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The Android Gaming Revolution

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Throw away your Nintendo Gameboy and Sony PSP. Serious mobile Android gaming systems are on the way. Tegra 2 processors appear to be the silver bullet heading for the heart of the mobile gaming industry. The article from “Android and Me” below suggests they might be as much as five times faster than current graphics … Read more

Codename Phantom – Android Graphics Engine

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The Disgruntled Rats are very excited to announce their upcoming graphics engine!  The codename for the graphics engine is Phantom.  Phantom is fast, lightweight, easy to use, and portable. Phantom runs on any operating system with accelerated graphics and support for the Java Virtual Machine.  Phantom also runs on the Dalvik Virtual Machine.  Developers can … Read more

Setting Up An Android Virtual Machine on Ubuntu

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This tutorial will help you set up an Ubuntu Android Virtual Machine. 1) Download the Android SDK for Linux.  Currently, only i386 is available. 2) Extract the downloaded SDK to a folder.  I like to place my binaries in ~/bin  Here is an example: tar xzf android-sdk_r05-linux_86.tgz cd android-sdk-linux-86tar xzf android-sdk_r05-linux_86.tgz cd android-sdk-linux-86 3) If … Read more