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Of course, they also do a pretty good job of playing games too. Quake, Quake II, Quake 3 (still just a tech demo though), plenty of third party games, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 is coming in the next few months. More details at http://www.pocketgamer.org/

(Yes, that was a shameless plug. Sorry.)

If you own a Pocket PC, the popular Amiga emulator UAE was ported some time ago.

More details at http://www.pocketgamer.org/showthread.php?s=&threa did=4561

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If you're into (or even slightly interested in) gaming on the Pocket PC, http://www.pocketgamer.org/ is a great place to start, featuring the latest gaming news, reviews, free games to be won, extensive listings... and plenty more besides. :-)

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http://www.ipidooma.net/irked/

A Pocket PC port of Vexed. (For all Pocket PC gaming news, check out http://www.pocketgamer.org/

I write Pocket War a Pocket PC based war game so, I have some experience here.

The portable game market (exclude GBA for the moment) is not big enough right now to support a real company. The titles price points are low as well as the number of sales. There are discussions about this on Pocket Gamer, in my forums and at Gamespot.

GBA is a different beast but it also requires more money to participate on that platform.

Having said that I still love writing games for these platforms and maybe they will come into their own one day.

Sheri was kind enough to send me a copy of the review for my site too. It incorporates a slight update to the score requested by Sheri, a selection of accompanying screenshots, and further discussion on the game. You can read it here...

If you're interested in finding more Pocket PC games (and there are plenty of cool ones out there!), PocketGamer.org is a good place to start! :-)

Sheri was kind enough to send me a copy of the review for my site too. It incorporates a slight update to the score requested by Sheri, a selection of accompanying screenshots, and further discussion on the game. You can read it here...

If you're interested in finding more Pocket PC games (and there are plenty of cool ones out there!), PocketGamer.org is a good place to start! :-)

You're new here aren't you. The space is added automatically by slashdot to prevent page-widening posts. You need to use a little HTML to get around it. Here is a working link.

OK so I'm posting this far to late to get it modded up, but anyway....

For those of us Pocket PC owners who've seen that it's been ported to Palm and are upset with the lack of a PocketPC version, well there is one!!:

Nethack 3.3.1 for Windows (98/NT/2000/CE)

This kicks ass! Handheld support for ARM, MIPS, and SH3, good job Alex!

For more general PocketPC gaming news, check out Pocket Gamer

As for other cool retro stuff for the Pocket PC, check this out: FreeCiv port of Pocket PC, not yet released but coming soon hopefully. Here are a few screenshots to keep you going 'til they give us something to download (watch out for the popups though)

Happy gaming,

ManxStef

Now you can play it on the road too - Wolf 3D has been ported to the PocketPC!

http://www.pocketgamer.org/archives/00000574.shtml

The binaries for ARM devices will be released tomorrow

Apparently, the device doesn't recognize diagonals on the game pad. This makes it almost completely useless as a gaming device.

This issue seems even more annoying than the button problems on the iPaq, but hopefully Toshiba can fix with a software patch, or at least in future hardware revisions