Dow! changelog

February saw the first release of Dow!, which in itself is a peculiar name for a program meant to mean "Develop on the go!" But behind the name lay an impressive Lua homebrew development application, if you had a PSP Fat (a.k.a PSP-1000) of course. Sony PlayStation Portable homebrew coder bumuckl broke that barrier with Dow! version 0.2, and it also comes with plenty of additions and enhancements from the past release.

Dow! v0.2 is now compatible with any PSP, may it be Slim & Lite or Fat. The saving mechanism has also been retuned, which makes for more reliable reloads of save files. Users on the Sony PSP may also tweak Dow! v0.2's settings via an editable config file, just to sweeten troubleshooting scenarios. Other changes include:

• improved menu-function
• increased the horizontal menu
• added tons of codesnippets for all different luaplayers
• insert your own commands
• insert your own presets
• insert your own functions
• added presets
• added functions
• fixed filebrowser bug
• fixed OSK
• fixed scrolling

The Lua homebrew development tool is also an official entry to the Neoflash Spring Coding Competition 2008. So after downloading, testing, and showing your appreciation for Dow! v0.2 here, you could go all the way and vote for it at Neoflash's web site.

We've seen a good number of homebrew releases from PlayStation Portable developer bumuckl and today, the coder has released another one. It's a homebrew application called Dow! that will let you make "develop on the go."

As the name suggests, this homebrew application allows users to write code on their handhelds, as it provides a good number of code snippets for easy use. Since this is the initial release, Dow! still has its share of bugs and bumuckl notes that saved scripts can't be re-edited. Anyway, here are the planned functions for the app (from the readme):

safe in all kinds of files(LUA,HTML...)
open up previous saved or written files
improving the snippets
more support while creating scripts
export your projects
better compability to other LUAPlayers or Firmwares.

The dev also notes that Dow! works on custom firmwares on the Phat and currently doesn't work for Slim. Check it out by clicking the download below.