I have been looking for a video camcorder to continue my video content collection on ZodTTD Video and YouTube. Finding the right camcorder took a few days of research and shopping. The video cam needed to be able to be able to be mounted on a tripod and record video of an LCD screen while being close enough to show detail. The kicker is it needed to be priced less than $500 USD. Through research and testing of various camcorders, I found out a few things such as:

• The MiniDV (tape) camcorders I found allowed me to stream video direct to iMovie on my Mac Pro. No tapes are needed in that process.
• SD and HardDrive (flash media) based camcorders record to MPEG2 and do not seem to be able to stream their content direct to iMovie or Adobe Premiere. There is some preference of some to store to MiniDV over SD/HardDrive due to compression used degrading quality.
• There's a large difference in quality and features even within equally priced camcorders.

I ended up purchasing the Panasonic PV-GS320. It uses MiniDV but allows me to stream video direct to iMovie without the need of tapes. Since it will almost always be used with a computer nearby, this is a great feature. Features include the ability to store digital still images on SD, and it has 3 CCDs for improved image quality. For a cost of what comes out to be $350 USD, it does quite well. I will be making some videos of my upcoming projects shortly.

Those looking forward to seeing more of the Pandora in-action will also be quite pleased.

Last but not least, due to my busy schedule as of late I failed to make many betas public. So in order to keep things progressing in a timely matter all betas have been made public.

New public releases include:

• psx4iphone v0.3.0
• gameboy4iphone v1.7.0
• gpSPhone v1.8.0

While you're loading up Installer.app, I'll be working on more projects...
TG16/PC-Engine/TurboDuo/PC-CD emulation via Temper4iphone? Beta time? Coming soon.

Thanks for playing,
ZodTTD

Just a quick update to let everyone know I've pulled much of the "nuisance" ads from the main site and forums, leaving only the ads on the frontpage. Although this reduces the income of the site greatly, I want to keep ZodTTD a friendly atmosphere.

Time for me to get back to work on upcoming projects,
ZodTTD

Well I'm back into the swing of things, and my first step was to get all my source code back online. Though not being able to stop there, I also use a service that provides wikis and bug reporting for each ZodTTD project!

I suggest those interested visit:
http://zodttd.com/viewforum.php?f=25
Where the list of topics include:

• Want to contribute to a ZodTTD wiki or report a bug?
• Get developer source code of ZodTTD projects here!
• Get Manual Install Files for ZodTTD Releases Here!
• Download and install ZodTTD.com projects via Installer.app Repo

I hope users take advantage of the wiki and bug reporting features as much as possible, though it might be rough at first due to being new to the service. Feel free to grab manual install files as well.

Thanks,
ZodTTD

What's up with ZodTTD you ask?

• I am preparing to goto a friends wedding on May 13th.
• I have been working very hard on psx4all and made a lot of progress in terms of compatibility. Performance has increased as well.
• I've been placing my project's source code on a public git repository which will also allow for more proper bug reporting, and each project will have a wiki!
• The Pandora videos I've made on YouTube and ZodTTD Video have been getting more popular. The psx4pandora project is running at amazing speeds on this upcoming gaming handheld.

I still need to speak to Exophase about temper4iphone, and integrate the updates into it before releasing. Exophase is the author of Temper. This project emulates the NEC TurboGraphix 16 and Turbo Duo (also known as the PC-Engine and PC-CD). A big thanks to those who have created controller skins for the temper4iphone project! It's a huge help!

Oh, and here's the video of psx4pandora via ZodTTD Video:

Things should be back to the normal Zod schedule on May 14th...

Thanks,
ZodTTD