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Human beings are very visual people. If I was a 5 year old kid in a very remote part of Nigeria (I'm Nigerian, so not picking on any country), I would want a way to scan everyday items onto a device with a screen, and have the device tell me all about the item I just scanned in my native language.

Example: I'm 5 years old, and my mum asks me to bring her medicine. I'm not sure what this medicine accomplishes (even though I'm young, I want my mum to take the right things) - I scan the Chloroquine (popular malaria medicine) on a device and I get this feedback.

- A picture of the medicine on the screen

- The use of the medicine via the speakers

- The side effects of the medicine via the speakers

- The correct pronunciation via the speakers

Same thing should apply to other everyday items.. a comb, a broom, a mop .. Give me feedback with picture, correct use, side effects or dangers, and…

Here are some .CHR fonts that you are free to use and modify for game development.

Gumdrop and Sprout are 8x8 fonts with four variations each. Chickpea is a 16x16 font.

DOWNLOAD fontsnackpack.zip

The translation of the Family Basic manual has been completed and is available below:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/w5t0lz

Here's a short video of a simple game called "Spinner Attack". I found it's source code in an old Japanese book.

Hi,

Rudla and me are happy to show you an beta version of the Scratchalan NES development system.

Its based on M.I.T Scratch and generates with the ATALAN compiler executable rom's that run on emulator or on the real Hardware.

The programm runs on Windows systems.

This version is still limited and can contain some errors on the IDE side or in the compiler.

We hope you have fun with playing with it.

In the tools folder is an background editor included called NESST (coded by Shiru).

Visit http:// shiru.untergrund.net for more information about it.

An simple tutorial for creating an simple game will follow soon.

But for the first time, do these simple steps to load an example project.

1) deRAR file in a local folder on your HDD

2) go into the Scratchalan folder and execute the Scratch.exe

3) then go to the Filemenu and select Open

4) seek the…