ZodTTD
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Programmer
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who mainly focuses on porting software to handheld devices. He is well known for his work in the iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
and iPod Touch
IPod Touch
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jailbreaking
Jailbreak (iPhone)
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community. He got his nickname from a port of OpenTTD
OpenTTD
OpenTTD is an open source remake and expansion of the 1995 Chris Sawyer video game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. It is an "urban planning and simulation game" in which the player aims to earn money through transportation of passengers and freight by land, water and air.OpenTTD duplicates most of...
he made for the Tapwave Zodiac
Tapwave Zodiac
The Zodiac is a mobile entertainment console, launched on 5 May 2003, and released in October 2003 by Tapwave, a former private company that was based in Mountain View, California....
called ZodTTD.
Zodiac
ZodTTD first became serious about programming when made his first games for the Gameboy Advance in 2001. One night when he was bored of coding his OpenTTDOpenTTD
OpenTTD is an open source remake and expansion of the 1995 Chris Sawyer video game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. It is an "urban planning and simulation game" in which the player aims to earn money through transportation of passengers and freight by land, water and air.OpenTTD duplicates most of...
port, he picked up the source code to PCSX
PCSX
PCSX is a free console emulator which allows software and peripherals designed to be used with the PlayStation to be used with personal computers. It is currently available for a number of different operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Xbox, the Dreamcast and various Linux...
, and spent all night trying to port it. The next day, he had a functional PSX emulator on his Zodiac
Tapwave Zodiac
The Zodiac is a mobile entertainment console, launched on 5 May 2003, and released in October 2003 by Tapwave, a former private company that was based in Mountain View, California....
. When he posted it on the official forum it caused quite a stir.
GP2X
After making his name in the Tapwave Zodiac community, ZodTTD moved on to GP2XGP2X
The GP2X is an open-source, Linux-based handheld video game console and portable media player developed by South Korean company GamePark Holdings. It was released on November 10, 2005, in South Korea only....
development where he started the psx4all project. He started porting gpSP, until he convinced the original creator to work on it himself. The psx4all project started when he had trouble porting his popular PPSX to the GP2X, because the code needed a massive rewrite. He found others to help him, and eventually created a dynamic recompiler to improve performance of the emulation on ARM devices. He and the group of people helping him even ported it to the PSP
PlayStation Portable
The is a handheld game console manufactured and marketed by Sony Corporation Development of the console was announced during E3 2003, and it was unveiled on , 2004, at a Sony press conference before E3 2004...
.
iPhone/iPod Touch
He got an iPod TouchIPod Touch
The iPod Touch is a portable media player, personal digital assistant, handheld game console, and Wi-Fi mobile device designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The iPod Touch adds the multi-touch graphical user interface to the iPod line...
soon after it was released, and started porting gpSP to the iPhone OS
IPhone OS
iOS is Apple's mobile operating system. Originally developed for the iPhone, it has since been extended to support other Apple, Inc. devices such as the iPod Touch, iPad, and Apple TV. Apple, Inc. does not license iOS for installation on third-party hardware...
. When it was completed, he became well known throughout the Apple community. He followed it up with ports of PCSX
PCSX
PCSX is a free console emulator which allows software and peripherals designed to be used with the PlayStation to be used with personal computers. It is currently available for a number of different operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Xbox, the Dreamcast and various Linux...
(PSX
PSX
PSX may refer to:* PlayStation , sometimes referred to unofficially as PSX** PSX , a PlayStation 2-based digital video recorder** pSX, a freeware PlayStation Emulator for the Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems...
), Dr. PocketSnes (SNES
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
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), PicoDrive (Sega Genesis), Gnuboy (Gameboy), MAME
MAME
MAME is an emulator application designed to recreate the hardware of arcade game systems in software on modern personal computers and other platforms. The intention is to preserve gaming history by preventing vintage games from being lost or forgotten...
and Temper (TurboGrafx-16
TurboGrafx-16
TurboGrafx-16, fully titled as TurboGrafx-16 Entertainment SuperSystem and known in Japan as the , is a video game console developed by Hudson Soft and NEC, released in Japan on October 30, 1987, and in North America on August 29, 1989....
) to the iPhone OS
IPhone OS
iOS is Apple's mobile operating system. Originally developed for the iPhone, it has since been extended to support other Apple, Inc. devices such as the iPod Touch, iPad, and Apple TV. Apple, Inc. does not license iOS for installation on third-party hardware...
. He's also ported stand alone games like OpenTTD
OpenTTD
OpenTTD is an open source remake and expansion of the 1995 Chris Sawyer video game Transport Tycoon Deluxe. It is an "urban planning and simulation game" in which the player aims to earn money through transportation of passengers and freight by land, water and air.OpenTTD duplicates most of...
, Quake, Doom, and the Media Center VLC
VLC
VLC may refer to:* Valencia Airport , an airport near Valencia, Spain* VLC media player, a free software cross-platform multimedia player and framework...
. When the App Store came out, he started Spookysoft LLC and created a Falling sand game
Falling sand game
A falling sand game is a genre of computer game which allow the user to place particles of different elements on a canvas. The particles can interact with other particles in various ways, and may be affected by gravity. Many complex effects may be achieved...
among many others. ZodTTD is heavily involved with the iControlpad project, which is trying to make a physical gamepad for iPhone OS
IPhone OS
iOS is Apple's mobile operating system. Originally developed for the iPhone, it has since been extended to support other Apple, Inc. devices such as the iPod Touch, iPad, and Apple TV. Apple, Inc. does not license iOS for installation on third-party hardware...
games.