Beebdroid public beta available now
by Little Fluffy Toys Ltd on Oct.10, 2011, under Android, Android Market apps, Beebdroid, Retro, Technologies
Last week at Droidcon we launched the public beta of Beebdroid, the BBC Micro emulator for Android. You can try it for yourself here. We plan to release the final app at Replay Expo next month.
We’re speaking at Droidcon today
by Little Fluffy Toys Ltd on Oct.07, 2011, under Android, Touchnote
3.30pm in room 1 – come along!
Beebdroid alpha preview available now
by Little Fluffy Toys Ltd on Jul.17, 2011, under Android, Android Market apps, Beebdroid, Retro
Beebdroid, the BBC Micro emulator for Android, is coming along really nicely, and we’ve now got an alpha preview available. If you’re interested in testing it out for us, contact us!
LFT team’s app gets featured globally on Android Market
by Little Fluffy Toys Ltd on Jun.20, 2011, under Cycle Hire Widget
For the last six months the Little Fluffy Toys team has been rewriting Touchnote’s Android app. This weekend, it was selected by Google to be featured globally on Android Market. Only 30 of the 250,000 apps on Market are awarded this accolade.
Whilst our Cycle Hire Widget was previously featured in the UK version of Android Market, this is the first time an app we have worked on has been featured globally, and we’re delighted that the app has been recognised. We wish Touchnote every success with it.
We have finished our work at Touchnote and are shortly available for consultancy work. Please email info@littlefluffytoys.com for more information.
BBC Micro emulator for Android coming soon
by Little Fluffy Toys Ltd on Jun.15, 2011, under Android, Retro
We cut our teeth on the BBC Micro in the 80s – you can read more about that here. So when the penny dropped that our favourite BBC Micro emulator is open-source, we got rather excited about the thought of porting it to Android. And Reuben got to work.
And it’s early days, but today we reached a huge milestone – booting up and entering Hello World on a BBC Micro on Android. And now we’ve even got it running Chuckie Egg and Frak.
This isn’t a mockup – everything you see is from a Nexus S, and the text was entered on the Nexus S’s touchscreen. Still some time away from release, but just for a moment imagine playing Elite on a Honeycomb tablet using accelerometers as a joystick. Oooooooooooooh yes…..
Check out Touchnote on Android Market
by Little Fluffy Toys Ltd on Mar.25, 2011, under Android, Touchnote
During 2011 we’ve kept a low profile, but we’re now able to announce we’ve been helping out Touchnote with the new version of their Android postcards app, available now free on Android Market. Check it out – it’s beautiful.Cards are really high-quality and your first one’s free, so you really have no excuse - try it now!
And to celebrate the release, Touchnote’s graphics designer baked us an Android robot cake!
Retro software news
by Little Fluffy Toys Ltd on Jan.26, 2011, under Retro
Little Fluffy Toys Ltd’s founders Kenton Price and Reuben Harris are old schoolfriends who programmed 8-bit micros since they were pre-teens back in the 1980s. Their computer of choice back then was the BBC Micro Model B. Made by Acorn, the company’s extraordinary legacy lives on today – it was the A in ARM, whose chip designs power well over 90% of the latest mobile phones including every Android and iPhone. Kenton had several games published in magazines, and one game, a conversion of the ZX Spectrum game Starquake, was available commercially in stores and voted 3rd best game of 1987 by Acorn User, the leading BBC Micro magazine of the day.
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*UPDATED 17/01* The letter we sent to T-Mobile to cancel our contracts
by Little Fluffy Toys Ltd on Jan.11, 2011, under Android, Miscellany
Update 17/01: See the following comment for how one ex-customer responded to T-Mobile’s attempts to strongarm him into staying.
Update 12/01: Thanks to our power as consumers, T-Mobile has completely capitulated on its plans to steal existing customers’ allowances, and existing customers are unaffected until the end of their contract or until they upgrade.
