build from subversion trunk. Lenard got the python3 stuff ready quickly for a course a teacher is doing teaching python3 - part of the course uses pygame. So the pygame should work for his class. We are hoping to release pygame1.9 in 3-4 weeks. Which means that there's about 1 week to get any last m...

Jussi Toivola has done some more on his pygame port to symbian s60 -- which many nokia phones run. Here's some details of his progress on the port. >>> Jussi Toivola writes: new version is out(SVN 1844): http://jtoivola.googlepages.com/pygame_20090117_signed.sisx New features: - png, jpg, gif and tif image support. - Demo replaced with launcher application -- liquid example ported to s60 -- Comes with initial pen\mouse support( no list scrolling yet ) - Lots of build script configuration - Python embedded as a sis with byte-compiled libraries( PyS60 CE feature ) Detected limitations: While implementing the launcher, I stumbled upon a problem with fonts. Symbian's c-library (estlib) does not allow multiple open file handles on a single file. This causes following code to fail on phone( works on emulator ): font1 = pygame.font.Font( None, 20 ) font2 = pygame.font.Font( None, 30) On the second line pygame tries to open the default font file, but fails in doing so. I worke...

Pygame on nokia phones with pys60! Details here: http://discussion.forum.nokia.com/forum/showthread.php?p=516861 The port is very fresh(by GameDude from Finland), so there's a few incomplete parts, but enough things to have fun with. Nokia should be congratulated for supporting python on their phones(the most popular phones in the world). Unlike apple, which does not allow python on their iphone.