ZodTTD (born April 2, 1982) is a programmer who mainly focuses on porting software to handheld devices. He is well known for his work in the iPhone and iPod Touch jailbreaking community. He got his nickname from a port of OpenTTD he made for the Tapwave Zodiac called ZodTTD.[1]
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ZodTTD first became serious about programming when made his first games for the Gameboy Advance in 2001[1]. One night when he was bored of coding his OpenTTD port, he picked up the source code to PCSX, and spent all night trying to port it. The next day, he had a functional PSX emulator on his Zodiac.
After making his name in the Tapwave Zodiac community, ZodTTD moved on to GP2X development where he started the psx4all project. He started porting gpSP,[2] 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.[1]
He got an iPod Touch soon after it was released, and started porting gpSP to the iPhone OS. When it was completed, he became well known throughout the Apple community. He followed it up with ports of PCSX (PSX), Dr. PocketSnes (SNES),[3] PicoDrive (Sega Genesis),[4] Gnuboy (Gameboy), MAME and Temper (TurboGrafx-16)[5] to the iPhone OS. He's also ported stand alone games like OpenTTD, Quake, Doom, and the Media Center VLC. When the App Store came out, he started Spookysoft LLC and created a Falling sand game[6] among many others. ZodTTD is heavily involved with the iControlpad project, which is trying to make a physical gamepad for iPhone OS games.[7]
As of April 2009, ZodTTD is working on a port of psx4all to the Pandora called psx4pandora. He received one of the first test models of the Pandora. It is expected to have near total compatibility with any PSX ISO.
ZodTTD has come under scrutiny for failing to comply with the terms of the GPL and release the source code corresponding to the binaries he has released for projects derived from GPL'd works.[8]