its a paint program! it has D-pad control for pixel art or stylus for drawing. It's got pencil, lines, shapes, spray paint, text. Color palettes. Alpha
But what I love the most is that it has mp3 playing. The DS couldnt run two programs at once, so wouldnt it be great if your art program could listen to music while you work? Yeah!
also seeing the neoflash 2009 compo reference in the screenshot takes me back. i totally encourage folks who weren't active during the golden age of DS homebrew to go spelunking in whatever echoes of it are left. banger after banger out of that scene. off the top of my head:
- BeUp!: MSN Messenger with VoIP call support using the DS mic, as well as sending handwritten images
- DSOrganize: PDA with a rudimentary web browser, multi-channel IRC, and mp3 playback too. iirc it also had a special handwriting recognition input mode, as many early PDA's did
- Colors!: touchscreen painting program that supported the undocumented pressure sensitivity on the original DS/Lite (Colors! later went legit on 3DS/Switch, and now supports layers and even has multiplayer Γ la Drawpile)
- MoonShell: media player with affordances for replacing your iPod and letting you control the playlist with the shoulder buttons without opening the console up while it's in your pocket
- Linux: okay, so a very slimmed-down one, but enough for using retawq, ssh, irc, and so on with Wi-Fi. really!
- Win2DS: a VNC client
- WinDS: (no relation) a faithful demake of the Windows 9x interface, with applets for notepad, paint, a calculator, and a couple games
- Dissonance: stream mp3 over Wi-Fi, i.e. internet radio
- mpdDS: remote-control your music player daemon. combined with the above, you've got your whole music library available for streaming wherever you go with (pre-WPA) Wi-Fi, which if you were, say, in college back when the DS was still relevant, was likely most of campus.
